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One of the first digital gadgets I got was a digital wristwatch. I wanted one for my first communion. In the past, it was customary to get a wristwatch for your first communion, which you then wore for the rest of your life. But as a child I didn't want to understand analog watches for a long time. I was one of the last of my age who could not read the clock. It irritated me that the small hand came to lie often between the numbers. Ex. between 6 and between 7. What is meant now? 6 or 7? I didn't want to understand how "half past six" or what "quarter to seven" or "quarter past eight" would show on the analog clock. (Not that I couldn't have grasped it in terms of intelligence, I probably didn't want to, it was too weird for me and I was just lazy). My father's video recorder, on the other hand, already had a digital display. I understood this time representation immediately and because I could calculate well for my age, it was also clear to me that 14:00 meant two o'clock in the afternoon. One had to subtract only 12 hours. And it was also clear to me that at 18:45 there were still 15 minutes missing to become seven o'clock (19:00) in the afternoon. There everything is logical. So I wanted this concept for my first wristwatch, too. And I was given an Oris digital wristwatch as a gift. It had similar functions to the widely used Casio wristwatches in the 1980s. But one difference was that it was made in Switzerland. 

I enjoyed the watch for a long time. But when the Swatch came along, and I found these funny watches great, I also wanted to wear such watches. And when I wore the first Swatch, I very quickly found the analog time representation no longer difficult. I still wore the Oris from time to time, but it fell apart at some point. Probably when I was 13 or 14 years old. I then stayed mostly with analog wristwatches.