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Title: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: Rukiddin on January 17, 2021, 11:06:06 AM
I have had this for many years and got it from a previous employer in 1980. He told me it was an award for first Mustangs sales. Any of you watch collectors seen one before? Are they rare? Thanks
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on January 17, 2021, 11:36:57 AM
Doesn't look like a 1964/5 product (leather & metal bands at that time and no novelty look). Maybe something from the 80s or 90s.
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: FL SAAC on October 13, 2022, 09:54:06 AM
Nice watch,  wear it and enjoy it
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: MUSTANG66 on November 10, 2022, 08:43:36 AM
I have two watches laike this one but mine are with Ferrari and Alfa Romeo Logo.... it came from teh seventies... it is a english brand ... (i have to make a ggogle research to find the brand...)
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on November 10, 2022, 03:26:33 PM
My only car watch - it was my grandfathers
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: JD on November 10, 2022, 03:47:29 PM
^^ That is Cool!!!
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: Side-Oilers on November 10, 2022, 06:33:29 PM
WOW!  Brett, that's very cool.   Where was grandpa a Chevy salesman?
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: papa scoops on November 10, 2022, 07:13:10 PM
All I got was a Rolex.
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on November 10, 2022, 07:33:07 PM
Quote from: Side-Oilers on November 10, 2022, 06:33:29 PM
WOW!  Brett, that's very cool.   Where was grandpa a Chevy salesman?
Saginaw MI. He was my dad's step dad. Interesting little guy. Built prototype trucks - installed the first GM diesel in a private truck. Ran a service dept. Owned his own shop. Owned the service dept at a Buick dealership. Oh and raced motorcycles.
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: Side-Oilers on November 10, 2022, 10:18:02 PM
Really cool that you still have everything.   That's a lot more than I have from my grandpa of the same era.  Although he was a Buick man, and picked-up his '50 Super direct from the Flint factory.
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on November 10, 2022, 11:10:58 PM
Quote from: Side-Oilers on November 10, 2022, 10:18:02 PM..... he was a Buick man, and picked-up his '50 Super direct from the Flint factory.
My grandfather owned the service part of Garber Buick in Saginaw until he retired. His last car was a 66 Buick Electra 2 door with the 425. It had been a GM exec car. The dealership sold a lot of those buying them wholesale when they got turned back in with a few thousand miles on them.
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: Side-Oilers on November 10, 2022, 11:28:24 PM
My grandpa's last car was a '62 Electra 225 sedan that he owned until he died in '67.   He'd owned Buicks since the 1920s, all bought from the same dealer.
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: TA Coupe on November 11, 2022, 12:18:29 AM
When my Grandfather passed away about 25yrs ago the family decided I should have his 65 four door Chevy Impala with a 327. Power seats and AC still work.

            Roy
Title: Re: Wrist watch gift from retired Ford dealer
Post by: 98SVT - was 06GT on November 11, 2022, 11:44:23 AM
Quote from: TA Coupe on November 11, 2022, 12:18:29 AM
When my Grandfather passed away about 25yrs ago the family decided I should have his 65 four door Chevy Impala with a 327. Power seats and AC still work.

            Roy
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+1 - My grandfather never drove that 66 Electra in the snow - it was his forever retirement car. They'd use my grandmothers Chevy in winter. After she died my grandfather came to CA and my dad drove his car out here. It took my sister about a year to run it out of oil and kill it.