He Sent Me His Late Father’s Watches as a Gift, I Decided to Restore One For Him

Hello there, and welcome back to another video here on Wrist Watch Revival. My name is Marshall. Thank you so much for coming along. This time on the bench, well, as you can see, I've got kind of a pile of watches, and this was actually sent to me by a friend of a friend named Hogan. I've met him a few times, and unfortunately, recently, his dad passed away, and he left him his watch collection here. And Hogan thought of me and reached out and said, "Hey, what do you think of these watches uh that I've got anything interesting in there?" And I kind of thought he was saying like, "Maybe is there anything valuable or something that he should be, you know, keeping or something like that?" But what he really meant was, "Are you interested in having these watches?" Because he knows how into watches I am, and I thought that was such a nice thing for him to reach out, and I said, "I'd love to have them, you know, to work on or learn from." And uh so, he sent them in to me, and as you can see, it's got there there's these four older watches, and the rest were kind of the normal quartz, you know, sort of watches, everyday type of watches you'd wear, not the kind I really restore on the channel, but these kind are. There's this really cool pocket watch here, and it even comes with a pocket knife attached to it, which is kind of neat. I haven't seen that before. And you know what I thought? Even though Hogan didn't ask, I thought, "I'm going to restore one of these watches for him." And I think I'm going to pick this one here. This is This one says Gloucester on it. I've never heard of that as a watch company before, but it says Incabloc, which means that it has a shock protection system. It says antimagnetic, and all the other features of a '50s watch. This is that pocket watch. I'm going to set this one aside. I've got maybe an idea for that one as well. But for now, I thought, you know, this is something that uh Hogan's dad would have worn maybe or at least owned for a long time. This watch comes uh probably from the '50s, maybe even the early '50s, late 40s era. So, this one maybe even was passed down to Hogan's father, perhaps. Um that type of thing. And I thought, you know, what better way to memorialize his dad and have something that he can wear if he wants.