Still Ticking Watch

[SusanMN]

After a summer of water hunting, it was back to the dirt today. I decided to try some different scenery from my usual hunting grounds and headed off to a city beach and park across town to see what the other hunters may have left behind. I stuck to the park edges and grassy areas away from the heavily hunted beach and while quarters, as I suspected, were in short supply, dimes and pennies were plentiful, including seven of them in a single hole. But the find of the day was a Timex Indiglo watch, which came out of the dirt still ticking. It was barely below the grass, so maybe lost within the last two years. It still works perfectly and has only a few scratches on the glass so certainly something I will end up wearing as soon as I replace the band. Wearable finds rate very highly with me.

For those Xterra users it came up as a slightly scratchy quarter (42) signal.

 

[nsdq]

sweet ticker

 

[CMDiamonddawg]

Great ! that is as fresh as lost & found can get ...

 

[ajaj]

I love it! I mean finding stuff that's still useable. Great find!

aj

 

[46Wheat]

That's a really cool thing to find

 

[Erik in NJ]

Takes a licking and keeps on ticking

 

[jewelerguy]

very cool. my son once dug a woman's Seiko watch at about 2" in a vacant lot and it was still running

 

[Old Dude]

Now wouldn't that make a great Timex commercial? You might submit that one to them. We might see you on tv!

 

[RJ55]

Nice looking watch, and works!

 

[JimDon]

Send the story to timex. They might want to bring back the takes a licking and keeps on ticking slogan

 

[pepperj]

Nice going on the watch and the fact it's working is great. I still remember digging up a Timex self wind watch in Vancouver in the mid 70's many inches down in the wet soil and when I cleaned the dirt off the face and shook it up, it started to tick. Funny with all the tens of thousands of targets dug since this one memory stays with me after all these years as it was one of those I don't believe this thing still runs.

 

[against the wind]

I have recovered so many watches over the years but not a single one was working.
I guess time stops for me. lol
Nice hunt.