Watch story…….
Well it’s 1978 I’m outta school and enjoying life. I always wanted to work with jewellery when I left school but my Dad didn’t have the money to enable me to follow my dream and attend art college to do all the necessary learning. So a conversation followed resulting in my dad’s advice to get a job within the service industry as "you’ll always have a job"which I did.And history would prove he was right,
I started an apprenticeship with West Midlands gas board, I was to become a gas engineer or gas fitter as we were known back in the the day 😂
Dunno if any of you remember the seventies, glam rock was big, wide trousers were massive 😂😂
I was now legally drinking alcohol and smoking my head off ( I don’t smoke now though) I also wore ridiculous shoes…..
But one of the best things in the seventies was rock music….. my band was and always will be Black Sabbath but occasionally an album would come outta nowhere and blow me away…,
First thing I bought when I started work was of course a set of wheels………
Ladies and gentlemen allow me to introduce to you a British leyland Morris Marina 1.3 dl biggest pile of trash in the universe, standard equipment other than rust and an indoor pool in the footwell was nothing😂😂
Still it got me about it did the job 👍🏻
Anyway let’s get onto the important bit of the story….back to watches I’ve always loved them, my love for jewellery has waned over the years but not watches. And with a weekly pay packet of £14.00 plus change I saved up and bought my first watch. Now the quartz revolution was in full swing, I’d had a LED calculator and watch but then I saw the new generation LCD watches and particularly this one I had to have it so I went to a store like H Samuel I suppose and bought it at, around £70 it was a few weeks wages 👌🏻
The seiko world timer or pilots watch it was fantastic, I never travelled abroad at this point but if I did…….
Now a little sad point, I had lost an uncle recently, my uncle Tony, he was an officer in the Royal Navy throughout the Second World War and beyond.
All the family are at a family get together including my Aunt Peg, she was married to Tony, and I was sitting there talking and having a drink with her when she noticed my watch, immediately as a watch lover your chuffed someone notices and i immediately bore her to pieces with the map, alarm functions etc😂
Then she makes the killer statement that lives with me to this day……
"If only I had known you liked watches so much I would have given you your uncle Tony’s watch, but I’ve just given it to your cousin Michael”
So my uncles watch…….
The pictured submariner, my aunt said that he purchased it around 1959-60, he wore it constantly and it was complete.
I have never really adored Rolex like some of you guys, I adore divers watches but I would have treasured that watch, I mean treasured it not only because it’s a diving watch but the history and family connection to it ❤
Finally my cousin I guess sold it……….
Ah well thanks for reading and keep on collecting 👍🏻
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Great story! Thanks for sharing!
British Leyland - the pinnicle of British Engineering! 😆
The Seiko you bought is cool! I’d have gotten it over the Sub if I were in your shoes.
As for the Sub, just means you and it were never meant to be.
Great story! Thanks for sharing!
British Leyland - the pinnicle of British Engineering! 😆
The Seiko you bought is cool! I’d have gotten it over the Sub if I were in your shoes.
As for the Sub, just means you and it were never meant to be.
Let land is only shit when compared to todays vehicles. There are plenty of Laylands still running to this day, especially the military vehicles. I’d have an English car over a USA, Italian, French shitbox of the same era all day long.
Let land is only shit when compared to todays vehicles. There are plenty of Laylands still running to this day, especially the military vehicles. I’d have an English car over a USA, Italian, French shitbox of the same era all day long.
I wasn’t serious when I said British Leyland were the pinnacle of British Engineering. Cars in general in the 70s were pretty sh*t, that’s what allowed the Japanese cars to enter and dominate the car market. 😁
You never wore wooden clogs, lucky guy! That Rolex sub story kills me almost brings tears to my tired eyes. I miss the 70s, my older brother was still around, we lived in a loft with no neighbours could blast loud music all night until the police came calling, didn’t object to the music thought two university guys studying were drug dealers. Gas fitting is a tough but worthy calling. I wasn’t into heavy metal preferred fusion jazz, Weather Report, Herbie Hancock, Deodato etcetera. Thx for the post!👍
Great story! I disagree with you those shoes. I could build a nice ensemble around them!!
What could have been... ☹ Some people just don't really care about heritage or heirlooms. But then again, to each his own. Thanks for sharing, my friend.
Great story! I disagree with you those shoes. I could build a nice ensemble around them!!
They were I think called solatio’s and came with bright crossover straps in blue red etc!
They were quite fashionable in the day as were platforms….
Let land is only shit when compared to todays vehicles. There are plenty of Laylands still running to this day, especially the military vehicles. I’d have an English car over a USA, Italian, French shitbox of the same era all day long.
Agreeable, however rust protection was not about in those days, so lots of filler and welding before every MOT 😂
Those shoes weren’t platform shoes! Ya needed platform shoes.
Fun read... I learnt to drive in a Morris Marina and I think I wore that pullover whilst doing so.
Fun read... I learnt to drive in a Morris Marina and I think I wore that pullover whilst doing so.
Memories eh?
That car is pretty much identical to mine, same colour, year, doors etc I remember me and my now wife, going away to wales for the weekend and whilst in a queue of slow moving traffic by Shrewsbury the gear stick came off in my hand while changing gear 😂😂😂