What was your first watch? Without a doubt, this is the question I get most when I meet someone and try to explain that yes, I’m a watch journalist, and yes it’s a full time job. For a while, it’s a question that I dreaded because I knew that, inevitably, my answer would be met with disappointment. My passion for watches does not have a romantic backstory. It does not involve inheriting a beautiful and rare hand-wound wristwatch. It doesn’t even begin with a mechanical wristwatch. In fact, my first watch was an an inexpensive and battery-powered Flik Flak, from Swatch.
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