Dad's watch 02
My dad left school at 14, started working for his father and trained as a bricklayer. After his father died, he took a variety of jobs, labouring, lorry (truck) driving. After he met my mum, he worked with his future father in law and trained again as a joiner. After I was born, dad realised that the world was changing, so yet again, he retrained by going to night school whilst working during the day, and learning how to be a TV engineer. He worked in both TV repair and after some years in TV broadcasting, later he moved over to work on wireless and radio transmitters for the local police headquarters. He was also pretty hot at mechanical repairs, think car engines etc. Throughout his life, he was known by everyone as a man who could fix, build or create just about anything, so everyone borrowed his skills. When undertaking any physical work, tinkering with a car, building something etc, he would always wear this watch, hence the large number of scratches. After he passed away, this was one of the items I kept as a reminder of the cleverest man I ever knew. Oh, and by the way, I've not been able to wear a watch since I was 6 years old, having had 5 or 6 by that age, for some reason any watch I wear stops working within 24 hours.
Dad's watch 02
My dad left school at 14, started working for his father and trained as a bricklayer. After his father died, he took a variety of jobs, labouring, lorry (truck) driving. After he met my mum, he worked with his future father in law and trained again as a joiner. After I was born, dad realised that the world was changing, so yet again, he retrained by going to night school whilst working during the day, and learning how to be a TV engineer. He worked in both TV repair and after some years in TV broadcasting, later he moved over to work on wireless and radio transmitters for the local police headquarters. He was also pretty hot at mechanical repairs, think car engines etc. Throughout his life, he was known by everyone as a man who could fix, build or create just about anything, so everyone borrowed his skills. When undertaking any physical work, tinkering with a car, building something etc, he would always wear this watch, hence the large number of scratches. After he passed away, this was one of the items I kept as a reminder of the cleverest man I ever knew. Oh, and by the way, I've not been able to wear a watch since I was 6 years old, having had 5 or 6 by that age, for some reason any watch I wear stops working within 24 hours.