Childhood watches

[Harayasu]

A while ago I helped my father clearing up the attic and in one box I found a watch that I wore as a kid. My mother bought it me in the early 1990's, but I can't recall the exact year. The watch was dead, but since it was in a box with other stuff, it wasn't covered with dust and stayed in a dry environment all those years. So was in good condition. I bought a new battery and put it in the watch, grabbed a leather strap and put that on.

It runs fine. Here are pictures:







This was probably my second or third watch. I used to have some kind of sport watch too, but couldn't find that one.

Feel free to share stories and pictures of watches from your childhood, if you have any left of course.

[theinterchange]

I received this Timex Expedition for my 13th birthday and 15 years later, it's still going strong.


Randy

[TNT13]

Wow. You had sophisticated tastes as a child! That's a classy watch!

This was my first watch which I had to buy off of e-bay because I have no idea where my original watch went.

[swordfish123]

My dad got a Timex Ironman when i was 14. Never wore a watch before that. Lost it in school after few days. Then i got the Casio Twincept. The worldmap on the screen was the reason i got it. Still works great

[Y4BBZY]

[keto9]

My father travelled Asia as a clothing buyer in the mid-late 70's and brought me home a Seiko auto. I would have been 14-15 at the time and had zero appreciation of what I had. It didn't run well for me, subject to stoppages, that I didn't understand that constant wear would have likely eliminated. No idea what became of it.

A few years later, and I don't remember just when, he got me this Seiko quartz. I wore it for a number of years, but it's been relegated to the 'forgotten' drawer for 15-20 years now. I recently had a crystal put in it, and a battery - I wasn't there at the time but the repairman gave no indication of corrosion inside and it runs just fine. I've tried finding a production date, but can't nail it down....the serial number starts with 56.... which I read could mean 6th month of 19X5, but I couldn't say if that's correct. 1975 seems too early almost certainly, but yet 1985 seems too late, I was in my 20's then.

So is it from my childhood? Maybe not, though from where I sit now it sure feels like it.

[appophylite]

Don't have pictures anymore but my three childhood watches as a boy:

1). Disney Rebranded Lorus Micky Mouse Watch - Everybody knows these: the watches with Mickey on the front and his hands are the hands of the watch. This watch is actually still in the house somewhere. When I was younger, I was really skinny with very thin wrists so when my dad told my mom to buy the watch for me, she actually bought a women's watch so when I outgrew it, she could claim it as her own. She still has it somewhere and is looking for it so she can change the battery on it and actually wear it.

2). Sega-Glo Digital Watch - I fell for the G-Shock craze back then, and my parents found a Sega lookalike that was going for $15 at KB Toys back then so they bought it instead.

3). Generic Ana-Digi Watch rebranded with the San Diego Chargers Logo - Dad found it cheap, figured I'd like it, and bought it. Neither of us ever have or currently do support the Chargers

[dnslater]

My grandparents gave me a chinese hand wind watch when I was about 5 or 6 (circa 1981). I probably must have wore it regularly for a few years as I wore out the original strap. Forgot about it somewhere along the way. Last year I was going through some old boxes of my stuff in my parent's barn. Among the mouse nests and such I found the watch. Probably been in a box in the barn for 15-20 years. Wound it up and it runs great. Haven't timed it, but I may out of curiosity. Believe the dial says something like "Lifetime Mainspring", Swiss Parts, and Honk Kong Watch Company. Ironic that I found it just after I started really getting into Mechanical watchs.

[skywatch]

Nice thread! Sends me back. I was a bit of a watch nerd as long as I can remember. I'm a little bit older than most of the above posts... My first watch was a Timex mechanical when I was about 8-10, early '70s. I think I paid $12 for it in a drugstore. I had a special opportunity to study for a month in Europe in 1978, and I asked my grandparents (who had good taste) to recommend a Swiss watch company since I would be passing through Lucerne. They recommended the Bucherer store. I saved up all my paper route and gardening money and bought the watch below, which I still have. (I think it cost around $60-80 back then, I forget what the Swiss Franc exchange rate was...) I wore it every day for the next decade. In fact I just had a new crystal and mainspring installed, of course the repair cost more than the original price. I'm rather sentimental about this little '70s throwback.

[AlbertaTime]

My first watch. Original 1950s Roy Rogers watch by Ingraham. The dial is the rarer vari-vue/lenticular version: when you move the dial slightly, Roy's gun hand raises and lowers while Trigger gallops as they chase bad guys.