Batshit had asked, "You collect watches...you don't have an old one..." and I couldn't very well deny, I did, and so I gave him an old Seiko I had, 70's, big and clunky self winder with day and date. It needed some work on the bracelet, which Batshit did, and then when I saw him next he was miming all the hand gestures he was doing to keep it wound, and explaining to me how the Japanese after it was invented used to march around like soldiers with their arms waving 'cause they had to keep it wound...
He's nothing if not amusing.
And then he described to me a curious thing: That while trying to set the date the alarm on the watch had went off...
I dismissed it, alarm watches are pretty rare, I've always wanted one, a Jaeger LeCoultre Master Reveille, maybe, but they're not easy to come by. Not on my budget anyways...
And, while setting the day, the date, what should happen but...
The alarm goes off. It's a vintage Seiko Alarm watch, self-winding (not battery), and I'm thinking what a cool thing and now Batshit will be wandering around town waving his arms proudly wearing the watch I never knew I had, or trading it away for a half a pack of cigarettes and a stale loaf of bread...
So it goes, "Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone...".