I continue to affirm my wife, Sherry Borglum, as gift-giver Extraordinaire!
Knowing my interest in watches, contemporary, luxury,
utilitarian, vintage, she is always finding the most excellent of choices.
This one is a German
made Kienzle from the 1960s. This is a wind-up stem watch. It has this
cool-cream color face with a sweeping second hand in a circle at the six
o’clock position. But the feature most important is that it produces the
mechanical tick as the seconds sweep around.
And, oh the fun of winding the stem with my index finger and
thumb!
My first watch was
given to me at Christmas in 1963 when I was nine years old. It was a Timex.
That watch also produced the mechanical tick to which I would listen late at
night as it lulled me off to sleep.
Later, in 1970, for
my birthday I received a
After those gifts of watches, succeeding watches, with
batteries, merely gave a soft ping which left me unimpressed and awake,
disappointingly.
Over the decades I
had forgotten the somnolent effect of a mechanical tick. I will once again make
use of that feature as I try to sleep.
Thank you Sherry, I’m all wound up!
