HOW DID YOUR FASCINATION FOR MECHANICAL WATCHES START?

My fascination for watches begin in 2001 when i was reading a magazine about aviation; A publicity has incliuded for Bell&Ross, ad at this moment i have decided to order a catalog, and when i have reading the first page about mouvements iwas said"wonderful" one day i want the same! on christmas 2000 i have buy my first watch a Festina just hour/date in quartz mouvement, and my secod purchase arrive on 2001 when i own a sector expender 210 chrono. aAnd my first automatic watche arrive on summer 2002 with a festina kinetic automatic in 2003 i have buy 3 watches in a year; the consecration of passion arrive in 2005 in december 12st when i buy my Frederique Constant Heart Beat Manufacture Limited Edition for... 750€ and in 2006, my father give me his first watch buy in his army service in 1969, my watches dealer have restored it(buttons change, winding system restored and a new glass and strap) this is a Wencia Cronograph in yellow gold, manufactured early 1960 in Besencon France with a swiss manual winding movement, my last purchase is a seiko Trooper watch replica automatic mouvment, that's my story with watches sincerly yours

some pics of my watches
-Frederique Constant Heart Beat Manufacture Limited Edtion eramel Dial with alligator strap
-Wencia Chronograph 1966 21 jewels restored in 2003
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cedric

At my uncles knee ( he was a watchmaker) .....I was 7 years of age.

My fascination with watches has always been inextricably is linked with the women in my life.

When I was 9, I saw a Swatch on display at a watch shop. The seconds hand swept across the face of the watch; it was different from the watches the rest of the kids wore in school.

I experienced my first achievement when I was 10 when I was made a Prefect in school. I wanted a new watch to remember the event by. I told my grandmother about it. I begged and she relented. I think it took a chunk out of her savings, but she was proud of me.

When I was in my teens, I had the good fortune of running in some spare cash. I bought an Omega, sold it for a Rolex, then a Panerai, so on and so forth. I could not, unfortunately, afford to own several timepieces at a time. Each timepieces was linked to a relationship - every new purchase a new beginning. But I never stayed with a timepiece (and relationship) long enough to feel totally at ease with myself. I was constantly looking for something new.

Several years ago, my grandmother passed away. I was sad to say the least. My girlfriend bought me an IWC to cheer me up. I am still with her, despite being being away from her most of the time for studies.

I am going to marry her next year. I think it is an achievement. I shall hence buy an IWC to commemorate this achievement by as well.

When my dad died my mother gave me the contents of his keepsake draw with war medals other things from his time as a police man and a pocket watch that his father had passed to him, the story went that in the trenches of France in WW1 grandads comrade gave the pocket watch as he died to give to the mans widow who refused it when it was passed to her, hence arrived in our family, true ???
It is a Gold hunter, Gold face and hands, Walz - Gold - Double, 20 mikron, Garentie 10 Jahre 627348 serial number. Watch Face has Remova Precision in black lettering and as small as stamp inside the front cover of a bison/buffalo.
Anyone have any idea of age, manufacturer, place any details or if it is worth spending money on and where, it has FHF And F.15 behind the watch face on the mechanism
Please help if you can

WHen I was a kid, I had a fascination with all watches (they were all mechanical back then). However, my fascination with IWC came about when I "discovered" the IWC Forum!!!

I've always loved watches. But I wasn't really moved to buy a mechanical watch until some years ago, while engaging in one of my recreational pursuits in a more rural part of the State, the battery in my quartz watch died; and I had a devil of a time finding a replacement out where I was.

I decided to move up to mechanical watches, and, as is my custom when I do something like that, I undertook to learn something about them -- as it turned out much to my banker's chagrin.

A cousin gave me an american made mechanical watch as a gift when I was around 13 and I was always fascinated with the movement. Once I could afford one on my own, I bought a PD by IWC compass watch in the late 1980s and was addicted.

Growing up in Schaffhausen helped ;-)) Always was fascinated by the IWC designs..especially the pocket watches. When everybody bought the newest quartz watches, I bought an Omega Speedmaster Professional (closest thing I could afford). Next finally was an IWC pocket watch (caliber 981, still the cleanest design IWC ever made). Finally the IWC Portuguese Jones..very close to the 981 pocket watch. And you can see the movement...just love the sound of the ticks in the 981 and Jones.

My passion for watches started when I was in primary school , My father worked as a designer of point of sale displays(the displays you see in shop windows) for some major watch companies like casio, Timex, accurist. He always had the latest watches, mainly digital at the time, calculators etc he gave me lots of them. I wore these to school and they were always a talking point all the other boys and some girls loved them.

I love any watches that are beutiful in their design and functionality. I am not a fan of over complex or overtly fancy watches (I utterly destest watches for men with dimonds on them!) but ones that are well built, well designed, functional, simple and stylish. I also like watches that are linked to specific people and mark a place or person in history. Britling Navitimer, Heuer Monarco, IWC Auqatimer, Rolex sub 5513 and earlier, Blancpain fifty fathoms the list goes on!! and on

Read the details in a magazine. Didn't realize that it was such an art.
MK

in 1967 at age of 13 years, i recieved a book about chronografh watches.
and since then i am addicted.

I'm the biggest tech head going, degree in industrial design, apprentice trained mechanical engineer and now in charge of IT Architecture for a national company.

I love cars and anything mechanical so watches are a natural progression.

im 36 years now, my fascination started when I was in Primary 2. My mum bought me a round faced, white dial, gold coloured hands mechanical watch that went tick tock and I have never had a day go by without a watch on my wrist. passed through Citizen Sky-hawks, Kenneth Cole's and several Swatch watches. A Swatch Ironman Sky Blue dial was my first watch. I bought it from my 1st salary 15years ago, passed it on to my brother who had it stolen. Had a Kenneth Cole I passed on to a friend when I got my Sky-hawk and he forgot it on a bus in central London( he claims he wasn't used to a watch on his wrist). My Sky-hawk was stolen in my flat when thieves raided my house and my girlfriend gave me a Gc Chrono for my 35th birthday. I fell in love with IWC after coming in contact with it this year and now I cant do without my IWC collection...

Is there other kind?
One of many brilliant lines of Col. Nathan R. Jessep (Jack Nicholson) in A Few Good Men (1992).

My fascination began last year, when one of my colleagues introduced me to IWC.

I found that they were a smidge out of my price range (for now), and became infatuated with Sinn after reading an article in Monocle magazine. After purchasing a 756s UTC, I've now got my eye on the Aquatimer 2000, or perhaps a vintage Ing/AT.

In any case, this is my first comment!

To the future,
CPJ

It started when I discovered military watches and when I realized that some iconic contemporary watches were born as tool-watches for the Armed Forces.
IWC Fliegeruhr, Radiomir Panerai, Omega Speedmaster.....those were the sparks that ignited my passion for wristwatches

just got a portofino