Watch for an eight year old?

You are making me really stretch the old memory banks. I think I was younger than 8 when either my parents or grandparents bought me this:


This would have been late 1960’s. Made by US Time Ingersoll. I remember wearing it to school, but was told to always take it off for recess. I know that it took several trips through the washing machine. I still have the watch with half a (paper) dial and it still runs. But this was a mechanical watch made for children. Pretty sure it’s a zero or one jewel pin-pallet movement.

For current times, I’d get the kid a Casio, but spend a little more the least complicated G-Shock. If it can handle military duty, it can handle anything an 8 year old can dish out.

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There is definitely a thing amongst the 'trendy set' (young comedians etc) here in the UK wearing period digital watches.

Unless your 8 year old granddaughter is THE trendsetter and leader of the class-pack then the @Spruce response is the only correct answer.
Simply NOTHING else matters at that age.

No matter the greater quality, if you buy her an analogue Omega watch when all the cool kids are wearing digital then it would be like buying her a 'shopper' bike when everyone else has BMXs.

Getting her a period piece would mean greater kudos of course - but only if it is in pristine condition.

(apologies for the capitalisation - I appear to have been channelling my inner Trump)