Ouch!! Show us your scars, tell your horror stories of Crunched Watches!

The pictured Khaki King really doesn't look too bad, does it?

Well the story behind it is pretty horrific but testament to the resilience of our mini mechanical marvels...

The watch is my girlfriend's ( she fell in love with it first time she saw it in my watch box & keen to foster an interest gave it to her) and she was wearing it when she fell off the back of my bike.

30mph, Triumph 1200 Speed Twin & a giant pot hole... Unluckily her foot got caught up in something & she was dragged up the tarmac

I've never skimped on protective clobber for my pillions, so thankfully road rash was minimal. Her ankle required two titanium pins & she's only now able to walk or drive short distances. The accident was in September.

Anyhoo after that painful back story, to the watch!!

Shite photo, sorry, but if you squint you can just about make out the scratches to the top of the bezel & lug. IRL these are pretty deep gouges the pics really don't do the damage justice.

Suffice to say that I've no doubt that the watch saved her wrist - the glove & jacket around that area were wrecked.

Not a mark on the crystal & it's still running within +6 seconds on my timegrapher ,as it was the day I bought it (lightly used from ebay for a little over £300 if I remember rightly)

So a cracker of a beater watch that can take a proper hiding & act somewhat as protection too!!

The happy ending (of a sort) is that Mary, being stuck in bed for months with nowt but YouTube for company whilst I'm at work has got into watches. A genuine interest, not forced by me ,but obviously nurtured. She already had an interest- I'd bought her a beautiful Cartier pre accident as she wore the Hamilton constantly.

It's still her favourite watch, proud of it's battlescars and she put it on the camo bund herself .

Apologies for waffling on & lack of pictures, but I felt the story of Mary's heroic Hamilton had to be told.

*SO GET OUT YOUR PICS OF YOUR WATCHCRUNCHED WATCHES AND SHOW US SOME DAMAGE*

Whether it's a paint splattered GShock, a water damaged desk diver or Christopher Walken's Grandfather's .

ONLY RULE, MUST BE FUNCTIONAL (even if only just)

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20+ years ago this was my best watch until the morning after a night out I forgot to swap it for my work watch. And after just one day, deep scratch in the glass and scrapes on the case. And it got thrown in the drawer and been there ever since. Until a few weeks ago when my present beater got running so erratic a replacement was needed. So I've dug the old girl out,replaced the capacitor, oiled the rotor bearing and a new gasket and now it's the new/old beater and wears it's scars with pride.

I do hope Mary continues in her recovery, the state of the roads are a disgrace and its put me off getting back on 2 wheels, it's been bad enough on our cars(just had to replace another tyre and pay for alignment) and thars a cost but for 2 wheels it's far more dangerous.

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20+ years ago this was my best watch until the morning after a night out I forgot to swap it for my work watch. And after just one day, deep scratch in the glass and scrapes on the case. And it got thrown in the drawer and been there ever since. Until a few weeks ago when my present beater got running so erratic a replacement was needed. So I've dug the old girl out,replaced the capacitor, oiled the rotor bearing and a new gasket and now it's the new/old beater and wears it's scars with pride.

I do hope Mary continues in her recovery, the state of the roads are a disgrace and its put me off getting back on 2 wheels, it's been bad enough on our cars(just had to replace another tyre and pay for alignment) and thars a cost but for 2 wheels it's far more dangerous.

Great to hear of a Seiko being resurrected 👍🏻 Mary's on the mend, eyeing her next watch & not put off bikes at all 🤗 Cheers 🥂

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Nice to see another King , dunno much about cars but that little M means it's pretty rapid 👍🏻

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Thought I'd be clever and bleach the bezel insert. D'oh😱🤯