Watches you've lost.

I've never lost a watch.

I've never knowingly lost a watch. But I have lost track of watches from many years ago that may or may not still be tucked away in a box of long forgotten items.

I lost exactly this type of watch, and it's not that I personally lost it, but I let my brother have it, who lost it somewhere along the way. For this reason I don't have my very first watch anymore, unfortunately.

I Have had two stolen. One from work and the other out of my car. Lesson learned: do not take my watch off.

Lost my F91W in a multi-day field trip with school when I was like 14 or so. Still remember that watch.

I was jetlagged on the train from CPH to the city and just simply left a sling bag I was carrying on the train as I got off. It had a nice watch (I like to travel internationally with two watches), my Nintendo Switch and most annoyingly, my passport in it.

0 out of 5 stars, I highly do not recommend.

The only watch I’ve ever lost was this 36mm Fluted Birch build I put together with awesome blue Kunai hands. It was one of my favorite builds, as the hands really popped on the dial. I swapped the leather for a president bracelet at some point and wore this thing everywhere for a few weeks.

One day I went to my weekly 5v5 soccer match with old college buddies after work, and after changing and putting my work clothes (and watch) in my bag, it must have slipped out on the field.

Each field is rented for an hour at a time, all night. By the time I noticed the watch was missing, no one had turned it in to the company that arranges the field rentals, and countless people had been through that field since we played.

It still pains me but I know that eventually I can get around to re-building this lost piece.

I had an Alba Mickey Mouse dive-style watch purchased at Epcot (mid-1980s) that I lost about 15 years later when either the springbar or clasp broke while bodysurfing.

I was mowing my lawn while drunk as a skunk around Summer 2011 and lost my favorite-of-all-time G-Shock somewhere in the yard. It never turned up. This all because that whole day was a shadowy blank I still can’t piece together to this day. Moral of the story: Don’t drink. But if you do…refrain from doing it while mowing in the summer heat.

I had a beautiful Citizen watch with a mother of pearl dial that was gifted to me. I had taken it off and put it on my nightstand at bedtime. The next day I could not find it. I must have knocked it off in the night into the trash pail next the the nightstand. We emptied all the trash that morning and it was our trash pickup day! It was gone before I realized what happened! So sad.

I had a 70s Remington given to me by my late grandmother’s second husband in the mid 90s. Had a Swiss hand wound movement. I lost it at some point in a move with the military ☹️ and I haven’t ever seen a similar one for sale. It was an Electra like this, only in exponentially better condition:

My first not a Timex watch, a Fossil JR-9995. Last time I saw it, it was at my mother's house, like, 30 years ago. Then she moved from Chicago to Las Vegas and my brother convinced her to purge before. Now I would love to find it again.

Picture taken from the internet.

God, I wouldn't mind something like that for myself. I hope you don't mind it's built by someone else?

When I was a kid I remember wearing an Armitron every day with a Velcro strap… it’s probably sitting in a box at my parents’ house, or maybe it was thrown away.

But the one I really regret losing was a Fossil that my grandmother bought me for Christmas one year. The dial could change colors between green and blue, and I remember it was $75 - and nobody in my family is into watches so $75 was a big deal. I was 13 years old, and to me that watch was so cool. I wore it every day for a year or so, and I believe I lost it at a hockey rink. I used to take it off and put it in my pants pocket when I got suited up for hockey practice. One day I left the rink and during the drive home I realized that the watch wasn’t on my wrist. I made my dad drive me back to the rink and I checked the locker room, but it was gone. I don’t know if somebody took it, or maybe it fell out of my pocket elsewhere.

Funny enough, I still have the metal tin that the watch came in.

Thanks for asking . I lost my first Victorinox when we where toad after boat motor broker down , rope was to short ... Everything sunk exept for us. We got the boat back. This was in "el delta " Buenos Aires Argentina. First trip to Miami bought the exact same one for us$200 , o wait it's on my wrist.

Losses happen in a variety of ways, my friend. Counts for me. 💯

Mmh seems like more of a conscious decision.

I've seen a brand new "the Arnie" seiko prospex for about 260$ and they're still going for about that price. That's about half price and I'm still not tempted even though I'd love to own it.

Shipping was about $40, too much from Japan on average, and the watch was only about $30. But in retrospect, I'd have paid $70 for it in a junk shop.

Oh and another one - a girl I met online stayed at my place for a few days shortly after. After she left I noticed a fake Rolex that was in a drawer (never worn - a souvenir from India) was missing.

A small price to pay.

I've "lost" a casio probably about five years ago. It's not really lost because the alarm goes off everyday at midnight, but I'll be damned if I can find it. Funny thing is that It's now in the shed where it must've ended up during the move.

It used to be in the house.

Every time I've tried finding it by sound, it turns off, right as I'm getting close.

My hearings not great, so trying to echo-locate a tiny black watch without straps has proven to be a task beyond my patience.

As per Casio's advertising the battery is supposed to last ten years.

So I've still got some Years to find it.

That's hilarious.

Just imagine her disappointment,

when she tried to flip it.

Not to rub salt into the wound, but that's one of the best builds I've seen.

Well then it isn't loosing. That's clear.

Besides these kind of things are cyclical you'll have another and better opportunity in the future at finding that watch. Unless you don't in which case you missed out. That's cyclical too. Think positive I guess.

That's the thing - I don't know the model number, but the flat section in the middle of the case that matches the stripe on the dial is quite distinctive. So I scroll through 'Seiko King Quartz' regularly on eBay, looking for that design cue to speed up the process, and I've never seen another. Not one.

Vague memory incoming.. I remember seeing old seiko catalogues in PDF download... Somewhere.

I'm not really helping am I.

I think I was trying to find the dial of a frankenwatch, I got from ebay.

Sunglasses - yes, although one pair was

"borrowed" by my younger son.

Pocket knife - yes

Watch - not yet 🤞

Sigh lost a watch for the first time this past January. Had a Halios seaforth gen iii in a watch case while traveling and left it in a drawer at a hotel in New York along with a delugs leather strap for my tank. Called the hotel when I get back home and they never found it. :/

Sunglasses always get lost.

I've never seen the point of paying more than 10$ for sunglasses when they are going to get lost anyway.

I generally buy them in lots of 3 cheaply from Ali express. I'm down to two at the moment.

See that's close to being theft.

Although you forget it, the person that found it, would have had the choice of pocketing it or handing it in and went with the latter option.

Now, if you would've left it in the drawer of a hotel in Japan.

The story would've very likely had a different ending.

I hope you replaced it - Walmart sells these for $99... I picked one up at a Walmart that was getting rid of their "jewelry counter" for ~$50 to replace the GW M5610U that my daughter took with her when she moved out (hey, everyone needs a "bug out" atomic-solar G-Shock). I love the watch but hated the sand-colored connectors ("warts?") connecting the watch head to the bracelet - I picked up a black resin strap for a GW M500 and am loving it. I watched an old episode of "Chuck" the other day and Chuck Bartowsky was rocking a grey/black version of the watch 👍