When I was about 13, a friend gave me an ancient (pre-war) Simpson 260.
Amusingly, the symbol "M" on the ohms scale on the meter meant "1000", as in older accounting nomenclature, which I found confusing.
Being 13, I did abuse it, and the needle needed straightening, but I kept using it for over 10 years.
My first decent DMM is a Wavetek (pre-"Meterman") 15XL (3.5 digits, 2000 counts).
I still use two of those, since they don't have auto-range and they have very large digits.
Later, when we needed a few inexpensive meters at work, I ordered the Meterman version, which came in an orange case instead of the sober blue-grey of the Wavetek.
We named them "Barbie's first voltmeter", or "Barbiemeter" for short.