One birthday, many many years ago... my brother gifted me this lovely sterling silver pocketwatch. It is the sort of thing that goes really really nicely with my concert gear when I'm dressed in tails (no top hat...) as I don't wear watches. However, the thought of having the watch is much more idealistic and wishful than the actual practicalities of having the watch! It would mean that the watch would have to be somewhere safe whilst I transported the clothing and my concert gear and then I could take it out for when I was dressed up. Modern clothing doesn't really have a decent place to put it where it wouldn't get damaged.
I had thought for some time, to put it in my violin case... however, that would mean that it would need to be in a compartment so that it didn't rattle and roll around the case and end up getting in a fisticuffs with my violin... and when you bash wood and solid silver together... well, there are no prizes for guessing who will win!
There are little compartments in my violin case.. but they tend to be dusted with rosin dust (the gripping powder that you coat your bow hairs with... similar to the stuff that gymnasts put on their hands...). Although solid silver would definitely beat wood.... sticky rosin dust beats fragile gears and clockwork! So, those compartments are definitely out of the question... unless I feel like having the watch cleaned out every couple of years.
Netherlands is also a very wet place... so, I'm not really comfortable taking the watch out in my ordinary everyday clothing! After all, it isn't really uncommon to get drenched on a regular enough basis, and I'm not entirely sure that this watch is really waterproof! Plus, who takes out the equivalent of fancy jewelry on their daily school runs?
So, this beautiful watch has lived near my gaming rig up in the attic... where I need to wind it every couple of days. However, like most mechanical things in this electronic age... I tend to forget about it! So, the poor watch has been sitting unwound for the last year or so... probably not great for the mechanism... but I have tried now to put it in a place where it is hard to miss (basically, it gets in the way when I start typing...) and that will mean that I will at least give it a wind or two when it needs it!
There is something quite nice about hearing the ticking next to me as I type... a memory of a different age I guess. Much like having a mechanical action keyboard for your computer! Speaking of a different age... I wonder if anyone learns to read Roman numerals at school anymore!
I probably should reset the time to read something closer to the actual time... but for the time being (ha ha...) I will just let it run a bit... to make sure that the gears haven't gummed up or something horrible like that!
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