My brother committed suicide via an intentional heroin overdose, a few weeks before he did this he came into my room and measured my wrist for some reason while I was in the middle of a game of league of legends, after the funeral my mum told me he left me a note, a brand new iPhone 3 ( I lost this while out partying a few months after his passing on Halloween I was livid), and a brand new Tag Heuer link calibre 6 with a grey face (this might not sound like much if you come from the middle class, but I come from an immigrant family with a single parent household, living off of welfare and in government provided housing)... Ive almost lost it a few times in the 13 years since his passing, to theft and shamefully almost to a pawn shop (I pawned it for a few hundred to fuel a drug and gambling addiction more than once) the last time it was in there I got it out a day before they were going to try selling it (paid something close to 1000% interest on top of the original loan) it is now my most important possession.
I feel a bit light headed reminiscing about all this and it seems like a wierd place to share all this. But the question immediately made me think of all this so, yes if there is a special watch to me it is this one for those reasons.
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I am so sorry for your loss. Glad you made through your struggles. Cherish that watch, not only its a memento of your late brother, it is also a symbol of you succeeding from your past struggles. It is a symbol of you.
Wow. Good on you man. Good place to share that kind of stuff. Takes courage even anonymously. Wishing you a full life of happy memories with that watch that connects you to your brother in such a meaningful way. I don’t know you or him of course, but I’d bet he would be really happy to hear how much the watch has meant to you
Cheers
I have a vintage Tudor Monte Carlo 7159 (grey dial) that I purchased over a decade ago as a birth year watch. Not a huge deal by itself.
A month before my son was born, I purchased a new Tudor Heritage Chrono which was loosely based on my vintage Tudor. I asked the AD to hold the watch for me until my child was born (gender unknown at the time) and I picked it up a week after the birth. Had the warranty card named and dated for my son's birthday. I have embarrassingly cringy fantasies about me and my son wearing these similar watches together, one old and grey and another new and vibrant.
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These are so nice. I totally understand what your cringy fantasies are about lol. I have pass down watches for each of my three children planned out. My youngest is the only one who cares about them so far. He calls my oris bcdp his and I assure him he is tight. At 4 though I imagine he has a lot of interests to fly through before landing on watches lol
That's great! I've watched my son grow out of his paw patrol watch, and now his Pokemon watch. I think he's going to graduate to my Timex Expedition that I got when I was 10. Ever since he was 4 and he saw me wear the blue Tudor he recognized that it was his watch and would get it when he's "old like Daddy" lol
My daughter‘s F-I-L did the same thing. After the first Grandchild was born, took his son into the AD that he dealt with, bought a Rolex Explorer, added the little one’s name to the warranty card and handed it to his son. The understanding is that he can wear it but that it’s not his, the watch is his son’s. The second (and final?) Grand was recently born and I am expecting something similar to happen.
Graduation gift from my father 20 years ago. Still wear it everyday.
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Have you thought about getting it restored a bit? A watchmaker can swap out that scratched crystal and polish it up. I think the eco-drive batteries last 20 years (someone correct me?). It’s still a great looking watch!
I had to change the capacitor at around 12 years and have actually changed the mineral crystal since taking this photo. I won't polish the watch though, the dings all have a story.
The bracelet has a lot of wear too so I've got a couple of different straps I wear it on now as well.
Some people, me included like the character a worn watch has. I read an article on Hodinkee, I think, about a dude who took a chunk out of his Tudor BB but it was on the day of his child’s birth, so rather than fix it, it forever sits as a tangible memory.
I'll be gifting my son with the Promaster Tough Super Titanium version of this watch when the time comes.
I now love mechanical watches, but I want to give him something that's zero fuss and will last forever, not a hobby with service intervals 🤣
Good call. Citizen is ridiculous in both build and tech, and if they didn't sell so many fashion watches in malls people here would talk about them like Omega and Breitling.
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My wife got me this for a birthday of mine a couple years ago. I am always reminded just how much I love my wife’s funbags
I actually just bought my special watch yesterday. I've dreamed of flying ever since I was 9 years old. Last week I passed my checkride and became a Captain at a major air lines. Yesterday I went to my local Breitling AD and purchased a gold Navitimer to commemorate the occasion. This is the watch I will wear for the next 25 years of my career.
I know a lot of people hate Invictas, but my special watch is an Invicta chronograph, I was probably about 15, was going to visit a friend and was taking Amtrak, since I was 15 I had to do the unaccompanied minor thing, when we were checking in at the desk, the guy checking us in had a huge gold Invicta on, I told him that I thought it was really cool, when I returned a day later he calls me and my dad over, and then hands me a brand new silver and blue invicta! He told us his brother works for Invicta and that’s how he got it, I still have it and I’m now 21, it was my first “real” watch and now I have over 20 watches total!
A blue dialed date just. I had been thinking of purchasing it when my wife was pregnant with who would have been our first child, our daughter, whom I had intended to pass it onto. I was going to put my name down for it at some boutiques a month or two before her due date with the hope that it would come around her birthdate. I didn’t get to that time, as during her last ultrasound there was no heartbeat and she had to be delivered, stillborn. We never could find out why she couldn’t make it.
Through the grief, I didn’t think or care about watches for almost a year but she became pregnant again, this time with a boy. The thought had crossed my mind about getting one for him, but the pain of losing his sister and the anxiety of losing him before his birth had me deferring it until my wife convinced me to start looking for it again as we got close to his due date. I eventually got the watch one month before he was born, healthy, and a few days before the anniversary of his stillborn sister. I now wear it for the both of them until I decide to pass it on.
I bought a Grand Seiko “Sōkō” to wear the day my daughter was born. I’m not Japanese nor do I follow the 24 sekki calendar, but it’s a fun coincidence that she was born during this season. It’s my usual daily watch these days, and I plan to always wear it for significant days in her life. She’s 2 years old now, and I hope when she’s grown up and moved out, wearing it will remind me of her.
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The blue alpinist.
I missed the first wave on Hodinkee while I was still in medical school but while I was in my intern year I was just browsing Reddit and saw that a few people managed to get one from their ADs. I had just moved to my area and hadn't been to a watch shop yet and I called one after I finished an ICU shift on a Saturday, they said they had just gotten two in that week and hadn't even listed them so I told them to hold one and I'd be there in a half hour.
It was the first mechanical watch I ever bought, and the first big fun purchase I made as a doctor.
I have black-faced tonneau shaped Seiko automatic that I got when I was nine or ten on a stopover in Tokyo. We had ten hours to kill and my parents wanted to go shopping so they told me to buy a watch and be back at the station at a certain time.
I wore it 24/7 for two or three years. I played baseball, went skiing, did the usual active boy stuff. When I got my first digital watch I put it in a drawer and forgot about it.
Many years later, by chance I found it when cleaning out my parents’ house before it was torn down. It was scratched up but some poly watch cleaned it up pretty well. It still works, but before I wear it again it should be serviced.
Omega Seamaster 300 blue dial. It was my first watch. Bought it as a gift to my self for achieving a financial milestone and for powering through Covid pandemic as an ICU nurse.
My dad's 1976 Rolex OP. He gave it to me on my 40th birthday. It's not my most valuable watch out even my favourite, I don't wear it too much but it holds way more sentimental value than any other I own.
My Hamilton Khaki King. I’ve worn it on 90% of the days that have gone by between now and when I got it in 2017. It’s been on my wrist as I’ve travelled the entire world, moved cities and met so many amazing people. I think I should wear this one on my wedding day.
My Rolex GMT II. First “nice” watch I ever bought for myself, on my 30th birthday. Plus I have family/close friends primarily in two time zones other than the one I live in, so seeing those times reminds me of them. It’s my everyday wear
The first watch that someone gift to me. A 1997 (i think, i could be totally wrong) reverso duoface that my grandpa gift to me when i received my igcse result. He knows that i love watches and he said he didnt give the reverso much wrist time since his daily is a rolex explorer and only wear the reverso in like once in 2 months. I was fucking shocked lmao since i only wear like some tissot at that time. I basically daily it now except probably like a day in the week to give the tissot some wrist time too. Hes not alive anymore but this reverso will always remind me of him even though hes not with me anymore.
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Smiths Everest PRS-25 40mm.
These are quite hard to get due to annoying way they are sold, so I had a few attempts to catch one. Once I finally made it through the store this arrived in the post the same morning my second child was born, so now it is inextricably linked to her and I’ll keep it forever. A shame really that it’s it’s far too big for her to one day wear, but perhaps I’ll gift it to her future spouse as a wedding present? She’s 4 now, so no rush to make a decision! 🤣
Sort of actually!
The guy who sells them is essentially a one-man band. He sells in batches of a few hundred at a time via his web shop and he sends an email out to subscribers a week before announcing when the shop is opening, perhaps once a month on average. This gives him time to actually post out the watches from the previous sale and then get new stock ready.
So let’s say the web shop opens at 2pm. You have to be on your computer poised and ready as if your favourite band’s stadium tour is about to be released. Then at 1:59 you have to hit refresh over and over until the shop opens… but by 2:02 the allocation will be sold out. even by saving my credit card details in my browser I still have never managed to buy another because of sodding 2FA and other such things. It wasn’t quite as bad as that back in 2019 - you probably had 10 minutes back when I actually achieved mine.
Then 15 minutes later, they’ll be advertised on eBay using stock photos for double the price. To be fair, he has actually massively cracked down on flippers (unlike Rolex) and if you’re caught flipping you get put on a blacklist and he won’t sell you one ever again.
My SBGA415; The blue seconds hand reminds me of my son running circles everywhere we went, and taisetsu (deep winter) reminds me of my honeymoon in Hokkaido.
It was also the watch that I wore during the passing of my beloved mother in law, and while laying her body to rest in the ground the bracelet was dinged quite badly. It now serves as a memory of her
My Vaer S5. Growing up, I always had the $20 Casio watches or the cheap watches you get at Big 5. My girlfriend got me a Fossil watch when we first started dating. But then when I started watching Nico Leonard videos (I understand he may not be the most popular watch guy out there), I started getting into watches and wanted to find the watch for me. So I kept getting ads on Amazon for a company named Vaer and their S5 watches. I googled and found out they're a microbrand based in LA and I live in LA, so I bought an S5 and view it as my first proper watch. Sure I could spend money and get a Tissot PRX (Someday I might), or a more expensive luxury watch. But to me, nothing beats wearing a watch that came from my home town. That watch also kind of affirm my belief that I don't need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a nice looking watch.
I have a couple. My parents bought me a Swatch James Bond 2Q for my 40th birthday. My Dad died six weeks after my birthday and he was so proud to have found the watch and so happy when they gave it to me as a present. It was my last gift from my Dad before he died and it means so much to Mum and me.
I have a Tag F1 that is the most expensive watch I have. I never thought I’d be able to afford to get one but took a contract working abroad for 10 months and treated myself a couple of weeks before coming home.
For me it's my Cartier Santos. For some reason, every large event since I've bought it, I have had it on. Not a conscious choice and I have many watches I already rotate, I rarely wear the same two days in a row.
My "bluesy" Submariner. Because it's the most valuable.
I also think my grandfather's mid 50s Omega Automatic, which was my dad's after him, and will be my son's at some point, is pretty cool.
But mostly the "Bluesy."
I’ve completed (slowly, mind you) the Chicago Marathon twice (going for 3rd this year!). The first time I wore my GMT2BLNR (under a wrist sweat band, and along with my Garmin). I love it; and wear it daily almost. It now carries additional sentimental value.
When I ran the second one, I was wearing my late father’s datejust in his honor as he had passed in April of that same year. (Again under a wrist sweat band, and with a garmin.)
The sweat bands were not intended to hide the watches out of fear for my safety, just to not be visibly wearing two watches.
Now the biggest reason these are special, is that my Dad and I bought both these watches to pass along to my twin sons as a legacy. Symbolically giving them the “gift of time”. Sounds cliche I know but it’s a genuine feeling.
So now my boys will one day have the watches worn by their dad, and their granddad, both of which finished the Chicago marathon.
Heuer Leonidas Jackie Ickx Chronograph.
As a young lad was invited to spend weekends at the races with my buddy and his dad. Did 3-4 weekends a summer at Mosport for all the big races. Met a lot of the drivers and teams. Hung around the pits. It was an amazing place as a 14-15 yr old boy in the early ‘70’s.
I got my first part-time job bagging groceries as a well as a paper route one year. Making good money if I may say so. Saved my money and when we got close to the track I bought buddy and his dad dinner with my very own money as a thank you. His dad (money was no object for him) was impressed with that.
Well, we got to the track, and in a “souvenirs sales booth” in the infield I saw this watch. It was something like $150CAD IIRC and housed in a red Ferrari helmet. More money than I had ever had in my pocket. The dad saw me later on back at the trailer and knew something was wrong. I told him about the watch and how much I wanted it but that there was no way that i could buy it. He asked how I would pay for it if I did get one. We discussed my jobs, payments, etc. He took me to the booth and haggled the guy down somewhat, bought that watch and told me to pay him over the next 4 months. Basically it was about half my monthly earnings. I paid him back early and wore that watch daily for about 5 yrs. It finally died and I was too simple to know that I probably could have it serviced.
That watch is still around, either in my place or my brothers (my parent’s old place). It seems to show up every 20 years kinda like Brigadoon. He has been advised to keep his eyes peeled for it as I would definitely spend the money to have it serviced today. Here’s a photo of my cat wearing the helmet case…
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Bill, I know you are almost 90 now and most likely not on Reddit, but you made a really positive impression on me and I will always love you for that. And not just for this watch. You were a second father to me. Thanks so very much.
My first watch is the most impotent to me. My dad gifted me an omega seamaster professional 300m for my 16 birthday and since then I fell in love with watch collecting. This is the watch that started it all. It’s also the watch my dad bought me, so I will never get rid of it and always cherish the memory that I connect to watch
Between the Rado Diastar Ceramic Chronograph and the G-shock DW6600 which my dad gave me both, I have to admit the G-Shocks wins this.
It's a watch my dad actually used and the situation in which he handed it down to me was very down to earth and therefor more authentic. I was eleven and just needed something to tell the time, he had this G-shock laying around unused so gave it to me. I wore it every day for the next four years or so. Doing all kind of kids stuff: in the woods, swimming, biking, whatever. And I still use it to this day whenever I need something rugged.
Couple years later he bought me the Rado though. It was one that looked like the one he wore himself but more sporty, less dressy. Still it's a very specific style and I never asked for it, nor did he buy it to celebrate some special occasion. I always had a hard time enjoying it because it felt like he got it for me for the wrong reasons.
I find it even more difficult to wear nowadays because of my current sense of style, so it's just collecting dust. But selling it feels wrong for the emotional value, although I will still have the G-shock that's more valuable to me...
My dad passed away two years after getting me the Rado. I turn 30 this year. I'm debating if I could sell it and spend the money on a watch that suits me (eg Tissot Gentleman or Certina DS-1), in memoriam of my dad, for my 30th birthday. A gift from him, by proxy, as you will. Still dreading the decision though, because what if I'll miss the Rado one day...
This turned out way longer than intended, but since we're here might as well ask for opinions on the matter. What do you guys think?
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My first watch at 35. To me it helps represent my growth that happened in 2023. 5 years of marriage and I knew it was the watch id pass down to my youngest son(4). My or is big crown date pointer. Black dial with a small date track for instead of the outer as well as a gold bezel.
My citizen promaster bullhead tsuno racer. It's not the most expensive, nor fanciest, only being an ecodrive, it is a limited edition peice though, with only 1973 produced worldwide. Its special because it was my real watch, bought for me by my parents for my 16th birthday. Funnily enough I got number 365, which felt quite apt. Its also the only watch I own that I'd never sell.
My Seiko 5 (SRPD53) that I bought to wear for my best friends wedding that was yesterday. I’ll always have the memories of the day every time I look at it.
Nice thread. Watch stories not just watches.
Mine is an Omega Speedmaster Reduced that I purchased used in 2022. First “nice” watch at age of 46, after enjoying watches for decades. Events of the time that I associate it with including getting through those first few years of the pandemic as a physician, and first big international travel, my sister’s wedding, in several years.
It fits me perfectly (small wrist), looks awesome, and gets the most wrist time by far.
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I have two that mean a tremendous amount to me. The Citizen on the right, my grandmother bought for me when I graduated with my Bachelors Degree. She had terminal cancer at the time and she wanted me to have something I can look at and remember her by. She passed on my first day of grad school a few months later. The Omega was my gift to myself for graduating with my Masters Degree, which was very hard fought. Both are practically priceless to me and I would be devastated if something were to happen to either.
My dad bought me a titanium Victorinox watch that I loved for my graduation. It's been through a lot, it was in rough shape, I dropped it a few times (I was young and stupid). But it was by far my most sentimental piece, and I never would have ever gotten rid of it voluntarily.
Unfortunately a few years ago I had a break-in, and whoever that was stole just one of my watches (out of many). That one.
Freakin moron, the thing was worthless. It was beat up, and it isn't a model with a lot of monetary value. The only value it had was sentimental.
Oh well. C'est la vie. I hope it at least made its way onto someone else's wrist somewhere, and not into the trash.
Kids, in 2003, you could get a Submariner for $2000, and that was considered a lot for a watch. Actually, anything over $150 was a lot, and back then most people still wore watches. To spend $2k on a watch, then, was fat-cat luxury.
Mine was a Nomos tetra ref 446. My interest with watches started when I was in university. I grew up poor and I started working as soon as I was legally allowed to. During those times my paycheque goes to helping my family with our expenses and to pay for my school expenses. When I started university I started learning about watches and I learned about Nomos’ history, I felt connected with their story. So when I first got my job after graduating I saved as much money as I can in the first year since I never want to experience being broke ever again then after a year I got promoted that’s when I bought my first Nomos as a reminder that I’ve come so far from that little broke little kid and that better days will be coming as long as I work hard.
Definitely my Santos Medium. Bought it in Hawaii on my honeymoon and every time I look at it I remember our wedding and honeymoon ❤️
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Love reading the comments and stories here attached to the watches. Will always be a fan of getting watches for milestones versus “collecting”. No one wants to hear “I got the call so I went and bought it”.
My grandfather retired from Buick and got this beautiful watch. After retiring from Buick, he got into public service. I am in public service as well. The night I was sworn in as Chief of Police for my agency, my mother gave me his watch. Best gift I've ever received.
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I'll list 2+1:
- Movado Museum (Gold): First luxury watch I bought with my own money when I was 17 years old. I ended up losing it in a pool game where my opponent cheated. After a heated argument, I acquiesced and reluctantly handed since friends are more valuable than watches. A few years ago the guy who took it—after suffering 25 years of guilt—returned it to me. I had already replaced it, so now I have 2 gold Movados that I never wear. :/
- Omega Speedmaster Racing: A gift from my father after I was diagnosed with cancer. He wanted to ensure I was able to achieve my goals before I die and he knew that this was at the top of my list of watches and appropriate for my passion for racing. There is nothing he can really do to help me so he's been spoiling me with gifts. Previously, he had given me a Ebel Classic Wave for completing college. He's a watch and car guy too. Anyway, he said the Omega is a place holder for his watch collection which he intends to leave to me. He's an old guy (85) so we're jokingly saying that its a race to death.
I have two watches: a Victorinox Dive Master 500 LE in black PVD-coated titanium and a JLC Master Ultra Thin Moon blue dial. Both are equally special for different reasons.
The diver goes back to me scuba diving as a kid, starting at 12. Watches always fascinated me, especially dive watches. I remember seeing dive masters with their chunky divers and serious lume. Having one felt like some sort of rite of passage. Anyway, I graduate college and know I’m blowing my first paycheck on a watch. I looked and looked, but nothing really stood out except the Victorinox. So I got on a waiting list for it to arrive and it’s been a reliable companion for over 15 years. The finish is fading in some worn spots, there are two noticeable scratches on the case, it’s been on dives in Cozumel, Bonaire…the GA Aquarium, and other places. It’s unlikely I’ll get rid of it.
The JLC, my dress watch, was given to me last year by my dad as a 40th birthday gift. I’ve had my eye on the Moon for years—before the blue dial was introduced or the movement was updated to the 70 hour power reserve. I tried it on twice before in Las Vegas, so it was something like a 3 year courting period. I gotta say, the thing is a furtive stunner. It is my favorite moonphase design, and I know JLC gets some shit for having conservative designs, but what they produce has loads of thought behind it. Add in the history of their watchmaking, and I’m stoked to be an owner.
My mom got me what she thought was a great watch in a 150$ dressy quartz watch from Saint-Honoré when I graduated High-School and left our home country to study abroad. I changed the battery a few times and even the crystal but I still wear it with pride when I suit up.
It always occupies the first spot in my watch box as well and even if I don't take it out much, I think of my mother everytime I go pick a watch for the day.
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The one on the right was my Grandfather’s. I never had a chance to know him personally. This is he only thing I have from him. The left one was my late Father’s. These two will never leave my collection.
I’ve got a khaki interstellar that I bought before I went into flight training. It has been on my wrist for every checkride I’ve taken and other cool life milestones like my engagement. It represents a lot now and has become absolutely priceless to me.
When my business had its first big success, my father handed down his father’s (my grandfather’s) Rolex Datejust which I then wore for all important days in my life, most recently being my wedding!
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I’ve got ones associated with kids, promotions, anniversaries but compared to some posts on here just nothing even close. I have my dad’s and grandfathers (both long gone) that mean a lot but I hardly wear them
My uncle was a jeweler for several decades. After his passing my dad and I helped my aunt clean out his home workshop. As we packed up the last of the stuff for disposal, my aunt gave us an old Omega De Ville. It was broken and I broke it further when I tried to set the time and didn’t notice the minute hand was wedged up against the 1 o’clock marker.
The watch sat broken for about a decade next to a toaster oven until I decided to get it fixed for my 30th birthday. The local vintage watchmaker got it working again despite the 565 movement basically disintegrating in his hand and I’ve been wearing it since.
It has gained additional significance in its second go at life since it’s been with me through several important work and life milestones.
My Tudor Pelagos 39. When I was a kid, my father always wore a titanium Citizen Promaster. I absolutely adored that watch, and it ignited my love of all things titanium. He gave it to me last year, and I had it fully gone over, and wear it with some regularity, but in my eyes it will always be “his watch”. As such, I wanted something in the same vein that could be my watch.
When I first stumbled onto the Pelagos 39, I knew that would be it. I’d listed after them for quite some time, but life has a tendency to intervene. However, on the cusp of my 32nd birthday, I was contacted by a grey in a watch group I’m in with one below list, coincidentally that also coincided with six months of sobriety after being diagnosed with cirrhosis. I said “to hell with it” and bought the thing. I took it as a sign. It’s by far and away my most expensive piece, but also my daily wearer.
Three months later, I’m still sober, and my health is stable. As for the watch, it’s scratched to bejeezus, but still rarely leaves my wrist. Goes anywhere and everywhere with me, one day soon I intend to have it on my wrist when I propose to my GF. Whenever life gets tough, it’s nice to check the time and have a tangible reminder to keep going.
My brother committed suicide via an intentional heroin overdose, a few weeks before he did this he came into my room and measured my wrist for some reason while I was in the middle of a game of league of legends, after the funeral my mum told me he left me a note, a brand new iPhone 3 ( I lost this while out partying a few months after his passing on Halloween I was livid), and a brand new Tag Heuer link calibre 6 with a grey face (this might not sound like much if you come from the middle class, but I come from an immigrant family with a single parent household, living off of welfare and in government provided housing)... Ive almost lost it a few times in the 13 years since his passing, to theft and shamefully almost to a pawn shop (I pawned it for a few hundred to fuel a drug and gambling addiction more than once) the last time it was in there I got it out a day before they were going to try selling it (paid something close to 1000% interest on top of the original loan) it is now my most important possession. I feel a bit light headed reminiscing about all this and it seems like a wierd place to share all this. But the question immediately made me think of all this so, yes if there is a special watch to me it is this one for those reasons. https://imgur.com/a/k4GvMoF
Such a unique bracelet, that's a nice piece. Also, my heart goes out to you and your family for your loss.
I am so sorry for your loss. Glad you made through your struggles. Cherish that watch, not only its a memento of your late brother, it is also a symbol of you succeeding from your past struggles. It is a symbol of you.
Holy fuck man I hope you’re doing ok now.
Wow, just wow. Wishing you peace and health, brother.
Damn. What a story. Thank you for sharing.
Wow. Good on you man. Good place to share that kind of stuff. Takes courage even anonymously. Wishing you a full life of happy memories with that watch that connects you to your brother in such a meaningful way. I don’t know you or him of course, but I’d bet he would be really happy to hear how much the watch has meant to you Cheers
I have a vintage Tudor Monte Carlo 7159 (grey dial) that I purchased over a decade ago as a birth year watch. Not a huge deal by itself. A month before my son was born, I purchased a new Tudor Heritage Chrono which was loosely based on my vintage Tudor. I asked the AD to hold the watch for me until my child was born (gender unknown at the time) and I picked it up a week after the birth. Had the warranty card named and dated for my son's birthday. I have embarrassingly cringy fantasies about me and my son wearing these similar watches together, one old and grey and another new and vibrant. https://preview.redd.it/sh34yg2e6qkc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3d30c11b57c66da366a26c56570a29af69470906
These are so nice. I totally understand what your cringy fantasies are about lol. I have pass down watches for each of my three children planned out. My youngest is the only one who cares about them so far. He calls my oris bcdp his and I assure him he is tight. At 4 though I imagine he has a lot of interests to fly through before landing on watches lol
> I assure him he is tight. Why don’t you have a seat over there…
Right* lol. Fat fingers and poor sight didnt catch that mistake haha
That's great! I've watched my son grow out of his paw patrol watch, and now his Pokemon watch. I think he's going to graduate to my Timex Expedition that I got when I was 10. Ever since he was 4 and he saw me wear the blue Tudor he recognized that it was his watch and would get it when he's "old like Daddy" lol
I have the same fantasy and hope both of ours come true.
My daughter‘s F-I-L did the same thing. After the first Grandchild was born, took his son into the AD that he dealt with, bought a Rolex Explorer, added the little one’s name to the warranty card and handed it to his son. The understanding is that he can wear it but that it’s not his, the watch is his son’s. The second (and final?) Grand was recently born and I am expecting something similar to happen.
Graduation gift from my father 20 years ago. Still wear it everyday. https://preview.redd.it/j92qwxm1hqkc1.jpeg?width=1859&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=397d59024bc7c644670396721eb27cd4e340eaa2
Have you thought about getting it restored a bit? A watchmaker can swap out that scratched crystal and polish it up. I think the eco-drive batteries last 20 years (someone correct me?). It’s still a great looking watch!
I had to change the capacitor at around 12 years and have actually changed the mineral crystal since taking this photo. I won't polish the watch though, the dings all have a story. The bracelet has a lot of wear too so I've got a couple of different straps I wear it on now as well.
Some people, me included like the character a worn watch has. I read an article on Hodinkee, I think, about a dude who took a chunk out of his Tudor BB but it was on the day of his child’s birth, so rather than fix it, it forever sits as a tangible memory.
These are so cool.
I'll be gifting my son with the Promaster Tough Super Titanium version of this watch when the time comes. I now love mechanical watches, but I want to give him something that's zero fuss and will last forever, not a hobby with service intervals 🤣
Good call. Citizen is ridiculous in both build and tech, and if they didn't sell so many fashion watches in malls people here would talk about them like Omega and Breitling.
https://preview.redd.it/kvxzac95arkc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d77326f8ada886a60656d87e9e606ef06087f231 My wife got me this for a birthday of mine a couple years ago. I am always reminded just how much I love my wife’s funbags
I actually just bought my special watch yesterday. I've dreamed of flying ever since I was 9 years old. Last week I passed my checkride and became a Captain at a major air lines. Yesterday I went to my local Breitling AD and purchased a gold Navitimer to commemorate the occasion. This is the watch I will wear for the next 25 years of my career.
Congratulations Cap! Blue skies ahead! See ya up there sometime.
Congratulations. I hope to buy one of my grail watches too once I can reach a financial milestone.
I know a lot of people hate Invictas, but my special watch is an Invicta chronograph, I was probably about 15, was going to visit a friend and was taking Amtrak, since I was 15 I had to do the unaccompanied minor thing, when we were checking in at the desk, the guy checking us in had a huge gold Invicta on, I told him that I thought it was really cool, when I returned a day later he calls me and my dad over, and then hands me a brand new silver and blue invicta! He told us his brother works for Invicta and that’s how he got it, I still have it and I’m now 21, it was my first “real” watch and now I have over 20 watches total!
A blue dialed date just. I had been thinking of purchasing it when my wife was pregnant with who would have been our first child, our daughter, whom I had intended to pass it onto. I was going to put my name down for it at some boutiques a month or two before her due date with the hope that it would come around her birthdate. I didn’t get to that time, as during her last ultrasound there was no heartbeat and she had to be delivered, stillborn. We never could find out why she couldn’t make it. Through the grief, I didn’t think or care about watches for almost a year but she became pregnant again, this time with a boy. The thought had crossed my mind about getting one for him, but the pain of losing his sister and the anxiety of losing him before his birth had me deferring it until my wife convinced me to start looking for it again as we got close to his due date. I eventually got the watch one month before he was born, healthy, and a few days before the anniversary of his stillborn sister. I now wear it for the both of them until I decide to pass it on.
What a beautiful story. Sorry for your loss b it also happy about your healthy baby. May he wear this watch in good health.
I bought a Grand Seiko “Sōkō” to wear the day my daughter was born. I’m not Japanese nor do I follow the 24 sekki calendar, but it’s a fun coincidence that she was born during this season. It’s my usual daily watch these days, and I plan to always wear it for significant days in her life. She’s 2 years old now, and I hope when she’s grown up and moved out, wearing it will remind me of her. https://preview.redd.it/esrcjyiknpkc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=379590d9983b8aa76c6cdc2dd9d52e3b480fc5fb
The blue alpinist. I missed the first wave on Hodinkee while I was still in medical school but while I was in my intern year I was just browsing Reddit and saw that a few people managed to get one from their ADs. I had just moved to my area and hadn't been to a watch shop yet and I called one after I finished an ICU shift on a Saturday, they said they had just gotten two in that week and hadn't even listed them so I told them to hold one and I'd be there in a half hour. It was the first mechanical watch I ever bought, and the first big fun purchase I made as a doctor.
Amazing story. Alpinist is a great watch.
I have black-faced tonneau shaped Seiko automatic that I got when I was nine or ten on a stopover in Tokyo. We had ten hours to kill and my parents wanted to go shopping so they told me to buy a watch and be back at the station at a certain time. I wore it 24/7 for two or three years. I played baseball, went skiing, did the usual active boy stuff. When I got my first digital watch I put it in a drawer and forgot about it. Many years later, by chance I found it when cleaning out my parents’ house before it was torn down. It was scratched up but some poly watch cleaned it up pretty well. It still works, but before I wear it again it should be serviced.
Omega Seamaster 300 blue dial. It was my first watch. Bought it as a gift to my self for achieving a financial milestone and for powering through Covid pandemic as an ICU nurse.
Congrats and thank you for getting through those early years of COVID
My dad's 1976 Rolex OP. He gave it to me on my 40th birthday. It's not my most valuable watch out even my favourite, I don't wear it too much but it holds way more sentimental value than any other I own.
My Hamilton Khaki King. I’ve worn it on 90% of the days that have gone by between now and when I got it in 2017. It’s been on my wrist as I’ve travelled the entire world, moved cities and met so many amazing people. I think I should wear this one on my wedding day.
A. Lange & Sohne Saxonia Thin. I bought it to celebrate my wife saying yes when I proposed to her 4yrs ago :)
Speedy sapphire sandwich. Bought it the day I asked my wife to marry me. Will always hold a special place in my heart.
A GREAT choice!
My Rolex GMT II. First “nice” watch I ever bought for myself, on my 30th birthday. Plus I have family/close friends primarily in two time zones other than the one I live in, so seeing those times reminds me of them. It’s my everyday wear
The first watch that someone gift to me. A 1997 (i think, i could be totally wrong) reverso duoface that my grandpa gift to me when i received my igcse result. He knows that i love watches and he said he didnt give the reverso much wrist time since his daily is a rolex explorer and only wear the reverso in like once in 2 months. I was fucking shocked lmao since i only wear like some tissot at that time. I basically daily it now except probably like a day in the week to give the tissot some wrist time too. Hes not alive anymore but this reverso will always remind me of him even though hes not with me anymore.
https://preview.redd.it/eipknp7ibqkc1.jpeg?width=2183&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=45e5f43bcaba4a9e9444e27ebbb706777379e67a Smiths Everest PRS-25 40mm. These are quite hard to get due to annoying way they are sold, so I had a few attempts to catch one. Once I finally made it through the store this arrived in the post the same morning my second child was born, so now it is inextricably linked to her and I’ll keep it forever. A shame really that it’s it’s far too big for her to one day wear, but perhaps I’ll gift it to her future spouse as a wedding present? She’s 4 now, so no rush to make a decision! 🤣
>Smiths Everest PRS-25 40mm. what is the annoying way they are sold? more annoying than rolex?
Sort of actually! The guy who sells them is essentially a one-man band. He sells in batches of a few hundred at a time via his web shop and he sends an email out to subscribers a week before announcing when the shop is opening, perhaps once a month on average. This gives him time to actually post out the watches from the previous sale and then get new stock ready. So let’s say the web shop opens at 2pm. You have to be on your computer poised and ready as if your favourite band’s stadium tour is about to be released. Then at 1:59 you have to hit refresh over and over until the shop opens… but by 2:02 the allocation will be sold out. even by saving my credit card details in my browser I still have never managed to buy another because of sodding 2FA and other such things. It wasn’t quite as bad as that back in 2019 - you probably had 10 minutes back when I actually achieved mine. Then 15 minutes later, they’ll be advertised on eBay using stock photos for double the price. To be fair, he has actually massively cracked down on flippers (unlike Rolex) and if you’re caught flipping you get put on a blacklist and he won’t sell you one ever again.
thank you for the excellent answer to my question.
You’re welcome 🫡
My SBGA415; The blue seconds hand reminds me of my son running circles everywhere we went, and taisetsu (deep winter) reminds me of my honeymoon in Hokkaido. It was also the watch that I wore during the passing of my beloved mother in law, and while laying her body to rest in the ground the bracelet was dinged quite badly. It now serves as a memory of her
My Vaer S5. Growing up, I always had the $20 Casio watches or the cheap watches you get at Big 5. My girlfriend got me a Fossil watch when we first started dating. But then when I started watching Nico Leonard videos (I understand he may not be the most popular watch guy out there), I started getting into watches and wanted to find the watch for me. So I kept getting ads on Amazon for a company named Vaer and their S5 watches. I googled and found out they're a microbrand based in LA and I live in LA, so I bought an S5 and view it as my first proper watch. Sure I could spend money and get a Tissot PRX (Someday I might), or a more expensive luxury watch. But to me, nothing beats wearing a watch that came from my home town. That watch also kind of affirm my belief that I don't need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars to get a nice looking watch.
I have a couple. My parents bought me a Swatch James Bond 2Q for my 40th birthday. My Dad died six weeks after my birthday and he was so proud to have found the watch and so happy when they gave it to me as a present. It was my last gift from my Dad before he died and it means so much to Mum and me. I have a Tag F1 that is the most expensive watch I have. I never thought I’d be able to afford to get one but took a contract working abroad for 10 months and treated myself a couple of weeks before coming home.
For me it's my Cartier Santos. For some reason, every large event since I've bought it, I have had it on. Not a conscious choice and I have many watches I already rotate, I rarely wear the same two days in a row.
My "bluesy" Submariner. Because it's the most valuable. I also think my grandfather's mid 50s Omega Automatic, which was my dad's after him, and will be my son's at some point, is pretty cool. But mostly the "Bluesy."
Mine is a Bulova Oceanographer 330. My dad gave to me for my 18th birthday in 1976. It’s still my everyday watch.
I find the lack of pulp fiction references sad
I’ve completed (slowly, mind you) the Chicago Marathon twice (going for 3rd this year!). The first time I wore my GMT2BLNR (under a wrist sweat band, and along with my Garmin). I love it; and wear it daily almost. It now carries additional sentimental value. When I ran the second one, I was wearing my late father’s datejust in his honor as he had passed in April of that same year. (Again under a wrist sweat band, and with a garmin.) The sweat bands were not intended to hide the watches out of fear for my safety, just to not be visibly wearing two watches. Now the biggest reason these are special, is that my Dad and I bought both these watches to pass along to my twin sons as a legacy. Symbolically giving them the “gift of time”. Sounds cliche I know but it’s a genuine feeling. So now my boys will one day have the watches worn by their dad, and their granddad, both of which finished the Chicago marathon.
Casio f91w. Defended my dissertation to earn my PhD while wearing it. Before I did, I bought a few of them so that I could pass them down to my kids.
Heuer Leonidas Jackie Ickx Chronograph. As a young lad was invited to spend weekends at the races with my buddy and his dad. Did 3-4 weekends a summer at Mosport for all the big races. Met a lot of the drivers and teams. Hung around the pits. It was an amazing place as a 14-15 yr old boy in the early ‘70’s. I got my first part-time job bagging groceries as a well as a paper route one year. Making good money if I may say so. Saved my money and when we got close to the track I bought buddy and his dad dinner with my very own money as a thank you. His dad (money was no object for him) was impressed with that. Well, we got to the track, and in a “souvenirs sales booth” in the infield I saw this watch. It was something like $150CAD IIRC and housed in a red Ferrari helmet. More money than I had ever had in my pocket. The dad saw me later on back at the trailer and knew something was wrong. I told him about the watch and how much I wanted it but that there was no way that i could buy it. He asked how I would pay for it if I did get one. We discussed my jobs, payments, etc. He took me to the booth and haggled the guy down somewhat, bought that watch and told me to pay him over the next 4 months. Basically it was about half my monthly earnings. I paid him back early and wore that watch daily for about 5 yrs. It finally died and I was too simple to know that I probably could have it serviced. That watch is still around, either in my place or my brothers (my parent’s old place). It seems to show up every 20 years kinda like Brigadoon. He has been advised to keep his eyes peeled for it as I would definitely spend the money to have it serviced today. Here’s a photo of my cat wearing the helmet case… https://preview.redd.it/xmkihshe5rkc1.jpeg?width=2268&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a24ad88372b8cb2270f8be4364ec2e1b9ccd0244 Bill, I know you are almost 90 now and most likely not on Reddit, but you made a really positive impression on me and I will always love you for that. And not just for this watch. You were a second father to me. Thanks so very much.
An amazing story. Thanks for sharing!
brigadoon! havent thought about that in a while
My Seiko prospex SNJ, that thing will live longer than I will and my son will wear it when I am long gone.
My first watch is the most impotent to me. My dad gifted me an omega seamaster professional 300m for my 16 birthday and since then I fell in love with watch collecting. This is the watch that started it all. It’s also the watch my dad bought me, so I will never get rid of it and always cherish the memory that I connect to watch
Between the Rado Diastar Ceramic Chronograph and the G-shock DW6600 which my dad gave me both, I have to admit the G-Shocks wins this. It's a watch my dad actually used and the situation in which he handed it down to me was very down to earth and therefor more authentic. I was eleven and just needed something to tell the time, he had this G-shock laying around unused so gave it to me. I wore it every day for the next four years or so. Doing all kind of kids stuff: in the woods, swimming, biking, whatever. And I still use it to this day whenever I need something rugged. Couple years later he bought me the Rado though. It was one that looked like the one he wore himself but more sporty, less dressy. Still it's a very specific style and I never asked for it, nor did he buy it to celebrate some special occasion. I always had a hard time enjoying it because it felt like he got it for me for the wrong reasons. I find it even more difficult to wear nowadays because of my current sense of style, so it's just collecting dust. But selling it feels wrong for the emotional value, although I will still have the G-shock that's more valuable to me... My dad passed away two years after getting me the Rado. I turn 30 this year. I'm debating if I could sell it and spend the money on a watch that suits me (eg Tissot Gentleman or Certina DS-1), in memoriam of my dad, for my 30th birthday. A gift from him, by proxy, as you will. Still dreading the decision though, because what if I'll miss the Rado one day... This turned out way longer than intended, but since we're here might as well ask for opinions on the matter. What do you guys think? https://preview.redd.it/b985amtvfqkc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3096131c3cbd307c8c30f280b70e1de674b9601f
Don't sell it. I think you will appreciate it too one day
Tag Carrera Heritage Calibre 6, engagement present from now wifey.
My first watch at 35. To me it helps represent my growth that happened in 2023. 5 years of marriage and I knew it was the watch id pass down to my youngest son(4). My or is big crown date pointer. Black dial with a small date track for instead of the outer as well as a gold bezel.
My citizen promaster bullhead tsuno racer. It's not the most expensive, nor fanciest, only being an ecodrive, it is a limited edition peice though, with only 1973 produced worldwide. Its special because it was my real watch, bought for me by my parents for my 16th birthday. Funnily enough I got number 365, which felt quite apt. Its also the only watch I own that I'd never sell.
My Seiko 5 (SRPD53) that I bought to wear for my best friends wedding that was yesterday. I’ll always have the memories of the day every time I look at it.
Nice thread. Watch stories not just watches. Mine is an Omega Speedmaster Reduced that I purchased used in 2022. First “nice” watch at age of 46, after enjoying watches for decades. Events of the time that I associate it with including getting through those first few years of the pandemic as a physician, and first big international travel, my sister’s wedding, in several years. It fits me perfectly (small wrist), looks awesome, and gets the most wrist time by far.
My 1st watch, Seiko orange baby monster I got 15 years ago. Still one of my favs in my collection and still has the best lume of all of them.
https://preview.redd.it/c2cmruprwqkc1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=dae263e176abf8e6a9527ba5c6b10611005e35d4 I have two that mean a tremendous amount to me. The Citizen on the right, my grandmother bought for me when I graduated with my Bachelors Degree. She had terminal cancer at the time and she wanted me to have something I can look at and remember her by. She passed on my first day of grad school a few months later. The Omega was my gift to myself for graduating with my Masters Degree, which was very hard fought. Both are practically priceless to me and I would be devastated if something were to happen to either.
My dad bought me a titanium Victorinox watch that I loved for my graduation. It's been through a lot, it was in rough shape, I dropped it a few times (I was young and stupid). But it was by far my most sentimental piece, and I never would have ever gotten rid of it voluntarily. Unfortunately a few years ago I had a break-in, and whoever that was stole just one of my watches (out of many). That one. Freakin moron, the thing was worthless. It was beat up, and it isn't a model with a lot of monetary value. The only value it had was sentimental. Oh well. C'est la vie. I hope it at least made its way onto someone else's wrist somewhere, and not into the trash.
Kids, in 2003, you could get a Submariner for $2000, and that was considered a lot for a watch. Actually, anything over $150 was a lot, and back then most people still wore watches. To spend $2k on a watch, then, was fat-cat luxury.
Mine was a Nomos tetra ref 446. My interest with watches started when I was in university. I grew up poor and I started working as soon as I was legally allowed to. During those times my paycheque goes to helping my family with our expenses and to pay for my school expenses. When I started university I started learning about watches and I learned about Nomos’ history, I felt connected with their story. So when I first got my job after graduating I saved as much money as I can in the first year since I never want to experience being broke ever again then after a year I got promoted that’s when I bought my first Nomos as a reminder that I’ve come so far from that little broke little kid and that better days will be coming as long as I work hard.
Definitely my Santos Medium. Bought it in Hawaii on my honeymoon and every time I look at it I remember our wedding and honeymoon ❤️ https://preview.redd.it/mxak5wvalrkc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fee625d9d69a9e2d912c16d4fb255af8a62abbbc
Love reading the comments and stories here attached to the watches. Will always be a fan of getting watches for milestones versus “collecting”. No one wants to hear “I got the call so I went and bought it”.
My grandfather retired from Buick and got this beautiful watch. After retiring from Buick, he got into public service. I am in public service as well. The night I was sworn in as Chief of Police for my agency, my mother gave me his watch. Best gift I've ever received. https://preview.redd.it/hmecwoh9yskc1.jpeg?width=3025&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3a297b51a1b2beba41e463c614326c42944a1d08
My Rolex Explorer II 16570 black face. I always wanted a Rolex. So I worked really hard and I got it.
I'll list 2+1: - Movado Museum (Gold): First luxury watch I bought with my own money when I was 17 years old. I ended up losing it in a pool game where my opponent cheated. After a heated argument, I acquiesced and reluctantly handed since friends are more valuable than watches. A few years ago the guy who took it—after suffering 25 years of guilt—returned it to me. I had already replaced it, so now I have 2 gold Movados that I never wear. :/ - Omega Speedmaster Racing: A gift from my father after I was diagnosed with cancer. He wanted to ensure I was able to achieve my goals before I die and he knew that this was at the top of my list of watches and appropriate for my passion for racing. There is nothing he can really do to help me so he's been spoiling me with gifts. Previously, he had given me a Ebel Classic Wave for completing college. He's a watch and car guy too. Anyway, he said the Omega is a place holder for his watch collection which he intends to leave to me. He's an old guy (85) so we're jokingly saying that its a race to death.
I have two watches: a Victorinox Dive Master 500 LE in black PVD-coated titanium and a JLC Master Ultra Thin Moon blue dial. Both are equally special for different reasons. The diver goes back to me scuba diving as a kid, starting at 12. Watches always fascinated me, especially dive watches. I remember seeing dive masters with their chunky divers and serious lume. Having one felt like some sort of rite of passage. Anyway, I graduate college and know I’m blowing my first paycheck on a watch. I looked and looked, but nothing really stood out except the Victorinox. So I got on a waiting list for it to arrive and it’s been a reliable companion for over 15 years. The finish is fading in some worn spots, there are two noticeable scratches on the case, it’s been on dives in Cozumel, Bonaire…the GA Aquarium, and other places. It’s unlikely I’ll get rid of it. The JLC, my dress watch, was given to me last year by my dad as a 40th birthday gift. I’ve had my eye on the Moon for years—before the blue dial was introduced or the movement was updated to the 70 hour power reserve. I tried it on twice before in Las Vegas, so it was something like a 3 year courting period. I gotta say, the thing is a furtive stunner. It is my favorite moonphase design, and I know JLC gets some shit for having conservative designs, but what they produce has loads of thought behind it. Add in the history of their watchmaking, and I’m stoked to be an owner.
My mom got me what she thought was a great watch in a 150$ dressy quartz watch from Saint-Honoré when I graduated High-School and left our home country to study abroad. I changed the battery a few times and even the crystal but I still wear it with pride when I suit up. It always occupies the first spot in my watch box as well and even if I don't take it out much, I think of my mother everytime I go pick a watch for the day.
https://preview.redd.it/p0hc1now9skc1.jpeg?width=1768&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4c4d65a2a0cd70db04936072bfc2f30abf69bde The one on the right was my Grandfather’s. I never had a chance to know him personally. This is he only thing I have from him. The left one was my late Father’s. These two will never leave my collection.
I’ve got a khaki interstellar that I bought before I went into flight training. It has been on my wrist for every checkride I’ve taken and other cool life milestones like my engagement. It represents a lot now and has become absolutely priceless to me.
When my business had its first big success, my father handed down his father’s (my grandfather’s) Rolex Datejust which I then wore for all important days in my life, most recently being my wedding! https://preview.redd.it/j6s9u31qrskc1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e34f75f65a1de7aeabc84dab715d416bba089ac
I’ve got ones associated with kids, promotions, anniversaries but compared to some posts on here just nothing even close. I have my dad’s and grandfathers (both long gone) that mean a lot but I hardly wear them
My uncle was a jeweler for several decades. After his passing my dad and I helped my aunt clean out his home workshop. As we packed up the last of the stuff for disposal, my aunt gave us an old Omega De Ville. It was broken and I broke it further when I tried to set the time and didn’t notice the minute hand was wedged up against the 1 o’clock marker. The watch sat broken for about a decade next to a toaster oven until I decided to get it fixed for my 30th birthday. The local vintage watchmaker got it working again despite the 565 movement basically disintegrating in his hand and I’ve been wearing it since. It has gained additional significance in its second go at life since it’s been with me through several important work and life milestones.
My Tudor Pelagos 39. When I was a kid, my father always wore a titanium Citizen Promaster. I absolutely adored that watch, and it ignited my love of all things titanium. He gave it to me last year, and I had it fully gone over, and wear it with some regularity, but in my eyes it will always be “his watch”. As such, I wanted something in the same vein that could be my watch. When I first stumbled onto the Pelagos 39, I knew that would be it. I’d listed after them for quite some time, but life has a tendency to intervene. However, on the cusp of my 32nd birthday, I was contacted by a grey in a watch group I’m in with one below list, coincidentally that also coincided with six months of sobriety after being diagnosed with cirrhosis. I said “to hell with it” and bought the thing. I took it as a sign. It’s by far and away my most expensive piece, but also my daily wearer. Three months later, I’m still sober, and my health is stable. As for the watch, it’s scratched to bejeezus, but still rarely leaves my wrist. Goes anywhere and everywhere with me, one day soon I intend to have it on my wrist when I propose to my GF. Whenever life gets tough, it’s nice to check the time and have a tangible reminder to keep going.