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Liked watches since being a child from ‘91. First one was a Flik Flak. Then Timex Indiglo aged around 12 and a Gul Quartz diver at about 15. Wish I still had all these for nostalgia

Then got some Quartz fashion type watches for milestone birthdays at 18 & 21 which I will always keep.

Eyes got opened to mechanical watches after inheriting my Grandad’s Constellation in early 2017 and since then got 3 more mechanicals plus a few Casio AMW 320 analog digital a which I like

I didn’t know it right away due to a long delayed reaction, but I became a collector in the mid-1980s when my grandfather gave me his 1945 Bulova Officer watch (a well preserved more pedestrian watch for $28 in the 40s). For years I left it in a drawer since it didn’t fit with my active outdoors work and lifestyle (which was probably best). The decades past with occasional wearing. Then a few recent years ago I exhumed the Bulova and wore it in an office environment and shortly afterward I came across this previously unknown world of watch collectors. I found vintage watch collecting can be less expensive than vintage car collecting...thus I turned into an appreciative watch collector that OF has enabled with several purchases of vintage Omegas.



A belated thanks granddad!

I had an interest all my life but little means to follow through. For years I didn’t even wear a watch because I just didn’t have the ones I liked. Both my brother and father had good collections ( specially my brother)

On 2010 my brother passed away followed by my dad on 2011, I think that triggered something in me, it was a common denominator, a way to relate to them. My fathers watches came to me and I passed my brothers watches on to his children ( they’re only starting to wear them now as they are old enough)

So there’s lot of emotional compensation going on (still) but I’m more and more relaxed about it as years go by.

Started collecting anything I could afford in the 70s, but collecting wasn’t really a “thing” at that time as we think of it today. The 80s brought nicer watches, but it was the 90s when I began accumulating much more serious pieces of man jewelry.

Started in late 1970's when Texas instruments came out with what they claimed was the first ever digital watch. They were horrendously expensive at the time but TI could not make them quick enough. Never bought one just admired as no spare cash at that time. Now throw away items.

I remember desperately wanting a digital (LED) watch in about 1976 or 77 when I first saw them. A kid in my class had one, and it was very cool. Within a few years there were wrist calculators that did everything.

I don't collect watches... I'm an old guitar geek....but fortunate enough to have a nice watch.

Old electrics? That might be a good thread.

I meant electric guitars.