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Nattyboy888
Original Poster
142 posts
27 months
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Great night round my parents scoffing my mums signature dish - beef bourgignon - followed by some espressos and 18 year yamazaki (thanks wifey!!). After dinner my dad announced he's like me to take something home - they'd found my very first wrist watch from when I was 3 and incredibly the mechanical movement had still kept good time in the last few days !! A weird but very nice contrast to the chopard Mille Miglia I was also lucky to get for my birthday !! You forget stuff, but apparently I have always had a thing for watches..I was nagging my parents to lend me the money for a £115 Seiko when I was 15..lol !! 
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Arun_D
1,691 posts
65 months
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Actually, as it happens, I have a feeling my first watch was of the Mickey Mouse variety as well!
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Miguel Alvarez
3,346 posts
40 months
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Stuff like that makes me want to cry. I love sentimental stuff..... man it's dusty in here.
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Soovy
32,041 posts
141 months
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Brilliant. 
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Chicane-UK
2,617 posts
55 months
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It's keeping some interesting company in that watchbox!! 
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detee
59 posts
19 months
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Great post, and sounds like a lovely evening. I think every collection should have a personal sentimental piece. I wore my late fathers Air King when we got married, my wife later said, " I knew you would wear that" It felt like he was with me on the day. We need more of these posts, and less angry ones.
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detee
59 posts
19 months
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Great post, and sounds like a lovely evening. I think every collection should have a personal sentimental piece. I wore my late fathers Air King when we got married, my wife later said, " I knew you would wear that" It felt like he was with me on the day. We need more of these posts, and less angry ones.
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Soft Top
1,298 posts
88 months
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Wow, that is ver cool.
My first watch was definitely of this variety, although probably about 5 years later. I am sure his arms told the time. I remember I got it confiscated on the first day I wore it at school as I looked at it all day. A present from my Aunt from Disneyland. I don't believe it is still around.
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traffman
1,473 posts
79 months
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My first watch was a Yogi bear watch , the screen had yogi juggling iced buns on the display and one of those was the seconds!
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gregd
543 posts
89 months
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traffman said: My first watch was a Yogi bear watch , the screen had yogi juggling iced buns on the display and one of those was the seconds! Bizarrely, mine was a Yogi Bear watch too. Yellow with a yellow strap but I don't remember the bun-juggling! Will go and look upstairs as I still have it somewhere.
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verminator
708 posts
102 months
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I think you have hit on something here. I wonder how many of us watch people
acquired our love of watches after wanting or being given a watch at an early
age? I was desperate for a watch as a kid and remember the thrill of opening
that interesting looking wrapped box. It was christmas and I was 9yrs old.
Inside the box was a Timex. It had luminous hands and markers. I loved that watch
but I cant remember for the life of me what happened to it. Mind you that was 43yrs ago!
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hilly10
835 posts
98 months
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Wish my wifey would get me an 18 year old
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IS200RJR
760 posts
112 months
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Well on the 29th of febuary my gilfriend asked me to marry her with a cartier roadster I will never forget that moment, i was ranting about our friends being late for dinner when she put the box on the table and said our friends were never coming I bought you here to ask you to marry me.
She had booked a room at the hotel and it was a great night I had wanted the watch for a few months and was a bit disapointed i didnt get it for valantines day but well worth the wait for that special moment.
I have 15 watches but only ever wear the roadster. Well for the time being...;-)
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Stitch
933 posts
87 months
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Not quite going back to the age of 3 but the Ellesee sports watch that my mum bought me for my 18th sits proudly alongside my Omegas, Anonimo, Bremont etc.
I remember it cost her £180, which as a part time shop assistant must have been the equivalent of a month's wage for her.
It's probably worth £20 now and looks more like a ladies size but the effort and thought that went into that purchase (it had to be a water resistant dive watch - I was going to be off to Uni the next year and she wanted me to have a watch that I never had to take off) means that I could face the loss of any of the others more readily than that one.
She probably doesn't even know that I still have it, never mind the value I place on it.
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Use Psychology
9,918 posts
62 months
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great stories in this thread - just goes to show - stories about presents given with big sacrifices by the giver (stich) always make me feel very humbled.
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Nattyboy888
Original Poster
142 posts
27 months
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Thanks for the /replies guys..sounds like my story resonated with a few of you ! Chicane - thought you might like to see the rest of the clan - hope you like my choices - anyone got a bigger watch box ? lol !! Fortis Ducati Corse chrono will be up for sale soon so that will free up a spot.! Not sure to do with my little Mickey watch. I was thinking of getting it in a nice frame and putting it in my office - my mum said to get a new strap for it but that would just look wrong really I guess ! 
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Nattyboy888
Original Poster
142 posts
27 months
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Stitch said: Not quite going back to the age of 3 but the Ellesee sports watch that my mum bought me for my 18th sits proudly alongside my Omegas, Anonimo, Bremont etc.
I remember it cost her £180, which as a part time shop assistant must have been the equivalent of a month's wage for her.
It's probably worth £20 now and looks more like a ladies size but the effort and thought that went into that purchase (it had to be a water resistant dive watch - I was going to be off to Uni the next year and she wanted me to have a watch that I never had to take off) means that I could face the loss of any of the others more readily than that one.
She probably doesn't even know that I still have it, never mind the value I place on it. Ellesse sports watch - god i remember when they came out and desperatley wanting one around that price to match my tracksuit top - we must be the same age - ha ha !!
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ooral
135 posts
92 months
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Some really great stories on here!
I must confess to having a Pop Swatch! Same idea, had one when i was about 15, seen the same one on the 'bay, paid more for it a couple of years ago than i paid for the one 20+ years ago!
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Jaged
3,125 posts
64 months
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Stitch said: Not quite going back to the age of 3 but the Ellesee sports watch that my mum bought me for my 18th sits proudly alongside my Omegas, Anonimo, Bremont etc.
I remember it cost her £180, which as a part time shop assistant must have been the equivalent of a month's wage for her.
It's probably worth £20 now and looks more like a ladies size but the effort and thought that went into that purchase (it had to be a water resistant dive watch - I was going to be off to Uni the next year and she wanted me to have a watch that I never had to take off) means that I could face the loss of any of the others more readily than that one.
She probably doesn't even know that I still have it, never mind the value I place on it. Well guys I think this needs a nice hand written "Letter to Mum", what do you think??? Just do it and let us know what she says!
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Ross1988
1,082 posts
53 months
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Hi,
As watches have recently taken my interest, I still struggle to recognise most (if not all) watches, But I really like the centre and centre right watches. What are they?
Nice story, I can't remember my first watch, but with my first proper pay cheque I purchased a watch, a lovely embarrassing Armani number.
I'd still wear it if I had not lost it though!
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