Your first watch as a kid vs your grail watch now.
So back in the day my first watch was a Timex Ironman. That thing survived all the crazy stuff a young lad could put it through. In the 90's I had a couple of Swatches and a Fossil, then I went without a watch until a few years ago. That is when the passion for this hobby went full steam ahead and I purchased some Seiko, Citizen and Casio G Shock watches. My current grail is an Accutron Spaceview. So what has been your watch journey from first to Grail?
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Mike
Just a simple man who loves watches and talking about watches. My girlfriend doesn't share the same passion, but she at least humor's me while I talk about movements even if I can see her eyes glaze o...
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My first watch was also the timex ironman 8 lap but in blue. I don't really have a grail watch to think of presently (maybe a mint vintage Citizen Voice Memo C010) but I would love to own a vintage space view also
My first watch was also the timex ironman 8 lap but in blue. I don't really have a grail watch to think of presently (maybe a mint vintage Citizen Voice Memo C010) but I would love to own a vintage space view also
You had me at Citizen lol. I am a huge fan.
First watch was a Baby G, my absolute grail watch would be this Blancpain:
More realistically, not sure yet!
It was my very first watch also... How cool were those buttons and the light!!
Grail would be Vacheron Constantin
Oh funny, this timex ironman was my first watch as well! I also had another timex ironman in the 90s that was an ani-digi, with a white dial and a small digital screen at the bottom of the dial. Then graduated to a bunch of fossils until I got a citizen eco drive chrono in 2009. I got a seiko 5 SNK in 2016 and it’s been a freefall ever since.
my grail is a grand seiko, preferably the SBGN005, quartz GMT. I just love the look of it and it seems the dimensions would be perfect
My first watch as a child was a sunburst blue-dialed Seiko automatic with a day-date complication, which my Dad gave as gift from his trip to Japan. I wore it proudly everyday to school, but kept it safe in a shoe box, together with my Matchbox cars, the moment I arrived home.
The first watch I bought for myself was when I graduated from university. It was a Timex Camper. Over the many years after that, I didn't care much what watch I wore. But, I mostly wore sports looking watches and field watches. When I seriously began this watch collecting journey last October, I got myself 2 Seiko pieces which I had been eyeing since 2018 -- the SNXS79 and the SNKL41. My grail watch is the Farer Lander GMT.