Watch perfection?

[Sld1959]

I'm rarely in a position that I need to know the time exactly and there's not a clock around or a phone handy. Even in the days before cell phones I never wore a watch. Right now I'm trying to think back to how I knew it was lunch time or quitting time back before cell phones or when my phone was a Motorola bag phone. I guess I turned the key in the truck and looked at the radio.

I am jewelry intolerant. I can't do bracelets, necklaces or rings. My wedding ring is a tattoo.

My wedding ring is in a box on the dresser, been there for 43 years. Tattoos, not something I ever really wanted. Never could figure out something I liked well enough to put on my hide i suppose.

Differences are what make people interesting brother.

 

[Bassbob]

My wedding ring is in a box on the dresser, been there for 43 years. Tattoos, not something I ever really wanted. Never could figure out something I liked well enough to put on my hide i suppose.

Differences are what make people interesting brother.

True that.

I actually used to wear my wedding ring. Two incidents cured me of that. The first one I was up on a 3 stage 60' extension ladder, probably 48' off the ground. I started down and my ring got caught somehow on a ladder rung. My feet kept stepping down and for a couple seconds the only thing holding me on the ladder was that ring. Hurt like hell. I took it off, but decided that was such a fluke thing I should just put it back on.

The kicker was getting stung on the hand by hornets. Normally not a big deal, but after a bit I felt a lot of pressure and I looked down and saw my finger was so swollen that my ring was cutting off the blood flow and my finger had turned blue. The only thing I had handy to remove the ring was an angle grinder. I did manage to get it cut off without cutting myself, but brother, that ring was hotter than hell and gave me a nice 3rd degree wedding ring. I never replaced or repaired the ring. It sat on one of my wife's ring stands for a long time until one day when that stand got knocked over. I wanted to keep it because, you know, it's my wedding ring. We couldn't find it. Even a few years later when I completely gutted the house I didn't find it. A couple hundred years from now maybe someone will dig it up somewhere.

 

[mikep]

Definitely not an everyday watch. This was my grandfather’s pocket watch given to him by his mother for Christmas in 1916. My mother gave it to me on my 30th birthday. I am named after him and my mom always wanted me to have it.
All of them are gone. This holds a special place in my heart.

 

[Bassbob]

Definitely not an everyday watch. This was my grandfather’s pocket watch given to him by his mother for Christmas in 1916. My mother gave it to me on my 30th birthday. I am named after him and my mom always wanted me to have it.
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See, now I do have a couple pocket watches. One my grandfather gave me on my 13th birthday. A very expensive one. He gave my little brother one on his 13th birthday too. When my brother died in 2017 I ended up with his as well.

 

[Sld1959]

Definitely not an everyday watch. This was my grandfather’s pocket watch given to him by his mother for Christmas in 1916. My mother gave it to me on my 30th birthday. I am named after him and my mom always wanted me to have it.
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Now that is what you call a family heirloom

 

[mikep]

See, now I do have a couple pocket watches. One my grandfather gave me on my 13th birthday. A very expensive one. He gave my little brother one on his 13th birthday too. When my brother died in 2017 I ended up with his as well.

The story behind this watch was that my great grandmother didn’t have enough money to finish the payments on it so my grandfather had to pay it off!
I never met my grandfather. He died almost one year to the day before i was born. My grandmother wore this watch on a necklace almost every day.

 

[Bassbob]

The story behind this watch was that my great grandmother didn’t have enough money to finish the payments on it so my grandfather had to pay it off!
I never met my grandfather. He died almost one year to the day before i was born. My grandmother wore this watch on a necklace almost every day.

That's a special watch brother.

 

[mikep]

Now that is what you call a family heirloom

Unfortunately, I do not have children to pass it down. However, my nephew, and Godson, was just married and if God willing he has children I will pass it to his oldest when the time is right.

 

[mikep]

That's a special watch brother.

Indeed it is.

 

[javbike]

I'm rarely in a position that I need to know the time exactly and there's not a clock around or a phone handy. Even in the days before cell phones I never wore a watch. Right now I'm trying to think back to how I knew it was lunch time or quitting time back before cell phones or when my phone was a Motorola bag phone. I guess I turned the key in the truck and looked at the radio.

I am jewelry intolerant. I can't do bracelets, necklaces or rings. My wedding ring is a tattoo.

Ha ha I like that

 

[javbike]

Nice little collection, especially since they have sentimental value. I enjoy a watch, have basically my entire life. Well at least since i got my first watch for Christmas. I remember it came in a plastic ball filled with water. Started a lifetime of dive watch love lol.

And I really do not want to dig out my cell phone every time I want to look at the time.

My gold seiko is my most proud possession it was a great day with my mom in the city just her and I

 

[Sld1959]

My gold seiko is my most proud possession it was a great day with my mom in the city just her and I

A nice day and memory. A lot of items can take you back to a certain specific memory. A watch is no different, except you can wear it. It almost becomes a part of you that you can glimpse anytime to be transported to that memory.

One of my watches was given to me by my wife on our 5th anniversary. She was very proud of it because we were not wealthy I was in college and she was a nurses aide. She skipped lunch for months to buy it. Every time I put it on I can see her face as she gave it. When I need a smile I can look at my wrist and remember a memory it evokes.

My friends with tattoos say the same thing.

 

[Bassbob]

My friends with tattoos say the same thing.

I am fairly heavily tattooed, but I stopped doing that a couple decades ago. Frankly I wish now I didn't have any.

My first tattoo was at age 12 btw.

 

[The Night Rider]

I started using pocket watches when I worked in a factory and wasnt allowed to have any "jewelry" below my elbows on the shop floor.

Now that I'm retired I have almost no use for a watch.

I have my wedding ring but I never wear it.

 

[Talyn]

 

[mikep]

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Can’t be used on cloudy days or at night.

 

[Bassbob]

Can’t be used on cloudy days or at night.

It only counts the sunny hours. The rest slip away.

 

[mikep]

A nice day and memory. A lot of items can take you back to a certain specific memory. A watch is no different, except you can wear it. It almost becomes a part of you that you can glimpse anytime to be transported to that memory.

One of my watches was given to me by my wife on our 5th anniversary. She was very proud of it because we were not wealthy I was in college and she was a nurses aide. She skipped lunch for months to buy it. Every time I put it on I can see her face as she gave it. When I need a smile I can look at my wrist and remember a memory it evokes.

My friends with tattoos say the same thing.

Very cool story about your anniversary gift.

 

[Talyn]

Can’t be used on cloudy days or at night.

I'm always late for evening appointments.

 

[mikep]

I'm always late for evening appointments.

Or just really early for another.