Mon Sep 09, 2019 5:36 pm
#1719312
Long story short, wife’s newest BFF is married to a jeweller.
He’s good fun. Likes shooting, fast things, winding his other half up etc - my kinda guy.
We had other friends over for an evening a couple of weeks back - the insignificant other is also a jeweller, and even more into old cars etc than I am!
We started talking 70s and 80s stuff, my passion for old arcade machines etc.
Then I realised - these guys have the same instinct for watches as I do for a Solex carb etc.
I’ve now launched on a very amusing hobby, which has two aims:
1. Find (and buy) the ugliest 70s watches possible. If I have the nuggets, I’ll even wear them.
2. Actually, for once in my life, try to appreciate the artistic side of watches -
rather than “it’s cheap, it’ll do” Scots utilitarian attitude I’ve carried with me since birth.
Anyone else here got an interest in watches/clocks etc?
He’s good fun. Likes shooting, fast things, winding his other half up etc - my kinda guy.
We had other friends over for an evening a couple of weeks back - the insignificant other is also a jeweller, and even more into old cars etc than I am!
We started talking 70s and 80s stuff, my passion for old arcade machines etc.
Then I realised - these guys have the same instinct for watches as I do for a Solex carb etc.
I’ve now launched on a very amusing hobby, which has two aims:
1. Find (and buy) the ugliest 70s watches possible. If I have the nuggets, I’ll even wear them.
2. Actually, for once in my life, try to appreciate the artistic side of watches -
rather than “it’s cheap, it’ll do” Scots utilitarian attitude I’ve carried with me since birth.
Anyone else here got an interest in watches/clocks etc?
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