When I was a kid I absolutely loathed going out shopping with my parents. Not that we embarked on protracted shopping trips too frequently. But when we did… shudder. Supermarkets bore me, textile shops siphon the life force out of me and, worst of all, my Dad’s proclivity for watch showrooms frustrated.
We’d be walking along some side road in Abu Dhabi hunting for ‘sale’ when suddenly Dad would disappear. We’d look around and see him mimicking walking, but not really moving at all, outside a Rivoli or Al Fardan or Al Futtaim gawking at an Omega or a Patek or a Kolber of some kind.
Over the years he did develop a small collection of watches with one or two expensive ones in them that he, I daresay, nurtured like children. After a while he infected a bunch of co-workers with the watch bug. And then every few months they’d all buy and sell watches to each other and feel quite posh.
I hated it.
But that kind of thing does leave residual tendencies.
And now I write about watches for the newspaper. And I bloody can’t get enough of the thing.
I can’t afford any of them. But, as you will see, just looking at them is a balm for the soul.
Hope you enjoy our second watch special (below) and the first in what will be a periodic series of MintWatch specials. This one is on the SIHH fair that happened in January. There should be at least two more this year.
Sometimes your parents make complete sense retrospectively.
I love your attention for detail… al futtaim and rivoli… how do you even manage to remember the name of those stores, only reading them now can i recall them myseld. Reading your blog is like a warm blanket from my childhood in abu dhabi. big hugz.
I subscribe to the RSS feed of your blog and for some reason, a bunch of Hafta Mag articles showed up on 5/5/11. Looks like something might be messed up in the feed settings?
“Sometimes your parents make complete sense retrospectively.”
Most of the times.
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I have yet to find meaning in shopping (“Shopping Sucks:” http://badswami.com/?p=84).
However, that being said, I am a watch fanatic.
you think i can take some of the credit for this super-funny book because irinjalakuda is close to aluva and i hail from aluva……
You mean to say that a little change in the shop will change your opinion towards watches.
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