My Watch Story: 'Stealing' A Father's Orient by Ian Wan

“My Watch Story" is a video series starring HODINKEE readers and their most prized watches. For more stories from other collectors and to learn how to submit your own go to: https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/my-watch-story-december-9 Ian is a high schooler in Beijing. This Orient Three Star was a gift from his grandfather to his father, on the occasion of his father getting accepted into college in 1987. How meaningful was that gift? Well, it cost about half of his grandfather's yearly salary. Ian grew up looking at the watch in his father's drawer, and "stole" it a few years ago and started learning about it – to the point that he even serviced it himself.