As
is the tradition in our family, my younger brother too got an HMT watch as a
kind of ‘arrival’ gift when he was in the tenth standard (matriculation). We were living in Shimoga at that time and
father was posted in Bangalore. My
father’s elder brother was working as a scientist in a defence-related lab and
got the watch for my brother through their supply store. The watch was purchased in September 1986 and
cost Rs.258.
Actually
I was not aware of this particular watch that my brother had. Maybe I had forgotten all about it. When I was writing the post on my HMT Vijay,
I was able to locate the receipt and the guarantee book and inside the
guarantee book, I found this pink coloured receipt for an HMT Chethan…I
wondered who owned the watch…then my brother called me up and said he had seen
my post on HMT Vijay and had dug out his own 10th class gift watch
and that it was ticking away merrily and that he was now wearing it
regularly…HMT Chethan, he said…ah ha, so, the watch whose receipt I had
belonged to him…
I
told him I had the receipt for his watch and he was surprised…I then asked him
to send me photos of his watch…he then sent photos and I sent him a scanned
copy of the receipt…here are the photos…in another two years this watch would
also be thirty years old…
Haan…BTW,
my younger brother, Jayanagaraja Rao, a banker, used to look like Pete
Sampras when he was younger and lighter and now that he is older and heavier, he tends to look like
Mohanlal…from one particular angle…
Jiyo mere bhai…so, when are you giving me
the Pilot??
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