Keep the watch. My dad died suddenly 29 years ago at 60. Miss him everyday. He has 5 sons. I have his jewelry box that looks like a pirates treasure chest. My brothers got what was inside of it ! I need to ask them , who has his Seiko watch . I know who has his Rado that we all got him for his 60th birthday. Every watch should have a memory to go with it.

1985 ,When I was in the Army at Fort Rucker, Alabama.....I went for a 3 mile run and had my watch (Timex Diver type) . It was mounted on a military nylon band that had velcro fasteners . I had written on the inside of the band "C-11-10 RMH". It was almost faded away. Somehow the watch fell off my wrist and I never even knew it. A few days later, my Sgt. calls me to his office and hands me the watch. It was found by another soldier running the route that I had. He saw the writing on the band and did some detective work. C-11-10 RMH stood for Charlie 11th Company, 10th Battallion Military Police and my initials. I had left that unit 3 years earlier at Fort McClellan. The guy found me thru a military computer search and returned my watch ! I was very happy and thankful for his tenacity ! It was the first watch that I ever owned and bought myself when I was 12 years old in 1975.

Can you take it to Auto Zone when its time to have the rotor cut at about 25,000 hours ?

I love a watch that you can tell the time at a glance.

It was called an E6B.  I hated it.  Almost every pilot has to use it during training.  Once I graduated and went to my unit, I used the calculator my wife bought me.  Made me look like a genius !

And I carried extra batteries !

When I was in the US Army at Ft. Rucker, Alabama.  My wife bought me an electronic "flight computer".  Thing was cool and did all the necessary flight calculations in a few seconds.  We were being taught how to use a metal type of protractor and I really suck at math.  I show it to my flight instructor and he is saying how cool it is and can he go show it to the other instructors.  About an hour later, we are flying around Alabama and he asks me to do a fuel consumption check.  I break out my new fangled flight computer and try to turn it on and the damned thing won't work !  He starts laughing at me and shows me the batteries in his hand and says........whatcha gonna do now Lieutenant "?  Needless to say I did not get a good daily grade that day and had to really learn how to use the protractor type.  Lesson learned.......carry extra batteries !

When I was 12 years old I saved up enough money to go buy myself a new watch.  We had a store called "Consumers Distributors" in the next town over, about 2.5 miles from my house.  I had seen a Timex divers style watch that I fell in love with and it looked cool.  It would cost about $30 bucks.  Alot of money for a 12 year old.  I lived in a rough town.  I rode my brothers brand new Schwinn 3 speed bicycle all the way to the store and bought the watch.  While coming across the bridge back into my town , I was assaulted and robbed of my brothers bicycle by three teenagers.  I had to walk all the way home, upset that I lost my brothers new bike.  I was outnumbered and didn't want to get too roughed up.  On the good side......they did not get my new watch that I had already taken out of the box and put in my pocket.  The band needed adjusting because it was too big and I didn't wear it.  If they had seen the watch, I'm sure it would have been taken.  I still have that watch somewhere in my house and will start looking for it, now that I have a watch collection started.  Becoming a victim and not liking the results caused me to become a police officer for 28 years.  11 years in NYPD and then the last 18 years in the town where I grew up.  One of my favorite calls was recovering a bicycle that was stolen from a kid who left it unlocked at a pizza place.  Kid was happy as can be and learned a lesson about securing your property.  There are bad people out there who would do you harm and take your things that you worked hard for.   I gotta find that old Timex watch.