Mine involves a recent (Christmas just gone) story.

On Christmas Day my 8 year old daughter was excited to give me a carefully wrapped and small present.

I carefully opened it and was amazed to see my first ever watch which was bought for me by my father when I was 6 (1977)

I was quite shocked as I didn't realise my father had kept it. My daughter had colluded with him and said she wanted to get me something related to watches for Christmas but didn't know what to get and didn't have much money so my father came up with the idea.

I was stunned for a few seconds and strangely as I looked at the small face it transported me back into a classroom at my Junior school. I remembered being in a particular class wearing the watch, 6 or 7 years old. Funny how your brain stores stuff, I hadn't remembered my Junior school in that much detail for years.

It's nothing special, a Mortima manual Timex esque watch.

Looking at it now maybe my love of rally straps also stems from it!

Keeps wonderful time by the way!

: Having just returned from a month in China, regrettfully I have no
: Heuer photos to post. (And having left my camera in a taxi, I
: have no photos to post, fullstop.)
: Whilst there though, I was gifted by my (Chinese) mother in law 2
: Swiss watches, (Enicar and Titus) and although not the most
: collectable watches in the world, they indeed do mean a lot to
: me. They were both purchased at a time in China when watches,
: let alone Swiss watches, were worth a considerable amount.

: That got me thinking, what time pieces do the folk here hold
: dearest to their heart, not neccessarily their wallets? What is
: your most treasured time piece?