Hi guys, I don't know if there is another similar thread... This is my first manual wind watch. Birthday's gift when I was 6 years old. Which was yours?
Ok, I'll play along. My first ever watch, around age 3? Yes, it was from my uncle. It's A Woody Woodpecker character watch by Rouan. The second hand is Woody himself, who rotates around via a "mystery dial". There were a few other characters in the series dating 1969-ish
Excuse the terrible pictures. First watch I got was a quartz seamaster, although quartz I have enjoyed wearing this watch, and it helped spark my interest in watches! To be honest I do not know much about this watch, the crown you see if not original. I got this from my father when I was about 12 or 13.
I got something like this for my 13th birthday And I wore it every day till I was about 25, when I got my first Omega
So my very first was Snoopy (the real Snoopy, not the actual Omega....) then I had lot of Swatch, Sector and Pryngeps until 21 years old when I bought an Omega Aquaterra.. After Omega Aquaterra came the hell... Lot of watches from 22 'till 33 (Royal Oak 15202, Patek 5711, Milgauss GV and so on....) but was compulsive so I sold all, more or less at 33... then I began again with a bit more of consciousness.... 'till now... I'm 38..
I didn't come from a family that could afford to give a watch to a 16 year old boy when he left home. But the first one I purchased for myself set my focus for the rest of my life. In 1965, at the age of 17 and a half, I purchased one of these before we set of for an unknown country called Vietnam. As iPhones weren't invented then, I had to use a recent pic courtesy of @X350 XJR.
Casio G Shock 3 eyed Devil 6900 was my first watch as a teenager, and with it on my wrist, it set off a passion for time itself, and thought I was bulletproof with a GShock on the wrist. To this day, I still wear the 3 eyed devil (not the one I was given as a teenager) for work (horticulturist).
Fun thread! Still have it. A mid-1960s Caravelle, received when I was in about the 3rd or 4th grade. Died sometime in the early 1970s. To this day I still like this style of numeral markers best of all.