Mine doesn’t have the luminescent hands or the lume dots around the chapter ring.  Mine also has a new Timex flex metal band.  Other than that it’s pretty much a match.  I bought mine because I wanted to get a simple mechanical watch, and looking in eBay found mine, for less than $40.  Besides the classic look of the watch, the information that it was made in 1969, the same year I was made, was a draw (the watch in the picture above is from 1968).  Normally I like date windows on my watches (and I like that such features on a watch face are called “complications”) but this one probably benefits from its simplicity.

I could be a watch enthusiast if I had the money.  I find the design of some very compelling.  That said, I don’t feel any compulsion to collect and hoard watches for their own sake and learn everything about them.  They’re not that interesting, and it’s more particular styles rather than brands or eras that interest me.  However, I do sometimes lurk in watch enthusiast fora.  Here is one for Timex.

Next up: my vintage underpants.