What is your first watch? Do you still own it? If so Snap a Shot to see those BEAUTIES!!!

My very first was a casio calculator watch- unfortunately it hasn t survive my childhood.....

Did a post last week on it, its not the actual 1st watch that got lost yrs n yrs ago but a direct replacement (and a tiny one)

First watch as a kid? Some weird chinese ana-digi one that my mom probably threw away.

I remeber there was a G-Shock when I was serving mandatory military service, but can't remember exactly which model.

First "nice" watch is a Tissot PRC-200 chronograph (which seems like to be using the same quartz chrono movement as the Moonswatch), and first mechanical and "luxury" watch is an Omega Seamaster Diver 300m that I've gotten for $1700. (That tells you how long ago it was)

I still own both of them. The Tissot may need a battery change though.

(I apologize for the blurry PRC-200 photo, this was taken long before iPhone cameras actually got any better lol)

A michael kors brand watch 🫠Ref:MK5554 given to me by my then girlfriend now wife.

13 years later I got into collecting watches and was over the hills to find the watch hibernating in a draw! It will never leave the collection and will stay in the main Watch box for ever!

I guess i was 7 here, the watch was some sort of poor mans g-shock

The very first I bought myself was Hamilton Khaki Field quartz, boys size. It broke and I threw it away. Should have known better😂

First mechanical I bought is JLC Master Control Geographic, which I still wear after 23 years.

Here is mine, took me ages to save for, was about 18, its a bit battered now but its running. Very 1980's.

First watch I remember owning is a casio data bank. Here it is beside a movie ticket from 2017 (owned it since at least 2010)

First watch after knowing more about mechanical watches was a mako 2 which I still think is my favorite watch in the collection.

My first watch was a Casio G-Shock that was gifted to me when I turned 12 . I forget the reference number, but it was one of the round ones that came out in either the late 90's or early 2000's. That watch withstood a ton of abuse, but it never let me down. Unfortunately, it got lost in the shuffle when I moved out of my parents place and headed off to college. I wish I still had it.

Casio Data bank 3000. Still wear it today

The very first watch I remeber wearing was a Mickey Mouse watch while in early grade school. I remember it distinctly as my sister had broken the crown so there was a little hole in it through which dust would collect and it was great fun to try and get the collected dust kitty out. It was a mechanical manual wind affair; quartz hadn't been invented yet.

Somehow it wound up being held on to by my parents and we discovered, sans strap, it while cleaning out their house when they passed. My sister claimed it so I don't have it thus can't supply a picture,

My first watch was a red LED watch that dad gave me when I was in grade school. Wish I still had it now. A few years later, I remember when LCD Armitrons and Casios came out and were so fancy with their hourly chimes, alarm, stop watch and built in light buttons.

My first watch was a simple hand wound mechanical because automatic watches were expensive, I was 11 years old and my parents were broke.

Ha my age puts me instantly in the mechanical camp 🏕️, what you younger people see as “ vintage” pieces I remember on all my okd uncles and great uncles wrists , I guess I come from an era where watch wearing was very much a sign of adulthood & prosperity in my extended family !

A fossil quartz watch. I no longer have it because it was stolen from me during a trip to Las Vegas.

Joke’s on thief.

a pocket watch would have been a better choice to wear 😂

First watch was a digital watch that my dad gave me in 6th grade....that had a basic video game similar to Space Invaders. Did not help my grades.

Had a chunky Citizen dive watch / quartz in high school that I wore everywhere. Finally broke it.

My first "nice" watch was a Tag Heuer that I received for graduating high school back in the '80s.....which I promptly lost while snowboarding in Colorado a few years later. I miss that watch!

This was the first watch purchased 10 years ago with my own money a pulsar. 🤣 44 vs 36 mm white dial watches. You know it is an oversized quartz because it has tiny hands for that huge dial, they doesn't reach dial edge like they should for example on that seiko. Funny thing i think I paid 100€ for each but the seiko is way better quality.

Glad you kept it it is brilliant looking. A mechanical alarm is nothing to be ashamed of.

You tried a smartwatch later? Probably not a good idea neither.

My first watch I bought for myself. Didn’t know anything about watches, all I knew was that my father used to own a tissot. Been 12 years now and still works amazingly.

Wrote a post on this recently… behold, from the spring/summer 1986 collection, the Swatch Tonga GL100.

My first watch was also a mechanical Oris with the (to me) most beautiful blue dial.

My first watch is is the same as this one that I sold few months ago and here bought this new updated module

The first one i remember owning, as i bought it (im sure there were previous ones but i was probably too young, and i think there was a rado sometime) was a Seiko Superior in gold (most likely plated but never faded)... i didnt know it wasnt really appropriate for a kid lol but i liked it and it was really tough. Sadly, it got lost after almost 10 years of daily abuse, but of course it got replaced by more and even better ones...

Here’s the watch that started me collecting. I wore a G Shock as a kid. Then a cell phone for the time. My wife kept laughing at me because I kept looking a watchless wrist for the time for years. So she got me this Raymond Well Freelancer about 10 ago. She figured I needed a watch. I love this watch.

I bought this one for my self when I was 20. My first automatic watch that made me fall in love with watches.

Still have mine, was given to me from a friend who had a watch subscription. He received this one that he didn’t like and I fell in love, I had never seen a California dial before, and loved the dial finish.

Bought this when I was 13. Saved up all summer. I have the original band, but I’ve expanded over time and it doesn’t fit well, thus the new band.