Watches                                                       10/09/25
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Update: Originally  posted this on 10/1,  but placed the text  file in
the  wrong folder.  Since then,  I  found quite  a nice  band for  the
citizen (a thrift store find,  $1, matching stainless/black), and I've
purchased and  installed a 371  battery in the pocket  watch. Original
post below.

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Some people are big watch people. I'm  not one of those, but I do have
a small soft spot for watches. When I was a boy, I was fascinated with
pocket watches.  I still have the  one that my grandfather  gave me. I
recall going to an electronics store,  and they had a watch section. I
believe that's  where I  picked it  out. I still  have it  around here
somewhere.  The only  thing I  didn't like  about it  was that  it was
battery powered.  Even as a  kid, I thought  a pocket watch  should be
wind-up.

There are a few other watches I remember. I had a Timex Datalink watch
as a  teen. If  I recall  correctly, you  held it  up to  the computer
screen, and the software blinked the screen to transfer data.

My dad bought me  a Citizen Windsurfer D060 a few  years after that. I
still have that watch.  Recently I saw it in a photo, and  so I dug it
out of storage. The  band was crap (and not original) so  I got rid of
it. The  body is in reasonable  condition, but the polarizing  film is
failing, so the display  is a little dim in areas.  But it still works
(with a new battery, of course).

In my 20s, I had a Fossil PalmOS watch. That thing was clunky, and had
horrible battery life. But hey, it had a tiny stylus and PalmOS!

When my  grandpa died, I got  one of his watches.  It's a self-winding
watch... I'll have to dig it out to see who made it. He had it mounted
in a  custom made  sterling silver  bracelet, southwestern  style with
turquoise and  some other stones.  Some sterling  has an odor  when it
oxidizes (silver sulfide), which makes it less desirable to me.

I'm recalling other watches I haven't  thought of in years. Our family
went to Expo86, and I remember  bringing home a Swatch Watch. I recall
having a  Casio FS10,  with the  angled display  (so 80s!).  There are
others, but those two stand out.

The other day I was in a thrift  shop, and I saw a Casio A158WE with a
pretty nice stainless  stretch band. I bought it for  $2 and bought it
home, threw in  a new battery (love that it  takes a CR2016!). Anyway,
it works fantastically, though that band needed some serious cleaning.
As  I understand  this  is  an iteration  of  the  F-91W, the  classic
terrorist watch. Interesting how history works.

Anyhow, I was just taking a memory lane trip, and thought I'd share.