Thursday, July 24, 2008

Wristwatch show

Abby likes to open his grandma’s box of wristwatches to take a look. She picks them out of the box and put them back again.

On July 8th, as usual, her target was again at grandma’s watches. This time, I put all the five watches onto her arms. Without the long sleeves of her overcoat, these watches would all slip away because her arms were so slim and the watches were meant for adult wrists.

The watches are neither ancient nor modern. They were in the 80’s or 90’s. Some of them are automatic, run by mechanics and some by dry cells. They all stop for lack of winding or electric power. They might have become Abby’s toys these days.

Sure enough, Abby needs not read or does not know “time” at the moment, but she has experienced the existence of such interesting clockwork of two or more hands moving round and round the face of a watch.

1 comment:

Ho Keung and Yin Ping said...

It may become a new fashion inspiration.