I Remember...

[Spikedlee]

I remember 10 years ago starting my job right out of college. I had been given a $100 Visa gift card at work for helping set up a company outing at a baseball game. At that time I told myself I was going to buy a new watch with the gift card. I rushed over to the mall and picked up a nice shiny Guess watch for $125 and thought it was the coolest looking thing. I got a lot of compliments on the watch and felt really good about the purchase. I co-worker who was about 10 years older than me told me I needed to up my watch game and consider quality timepieces. At that time I thought he was a bit of a nut and didn't think much of it but this was one of those guys who always noticed what you wore on your wrist.

I wore my fancy Guess watch to Las Vegas with a friend the next summer and remember the condensation that started to show in the crystal after I had been out drinking in the Wynn pool all day. And I remember thinking to myself, I will never make the same mistake of getting another watch that cannot withstand water - one reason I am pretty obsessed with dive watches.

Fast forward the clock ten years to today, and I sit back and look at my watches now:







Feeling pretty fortunate to be able to afford such nice timepieces and I look back to the times when I literally was clueless! Needless to say, my conversation with that same coworker nowadays are a bit different :-)