You cannot expect me to believe that you have read all this from his old watch!
He looked at his old watch, and shook it a bit to wind it.
"Why does he still wear that same old watch?"
Even an old watch and an 18th-century prayer book with a silver cover may be repairable.
He could take apart an old watch and put it back together exactly as it had been.
The song is about a man who inherits an old watch and chain.
"Sugar, let me have that big old watch a minute."
Someone can still take an old watch from a drawer, he said, and trade it to anyone anywhere.
At the head of the steps he looked at his huge old watch.
Maybe in another generation they would force themselves to do that, too, and throw away all the old watches.