Great Grandfather's Pocket watch

Dark silver, with a bark textured leather case.
Tick-tock tick-tock it used to go
like a silver grandfather clock
Before he died
He gave to me
A small silver watch

In a dark brown case I pulled out
a piece of silver as big as my hand
The greatest thing I ever saw
An old string tied around the top
Raged and warn
Great and torn

I never met him
But know he was great
Saw his house
At an small age
Big and cool to my eyes
furnished with old relicts

Some pictures of him I saw
never heard much about him
With tiny hands
It points to the time
Telling me when I need to go
A clock in his pocket
Very common when he was a boy
Everyone gentleman had one
On a silver chain
They came in gold, silver and aluminium
Only for the richest
The best of the best

millions of dollars, millions of pounds
Was how much they were all round
City folk were the few who had the money for the time
You would walk into a jeweller say “oh my, what a great piece of work,
How much for the watch?”
My grandfather gave to me a piece of mystery.