Took me 11 days to figure out why my grandpa's watch stopped, and the answer was in his own handwriting

Charles Mitchell · 2026-10-04T06:05:03.905359+00:00

My grandpa passed in March and left me his 1968 Seiko, but it quit running two weeks after I got it. I figured it just needed a battery, then a cleaning, then a whole new movement, and each trip to the repair guy in Portland cost me about $60 and a week of waiting. Turns out he had tucked a note inside the watch box that read 'wind it every Sunday, it hates Mondays' and the thing was a manual wind, not a quartz at all. I sat at my kitchen table for an hour just holding that little slip of paper. Has anyone else found something like that left behind in an old thing they inherited?

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