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A Russian Davy Crockett watch? Is there a story to that?

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macosie wrote: ↑April 29th, 2018, 10:51 am A Russian Davy Crockett watch? Is there a story to that?

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Actually it is not a Russian watch, i got it from my cousins from USA when I was a boy.

Mine was a Caravelle (by Bulova... or so they said...) that was of some diver style with rotating bezel. Red and black, or red and blue. This was sometime around 1982-1983 or so. At some point I got enough carburetor cleaner on the crystal that the plexi cracked. I kept that watch with the intent to repair for many years, but I think I may have tossed it during a move... not long before I found HF. Fore shame...

zare wrote:

macosie wrote: ↑April 29th, 2018, 10:51 am A Russian Davy Crockett watch? Is there a story to that?

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Actually it is not a Russian watch, i got it from my cousins from USA when I was a boy.

Ah... The background picture threw me off.

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When I was a kid my father took off his watch gave it to me. It was a Raymond Weil, my first watch.

Nice RW.

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Thanks. I loved wearing it. It had a sapphire crystal, which was a big deal back then. I still have it, but I don't wear it because the gold plating is gone, the quartz movement doesn't run, and the buckle is broken.

Luminor wrote:Thanks. I loved wearing it. It had a sapphire crystal, which was a big deal back then. I still have it, but I don't wear it because the gold plating is gone, the quartz movement doesn't run, and the buckle is broken.

Like my first watch, it's an artifact in your personal history, functioning or not.

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My first watch was a handwinding Timex, too. It was a present from my aunt, back in the 1970' s, when I was about 12 years old.
But it lasted just for an afternoon. I went cycling and tumbled and fell from the bike on my right hand. This was the cruel end of my first watch.
I remember the scene as if it happened today! My aunt is still with us, 95 years old by now.
My second watch was a present from my mother, (nearly twenty years later) a 1994 swatch irony chrono with panda dial. I still have it and it runs perfectly.

cosmic2000 wrote:My first watch was a handwinding Timex, too. It was a present from my aunt, back in the 1970' s, when I was about 12 years old.
But it lasted just for an afternoon. I went cycling and tumbled and fell from the bike on my right hand. This was the cruel end of my first watch.

Must have been a pre-"takes a licking, keeps on ticking" model. That or it was one hell of a crash.

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