your first watch

The first watch I was proud to own. Picked up on streets of Kowloon, HK 1989.
I don’t wear it much anymore. New battery last fall. Still runs

My first watch was back in the 1970s - a Chronosport UDT. I got fog under the crystal and pulled off the back to let it dry our. To speed the process I put it in the back window of our VW Beetle but forgot about it and left it there, in direct sunlight. When I remembered and took it out the watch was ruined. Everything inside got badly warped from the heat, and that was all she wrote.


(not my photo)

It’s so long ago that I can’t remember, but I can be certain it was a Swiss watch. My mother was Swiss, born and brought up in Neuchâtel. She was very knowledgeable about watches and watchmaking. My siblings and I were given a Swiss watch when my parents deemed us responsible enough to look after it. I reckon I was probably six or seven.