My Neologism

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@bennylee wrote:

A couple of days ago, I went back to the watchmaker to collect my 27-year old GMT. It was ready after a full service that included oiling, changing of parts, tightening of bracelet and the whole works. I only requested that the watch to not be polished.

Before I left, I asked them that since the gasket has been changed and water resistant test done and passed, I can now take the watch for a swim. The reply was: “you can if you want to, but we rather you not.” Would you take the advice of the watch maker?

To which I, Oscar Klosoff aka PoorMansRolex replied

This is simple. You can. He (and I) would prefer you did not.

It's tested. It should be fine. But keeping it out of water is safer still. I'm not afflicted with dunkmania so this all seems very obvious to me.

How can I get this e-notarized?

How many free uses do I have before I have to buy a subscription plan?

I don't mean to pathologize, but I wish to use more clinical language here. I am unsure of whether dunkmania is a mood disorder or a mental illness or what, as this is not my field of expertise. As a layman, I do find dunkmanics to give the appearance of madmen. It is worth noting that I have yet to observe dunkmania in a female. It appears totally endemic to males.

No watch, no problem.

I am also curious for any anthropological historians or internet culture experts to delve into the origins and proliferation of dunkmania. I am unsure if this 1980's movie (Back to School, 1986, for you young-uns) clip alone is evidenciary.

Can I also offer soakosis as an alternative?😁

Oh no, I have competition. Hopefully experts will delineate these as slightly different somehow, but your entry is marked.

These terms are the cupio dissolvi of the watch world.

Dunkmania

I think this is a real phenomenon. 😅When I was a teenager and started my watch collection I wold put my Seikos, Casios and Orients on a plank of wood in the middle of my backyard during a severe rain storm to see if they would survive. 🤭Not exactly dunking but still…

You little trend setter you 😂👏🏻👏🏻

Diperitis

Apparently this is a condition that comes from dipping too many nachos

Not my area of expertise either, but the literature seems to use the term "mania" for conditions that are considered psychological conditions (aka, mental illness). Dunkmanic would the be the adverb used to describe the individual's state of mind or the individual himself during events displaying the condition. Displaying the condition of a madman as you relate, would suggest the individual has deteriorated to the state of becoming a Dunkmaniac, a full-on crazy person. Does all of this suggest those of us that do not like our watches to get wet as suffering from dunkphobia?

I'm not sure how to take this. I read the wikipedia entry on this Latin phrase and am still confused.

Crap, the term may already have other usage. See also the sneakerheads, as the Nike Dunk (not sure if that is an official name or nickname) is a big thing with them.

Science! Yes, behavioral conditions, or whatever this is, frequently have aberrations on both sides of the norm. People that think they can't wash hands or go out in the rain when a watch doesn't have X water resistance (with X>0) are indeed suffering an aberration on the opposite end of the spectrum.

I have coined the term dunkmania to refer to the irrational desire of people to unnecessarily submerge their watches in water. It generally afflicts the wearers of dive watches and seems to get stronger the closer one is to a body of water.

I'm not sure if it gets closer one is to a body of water. However, what is the funny part, is that in the past people who were diving for a living were looking for a watch to bring along. The modern dive watch owner has the opposite problem: He doesn't have to go near any water, but since he owns a dive watch, he figures he should go diving. Turns out that diving is actually quite complicated and requires equipment beyond the dive watch. So, at least he should have a picture of the dive watch in water, and there we are.

Personally, I don't see the need the need for the watch to dive, with the exception of testing whether I seated the crystal right. (see below)

In a grand showing of trust in my abilities I had also removed the movement before placing the case in water. In any case, this is how much water my divers see.

The "testing" rationale always amazes me. For some reason I don't hear of people waving powerful magnets over antimagnetic watches or dropping shock resistant watches (well, mechanical- I'm sure G-Shocks are regularly thrown at walls, off buildings) but the compulsion to dunk watches is oddly pervsive.

It's similar to G-Shocks. I'm sure people are testing out their G-Shocks, and I do remember a YouTube-Video of somebody throwing G-Shocks from a helicopter. (I'm however not quite sure that dropping things from a helicopter is a common problem within the watch community.)

I grew up in the country, and there was something called a "dead man's curve". Everybody knew what it was, and yet people still tried to navigate it at high speeds. One of the accident victims who crashed his motorbike regained consciousness in the ICU, and purportedly immediately claimed that he should be able go through that curve at 60 mph.

The common aspect here that we're talking about obvious challenges.

Dunk mania is a normal human phenomena that is typical of the male sex. It is often observed when the partnered female requests help with dishes or bath time.

It is seen as necessary by the docile specimen to “gear up” or “kit out” for such mundane tasks.

At the beginning I was afraid to take my watches near water, but since I losty dunk virginity and manned up, Im a complete dunkmaniac.

Dunkphobia: obsessing about dive watches and going on and on ad nausium about water resistance, helium escape valves, etc. etc., but in the next breath say, I won’t let my watches get wet 😬.

One needs to coin a term for thinking that using a thing for it’s designed purpose is a mania. The coinage of the term “dunkmania” is a sure sign that all watches are cosplay.

Pah! Experts... they know nothing. They say don't do it... what ya gonna do?

I like to get it wet 😅