My Mother, The Reluctant Watch Collector

My Mother, The Reluctant Watch Collector

This article first appeared on May 7, 2022, on the Hodinkee Shop Journal.  When I first started to write this essay, story, article, what have you, I was wondering how I was going to write about my mother's two watches, and also recognize all that she's done for me and all of those around her, in honor of Mother's Day. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that it was less a story about the watches and more about the people they came …