My uncle inherits 4000 wristwatches!

[DavidHasselhoff]

I visited an uncle today... His dad, recently deceased, used to own a watchstore where he sold and repared watches for the most part of his life. This old guy was the sort of person that never throws anything away so when he sold his store to a swedish chain he still had thousands of watches, clocks, pens etc. in the basement of his house. A lot of these watches weren't even picked out of their original boxes. They just lay there brand new. My uncle took home a large cabinet containing 4000 wristwatches and pocketwatches! And that was just a small part of what the old man had in his basement...

They already shipped off approx 300 swiss made watches to a swedish auctionary firm...

I got the opportunity to check out his cabinet and look at the watches and it was truly an owerwhelming experience. I found so many watches I wanted to take home. I found watches from Oris, Bulova, Omega, Zenith, Longiness, Seiko and others. He didn't sell Rolex I'm sad to say... I particularily fell in love with an Oris dresswatch from the 70-ies (I would guess) and a 24 k gold Omega (dont know which model...). He had 5 of the Oris watches I wanted. All in mint condition, brand new, never worn, never been picked out of their original boxes!!! Some people are so lucky... I told him that I really was interested in that watch and a few others and that I wanted one when he and his brothers had decided what to do with all the watches. We'll se what happens. Hopefully he'll give me one or sell it to me really cheap.

Kind of beats my sewing box, huh?