Traditional folders and watches/timepieces

ken erickson said:
Dad's Elgin

A bit of a story to this Elgin. My uncle gifted this watch brand new in 1952 to my grandfather, father to my Dad. Apparently it is a big deal in a Swedish mans life on his 50th birthday and my uncle who was 21 or 22 at the time spent about $48 dollars for this Elgin and gave to granddad on his 50th. He never wore the watch and soon after gifted it to my Dad who was 2 years younger than his brother.

The watch was the only watch I ever saw my dad own or wear up until he retired from a police dept in 1990. Dad passed away in 2016 and just recently the watch came back into my possession. It had a broken and missing winding stem and crown and the replacement metal spring type band was in very poor shape. I intend to wear the watch at times and I choose and replaced with a croc skin strap.

Fast forward to a few days ago I received the watch back from a watch repair fellow that specializes in vintage watches. I had him replace the missing parts, clean and service and give the watch and crystal a very light brightening up. I did not want to lose the patina that my dad put on the watch in 35 years of wearing it.

The knife is a very diminutive Keen Kutter sleeve board pen knife. This knife came to me by way of a member that some of the old Blade Forums members might remember. Zerogee.

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Very interesting to read of the background to your family watch and gratifying it must be for you to be able to wear it once in a while with joy. My father was a most unmaterialistic type of man, he cared very little for possessions of any sort; he cared about his wife & sons and the garden, the various cats we had, music and harmony. The only watch he had was when he was around 55 when a colleague got hold of some Swiss watches for a bargain, he wore it the day he died and I like to wear to from time to time. Not a 'special' brand watch as such but it is to me, it runs well I've never had it serviced just replaced the strap.

zerogee was a very interesting contributor, collector and a man of wit. I like the Sleeveboard pattern, elegant proportions, but regret that no contemporary manufacturers have realy put one out, it used to be a rather common pattern judging by pattern books and old catalogues.

Thanks, Will
 
Will Power said:
Very interesting to read of the background to your family watch and gratifying it must be for you to be able to wear it once in a while with joy. My father was a most unmaterialistic type of man, he cared very little for possessions of any sort; he cared about his wife & sons and the garden, the various cats we had, music and harmony. The only watch he had was when he was around 55 when a colleague got hold of some Swiss watches for a bargain, he wore it the day he died and I like to wear to from time to time. Not a 'special' brand watch as such but it is to me, it runs well I've never had it serviced just replaced the strap.

zerogee was a very interesting contributor, collector and a man of wit. I like the Sleeveboard pattern, elegant proportions, but regret that no contemporary manufacturers have realy put one out, it used to be a rather common pattern judging by pattern books and old catalogues.

Thanks, Will
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Thanks Will!
Neat you have your dad's watch and wear it at times. My dad sounds a lot like yours as far as taking care of his family and not being materialistic. My dad viewed hunting guns, knives, this Elgin watch, etc as nothing more than tools.

I agree , Zerogee was an interesting person here on Blade Forums.
 
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Just picked up this Longines Sector Dial today. It pays homage to the 1934 Longines, but it’s got a modern movement with a 64 hour power reserve.

Tried on a handful of their watches before settling on this, and I was really impressed with all of them. I had been considering the much more expensive JLC sector dial w date, but this looks loads better IMO.
 
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Just picked up this Longines Sector Dial today. It pays homage to the 1934 Longines, but it’s got a modern movement with a 64 hour power reserve.

Tried on a handful of their watches before settling on this, and I was really impressed with all of them. I had been considering the much more expensive JLC sector dial w date, but this looks loads better IMO.
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Looks sharp :thumbsup:
 
ken erickson said:
Dad's Elgin

A bit of a story to this Elgin. My uncle gifted this watch brand new in 1952 to my grandfather, father to my Dad. Apparently it is a big deal in a Swedish mans life on his 50th birthday and my uncle who was 21 or 22 at the time spent about $48 dollars for this Elgin and gave to granddad on his 50th. He never wore the watch and soon after gifted it to my Dad who was 2 years younger than his brother.

The watch was the only watch I ever saw my dad own or wear up until he retired from a police dept in 1990. Dad passed away in 2016 and just recently the watch came back into my possession. It had a broken and missing winding stem and crown and the replacement metal spring type band was in very poor shape. I intend to wear the watch at times and I choose and replaced with a croc skin strap.

Fast forward to a few days ago I received the watch back from a watch repair fellow that specializes in vintage watches. I had him replace the missing parts, clean and service and give the watch and crystal a very light brightening up. I did not want to lose the patina that my dad put on the watch in 35 years of wearing it.

The knife is a very diminutive Keen Kutter sleeve board pen knife. This knife came to me by way of a member that some of the old Blade Forums members might remember. Zerogee.

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Ken, Your dad's watch reminded me of the Elgin my grandmother gave to my dad for his HS graduation in 1941. Although he had a few watches he still wore it often. My mom gave it to me when he passed in 2005. The knife is a United Boker Copperhead he carried every day right up until his last.
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Peregrin said:
Ken, Your dad's watch reminded me of the Elgin my grandmother gave to my dad for his HS graduation in 1941. Although he had a few watches he still wore it often. My mom gave it to me when he passed in 2005. The knife is a United Boker Copperhead he carried every day right up until his last.
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Thanks for sharing!
Your dad's Elgin is a great looking watch. I am a sucker for heat blued hands on watches. I had asked if my watch repair guy could swap the gold hands for heat blued on my dad's and he said sure, but in the end I decided to keep the watch original except for the strap.
 
ken erickson said:
Thanks for sharing!
Your dad's Elgin is a great looking watch. I am a sucker for heat blued hands on watches. I had asked if my watch repair guy could swap the gold hands for heat blued on my dad's and he said sure, but in the end I decided to keep the watch original except for the strap.
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Thank you for your comment, Ken. I learned something new today—I didn’t know anything about heat-blued hands! I also remember that my dad's watch had a black cabochon crown when I was a kid. If I recall correctly, I was playing with the watch and accidentally unscrewed the crown and lost it, so he had it replaced with the one shown in the picture.
I guess he wasn't too worried about keeping it close to the original design. The Twist-o-flex band sure wasn't original.
 
Newest addition watch (Casio MDV-106B-1A1VCF Marlin dive watch, SS case and 200m water resistance), that arrived yesterday, wearing the stainless steel bracelet (delivered 11-08-24🙄) that was in today's mail call, with my Case 10375SS Stockman.
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I only had to remove four links from the bracelet.
 
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