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You can buy this one off me. Keeps time beautifully.
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That's hilarious :)
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Dads. The best.
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We must have similar Dad's and upbringings, maybe. We collected Marlboro silver foils. I got myself a Fossil dress watch (the company had just started back then). Battery went flat. Dad squeezed the case back on with a set of water pump pliers. And guess what happened to the crystal!
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That reminds me of a similar, but worse looking Sekonda I saved up for in the Benson & Hedges catalogue around 2000. I was the only person saving the points cards and everyone smoked Benson back then, so it made the 5 million points or whatever it was attainable. When the battery ran out I got my dad to have a go at replacing it. He couldn't get the case back on, and decided to use a hammer to gently tap it back on. Keeping in mind that the glass was domed, can anyone hazard a guess as to what happened? I thought it was fucking hilarious! It became a bit of a family in-joke as he was usually supremely handy. RIP you glorious bastard.