My first watch: a sad story

Hello everyone!

Today I want to tell you a story about my first watch.

I want to start with mentioning that as a kid I was a huge fan of Lego. I used to live in a big room, and the whole floor was covered in lego pieces at some times, so I had to make pathways through the Lego to walk around the room. My favorite activity was to build a Lego kit using the guide (sometimes I figured out how to put everything in place myself), and then to disassemble the thing to build something new from it's parts. For example, I built a giant white church and a huge Star Wars imperial base labirynth.

Also I had a hobby of disassembling differend things, especially electronics (calculators, old TVs, flashlights etc.) And I never fixed them or put all the parts back in place.

Now let's get to the main story.

I was celebrating my 8th birthday at a Club Med resort in Portugal with my family. Here's a photo of the Atlantic coast near the place.

My parents gifted me my first watch for this birthday. I don't have any photos of it, and it is impossible to find on the Internet.

It was a limited edition watch of some kind. Here are the things I remember about it, and a photo of the most similar G-shock I could find online.

• I can't remember, was it an original G-shock or a copy/homage.

• My parents bought it at the Club Med souvenir boutique, and it was a limited edition Club Med watch.

• It was coloured black and blue.

• It had four rubber pushers.

• It had a TRIDENT second hand.

• It was ana-digi.

To be honest, at the time I wasn't used to the feeling of a watch/bracelet on my wrist. The watch was pretty heavy, and I really hated the feeling of the cheap rubber bracelet. Also, I considered this watch ugly because of it's strange-shaped digital displays and it's case shape. And I still think that black and blue colors don't match each other.

These are the reasons why I just left this watch laying in a cupboard in the living room. But the worse thing was that I somehow set the alarm for late night, and the controls weren't clear enough on this watch for me to switch it off. It was beeping every night, waking up the whole family.

So, if you read the story carefully, you can figure out what I did with this watch.

Yes.

I took it apart. And some years ago I threw away the parts.

Do I regret it? Yes. I was just a kid at the time, with no sense of some things' value and a love for taking them apart. So I was just not ready for the watch hobby, but this was my first watch.

If you got to this point, thanks you so much for reading! If you have your own watch story from your childhood, feel free to share it!