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Not sure if anyone has the same problem I have but due to my obsession with watches my son and daughter are the same, although my son is only 10 he has more watches than me for the first time and wanted me to post a picture to you guys?!? ;-)
There is a few others like a baby g shock or two and some other vintage pieces but we can’t find them at the moment!!
Hope you all appreciate it and I think you can see he will be a lot worse than me when he’s my age!!!
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You sir, have created a monster
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I was the same at that age, good for him
It only goes downhill from here...
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That green calculator takes me back to when I was his age. Had some Casio calculator thing at primary school. Thought it was the nuts :)
Fantastic collection for a young lad. Good to see lots of styles!
Nice one Chris, but a slippery slope!
Thanks guys!!
He’s a good lad and is severely dyslexic so struggles at the reading/writing side so I’m happy to channel his energy into things like watches!!
I did try and bag the mid size quartz Seamaster that was £350 on SC the other day as he is missing that one big watch?!? I did have my hands on a boys Rolex the other day but with the service etc it took it into daddy watch money
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I think sometimes I see stuff I like that’s just too small for me so I get it for my daughter or son?!?! I’ve managed to force my addiction onto my kids!! Even my 7 year old daughter has a watch box, is that normal ??????
Jack wants to inherit my collection and Sophie wants to inherit my wife’s collection?!??
Chris
Brilliant, nice collection.
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How lovely Chris, fantastic set and congrats to the little fella.
Can’t seem to get my youngest interested one bit...
Paul
Watches are something I always remember from my childhood. Staring at a gshock in a cabinet on holiday, I thought it was the coolest thing
Probably good mate as my son knows all about Rolex, Omega and Breitling etc😳Originally Posted by Pitch3110
Still could be worse and between this and cars we have loads in common so helps us spend loads of quality time together.
Chris
Watches and cars - as you say, great way for the boys to bond and spend time together.
Fab collection. I want that green calculator watch!
Went to a few car shows last year with the vintage and the Lotus but this year we have loads planned including FOS with a passenger ride in a classic escort Rally car that won in 1975 and 1976 I think???
It’s great for me but more importantly I can’t get any of this time back so I will enjoy as much of it as I can!!
Ever since losing my best friend and him leaving three really young girls behind I spend as much time with my kids as I can!! I know it sounds cliche and I would have scoffed at myself when I was 20 or single but life’s too short to worry about the what ifs and I can’t take money with me so let’s enjoy it together!!!
When I’m gone they will enjoy the cars and watches I leave behind but it will be the memories that they are really left with so gonna try and make them decent memories! You learn from your own upbringing I feel and although mine was fantastic, my dad was too busy playing football so I don’t want to be that Dad thanks😉👍🏻
I’ll update Jacks collection along the way and also get some pictures of him with Stan(TZ funded dog) up again as he always talks about TZ and how he got Stan👍🏻
Chris
Must admit I remember having one so that’s why we got it for him!!
He’s really into the whole vintage and older watches or anything that’s like daddy’s!!!
Not sure what to get him next as he’s always asking for watches for birthday and Christmas???
Chris
This.
Good on you both mate.
(I still remember taking my youngest to buy his first watch with his own money, bloody great orange G-Shock was bigger than his bicep but he saved for it, he bought it and he loved it. Still got it ten years later too).
Nice one!!
Yes my son has several that are clearly too big for him but he just wants them and I can’t argue with that, especially when hes spending his own money. Couple that with the fact that I’m dribbling over other watches I want whilst he’s buying his I don’t have a leg to stand on!
It’s almost like he’s the only one that gets me, as before I made him addicted to watches🤣 my family were a little uninterested, bordering on boredom/concern about my collecting of watches!! TZ was the only place I could feel like my problem wasn’t that bad really when you see a collection of 50+ military Rolex as someone’s SOTC post!!
Now I have an accomplice and I can’t wait for him to get real money behind him so we can search and gather more watches together 🤗🤗
Chris
While on vacation recently my son wanted to save his money to buy a watch like my g shock. After browsing the Rolex, Tudor, breitling (in which I told the sales people what we were doing and they were brilliant) he decided on a well sized lorus from John Lewis... he particularly liked the light!
This is so nice to see!
Always good to see I’m not the only one creating a watch collecting monster🤣While on vacation recently my son wanted to save his money to buy a watch like my g shock. After browsing the Rolex, Tudor, breitling (in which I told the sales people what we were doing and they were brilliant) he decided on a well sized lorus from John Lewis... he particularly liked the light!
He looks well chuffed!!
Chris
I gave my lad an old aquaracer.
Loves it and it has begun.....
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Brilliant, lovely to see an eclectic collection! (Wot,no Rolex yet) Cheers, John B4
Great thread and nice to see the young ones enjoying something like this instead of just looking at the time on a tablet/phone screen
He was very pleased. He saved his own money and wanted to make the purchase himself (not bad for a fresh seven year old). He takes it off during weeknights and leaves it beside his sink to be put on first thing in the morning. Weekend he likes to use the light so he knows when to get up! (We have a not before 6:00 am rule ).
He enjoying trying on my watches and talking about different hands etc... it is a good bonding time and he’s aware that we don’t wear our automatics when chopping wood or digging holes with the pickaxe on weekends.
I was thinking about starting a similar thread so was please when I saw your post this am.
May the collections grow!
My lad wears one of the little lume-dialled Lorus military-style thingies on a Perlon, but he has his eyes on my old Tiger Shark, mostly for the shark caseback.
Dave
Great stuff. No one in my home has any interest in watches.
Start them young!!!
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That is one great collection to be fair, nice one!
My lad is at 4 - not making noises to get to 5 (yet).
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it's gonna get expensive....!!!!
What a wonderful thread!!! :)
Great to see the young love for watches!!! Fantastic!!
I had an old 'Taito' digital watch (dunno if that's even a company... but it was exciting in 1981/82!!) and have been a watch admirer ever since.
It was an LCD and these were new with the excitement of LED red numbered watching having already piqued my young interest.
Lovely to see. Thank you for sharing. :)
That's class, great collection for the lad. I wonder how long before he eyes up your time peices!
I hope to have a child just like that - will be nice to double down on annoying the wife!
He’s already had first dibs on every watch I have and each time I sell a watch he’s devistated!!!!
He thinks he’s getting my whole collection? He might well do but I may sell some on the way!?!?
Just thought I better add that he got another vintage piece today and I’ll try and post a picture over the weekend! He actually prefers the vintage pieces more than the others and some of his are 1940’s.
It’s great that we both check all the watch shops out together and maybe we can shop for his 18th, 21st and 40th together?!?
Great to see there are others who do the same on here!!
Chris
Jack has been offered a watch by someone on here that needs a battery so thought I would let people know just how excited Jack is about that🤣🤣
Here’s a picture of his latest addition that I received amongst some enamel car signs I bought?!?!?
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Well Jacks Squale from another TZ member arrived today!! Not only is it a watch but it’s got a car Company on it Alfa Romeo so in Jacks eyes it’s literally the best watch in the world🤣
He is beside himself, all it needs is a battery but he won’t let me take it to sort out yet as it’s on his wrist immediately!!!
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Looks great on does that mate!!!
Happy days. :)
Greg.
Thanks Greg!!
He is literally over the moon with it mate👍🏻
Chris
My 12 year old is @ 6 watches with desires on my 36mm DateJusts
Nice to see all these next generation WIS developing 😉👍🏻
Chris
He has more than me! And quite possibly a better collection too...
He will be in for a treat on his 18th....Surely?
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Just bought my seven year old a Lorus for his birthday- so perfectly normal I think. He’s been wearing my PRS-10 but has managed to crack the crystal twice!! He loves wearing them and learnt to tell the time without any help at all. Not sure how he managed that ...
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The weird thing is he has a more diverse and sometimes better collection than me but I’m probably living through him slightly also and when I come by a watch that is too small for me or comes with other watches that I’ve bought he ends up with them!!!
I might have to get on a lost now for his 18th birthday as he’s 10 and by the sounds of it I need about 8 years to get to the front of the queue😳😳
Chris
Fantastic!
To be honest it’s our children that will keep some of these smaller brands going so I have no issues with introducing both my daughter and my son to all brands of watches!!
It’s great to hear that I’m not the only nutter around that’s made themselves or making themselves a mini me in terms of watch addiction!!
Funny thing was that it was my Mum not my dad who loves watches and got me into them!!
Chris
Such a good thread and bloody good read.
Will keep a look out for Jack beaming round the village buddy. Will even do him a take out pizza from ‘pitch’ on the house.
Pitch
LOL. I have the same watch. Jack has better collection than mine!Well Jacks Squale from another TZ member arrived today!! Not only is it a watch but it’s got a car Company on it Alfa Romeo so in Jacks eyes it’s literally the best watch in the world🤣
He is beside himself, all it needs is a battery but he won’t let me take it to sort out yet as it’s on his wrist immediately!!!
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Stunning collection. Love the squale Alfa and the Pepsi Seiko - which model is that?
This is awesome Chris. My son is three and we tried giving him a watch but he won't wear it. I'm hoping to get him into watches though. Great to see a father and son share a passion together. Hope I can too!
Plus my Dad's 1987 Explorer 1 will go to him one day. If he doesn't get into watches I'll have it buried with me!
Seiko 4205 midsize diver.
Thx!
Cheers mate!!
He is one happy bunny at the moment!!!
Chris
Just incase you do bury it with you can I have where your burial plot is? Just to make sure it’s tended right🤣🤣👍🏻
I gave Jack lots of choices on straps and that way he ended up with watches he kept!!
Chris
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