Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for February 28, 2023

Aside from me, know of anyone who carries pocket watches?

You might be able to afford a “Hot Wheel” Baldo.

Thoze things generally had to be wound and reset every day to prevent them getting seriously inaccurate. I’m not sure it will prevent Baldo being late for dinner.

It is called a pocket watch for a reason?

If you don’t want it, Baldo, give it back to your father with a “thanks, Dad, but I wouldn’t know what to do with it.” Maybe Gracie will appreciate it.

I still have my grandfather’s pocket watch. Although it is well over 100 years old, it still keeps very accurate time.

I’ve never had it appraised, although a watchmaker once told me, when I went to have it cleaned, that it was worth a considerable chunk of change and had been an expensive watch in its day.

Family legend had it that my grandfather won it in a card game and that it often saw the pawnshop when times got tough. When my grandfather died in 1931, the watch was given to my father. It passed to me when Dad died in 1993.

I’ve promised it to my oldest grandson when I finally bite the dust, since he’s the only one who’s expressed any interest in owning a pocket watch.

My husband inherited his great-grandfather’s pocket watch. He was a railway engineer in Festiniogg in Wales. That watch is now in their railway museum in Port Madoc.

I’m 37 and got a pocketwatch last year. There’s something charming about them and I love mine very much. I’ve decided to start collecting them, but I’m moving soon, so I need to focus on that first.

Now they are known as smart phones. and I carry mine in my pocket.

google “patek philippe pocket watches prices”