40th birthday pressie - priceless!
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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 !! 
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.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!
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!
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...;-)
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...;-)
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.
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.
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 !
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 !
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 !! 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.
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???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.
Just do it and let us know what she says!
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!
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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