Lets see your most unique watch ....

I'm talking the one of a kind, not gonna see another "in the wild", never part with, special watch. Get ready for some cool, 1970's, vintage funkiness.

I went to Houston a few years ago for Christmas. I was digging thru my Dad's desk drawer and came across an old watch head. I instantly recognized it as the big-ass watch he wore when I was a kid. Later, I remember he quit wearing it and fell victim to the quartz revolution. He wears the same gold plated Pulsar quartz year after year. When he kills one, he just buys another. His desk drawer looked like a Pulsar graveyard. He still manages to source those aluminum calendars that clip on the bracelet too. How retro is THAT? Anyhow, I hadn't thought about this watch since I started "collecting". Well, when I looked at the name on the dial I liked to fall out. I said, "Dad, do you KNOW what this is"? He just looked at me and said, "you LIKE that big ugly thing?" "You can have it if you want it" He shoots, he scores !!!!! I gave it a few winds and it sprung to life. I immediately went down the road to a watch shop I looked up in the phone book and bought a leather strap to put it on until I could buy a really cool one. The best part is, when I got back, my Dad had found the original instruction book, and manual. That man throws NOTHING away. Anyhow, I think he was more excited that I thought it was so cool than I was to get it. So, without further delay ........













The Heuer Calculator Chrono. Bought new in New Orleans in 1972 (Dad was a petroleum engineer with Exxon). It has a slide rule bezel, and a Heuer cal 12 auto movement. The tritium markers still have some life left in them. I had it serviced by TAG a year or so ago. They overhauled it and replaced the pushers and acrylic crystal with NOS parts, and now this bad boy keeps time to about + or - 2 seconds a week. It's 45mm which must have been HUGE for a watch at that time. It's the queen of my watchbox for sure. Thanks for looking. ~ David



















Here is what they looked like new .....

Great Heuer!

A gift from my father for taking care of grandma:

Now how many watches do you see with the PIE sign on the bezel? Cool!

For me I guess my most obscure is my Timex HUMVEE, had to have it cause I have a Hummer H3...

I don't really have unique watches by your standards, but here are the ones that stand out for me.

The bezel on this Vector is still too cool:


Love the white strap on this guy


And of course I can't leave out the sweet retrograde minutes on this one.

I guess vintage is more unique as most have died and gone to watch heaven over the years. This was my father's watch. There is almost no trace or mention of this brand on the internet. One shows up on ebay every few months.



Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics souvenir. My brother brought it back for me in 1979. It stopped running in about 1982 but I recently had it overhauled and it's back in use. I assume many of these were sold. But mine is the only one I've seen. I've got a few other soviet watches but they are pretty common ones.



Not extremely rare but a limited edition:



This one was uniquely destroyed. It will continue to be unique, after I rebuild it with new movement, dial, and hands.

DMB wrote:

The Heuer Calculator Chrono. Bought new in New Orleans in 1972 (Dad was a petroleum engineer with Exxon). It has a slide rule bezel, and a Heuer cal 12 auto movement. The tritium markers still have some life left in them. I had it serviced by TAG a year or so ago. They overhauled it and replaced the pushers and acrylic crystal with NOS parts, and now this bad boy keeps time to about + or - 2 seconds a week. It's 45mm which must have been HUGE for a watch at that time. It's the queen of my watchbox for sure. Thanks for looking. ~ David

A one-in-a-million story . . . that one's gonna be hard to top.

I see several unique pieces here I would love to own. My most unique, well it was a gift. It meets the criteria because I have yet to see another like it (I think I know why).

So many cool watches!