Daily Dress Watch

For 23 years.

I do miss the don't-give-it-much-mind innocence of wearing a watch prior to discovering the "watch community".

It's kind of sad actually that children of watch enthusiasts will most likely never think of a single watch as being the familiar one that occupied the night stand or was always on wrist during special occasions.

There is something so beautiful about a well worn watch.

I definitely did. It literally was my dad’s watch. I wore it for everything as a teenager untill it broke. Brought back to life in the last few months

That's awesome that you have your Dad's watch, glad you got it working again. It's a nice looking watch!

This Citizen Eco-Drive was my daily watch for a few years. I sold it a couple of years ago to another watch enthusiast, since I stopped using it.

Thank you. If it didn’t exist I’d probably be not so interested in watches and it probably influenced certain things that I look for in watches. Do you think that was also true for you?

I always had a thing for watches, but never really did a deep dive until Covid hit, but even before I recognized how much I was into them, every time I would be in a department store, I went straight to the watches. I didn't even know why, but just loved looking at them and I remember looking for a nice Timex watch because of the memories I had as a kid and the only thing I could find is their lower tiered watches and wanted to see if they had a dressier watch. I had a thing for seeing the word Timex on the dial. lol. Strange, but true.

That's a beauty!

I think my "enthusiasm" waxes & wanes if I'm being honest. During my adolescence, I wore a Fossil "blue" series when Fossil was at its peak. Then from 14-16 I wore a Citizen black dial chronograph which I still have, but I stopped wearing watches pretty much entirely until I got married & had kids. Around 2015 or 2016 I started to wear a Casio MQ-24 to work so I could check the time. It was literally one of the cheapest watches I think you could buy at the time. Then Covid happened & I seemed to think about watches more and more, got interested in the history, the brands, & rediscovered a lot of watches that played a role in my life, even if only for a brief moment, like a Casio Forestor & a Lorus Mickey Mouse watch. Then I started to reflect on my dad's Citizen & his Bulova, and here I am today. I still don't want a lot of watches, but my enthusiasm is higher now than it was a few months ago. I'm currently at four & I think I'll reach a point where I'm done. I think that could be around the corner.

Oh, here's that twenty+ year old Citizen. Still works well:

I was a one watch guy until my 40s. Usually it was a $5 plastic digital that I picked up at a drugstore counter when the old ones plastic strap broke.

Then my wife got me a $70 Cardinal and thought I’d be mad because she spent so much on a watch.

Then she wanted a nice watch for her 40th birthday so we spent a couple grand on that.

Then all hell broke loose on the watch budget.

Love the Citizen, from this post alone, they proved they are a watch that lasts. Your story reminds me of when I got married (I was 28) and after a year we bought a house. We had to wait a year for the builder to finish it and when I was visiting his office to go over the plans, I was wearing a Lorus Mickey Mouse Watch (which was also my only watch for a short time). This very successful and rich builder, looked at my watch and said, I knew I liked you and showed me his wrist and was wearing the same Mickey Mouse watch. lol. I didn't expect that. I'm 60 now and that memory feels like yesterday. Good that you are not getting addicted like me. I now own over 100 watches. lol

Since 2005...

Yes, then its a full blown addiction. lol

Nice rugged watch. It's been a good soldier. lol

Hehe, it had no choice but to soldier on. In fact, I "resurrected"it back in Feb 2022, and it's been my most accurate watch ever since.