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Love the bracelet! Where did you find it?
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·Hate to bore everyone with another “Dad watch” but gonna do it anyway. 😁 Mid-nineties service gift for my Dad who was an independent general practitioner, but this was for 20 years of service with a hospital he was associated with.
He recorded 2 battery changes (one in English and one in French, complete with unreadable doctor signature 😲) after which I suspect it sat for 25 years until I got it changed yesterday. Luckily the batt hadn’t leaked, so it came right up, albeit with droopy date.
More interesting to me, the strap shape still shows the hole/sizing he used, reminding me what a large wrist he had compared to me.
So I present the mid nineties Victronix Swiss Army model 24220 in composite ABS plastic, tritium dial, single jewel Swiss quartz mvmt, with knife matching red bezel. YaY!
It’s safely stored away now but family watches mean so much. My pops had enough to get a decent keeper of time and seeing as how he liked watches I told him he should get a Rolex or omega.
He had been to Switzerland often even worked on some of themetal quality of the big watch makers. He became a metallurgist after the corp.
Any he lectured me about not squandering my money on expensive watches when a 50 dollar watch can tell just as good time.
Damn I forgot that whole exchange I guess more advice from poor pops I ignored, sorry pops.
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