/fa/ - Fashion

My grandfather was given a gold Bulova Acutron by his employer, General Motors, on the 25th anniversary of his employment. That was in 1973. He wore the watch for over 30 years, replacing the battery whenever it stopped keeping time, until one day, 5 years ago, a jeweler broke it... Papa kept the watch in a drawer as a keepsake, despite it not being functional.

My Papa is no longer with me, he passed away in 2016.

Today I picked up his watch from my watchmaker, who happened, out of sheer luck, to be one of the last graduates of the Bulova school of watchmaking. It's like new.

The watch isn't worth much money, a few hundred dollars at best, and it's not especially fashionable. It is a horological oddity, a tuning fork movement, a relic of the past... not a mechanical swiss masterpiece, and it isn't going up in value... but it was His watch... and now here it is, humming away with that faint tuningfork buzz, on my wrist... It is my most cherished possession, and my all-time favorite watch.