Beach debri or just a lost moment in time

We often find stuff on the beach.  The usual as you can imagine...seashells, seaweed (although we don't get a lot of seaweed).  At this time of year and throughout the summer we find stuff...lost in the sea by surfers, swimmers, canoeists ...well, whoever happens to have been about.  Very often sunglasses seem to appear, covered in sand having spent a few hours swishing about in the ocean (they often show signs of this with the number of scratches on them).  However, this turned up.

Yes, I know it's a watch,

 but it has a really long strap - really long....

weird or what!

here it is alongside a conventional watch

and still working - amazing considering where it was found.

We've come to the conclusion it would be a surfers watch and they would put it around their leg instead of their wrist.  Why on earth somebody would wear a watch there I will never understand, especially if they are surfing at the time.  Can you imagine they are on their board about to take the crest of a wave and think - "Umm, I wonder what the time is?" 

Perhaps we are wrong
although we are probably right.

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