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It would have to be my Citizen diamond bezel perpetual calendar. It was the first watch that caught my eye that I saved up for months to get. At the time it was my "pimped out" watch.
It was just a great time for me. Me and my friends were hitting up bars and picking up chick's. I needed some bling so I got the watch. It has a lot of memories of all the good times I had with it.
My watch of sentimental value was a bit expensive for me at the time. Because I wanted service, I didn’t buy it online. I paid more to pick up my Baume Mercier at Tiffany & Co thus it is now more desirable with the co-branded dial. It was my first automatic and I wore it through at best count 18 countries. I have great memories with it making new and lifetime friends and even swimming in the Mekong River a few years in a row. Over time It took a lot of abuse and needed some repair twice. Each time Tiffany came through sending it back to BM for me and each time it came back looking brand new. It’s now about 25 years old and a personal favorite. Now that I’ve grown up I’m taking much better care of it.
I have a similar Seiko quartz too - 1994, and I bought it with my 21st birthday money.
It’s 34mm, and doesn’t get a lot of wear, but I still love it and it was my only watch for over 20 years.
I should also include my other watches, my SKX007 and Orange Monster, my Sinn 556ib and my Nomos Tangente.
They are all sentimental too in their own ways.
I recently bought myself a small late 80’s/90’s Seiko quartz after wanting one for a while. They’re really great watches in their own way. It’s gonna be interesting to see if they experience a resurgence in the coming years as smaller watches seem to be coming back.
I just recently got very into watches, and when I saw the purple dial Seiko Rowing Blazers collab I had to have it. I was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer (29yo) which has a purple cancer ribbon, so I wear the watch on Thursdays to treatment. Might wear this watch every Thurs after I beat it too.
Never a "wear it in good health" was more sincere, mate. Hope the treatment is very successful and keep the good spirits!
You’ve got this man!
I wish you the best!
Sending love your way! You've got this.
Beat the shit out of it, bud! I hope the watch gives you the drive to keep fighting! My father passed of pancreatic in 2016 and that purple certainly hits me as well.
My good friend, 32, just beat pancreatic cancer. You’ve got this.
He's pretty lucky even by cancer patient standards, pancreatic cancer is exceptionally NASTY
Oh I’m aware. They caught it on an unrelated scan, so he didn’t even have symptoms yet. Unbelievably lucky
That's some insane luck right there. Usually if you start showing symptoms of pancreatic cancer it's probably not ending well.
Sending love and light. You’ve got this , and once you’ve beaten it let us know :)
Fuck cancer, you’ll beat that shit brother
Stay strong!
A fossil with black dial and black bracelet. Wife gave it to me when i passed my licensure exam.
I wear an 80 year old swiss-mde manual watch that was worn by my grandfather everyday. Its market value is about 200$ and I spent more than that having its movement refurbished and its reasonably accurate for something almost a century old.
I plan to pass it to my kids one day.
This very scratched and battered Citizen Eco-drive. Graduation gift from my father nearly 20 years ago. Has been worn almost everyday, shower wearing it, treated badly, crashed mountain bikes, scuba dived, lived on 3 continent's etc. Sent it in twice for new batteries and that's it.
I'd love to get the crystal replaced with sapphire but citizen won't do it.
It's not expensive, but was a lot of money to my family when it was gifted to me. It'll always be a watch I wear a lot even though now I've the finances to get some very nice timepieces.
Love it! One of my first watches was a Titanium Eco drive. Still have it to this day. In fact I loved it so much, i recently had the opportunity to buy the exact same watch. Picked it up for my 2 year old son. Will gift it to him when he’s big enough to fit into it.
The first vintage watch I ever bought, 10 years ago, which kicked off an obsession.
My hobby and passion now is restoration and servicing of vintage watches, mainly vintage Heuer's which is by far my favourite brand. Over a decade, I've collected all the tools for a workshop and have built my collection of Heuer's from project watches that needed work.
I bought this Orvin with a £20 eBay voucher and of course it barely worked. I wore it like this for a year before taking it to a jewellers to get the back removed - inside was a wonderful quality golden 17 jewel Lorsa P75. I decided to get a cheap watch service kit and change the glass, gaskets and oil the pinions. This improved it hugely!
Since then, I've properly serviced it and put a proper tension ring crystal in with correct gaskets and it's now fully waterproof - I take it swimming! It's still my watch of choice for going out and on holiday
That Orvin seriously looms great! I really like the way the 12-6-9 indices are designed, really makes the date window look like it belongs.
In my case is a Casio duro, vacation beater most of the time and the favorite watch of my son 5Yo. He is crazy about it. And just to grown up so I can lend it the watch!
My g shock mudmaster. First watch I bought and it's the one that's never left my wrist despite me having other more "expensive" options.
My grandfathers Omega ref 111.003, cal. 620. He purchased this way back in 1963 and has worn it constantly ever since until gifting it to me earlier this year. This is the watch that got my into watches.
I’m unsure if the black is a redial though, from others I’ve seen they all have a light coloured white/cream dial.
My father bought me a Wenger military watch before I left for boot camp back in 2003. Still probably my most worn watch. I have more expensive watches but I just keep wearing this one.
Quartz Seiko gold plated no-date. Was my grandfather's, left to me. My dad wore it to my wedding earlier in the year.
No matter whats in my watchbox, this watch always sits in the number 1 slot.
I have my Dad's 80s two tone Seiko day date that I've worn through most special occasions of my life. I recently found a pic of him holding me as a baby while wearing the watch. I wore it to graduations, funerals, and my own wedding. If that piece went missing I'd be much more upset than if I lost my Grand Seikos, which cost probably dozens of times more money. After the seiko he bought a two tone rolex he wore for decades that was given to my little brother at my urging since he never wore it anymore (he's now an apple watch guy). Honestly? I prefer the seiko because I know he wore it when I was born.
My father passed away in 2017. He was a contractor and used a super cheap digital watch from walmart. He had certain metal allergies and apparently he found a specific watch that didn't irritate him.
He had six of them in varying states of beat-to-hell. I salvaged one and even though it's also worn and barely able to read the buttons I wear it every weekend to "boy breakfast" with my brother and son to the same local diner we used to go to when he was alive.
I have a few fossils that my wife gave me. They look nice and have tons of sentimental value.
Mine is a simple Hilfiger fashion watch that my wife bought me years ago. She had/has no idea about watches, but she really liked it, thought it would look good on me and I wear it at least twice a week.
This Swiss Army watch. My father was wearing it when he died.
My grandfather had a victorinox quartz field watch he wore for decades.
After he died I used to wear it pretty regularly until a couple of years back when I passed it on to my little brother to congratulate him on getting into his masters' program.
I have two.
The first is a Kenneth Cole skeletonized mecha-quartz thing. I bought it for my wedding, and it was a very expensive purchase for me at the time. I knew nothing about capital W watches at the time but liked that it had to be hand wound.
The second is a Casio Duro. I don’t prefer the dive watch aesthetic in a vacuum, but after my son was born I needed something could mark when a feeding or nap started and how long it had gone for, and so I had Amazon deliver one of these ASAP. Not only does it remind me of my son, but whenever I wear a watch without a timer bezel I feel naked.
This will be my boy's first watch, he'll learn to tell the time with this and hopefully carry it with him on his journey through his young life and perhaps, beyond. He'll have access to the rest of my collection but this is just for him.
Tissot Classic Dream. My wife got me that while we were dating and she was a very prudent person. When she got me that, I know for sure she's affirming our relationship is serious, with the girl of my dreams. Was on tears when I got it.
My TT Daytona. Got it with my dad for cheap at a tiny mom and pop jewelry store. We negotiated it for significantly less than what it’s worth.
Definitely my SKX007. It was my first watch and the one I wore on all of my travels overseas. I wear a Speedmaster now but the Seiko will always be special to me.
Seiko SNK805 on a Bond NATO was my first mechanical watch and the one I wore on a solo trip to Washington DC. Not expensive but special to me.
A Movado watch that I would NEVER buy on my own. I got back from AIT on HBL from the Army. Hating life and all. I just asked this woman to marry me a few days earlier. She got me this ALL BLACK Movado for charismas as I said I was interested in watches. Yeah dudes got fancy Omega's and more for engagement watch's but I have a Movado. Its a good memory
My tissot t lady flamingo in the blue mother of pearl dial. Bought it when I got my first bonus at the first year of working
A Michael Kors fashion watch. My then-girlfriend now-wife gave it to me for my birthday years ago. At the time we were dead broke, living in a studio apartment in the city, both trying to figure our lives out. She knew I was into watches (but didn’t have any yet) and she didn’t know a single thing about them but saw this while out shopping and thought it would look nice on me. At the time this cost a lot of money to us, I still have no idea how she was able to afford it. I wear it every time we dress up even with some much nicer “real” watches in my collection now.
Funnily enough, my most sentimental watch is one that I got recently. My parents bought me a Seiko SSK GMT when we were on vacation celebrating my graduation from college. It’s the watch that I wear almost every day and it reminds me of how hard I worked to graduate and that my parents support me in life.
My Scuba dude.
F-91W with a broken strap.
I bought it shortly after I joined the Air Force and it got me through BMT.
That watch helped me schedule and bring stability to my life during a time where things were very chaotic, with endless hurry up and wait. It helped me count down the days and weeks.
And even after basic I continued to wear that watch for about 2 years until the strap broke. I've been wanting to replace it for a long time, and I'm not sure if I'd rather replace it entirely or just the strap, because I know it'll cost the same either way. A new watch would probably be a better use of my money, but there's so much history between me and that watch.
I own an Oris Aquis calibre 400 in blue, 41.5mm case. My first purchase in the mechanical watch world. If anyone watches “about effing time”, there is this episode where they discuss occasion watches. Watches gotten or purchased when a special occasion happens. There was also the fuck you watch. The Oris Aquis is my fuck you watch.
For me, it’s an Oris TT1 Divers Titan. I bout this watch 16 years ago after my daughter was born. I was a paramedic at the time, and wanted something durable to wear on the ambulance. This watch got beat to hell over the next eight years that I was a medic, until I went back to school and switched careers.
I finally sent it in for service and restoration last year, as I didn’t want the (literal and figurative) battle scars it carried anymore. Unfortunately, they couldn’t source the original bezel (which had larger numbers, but the rest is like new. The bezel is from a subsequent release of this watch.
When I graduated from school I bought a Fossil watch. Simple black dial, I believe it has a date on it. 42 mm I believe, which is massive on me. Something in it broke like a year after I bought it and it no longer works. But I have a soft spot for it so it sits in a miscellaneous watch drawer.
