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Nostalgia...

Like many of you, a watch became part of my life in my youth. A close friend. A constant companion. And probably, like many of you, we were gifted a w...
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What watches have you lost to time? Or recovered? Or rediscovered?

Growing up I remember my grandma taking me out to buy my first watch: a Victorinox Cavalry Small with a black dial. This little 30mm watch fit my tiny...
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My childhood clock had a mechanical movement?

Visiting the folks and find this old thing. Completely forgot it existed but apparently it has a wind up mechanical movement inside. (It still works!)...
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A dream realized…

My dad and aunt used to wear Tags when I was a kid. Now I have my very own 30 years later. 😂
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Timex Marlin

When I was a young boy in the mid-to-late 1960s, my Dad wore a wind-up Timex Marlin that looked nearly identical to the watch on the left in this phot...
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My first watch. It has bears on it!)

Hi folks, recently I've visited my parents for the first time since the war in Ukraine started (we live in different cities and I wasn't able to trave...
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Post #2 My mid school dream watch

The “Panda” was my dream watch when I was in my early teens. I liked reading the watch ads on my father’s Newsweek and Time magazines. Apart from the...
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So I went to visit my parents ...

What finds did you make lately? I went to visit my parents, and this time I went to my childhood room and started looking around in some old boxes, I...
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My first watch

When I was 10 years old, my father gave me this watch. I wore them for a very long time, until I could earn my first money and even then I bought a Ja...
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When did it start for you?

Hi!    I’m a lifelong watch enthusiast - enthused before I even knew what that word meant. Visiting my parents, I found this box full of mostly plasti...
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