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26 February 2021, 06:36 AM | #1 |
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What was your first watch
Bulova 97A70-gift from my parents over 15 years ago, could never part with it
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26 February 2021, 07:34 AM | #2 |
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What was your first watch
My first big boy watch given to me by my grandmother when I graduated college in 1996. Fresh battery and gasket. I wore the hell out of it for YEARS.
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26 February 2021, 08:19 AM | #3 |
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First watch was a seiko (don’t remember exactly which one, simple steel bracelet and believe time only) when I started getting into watches in HS, then first “real” watch was a Breitling Colt Automatic when I was still very young. Told myself that was the only watch I ever needed, I was very wrong.
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26 February 2021, 09:35 AM | #4 |
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one of these around 1985.
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27 February 2021, 05:02 PM | #5 |
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16233. rolex datejust champagne diamond dial. safely put away for my daughter to own.
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27 February 2021, 06:12 PM | #6 |
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LeCoultre orange diver when I graduated high school. It was long ago, he hadn’t met Jaeger. I still have it. Will dig it up for a picture.
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27 February 2021, 06:44 PM | #7 |
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First one I bought myself was an IWC Mark XV some 20 years ago which is still my beater today.
Some others as a child including a 1980s Certina DS Quartz that I should have kept. After all it was an integrated bracelet, blue dial sports watch and water proof to 200m. This one would be highly fashionable today... LOL |
28 February 2021, 10:38 AM | #8 |
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A Flik Flak when I was a kid.
Then several Swatch. The first « real one » was a Victorinox with red dial and a GMT hand. I still have it. It is a total wreck but maybe I’ll have it repaired for one of my kids. Then on to Tag, Hamilton, and my current collection.
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28 February 2021, 02:27 PM | #9 |
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4 March 2021, 01:15 PM | #10 |
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I've always liked watches. The first watch I can remember buying was a $10 Casio G-SHOCK homage from Thrifty Drugs in elementary school. I then upgraded to an actual Casio calculator CA-53W-1 when I started middle school. I then bought a two-tone Guess Breitling homage on a saddle leather strap a year later for a dressier watch. My high school watch was a Victorinox Swiss Army Classic Officer’s 1884 24281 and I wore it throughout college and graduate school as well. All four of these are probably dead in a drawer somewhere in my parents' house. Maybe I should find them and put batteries in them for auld lang syne?
My first real watches that I bought simultaneously when I started working at my first real job were an IWC Portofino 3513.27 in 18k yellow gold on black alligator for dress and a steel Omega Seamaster 300M Diver 2531.80.00 for sport. I sold both of them over a decade ago. I don't really miss them but they were great values when I think about what I paid for them. |
5 March 2021, 03:36 PM | #11 |
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What was your first watch
My first Luxury watch was this DJII to celebrate the first app I developed and sold. Still enjoy and love it.
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