The Watchmaker

Come to Arizona and you just might find one of the Old Watchmakers classic manual-wind watches from yesteryear or maybe something custom from our quartz watch workshop. If the cache box is large enough, a watch or two left behind along with Greetings from the Watchmaker should make your journey a bit more interesting.

It's 100 out here in the Sonoran Desert and the Old Watchmaker is enjoying spectacular views and wonderful caches. You have to be ready ... which means a hiking stick for the rattle snakes and javalenas and lots and lots of water. It's not hard to get into trouble in the desert. Reading about ticks and bugs and cold is kind of fun because, of course, we don't get that! We do have cactus ... one in particular is amazing in it's stiking ability ... the Jumpin Cholla (Chow-Ya). It has light clusters of thorns that are extremely thin and barbed. Walking past one too close will get an attack and simply put ... you will know it. It hurts so much ... it makes you laugh through the tears. You need a pliers to get the needles out. Most of the other cactus behave themselves and stay over there when you're over here. The springtime brings cactus flowers of all shapes and colors ... some come out only at night once every couple of years. It's really something. If you go at night to see them, bring a blacklight to watch for scorpions ... and I'm afraid of mosquitos?