So, turns out Mum saved out one Christmas gift to give to me the day I fly home: my grandfather's wristwatch.
Yep, definitely a Watch Guy now.
The band is new, obviously (the old band was badly damaged), but the watch itself is a Soviet-made Luch from the 70s. My grandfather worked in the US aerospace industry and Mum says he always said this was a gift from a colleague who was a Soviet "expat", which in that time and place probably meant someone who had fled the USSR. Mum didn't know much about what my grandfather did for a living or why he was given it -- we didn't even know where it was until she dug around a little after I expressed interest in it when she gave me a Luch from the 90s. This being the case, I'm going to pretend it was a gift from a defecting space-program scientist he helped get out of Russia. It's not actually a non-zero chance Granddad was a spy.
You can see the crystal is a little scuffed and the face is slightly worn, but it runs fine when you wind it and it looks sexy as hell. Those nylon straps with the single stripe are popular as replacement bands and very comfortable (plus you can swap them out easily) so I'm beyond thrilled to have a new-old heirloom for my collection.
[ID: a photo of my wrist, showing a watch with a thick nylon band in blue and cream. The watch has a gold colored bezel, with gold hatching on a black ring to represent numbers around a gold center, and brighter gold hour and minute hands. There is a very faint logo engraving near the top of the face.]
