New Timepiece Query-Do You Remember Your 1st?

[+ Gar1eth]

If I remember correctly, I was 8 and in third grade. My family had been teaching me to tell time. But I think the fact that the little hand showed whole hours but the big hand pointing to the same numbers now had them as multiples of 5 was messing me up.

 

I was given a gold Timex with a second hand for Hanukkah that year. The watch needed to be wound and the date set. Once I had the watch and put it on, we found out that I could actually tell time. For some reason actually having the watch pulled together all the knowledge my family had been teaching me.

 

I received the watch in December. I do remember that I and at least one other of my classmates thinking it was hilarious that the watch didn't know that February only had 28 days. And that I had to adjust the watch' date when March 1970 rolled around.

 

 

Gman

[+ nycman]

My first watch....was a gift from a very wealthy boyfriend at Christmas.

 

It was our first Christmas together and my parents came to visit.

 

It was also the first time my parents met someone I was dating.

 

One their way home my father called me and said "Son, you need to keep that one".

 

Of course I thought he was talking about my wonderful new beau.

 

His response? "No...I meant the watch son...I looked it up...it's expensive...keep it"

 

The boyfriend?...."Son, I don't know anything about homosexuals....you're on your own...good luck!"

 

It's one of my favorite funny memories of my father.

 

The boyfriend lasted 3 years....I still have the watch.

[+ Truereview]

I was 6 and I loved the A-Team, particularly Mr. T. Mine looked a bit like the one below. I lost it at the beach after taking it off to go play frisbee. I still swear my cousin, Mario took it.

[+ Gar1eth]

PS-the price tag was accidentally left in the box. IIRC my wonderful new watch cost $12.95. In today's dollars that's equivalent to about 85 dollars.

 

I think I also got the Marx Shooting Gallery either that year or the next year. I loved that toy!!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCiL1vqe3wU

 

Gman

[bobchitown]

I remember my first time very well but that's not the question. LOL.

 

I don't actually remember, likely my dad handed down one. Maybe a timex for Christmas?

[AdamSmith]

I think I also got the Marx Shooting Gallery either that year or the next year. I loved that toy!!

Gman

I had one of those too!! I loved it likewise. However, the noise drove everybody in the house nuts.

 

As for watches, I got my first one for my 9th birthday. A steel thing with heavy radium numerals.

 

After four years or so, the cheap plastic wristband broke, and thereafter I carried it around in my pocket for some time.

 

I still await with some dread the testicular cancer.

[+ pdxleo]

When we moved the summer before sixth grade, I was given a digital Casio, with the calculator buttons on the face. From the new house, I was going to have to take a city bus, with a transfer, to school, so Mum and Pops wanted me to have some time management tools, and the watch was my " welcome to no longer being a little kid" gift. Feel naked without something on my wrist, even all these years on.