Colin

Around the time I started to fall for the Explorer 1, my wife was pregnant with our first child. We didn’t know the gender, but the thought of buying a watch to commemorate the life event if it was a boy, to give to him say on his 30th birthday was lingering in the back of my head. As I continued to learn more about the 14270’s, what to look for and what is correct, I knew they were the last of the Tritium Dial Explorers, but I didn’t realize this last batch was produced in 1997, exactly twenty years before my impending child’s birth year. Maybe I was starting to build a case to talk myself into liking the watch or maybe the stars were aligning, but we had a boy. I found the perfect 1997 Explorer that I absolutely love and look forward to gifting a 50 year old watch to my son when he turns 30.