Share Your Wedding Watch

This is my Seiko ultra-thin quartz dress watch purchased in 1986 by my in-laws for my wedding. I have since worn it at my daughter’s wedding and my son’s wedding. I guess I’ll be wearing it when my youngest daughter eventually gets married.

Why is it that we attach sentiment like that to a watch? It’s not the most expensive watch in my collection. It’s not even the dressiest. What is it about watches that make them special?

Let’s see you wedding watch and any other special occasion watch.

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Wore this on my wedding day and wearing it now whilst rocking my 4 month old daughter to sleep!

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Got this 2 toned Datejust as a wedding present from the in-laws and wore it at my wedding in the early 90s (sign of how times have changed, they got a 25% discount on the watch). Still a great watch but I need to find the extra links (don't know where the box with the spare links went) because my wrist grew in the last 30 years.

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Rocketfan

Got this 2 toned Datejust as a wedding present from the in-laws and wore it at my wedding in the early 90s (sign of how times have changed, they got a 25% discount on the watch). Still a great watch but I need to find the extra links (don't know where the box with the spare links went) because my wrist grew in the last 30 years.

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Beautiful watch! Have the current model and wear it every day!

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Well, that was 52 years ago…and I lost it, anyway.

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Obwanusa

Well, that was 52 years ago…and I lost it, anyway.

Do you remember what it was? I’m about to celebrate the 37th anniversary of our engagement (on St Patrick’s Day). I think that calls for a new watch! 😂

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my wedding is at the end of this month. i plan to use this airman for the occasion

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Unholy

my wedding is at the end of this month. i plan to use this airman for the occasion

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Congratulations! Nice choice

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Spooky how similar our wedding watches are

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AFChris

Spooky how similar our wedding watches are

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Wow! I wonder if we have the same taste in spouses! 😂

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Didn’t care much for dress watches until recently, so I pulled a James Bond, and wore my Steinhart Ocean One. It was my nicest watch at the time and I remember being proud of the “Swiss Made” on the dial, felt special 😊. Not so much into homages anymore, but that’ll always be a meaningful part of my collection.

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Chaimzvi

Do you remember what it was? I’m about to celebrate the 37th anniversary of our engagement (on St Patrick’s Day). I think that calls for a new watch! 😂

Yeah, it was a Zenith GMT on a bracelet. Being Irish I congratulate you on scheduling an event on that most grand and glorious day, and you definitely deserve a new watch…with a green dial.🍻

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Still have it after 20 years or is it 21 oh well don’t tell my wife lol…

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My JLC Master Control was a gift from my parents for graduating law school in 2011 (the OEM bracelet for it came as my gift the following year for earning my LL.M. (Master of Laws) in Taxation in 2012). I got married in this watch in July 2014 and still wear it on most dress occasions, including any time I have to go to Court in person, which means it was my work daily until the pandemic. Now that things have transitioned mostly to Zoom, I don’t have the occasion to wear it nearly as often.

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I wore the only real watch I had at the time, a Victorinox Military Heritage Chronograph quartz. I’ve had it since about 2009 and wore it in Afghanistan with me, so I guess it fit since I wore my Air Force Mess Dress. But I’m way more into watches now so I wish I would have bought a dress watch for that occasion.

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My wedding watch.

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