I remember my older brothers first watch was a Timex, we had stopped at a service station on our yearly trip to Bournemouth, he took it off to wash his hands in the toilets and forgot to put it back on, by the time he realised it was not on his wrist we had already set off in the car, we went back but no sign of the watch, gutted.
I can also remember buying my first watch with money I had saved up, a blue dialled quartz jobbie, around the age of thirteen. My mum and dad both stopped smoking that year, they put the money away week by week on what would have gone on fags, this paid for our first holiday abroad.
We all arrived but our cases were in a different country! they took three days to catch up with us, we had to buy some trunks so we could at least swim in the pool, I was first in no bother swam a length, then realised I'd left my watch on, another one bites the dust.
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