Reunited with my first watch after 48 years...............:cam:

[tabdog]

Hello fellow MD'ers,

I found a Timex in a park. Almost got the thing ticking but the mainspring was broken.

That's probably why it was thrown away. It did not have a band.

Funny thing is, I threw a Timex with a broken main spring in that area over 45 years ago.

It did not have a band. It looked just like the one I found.

The way I see it. That's probably the same watch.

I traded a large coke bottle for that watch when I was 10 years old.

You could get a nickel for one of those big coke bottles back then.

The watch worked fine. I carried it in my watch pocket until I over wound it and broke the main spring.

I was at the park with a friend and just chunked it.

I'm now 58 years old. Never forgot my first watch.

HH,

 

[rmptr]

Tabdog, I wouldn't doubt it's the very same one...

Do you recall where you set down that bucket of gold nuggets years back?

rmptr

 

[Pap]

You know it just might have been the one you threw away. That would be quite a coincidence!
Pap

 

[North Georgia Relics]

n/t

 

[dahut]

Many years ago, I was out back mowing the lawn at my parents old house. I reckon I was about 15. As the mower passed over one certain spot I heard a loud "CHUNK!" and something flew from beneath the whirling blades. It was shiny and small, but arced across the lawn with authority. It was surely metallic, so I went and looked to see what I had hit.
It was a watch. The very same watch I had lost years before. It was a Timex and it still worked.
Timex has always had the slogan, "Timex - it takes a licking and keeps on ticking." This was proof.

I can see this happening, Dave.

 

[wayne_etc]

Submit that one to a magazine!