This is a true story, told in a series of 16 short stories many told to the writer by his family in the early 1900. The story involves a watch place from one generation to another The writer now has the watch, now he is preparing to pass the watch onto one of the family. The writer tells you about each man with the watch, who he is, what, and why he is doing something at that time. The Gold Watch has a story to tell as each new family member takes procession of the watch and begins a search as they travel through time, the 1800's into the 2000's.