The watch that started it all.

[Ubpfc]

This brought back memories from when I was a kid. The first "cool" watch I ever saw, my late Fathers Seiko (next to my TT DJ). It's over 40 years old now and was the reason I became obsessed with watches. Anyone else remember their first love.

[DCheeta]

Yep, for me it was a Swatch Jellyfish, circa 1987.

Nice seiko!

[msdaytona]

My dad had an automatic seiko too...

[novan3]

Nice Seiko!

Mine was a Seiko Sea Lion that belonged to my grandfather when I needed a watch for high school.
Just thought it so cool the idea of a watch that didn't need batteries to run but kept working as you wore it. Matched the school dress nicely too.

[Andad]

MY 21st birthday watch.

A '69 Roamer Mustang.

I still have it and it runs like a watch.

[U5512]

A manual wind Seiko.

[T. Ferguson]

Originally Posted by Ubpfc

...Anyone else remember their first love.

Yes, but it wasn't a wristwatch.

I dug the Longines my dad wore when I was a kid. He wore that watch for decades. But my first love was a Mickey Mouse watch. Learned how to tell time with it. Wish I still had it.

[ironmanmarcus]

A Longines with a 'champagne' dial....I was 17yo.

[Ru4scuba]

Swatch something or another. I had like 10 by high school. Remember the ones with those plastic covers over the edges? Really dug those back then

[watchwatcher]

A couple....

An Omega Speedmaster...saw a large mock up of one at the Space museum in Huntsville, AL and fell in love. Came home and read everything I could find about it.

The Rolex DJ...a jeweler friend offered me a second hand example before I got married...we were looking at engagement rings. Love at first sight. I don't have it anymore, but will probably always have a DJ in one form or another.

[DJJon]

Funny, your Seiko 6139- chronograph got you into Rolexes. That's a highly coveted "Pogue" named for the astronaut who just died this week. Check out this article:
http://blog.dreamchrono.com/2013/11/seiko-6139-pogue/

Meanwhile, for me, it was my Rolex that got me into Seikos. Deep.

Ha!

[SWISSAHOLICS]

I received a Raymond Weil for my high school graduation. I enjoyed wearing that watch for many years and fell in love with watches ever since.

[dcash0615]

It was 1990 and a Tag Heuer Sport Elegance model in SS. Wore that watch for 16 years. Then in 2006 was golfing with a buddy and he was wearing the 16610LV and I was hooked on Rolex. I purchase my first Rolex, a 16610LV, the next day. That was the beginning of the obsession.

[Chute]

I had a calculator watch I got in 5th grade from Service Merchandise . I thought that was the coolest watch in the world at the time. Thankfully my taste in watches has improved over the years.

[Chute]

Originally Posted by Ru4scuba

Swatch something or another. I had like 10 by high school. Remember the ones with those plastic covers over the edges? Really dug those back then

Oh yeah, had several swatches and the covers. Remember the Fat Boys commercial?

[Laszlo]

Mine was my Grandfather's Accutron Spaceview. I loved that watch more than anything. But it was lost to a robbery when I lived in NYC while attending University.

[lmcgbaj]

It was a Casio digital watch. It was back in the early 80s. It had a backlight!!!... man that was cool... I still remember the vanilla scent from the rubber strap and checking out the backlight at night. I was superman.

[Broker Boy]

First was an O&W automatic that was modeled after the Sub but had Arabic numerals.

Upgraded to a Marcello C Nettuno 3 before finally taking the Rolex plunge.

[Evil-Twin]

[Kadhytia]

Tag heuer Link Tiger Woods. Given from my grandma as a gift for graduating from elementary school.

[Ubpfc]

Originally Posted by DJJon

Funny, your Seiko 6139- chronograph got you into Rolexes. That's a highly coveted "Pogue" named for the astronaut who just died this week. Check out this article:
http://blog.dreamchrono.com/2013/11/seiko-6139-pogue/

Meanwhile, for me, it was my Rolex that got me into Seikos. Deep.

Ha!

Wow! Thanks for the link, I knew nothing about the Pogue story.

[Laszlo]

Originally Posted by Evil-Twin

[Ubpfc]

Originally Posted by Chute

I had a calculator watch I got in 5th grade from Service Merchandise . I thought that was the coolest watch in the world at the time. Thankfully my taste in watches has improved over the years.

I had one too when I was 13, it was supposedly the smallest calculator watch at the time. It came with a pull-out stylus because the buttons were so small. I thought I was the dogs bollocks.

[rustyduck]

Heuer (before Tag) diver. literally wore it through everything and anything.

[adamlea]

I had a quartz analog/digital Seiko. It was square shaped with a black dial. At the bottom was a narrow white LCD strip that extended across the width of the dial - date, dual time, alarm, and chronograph. Set me back $300, which came to about 30 lawns I had to mow.

[dualcarb]

It was an uncle of mine who was a dive instructor. He had an old 2000 series Tag Heuer which to me at that time was the coolest ever watch. This was back in 1989. I was lusting for a Tag ever since. I started earning my own dough in 1992 and saved for one. 1993 was the year that I finally purchased my very first "real watch"...a Tag Heuer 4000 series. It was not a bad obsession till 2003 when I bought my very first automatic watch, an IWC 3706 which started the obsession.

DC

[Rumhead]

Ditto on swatch. Still have it too.

[rmurphy]

What an awesome thread, I don't have any pictures of any of my watches besides my watch now. But I can say what started it all for me: National Geographic Magazine Rolex Ads. I can remember looking and reading every word of every ad and I knew then that I always wanted a Submariner. Some of the ads talked about going to the bottoms of the ocean and growing up in rural Indiana I had never been to the ocean yet, now I have a 16610 and a house on Folly Beach, Sc., just shows you the power of advertising!

[chris_1001]

Seiko Chrono for me a s well

[wantonebad]

The "Arnold", bought this in 1984 I've been chasing the dragon ever since...