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gbesq
·Great is an understatement! Do you still have it?
What was your School watch?
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BAJJ
·I wish I could remember back that far😗
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Risto
·I grew up in a former USSR country, Estonia, and in the 1990s, I don't think children had any watches. I remember when I went to high school, in 1996, my mother who had been working in Denmark for a couple of months, gave me a fake gold Rolex Datejust that was given her as a gift from the family she worked for. It looked great, but when I opened the case, it had tiny quartz mvt inside and I wasn't so thrilled anymore 😀 But, that was my watch to wear, because we didn't have any money anyway to even purchase the cheapest Q&Q or whatever. I think I should get one real Datejust one day to remember that. She never knew back then what real Rolex cost. Nor she cared.
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time flies
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Found in a washroom at Carnegie Mellon University three weeks into my junior year. Turned into campus security who held it six weeks and returned it to me as "unclaimed". Wore the hell out of it. Is it yours? Tell me circumstances. Be specific. I'll return it.
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Charlemagne1333
·A birthday present from my grandmother, when I was in high school
Still runs after 35 years...
Still runs after 35 years...
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Paedipod
·my father brought one like this Unitrex (image stolen from the web) back from a business trip, he got tired of it so I wore it for a few years in high school....
convinced him to give up this one when I left home for higher studies
convinced him to give up this one when I left home for higher studies
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFDon’t have any photos handy but it was a TAG Heuer F1 chronograph, I was helping my brother move house when I was about 12 and the watch turned up in a drawer hidden somewhere, he was wearing the Daytona his wife gave him as a push present for the birth of his son and because this F1 was a gift from an old ex-girlfriend of his (he gets a lot of watches from women, he’s that pretty) she wanted it gone and I ended up the lucky recipient.
It was the best sailing watch I’ve ever seen and withstood a remarkable amount of abuse for years until I passed it on to his son a few years back. He then lost it but that wasn’t the watch’s fault.
It was the best sailing watch I’ve ever seen and withstood a remarkable amount of abuse for years until I passed it on to his son a few years back. He then lost it but that wasn’t the watch’s fault.
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marcn
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Stumbled upon and remembered your post!
https://theoandharris.com/shop/vintage-watches/swatch-jellyfish-2/
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Kiltie
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Had one just like this from junior year to two summers after I graduated.
It was torn from my wrist and lost at Lollapalooza 92*.
This pic is from the internet, but I've since bought another for sentimental reasons and strap it on every now and again.
* Red Hot Chili Peppers ( touring Blood Sugar...), Ministry ( touring Psalm 69 ), Ice Cube ( touring The Predator ), Soundgarden ( touring Badmotorfinger ), Pearl Jam ( touring Ten ), and Lush, all on the same bill just as they were becoming massive stars. As Cube would say: It was a good day.
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TexOmega
·$10 Timex till High School then the 1st gen LED by Texas Instruments(both parents educators and educators got great deals fromTI, how I also got a 1st gen calculator as a senior).
Post Grad I had this to keep in my lab drawer to time our many many timed practicals.
We sweated out many together.
Post Grad I had this to keep in my lab drawer to time our many many timed practicals.
We sweated out many together.
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gnuyork
·Yep same here, a very tiny by today's standard Timex digital (rectangular). I still have it.
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jsducote
·My first watch, roughly 6th grade or so, was a cheap analog with moon phase on a leather band. No idea what happened to it. Sometime in high school I asked for and received this Seiko H601-5479, which I found in a drawer recently. It needs a little polywatch loving and a new battery, assuming the old one didn't leak and destroy the innerds. I'm a little afraid to look inside
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Funny that my first "real" watch was a Breitling Aerospace (quartz dual - analog/digital) in gunmetal titanium and now I'm looking for a moon phase. The more things change, the more I stay the same.
.Funny that my first "real" watch was a Breitling Aerospace (quartz dual - analog/digital) in gunmetal titanium and now I'm looking for a moon phase. The more things change, the more I stay the same.
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Alex Cheers
·So I went into the basement and actually found in an old box some watches I had as teenager. I didn't remember them, I was expecting another Swatch which I didn't find.
Here they are:
Comparing them to three of my current watches I guess my taste hasn't changed much 😁
Here they are:
Comparing them to three of my current watches I guess my taste hasn't changed much 😁
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Amg786s
·It would have been in the very early 90's that I purchased my first ever watch. It was an elostomer Fila quartz watch in bright red. Sadly, I no longer have it my possession. I tried hard to find an image of it on the net but no joy. I remember being the happiest teen ever. My long watch journey from around that point.
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Canuck
·Westclox Pocket Dax. Grade 1, 1946. Took it to pieces at my desk, so Miss Byers (all the teachers at my school were middle aged and elderly spinsters) took it away from me, and kept it! My second one was a Westclox wristwatch. Too small for me to take apart, and besides, I had learned my lesson. Then, I had a Bulova automatic which was a good watch. I wore it until 1964 when I was given this watch. Still have it! Picture taken about 10 days ago.
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dougwhiz
·First watch I bought for myself in the 70s during high school was a gold LCD similar to this one from the web. I think it was Casio, but the real appeal was that the display was backlit by a tritium tube, so it always glowed green, no clumsy backlight needed at night. I always liked the look of the Pulsar, had the red LED display, but the price was too high.
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FrenchBigCrown
·Mine was a Timex - 25mm. 😀
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Omegafanman
·I still had my old Casio F-80 watch until recently. Still running without need of a service but some of the LED faded. Not bad for forty years :0)
I was mostly Seiko and Casio. Came to mechanical later in life. I had a very early seventies quartz (might be still in the loft) which after a while the display would only work if you left it in the freezer for 10 minutes - which was a bit limiting.
I was mostly Seiko and Casio. Came to mechanical later in life. I had a very early seventies quartz (might be still in the loft) which after a while the display would only work if you left it in the freezer for 10 minutes - which was a bit limiting.
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