merry christmas!

well, its nearly april, but at long last, my christmas present has arrived. it has been cleaned and tuned and beautified and finally, finally its all mine!
so now, i'm rockin' the fountain pen, the cigarette case and the pocket watch. it's even key-wound so it came with these two little keys for winding it and setting the time. i put them on a necklace, so i can't wait until the clasp breaks and i lose the keys (knock wood). i need to wind it every day and make sure that its keeping good time. its sitting on the couch next to me right now and i can hear it tick, tick, ticking away. i love it.
the jeweler that cleaned it and everything for my dad said that he dated it back to 1888-1889. this means that next year it will be approximately 120 years old. it has a letter "P" on the front of it for my last name, and i asked my dad to have it engraved on the inside with "even a stopped clock..." this is a fragment from an orbital song which samples the aforementioned quote in its entirety, which is, "even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day." suzanne introduced me to the quote, and i thought it was an apt one for the inside of a pocket watch.
i am thrilled...all i need to do now is get a chain for it and i think i will be sufficiently old school.