Timex Manual wind, est around 1954.

Wind up drugstore Timex. Metal band would turn my wrist green. Leather strap fixed that.

Timex Mickey Mouse watch.

First real watch was an Aquadive dive watch.
I still have it but was ruined by a watch repair for cracked crystal.

Can’t determine which model… circa 1978

My first watch was an early Timex digital. It was gifted to me by one of my Great Grandfathers as a gift for receiving my First Communion. I still have it in this very room. It's in a closet where I can't get to it (I'm getting "the feels" right now). It is one of these.



One of my other Great Grandfathers tried to give me his watch shortly before moving on. At the time I did not understand that he was trying to give me HIS Watch not A watch.

Another with a Timex Mickey Mouse watch.

First watch was a Boy Scout Timex in the 60's.

1969 Timex Skindiver (ref. 2157 2569) w/ manual M25 movement.

Swiss Army Watch 1960's vintage, still have it.

My father bought me a Casio F91W when I was about 10. Hard to beat for a first watch at that age. I loved it.

My uncle had a restaurant in Newport beach, he gave me a used Timex diver watch that someone had left on the table. Wish I remembered more about it, but I did have to wind it. That was probably early 70's. Loved that watch. Have had a watch on my wrist ever since.

I'm sure I probably had some my parents had given me as a kid, but the first watch I purchased for myself was a manual wind Longines dive style watch in the mid 70's. I was skinny guy, and my dad commented, "Why are you wearing an onion on your wrist?" He was referring to how big it looked on me. By comparison now, I'm sure it would look tiny. I had that watch into the early 80's I believe, as I still had it when I joined the military in '77. At some point in the late 70's I picked up a Casio, as the Longines was taking a beating while I was in the Ranger's. Can't remember what I ended up doing with the Longines, but I still have that Casio in the Ranger band.

Timex.

Mom took it away cause i kept licking it.

Timex digital from the mid-seventies.

The first watch I bought was a Swatch in 1982. It was my pride and I wore through a couple of bands. Pretty certain I still have it, but I'm not sure of the condition.

Cheers~

Casio Digital and IIRC a Timex wind up with the expanding metal band you slipped over the wrist.

I believe this was around 1976. Still runs. After it I went to the press to turn on red LED as others have shown.

a quartz Mickey Mouse watch when I was probably 8. I don't remember the brand but would have been around 1990.

I had a Timex Expedition for awhile after that.

Mickey Mouse Timex, normal black band. Not that 70's, wide-track band that my older brothers seemed to have.

Christmas 1970 or 71.

Cheap Casio digital of some sort…

Probably Timex mechanical. Early sixties. Mickey Mouse does seem kind of familiar, though. Hmm.

Omega Gèneve from the early 70s. Steel case with black leather band. I was under 10 years old; watch was a gift from family in Sweden. Still wear it from time to time.