The Story of Mr.Rabbit's Vintage Pocket Watch

It happened that the 17th of May was Uni Annie's birthday. She is a good friend of mine and we decided to celebrate the birthday in the city. I asked her a bit about about her childhood memories. She told me that her father used to work for the Deli Railway in North Sumatra. The most valuable momento from her dad is a pocket watch.

Before we went for lunch we ventured ourselves to Rozelle Market and by coincidence we found this pocket watch with "Spoor Horloge" written on it. That was a Dutch expression which means " A Train Watch" therefore it will always show the correct time, the watch has to be wound up every single day. I bought the watch in memory of the father of uni Annie. She still keeps the original pocket watch belonging to her dad. Uni migrated to Australia in 1978 and she is married to an "Aussie". The pictures above are the last three locomotives from the Deli Railway in North Sumatra (operated by NIS/ Nederlanshe Indische Spoorweg) and were never renumbered. These locomotives were brought to Taman Mini Indonesia Indah in Jakarta around 1980s. They are still diplayed there.

Mr.Rabbit now is wearing the antique pocket watch (the brand is Anker) in the memory of Uni Annie's beloved father.