What watch brand sparked your interest in watches?

[fliphandywork]

I received my first watch in third grade, it was a Timex military. As a senior in high school, I bought my first 'nice' watch. It was a 2000 a Series Tag Heuer quartz chronograph. Regretfully, I sold it.

[cop414]

Omega, not sure why. Probably the price point, bang for the buck kind of thing... a good 10 years ago though.

[mike@ec]

I got started into watches with my first watch, a Casio phone dialer watch, my dad gave it to me cause I kept forgetting phone numbers when I was young, it acted as a phone book, that I held up to a payphone, and clicked on the # I wanted to call, and it emitted some dial tones that would connect the call..

pretty cool back in the day !!

[sharpmind]

Swatch...so many styles

[joe100]

Started right off with Rolex. A 16610LV

[Annan]

Timex.....still remember my dad's, a very simple round shape, cream color dial, gold tone hands, stick markers and a brown, fabric band. I thought it was the ultimate watch in 1957. My very first was a Roy Rogers. Wish I still had that one too!

[Patrick Lim]

Tag heuer.... Which is likely the entry brand for many when buying a luxury watch

[Old Expat Beast]

Timex around early 1970s. Holes in the strap was very cool to have at age eight. Black dial and some bright lume. Kept it till I went digital around '78.

[jjnd08]

Kenneth Cole and Armani watches. Both brands of watches generally have a really cool and modern design.

[Dan Pierce]

A 1963 Patek given to me after the death of a great uncle. It all went downhill from there.
dP

[beshannon]

Seiko

[iazrollie]

Movado. Was intrigued by the simplicity of the museum dial. Ah, to be young again.

[finaloption]

Timex/Casio to start then onto Skagen/Fossil/Guess as a teenager

after the advent of cell phones.. i didn't wear a watch for a few years

Omega brought me back into watches

[Cc1966]

Seiko captured my attention and got the seed planted.

[up2nogood]

Glycine for me.

[drifter01]

My interest began with a Rolex 5513. I was never interested in watches until I saw that. From there I ended up in watchmaking school and working on them.

Dave

[improviz]

Probably Seiko, back when I was a kid. Beginning of a lifelong obsession!

[bentgsu]

Started with a Casio calculator, eventually moved to Seiko and Citizen and finally got to my Sub.


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[dualcarb]

My uncle who dives had a tag heuer back when I was a kid. I thought it was the coolest watch. When I started working and saved up. I started with a tag heuer, naturally. A 2000 series and that started it all.

DC

[a_plus1234]

Casio Databank

[Ramiks]

Breitling navitimer started that, saw it for the first time on a pilot's wrist where I was 8 or 9 years old.
First watch at school time was Citizen.
First watch after graduation was Tissot PRS 200.
First Rolex GMT16710 which sold to get a NOS Sub 16610.

[FTX I]

When I was 20yrs old I decided out of the blue that I would look cool with an old watch (didnt know it was called vintage). Found a collector who was selling pieces and got a Longines cal 12ZN that I still have, but could not forget the Omega Constellation pie-pan he had so I sold some records, a surf board and other stuff and got it. Now Im 44 yrs old and the addiction is still here stronger than ever.

[viper9669]

Saw up close for the first time 16613 sunburst blue in 1998, 'nuff said.

[andromeda160]

Ive always liked watches from a young age, always looked at the high end Cartier, Bregeut and other super high end luxury watches that were advertised In my dads wall street journals, and other newspapers. Then when my dad would travel he would always bring me
Home watch magazines they had in the world clubs. I have a few Basel catalogs i just refound, and some other Breitling catalogs and stuff. I always tried talking my parents into buying me an air king or a navitimer, or an omega speedy Schumacher yellow dial(which I just bought last week, making my childhood dream come true) and I'm always searching for new watches. They're my favorite think really. I read about them all day, really have been getting into the details of specific watches, different dial variations, specific movements for models, and there's really so much detail that you can spend months researching and there's still new info to be found. Now I'm starting to get more into omega as I've bought 2 of them this month and really don't know much about there markings, although they mark most of their stuff on the caseback and I haven't opened mine yet.

[yld2rob]

It was Casio watches when I was in Junior high in the 80's. I bought and sold many of them. Calculator watches, etc. then lost the bug until about a 1989. I noticed the Omega Seamaster PO and fell in love with it.

[CWIN]

I've loved watches since I received my first one in elementary school. I was a beach bum so my parents bought me a Shark watch. I became serious about them after I received my first "nice," watch, a 16610.

[beaglehusky]

My very first watch was a Pink Panther Timex for my 7th birthday, given to me by my uncle, whom I always remember wearing a Cartier Tank. The addiction began when my dad gave me his Omega DeVille, which had been given to him by my mom the year before I was born.

[Armyguy03]

I consider my first real watch a Seiko 009 and 007. I seriously couldn't stop looking at the second hand movement. There is something eternally sexy about a sweeping second hand.

[GB-man]

My first watch was a swiss army infantry on a leather band. It was suppose to be a gift for the man my mother was dating at the time (my father passed away), but he turned out to be lame so she gave it to me one morning before school. This was when I was 5. From there on I was hooked. My progression was swiss army>tag>breitling>rolex.

[Knappo 1307]

Early 90's, it was a Raymond Weil........