At 12 years old, I remember spending all of my hard earned saved up dollars on a $50 digital Casio watch that had a button to light up the screen. I wore that watch everyday and thought there was nothing cooler in the world.

What was your first watch that led you to where you are now?

 

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aww watches... I was in high school...a Timex quartz, chronograph... My oldest sister bought for me as she became the first who graduated from college and began working as a teacher...

 

For me, 6th grade, saved my lawn mowing money for months and dumped all $35 for a Timex automatic flying saucer case. GOLD! It broke the first time I dropped it. Takes a licking my butt.

 

This of course:

 

Hah! That was the same calculator watch I remember my dad wearing!

...how old are you?

 

I had one of those too! My first digital was a Texas Instruments with alarm, 1976.

 

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Saved up my cash from working at foot locker and bought me a sweet a$$ watch that was powered by the sun. Still have it and it reminds me of a much simpler time. All I had to do back then was not get caught drinking and not fail class.

 

Heh, my dad wore one too, that's why I needed one! I would have been about 13 in 1985.

 

I had lots of watches before buying this http://omegaforums.net/threads/seiko-7a38.20987/#post-228312 but this was the first watch I fell in love with so to speak. It's still up there along with my mint Speedy and Tag 6000 mechanical chronograph.

 

Mine was a store brand tuning fork watch (for any fellow Canucks here it was a Youngs jewelers brand). I can't recall when it was given to me, but I know I had it by grade 7 at the latest, which would have been 1976.

 

I was given a Hoppalong Cassidy watch when I was seven. Swapped it for a bag of marbles.

 

Do you still have your marbles, or have you lost them?

 

Lost them years ago when I bought my third Speedmaster.

 

Bought this with greenstamps when I was 8 years old… Still have it

 

A basic hand wind Timex of some sort. My grandfather and my dad both had Rolex watches my whole life. Dad gave me mine when I graduated from university in 1988. This is my first Omega and I love it!

 

I had the casio with the Martian game, and the calculator and all those as a kid, but it was my Tag Heuer that got me into liking the watch beyond it being an appliance of sorts. And then I stopped wearing a watch for years and years. I tries a swatch and still ended up not wearing it. Deep down I just couldn't find anything that I could afford and liked. Then my brother who had a crazy collection passed, then my dad passed and I got his watches....and it all clicked because watches was the one thing we could all have in common. I went back and forth a bit and wasted some money before I came into myself.

 

I got a Seiko for college graduation and I was King of the World. Kansas in the '80s. We thought the best watch available was Seiko. Never heard of Rolex until I got out of the fields and into the city

 

Had a few watches then it was love at first sight. 15 years of WRUW

 

Actually, I think I more obsessed with these at one point than I was with Omega. Burgerking Rugrats movie watches. I kept getting that goddamn dinosaur.