Watch Out or Watch on? Pt 2.

[SmokingInTheWind]

The pocket watch looks like the very first one I ever bought, to go with the western style tux I wore to the prom in 82.

I bet you were looking sharp. My wife just told me she bought the pocket watch at Service Merchandise. Did they have those down your way? I loved it. Sadly long out of business. You could get everything there, from jewelry, car stereos to rifles and shotguns.

Your Marine Corps watch is awesome.

 

[SSGT.]

I bet you were looking sharp. My wife just told me she bought the pocket watch at Service Merchandise. Did they have those down your way? I loved it. Sadly long out of business. You could get everything there, from jewelry, car stereos to rifles and shotguns.

Your Marine Corps watch is awesome.

Yes, Service Merchandise was a popular everything store in the DFW area when I was growing up, but I bought mine at Wells Boot Center with a new pair of Tony Lama's for the big night. And thanks, after 22 years and a lifetime of memories both good and bad that watch is one of my most prized possessions.

 

[SSGT.]

A new pick up from the local Goodwill. I think it's a 1979 Timex. Have to put a new battery in it to see how it is.


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Redneck Rolex always dependable.

 

[BingBong]

My one day a week watch. Usually Saturday, but might leave it til tomorrow, being Easter Sunday.

 

[JoburgB2]

The case is made in Great Britain?

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Timex stamped “Great Britain“. If it’s between World War 2 and 1990’s, then most likely assembled in the long defunct Dundee factory. Timex has a controversial reputation and legacy in Dundee, or so I gather. Love-Hate sort of thing.

 

[Alejo R.]

 

[Spring-Loaded]

I recently started appreciating watches, mostly for the same reasons I appreciate pipes. But as others have pointed out, it also saves me from pulling my phone out all the time, which I have come to dislike more and more, personally. Now that I’ve been wearing one regularly, I don’t think I’ll ever go without one, just like a pocket knife.

 

[edger]

Small accurate and 16 bucks