I finally found it in on some local marketplace in Poland.
It is 95% same identical to my first watch I got as 10yo kid from my mum.

Such a shame I cant find my original piece. I screwed and unscrewed those little screws like 100 times until they were completely worn. When plastic around lug holes was completely loose that even spring bars couldnt hold there firm, I drilled a hole into bottom of plastic frame and wore it around my neck. I wish I had original one...

 

I don't have the original - but I do have a replacement casio calculator - it _never_ gets any wrist time - but I keep the battery active.

 

like that little detail you mentioned - I keep battery active

 

Battery?!!!

Battery?!!!

What is this battery of which you speak?

My first watch I got in third grade in about 1965-66 never saw a battery. Doesn't currently run and isn't near the top of the list of watches I need to send for service. But aren't the numerals lovely?

 

well, @BatDad and myself, we are from this funny and comfy generation.

Anyway, doing some calculations...(not using casio calculator). You got your watch like 25 years earlier than I did and you still have it. Makes me kind of jealous. And feeling guilty and ashamed at the same time that I have not preserved my original piece. Nice one btw. Being you (without knowing the list of stock waiting for spa), I would get it in working order.

 

My first watch was also a Caravelle. It's long gone, unfortunately.

 

Sadly, I have none of my collection of watches from when I was a kid. I remember a Mickey Mouse, an all plastic Spider-Man watch, a couple of Transformers watches, a kid's diver style watch, and two Swatch watches. All of them lost to history.

 

Well, I'm going to have to look for my Snoppy watch, stay tuned!

 

A battery free Tissot from 1957, when I was nine

 

Why the "frowning face"? It's amazing that you still have this beautiful watch!

 

Yeah, but now I'm seventy and the watch is working better than me

 

This is mine, I got it as a very young child, to learn to tell time. It was ”missing” for over 40 years and all of a sudden my mother hands it over to me, again. What a surprise that was

 

My first. Never used it much. Difficult finding a strap,for it, bad positional error, and keeps stopping.

 

No. It was a Timex, and it did NOT keep on ticking.

 

That would look great on the mantle of your trailer.

 

My first. All 29mm of it with a lovely sunburst dial just discernible thru the crystal. I remember my winding technique caused the crown to need replacement at least once. Late '60s model

 

swatch watch clear jelly. no pics b/c i lost it swimming in 1995.

 

Yes!
A gift from my uncle. (True!)
Tiny and not working or serviceable.
But it’s nice that it’s suvuved.
My 2nd was a Timex I found in a pond.
It “took a lickin’ and kept on tickin’”.
Sadly, I was the 2nd person to lose it.

 

No chance. My trailer has no mantel, and this thing only runs for 3 minutes and 45 seconds.

 

My first watch was a Westclox Pocket Dax which I took apart in class, in grade 1. So I no longer have that one. My second watch was a Westclox wrist watch, and I no longer have that one. Fast forward to the mid-1950s, and I was given a new Bulova automatic, which I still have. It is not running (maybe a project for a rainy day). My next watch came to me in 1964. It is an Accutron 214 which I still have, it still runs beautifully, and which I wear, sparingly. It is shown in a recent post on WRUW.