Any spooooky stories (backgrounds) about your watches???

Well idk if this is spooky or not but I have a watch that belonged to an officer on the Bismarck. There is no record of this specific watch even being made.

Wow, I think is passes my spooky test. lol Mystery definitely surrounds your watch. 😮

So I told @Ichibunz this story a few months ago. I went into my watch box had noticed my Nodus watches had the crowns popped out and were not screwed down. I thought it was random and weird but chalked it up to me being oddly absent minded? I just thought why would I leave it unscrewed…. Whatever. Then, I went into my closet to go into a drawer to get my spring bar tool. I could not find it for the life me looking everywhere. I went back into the closet then found it sticking into the wall the opposite side of the side my drawers were on. I could not fathom how in the hell it got into the wall and even asked if my wife was playing a prank. She insisted she wouldn’t even think to do that and she had repainted my closet a few years ago so it would be silly to stab a spring bar tool in the wall.

Holy cow! Dude, better look out for those Nodus watches, they might be possessed now. 😮JK... This definitely qualifies!

To say the least, they have been traded out lol! I don’t have em anymore. 😅

I think you may know that I won't buy used watches especially when the eBay seller lists it as "From my late father's collection" or equivalent. I saw a guy on Reddit selling his dead wife's Swatch watches which were "her pride and joy", and there was no way I'd buy one because they could be haunted!

My Hallowe'en Scavenger Hunt game last year was all about buying a haunted watch, and you may enjoy the story I wrote for it. Just look up the hashtag #mhvwc and follow it through.

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-preview-and-sign-up-219343

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-prologue-235698

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-it-begins-236461

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-seance-237376

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-ghost-hunters-237977

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-witch-238544

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-fighting-back-239446

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-possession-240159

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-ritual-240671

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-vote-for-the-winner-241062

https://www.watchcrunch.com/casiodean/posts/most-haunted-vintage-watch-challenge-winner-241775

I don't actually have any true stories of haunted watches myself, but I did hear a phone-in on Talk Radio once where a couple bought a haunted wardrobe, and the doors would open and close on their own at night. They eventually had a vicar perform a kind of exorcism on the wardrobe and the disturbances stopped. That's another reason to never buy secondhand things or antiques.

I think a haunted watch could be fun.

I don’t have a spooky story, but a major heartbreak till I have nightmares to this day.

It was the purchase of my Apple Watch. Back in 22, I was getting back to the gym and wanted a fitness watch to tell how good or bad I’m doing. I also wanted a watch that didn’t try to scream I’m wearing a watch. Naturally I thought hey maybe this is the perfect reason to buy an Apple Watch.

Then I saw the Trident 600 go on sale, for 990 AUD, and I was stuck. Spend 780 for an Apple Watch, or 990 for the christopher ward. My dumbass decided I could the CW another and went with the Apple Watch. They discontinued the trident 600 and I hate the design of the new trident 300. That’s my horror story. Biggest joke, I’m right now trying to sell my Apple Watch at more than a 50% lost so I can buy a Seiko SPJ143 because I’m still itching for a diver.

I don't have any watches with spooky connections I do have a Polaroid camera with a spooky story, and know of a haunted house story I heard while in real estate school.

Surprising I haven't encountered a story involving a watch and something creepy. Georgia is full of ghost stories.

haha, yeah most people avoid even remotely coming into contact with any potentially haunted item... that's not me. lol Specially since I'm also a huge WW2 collector too. God knows how many haunted items I own... hmm maybe that's why I can't sleep at night, and I feel like I'm being watched. lol 😬

OUCH! Yeah, I'd rather be haunted than go through what you went through. lol 🤣

If you want to hear some of the spookiest true ghost stories the UK has to offer, grab yourself a podcast player and add "Uncanny" by Danny Robins to your list. It's a BBC radio production with 3 seasons, and 3 dramatised ghost story series by the same people before it. I think you'll like it.

Danny Robins wears a Tissot PRX, btw.

Right now, I'm wearing the watch my father was buried with.

OMG! you just reminded me of a radio show I used to listen to as a kid in Mexico. It used to only come on at Midnight, and would be "factual (who knows how they verified that claim, lol)" scary/haunted stories of places in Mexico. People were also encouraged to call in and tell their own "supernatural" experiences/encounters...nostalgia hit! 🥺

Unfortunately no spooky watch story but I do have a spooky experience that happened a few years ago

I have a few watches with ghost dates.

I’m more concerned with the leftover biological crud in a used watch than any leftover spirits in it. I have a decent collection of antique and ancient artifacts from around the world and not one ghost has ever made an appearance in my house.

Maybe not spooky but scary for me. I dropped my GS slga021 the first month i owned it. My heart stopped that time. It landed on carpet from a 2 foot drop. Good thing nothing is broken.

I have no horror stories but getting suggested onlyfans contributors on Instagram last helloween, I was expecting a different image scrolling down.

Cold war era history is another of my hobbies.

There are a few JFK assassination watches that have kind of a spooky story attached to them

• There's the Patek Chronograph that was used to record the time of JFK's death:

Read about here:

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/found-on-the-50th-anniversary-of-jfks-assassination-his-doctors-watch

The Carter Tank Kennedy was wearing when assassinated is definitely spooky.

There's some great watch stories from the era;

• Che Guevaras Rolex GMT Master was taken from his body by CIA operative Felix Rodriguez after he was assassinated.

Read here:

https://havana-live.com/but-what-happened-to-ches-rolex/

• Obviously the famous Omega Speedmaster of Apollo 13 - having to time that burn to perfection or bounce off the atmosphere into oblivion is pretty freakin' hairy - and arguably spooky.

Wow, that's something! Has anything else happened to you or has it been a one-time event so far?

I have a spooky clock story. My primary doctor has a clock in her office that runs backwards and it has her name on it. It was custom made by one her patients who always gave her shit for being late. He was an older gentleman who eventually passed away.

A few years later the older gentleman’s grandson went in for an appointment to see her for some ailment. She said the clock hadn’t worked for about a year or so when halfway through her appointment with the grandson the clock started ticking again.

The Zodiac Killer in California wore Zodiac watches!

Wow that’s pretty scary! It sounds far fetched but maybe you were sleepwalking? Ever heard of the carbon monoxide sleepwalking story from Reddit?

https://nexuschimney.com/the-incredible-reddit-carbon-monoxide-story-as-told-by-our-apex-chimney-contractor/

thats pretty scary story man, personally i dont have spooky story about wristwatch but i do have one spooky story with a real pict which i like to share. so my job is a building contractor, and someday at 2016 or 2017 if im not mistaken i got a job to built a buddhist temple at countryside (which got low human population). when some of the building are finished and operated some monks already lived there. sometimes they do some buddhist ritual around the area, one day i was inspecting the project when the ritual happened and managed to do a few camera shot around the ritual. after going home and looking at the shot i noticed something strange at the head of the statue, looks like covered with something black almost like a skull in my mind. next week i managed to check the colour of the statue and it is fully white!

Mine keep flying out of the store; poltergeist! 🤣

As a kid, I had a lot of paranormal activity happen in the house that I grew up in over the years. In our house now weird stuff happens every once in a blue moon. I have seen the garbage can lid swing by itself once (now we have one that its difficult for that to happen on its own). My wife also thinks we have a cat spirit that visits so that could have been the reason for the garbage can lid moving by itself. I have only seen and heard it maybe once or twice? She says she sees it all the time. We have three cats and one of them does tend to look at stuff we can’t see so my guess is he has a ghost kitty friend. For many years he would spend hours at night looking outside our back door. Once that ghost cat my wife named Spooky started coming by he stopped doing the looking out the back door thing for hours at night. It all started around 2020 and we had been in our house for several years at that point. Here is Leo!

Oh wow! That is crazy! So funny enough, we do have a fireplace and it was inspected over the summer no issues. Carbon monoxide detector is close by our room no alarms. If it was sleep walking, its very unlikely because at night we have three cats in the room and our big dog who sleep wth us. I would have to walk across the room to my closet, open the drawer which is a bit noisy, unzip the pouch that has my watch tool kit including the spring bar tool, and shove it in the wall. Then I would have had to zip the watch tool kit back (noisy) and close the drawer (noisy). After all that then I would have to slip back into bed. The noise and movement would have at the minimum woke the dog and cats up. My wife maybe not at first because she sleeps heavily but if the pets were seeing what was going on would probably wake her up. As for the crowns on the watches, it would be interesting to just unscrew two crowns and call it a day then go back into bed. 😆

Tenuous, but here goes, it involves all of my watches.

My Dad died on 11/01/01, prematurely at the age of fifty one. About a year ago, out of the blue, sometimes twice a-day but normally at least once, I'd look at my watch or sometimes the clock in my car, and it would read 11:11. It was like I was being made to look at it. I sort of realised the link straight away, and wondered if my Dad was trying to make contact. Ridiculous, right? Anyway, this carried on, and sadly my Grandmother (his Mum) passed away March 12th just gone, at the age of ninety four. As quickly as it started, the 11:11 abruptly stopped. Was he trying to warn me that she was going? Who knows.

While not exactly horror, here's the story behind my Eterna Matic 1000. A Mr G. Notile worked at the East London Municipality from 26 January 1945 until sometime in 1972. The Eterna was his long service award. He took it in for a service at my watchmaker's father's shop presumably during the late '70s or early '80s. I believe he was telephoned one day and told that his watch was ready to be collected the next day. When the next day came, Mr Notile didn't show up. After many weeks of waiting, his Eterna got packed away and didn't see the light of day again for about forty years.

In that time, my watchmaker's father sold his shop and passed away a few years later. My watchmaker then opened his own shop and, when digging through some of his father's old stuff, he found the Eterna. He put it up for sale in his shop and I bought it in November 2023. It has been running perfectly for all of my ownership, except one time when it didn't want to run no matter how I persuaded it. Only when I tried to open the caseback did it suddenly spring back to life. It was very odd.

Thankfully, I'm sure Mr Notile is happy with me weariand loving his wristwatch. I still wonder what happened to him.

As spooky as it gets with me