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MrFriday*
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got it serviced by a random watchmaker. Unfortunately he polished it - now it looks more like RG - except for the crown🫨
What watch started it all!!!..And do you still have it?
got it serviced by a random watchmaker. Unfortunately he polished it - now it looks more like RG - except for the crown🫨
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wilderbeast
·Read a book by Simon Garfield called Time Keepers in 2017 and the epilogue mentioned a Smiths De Luxe watch. I learned that a good mechanical watch had been produced in my home town of Cheltenham and decided I had to own one.
A little Googling, and a face-to-face meeting with a seller in a motorway services later and I was the proud owner of a 1960 A361 De Luxe. Will never part with it:
It started my vintage watch bug, and a (redialled) 1956 Seamaster for my tenth wedding anniversary followed. Then I joined this forum and met you lovely people - and the rest is (expensive) history…
A little Googling, and a face-to-face meeting with a seller in a motorway services later and I was the proud owner of a 1960 A361 De Luxe. Will never part with it:
It started my vintage watch bug, and a (redialled) 1956 Seamaster for my tenth wedding anniversary followed. Then I joined this forum and met you lovely people - and the rest is (expensive) history…
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bonzodog
·First watch was a Timex but that was over sixty years ago.No idea where it went .
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JimMac
·Seamaster 2254.50. Bought it over a Submariner 20 years ago. Originally went in to buy the Sub but the Omega felt like it was built better back then and was less expensive. Although I have a bunch of other watches (Sub included) I still wear the Seamaster regularly. It has been bulletproof and I have no regrets. My 16 year old son is in love with it so I'll be passing it to him at some point.
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NVWC
·This..and is still in the collection
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Mugul
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Hetcins1
·First watch 18years ago still got still wear.
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GarethS
·First post Casio watch I received for my 18th in '87 - still have it - still gets wrist time
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lucian23
·It start it with a Swatch.. Sadly i do not have it anymore because i sold it when i was very young 😀
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cakey007
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He never wore it but I knew it was around and think I wore it to primary school once or twice without him knowing . One day he gave it to me - I think more a case of clearing out some stuff.
so, I think that probably this started any interest in watches for me, so much so they would pop up occasionally on eBay and so I would buy them, o had three at one stage- I gave him one back as a wedding gift for being my best man, again he’s never worn it so it will be somewhere!
I still have the one given and another which I let me son use but I’m having great difficultly explainIng the point of older watches to him when he prefers his smart watch! maybe one day I will convince him
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Sauzo
·I had a Mickey Mouse watch when I was a kid. Mickey on a red background with his arms as the hour and minutes. That was my first watch. Then I got a Casio calculator watch……and it just went from there.
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ErichPryde
·This..and is still in the collection
That "Flamberge" style hand is super cool- what's that style called? Can't say I've seen it before
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ErichPryde
·My very first watch was a Timex Indiglo I got for one of my birthdays when I was young. I wore that watch through multiple battery changes until it was battered and water finally got into the case. I bought myself some sort of a cheap blue dial Casio quartz analog and wore that up until the point that ,my wife bought me a Citizen H145 Eco-drive with a navy sunburst dial.
The casio went into my toolbox and survived multiple moves, but I can't locate it now. No idea if I still have it. The citizen I still have and treasure.
The casio went into my toolbox and survived multiple moves, but I can't locate it now. No idea if I still have it. The citizen I still have and treasure.
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vbrad26
·Always wore watches as a kid. I remember having multiple. Mostly Timex, Fossil and G-Shock along with random others thrown in.
I didn't know it at the time (middle school) but I even had a fake Tag Heuer Link that I bought at the mall! Lol.
I quit wearing watches for a while, like, high school time. But then started again about 10 years ago.
Unfortunately, most of those early ones are long gone.
I didn't know it at the time (middle school) but I even had a fake Tag Heuer Link that I bought at the mall! Lol.
I quit wearing watches for a while, like, high school time. But then started again about 10 years ago.
Unfortunately, most of those early ones are long gone.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.Was on a three week business trip and the battery in my Victorinox Maveric ran out leaving me to rely on my crackberry. Bought this in a boutique. ETA movement and a massive lemon. Still have it because no one wants it. Its not a bad looking piece though. Basically a fashion watch with ETA movement. The GMT Master II quickly followed, long layover in Frankfurt, Wempe, because the MB was unreliable. Things mushroomed from there. JLC/RGM and then Vintage with my 2998-6.
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rahbarin
·Was on a three week business trip and the battery in my Victorinox Maveric ran out leaving me to rely on my crackberry. Bought this in a boutique. ETA movement and a massive lemon. Still have it because no one wants it. Its not a bad looking piece though. Basically a fashion watch with ETA movement. The GMT Master II quickly followed, long layover in Frankfurt, Wempe, because the MB was unreliable. Things mushroomed from there. JLC/RGM and then Vintage with my 2998-6.
love the Rolex picture is on the plane
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NVWC
·That "Flamberge" style hand is super cool- what's that style called? Can't say I've seen it before
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rahbarin
·My very first watch was a Timex Indiglo I got for one of my birthdays when I was young. I wore that watch through multiple battery changes until it was battered and water finally got into the case. I bought myself some sort of a cheap blue dial Casio quartz analog and wore that up until the point that ,my wife bought me a Citizen H145 Eco-drive with a navy sunburst dial.
The casio went into my toolbox and survived multiple moves, but I can't locate it now. No idea if I still have it. The citizen I still have and treasure.
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jimmyjay
·I started out with an ‘80’s Seiko digital quartz, then move on to cheap fashion watches in the 90’s and 00’s. Then I found this beauty a few years ago. I hope my son will wear it one day.
I also wear my late father’s 32mm Hamilton from time to time.
I also wear my late father’s 32mm Hamilton from time to time.
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Canuck
·My 1933 Rolex Prince Observatory duo-dial “doctors” watch. I’m second owner, my late father being the first owner. 18-jewels, adjusted to 6 positions, manual wind. Movement made for Rolex (Gruen, and others) by Aegler. The only one with the high adjustments and 18 jewels I have ever seen. Unfortunately, in a Canadian (gold filled) case. 90 years old and runs well (on the very odd occasion that I wear it). My first collectible watch, acquired almost 50 years ago, and I still have it.
