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,

 

[echostar61]

Hey TD , That is so Cool
I was detecting my grandparents yard years ago I
found a ring that had belonged to my Dad. I did find my
car keys once at 1am after the kids got mad at me and threw
them in the back yard

Terri

 

[Waterbug]

That is great.At least you know the story behind who "lost" it and how it was "lost".
Waterbug

 

[coinnut]

It would have only cost you face value, but would be worth so much more now. I wish I had visited coin shops when I was a kid. I'd be rich now. But finding that watch is a great sentimental value piece. I'd love to find something I lost from back then. HH

 

[dobbie]

awesome little story...pretty neat the way things work out for us when out MDing...