Credits: Article and images by Tim Mosso @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/01/19/watches-i-love-part-1-how-i-got-into-watches-and-my-first-watches-by-tim-mosso/
Of all the questions I’ve been asked by other watch collectors, the most personal is the one I’ve never answered in full. “What kind of watches do you like?” is a straightforward query that manages to become a rabbit hole for any watch collector older than 20.
My fortieth birthday awaits in 2024, so if I’m ever going to answer this question, I had better do it before the list grows too long or the memories run too short.
Please understand that several of the photos in this meandering reminisce were never intended as anything but personal keepsakes, so if a few images aren’t studio quality, quel dommage.
And because your time is precious, I’ll unpack this three-stage drama as a series, so read the installments at your leisure.
Like virtually every watch enthusiast who’s ever lived, I had an early and irrational attraction to timepieces. Armitron, Casio, Timex – it didn’t matter. I begged and borrowed these from friends and relatives from at least second grade.
My grandfather understood this, so he gave me a special Timex acquired by hoarding box tops from Wheaties, Shredded Wheat, and other soul-killing cereals loved by grandparents and loathed by grandkids.
I can’t tell you what became of that watch, but the circumstances of its procurement and Grandpa’s kindness are seared into memory. Not only did he think kindly of me, but he endured wheat cereal without frosting so I didn’t have to.
By age 14 (1998) the watch bug endured sufficiently that my parents saw fit to buy me my most enduring Christmas gift to this day: a Casio G-Shock.
Behold its noble purity, grace of ages, and… putrid condition.
A dog wouldn’t touch this thing. My Mom finally banished this watch from my wrist following its terminal career as a gym timer.
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Credits: Article and images by Tim Mosso @ Quill & Pad. See the original article here - https://quillandpad.com/2024/01/19/watches-i-love-part-1-how-i-got-into-watches-and-my-first-watches-by-tim-mosso/