Do you remember that scene in Pulp Fiction where Christopher Walken tells the young Butch Coolidge the history of his grandfather’s gold watch? I had my own, less graphic version of that scene last week when my father passed on to me a gold watch which has belonged to him and to his father.

It’s an Omega Seamaster De Ville, bought in January 1968 at a jewellers in their home town of Ledbury. It’s still housed in its original box, and as you can see it remains in great condition. I’ll probably be keeping it somewhere a bit safer than hung on the tail of a ceramic kangaroo.

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(Photographs by @izziewhizzie)