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Title: Turtle's $80 watch now worth $15.00
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Published: Mar 28, 2012
Author: Turtle
Post Date: 2012-03-28 13:52:04 by Turtle
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Since high school I have always bought Timex watches. Then one day (I guess they've been made in China for a long time) I bought one and the stem pulled out that day.
So I bought an $80 Seiko quartz watch, which lasted 23 years until the stem pulled out. I had it repaired.
Yesterday it stopped running, so I had the battery replaced. It's got on of those screw-on backs that only a jeweler can take off. It cost $19. When I asked the jeweler how much the watch was worth these days, he said, "About $15."
Still, the watch has lasted me 25 years, so I plan on keeping it.
Gee, I thought the value of the watch would go up. I guess not.
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I have a Seiko that cracked it's crystal when I fell 43 feet to the pavement and nearly died. It still works great. It is an 1970s Seiko I've had for decades. It has the days of the week in English and French, and I got it when I lived as a young teenager in Quebec.
I actually have a Rolex I inherited a long time ago, but I keep it in a safety deposit box with all my U.S. coinage that is worth too much to keep laying around.
I wore it in the service, and when I was arrested once as alias me when someone was using my I.D. for traffic stops and speant four days in jail before they cleared that up after new year's day weekend, they grilled me several times as to who the actual owner of the watch was.
My Dad who was an officer in the Navy in WW II got it as a gift from my great Granddad, but try to tell that to cops. Guess they felt the VW bug, my long hair and the watch was not a match. ;-)

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