What was your first watch?
My first one has a very touching story for me. When I was 13, my grandfather rebuilt his parents' house in his old hometown. The neighbors from before were still there. One day, my grandpa mowed the lawn for a neighbor, and as a thank you, she let him choose one of her deceased husband's watches. He picked this Fossil watch, later saying it was the most beautiful, but I can't shake the feeling she might have had other watches... (Rolex☠️). When I used to spend holidays at my grandparents', my grandpa suddenly pulled out this watch from a drawer and gave it to me. Back then, I knew nothing about watches, but I was thrilled, of course. I still remember when my parents picked me up, telling my dad that I'd never need another watch from then on... Yeah, right👀.
Watch collector since I'm 13! Seiko for the win! I love vintage watches with patina!😍
Wife gave me this 16 years ago I’m college way before I started collecting only to find it 3 years ago when I started me collection. You would have thought I found a Rolex or something. And to me it’s more valuable then one!
The first one that I can remember was a Freestyle Shark my dad bought me in the 90s. I don’t remember the exact colors but something like this:
I was six or seven years old when I received my first wristwatch. That was back in the 60's, so it was certainly a Timex, manual wind, with a simple white dial and black markings ... and small enough for a child's wrist.
Don't remember (and didn't know at the time) the specific model of course, seeing as I was only a kid at the time, but that's how I remember it!
To this day I have a soft spot for the Timex brand ...
I recently told the story of my first watch and getting it back. This Casio W-26. The grail of my collection.
There were a few Timex watches that the guy who was courting my older sis used to bribe me with but I am going to say that my first serious watch was a 60s Omega Seamaster fitted to a beads of rice bracelet that my parents gifted to me the summer before I started middle school. I wore that watch all through high school, 5 years of university and the first years working in my profession, finally set aside until my older daughter needed a watch to travel to a swim meet in San Jose when she was 12 years old joining much older club members. Predictably she did not regard my watch and somehow lost it during her trip. I was upset, angry but it was just a mass produced mechanical object.