Tell us your best watch story!
I’ve been collecting watches for a while, but realized I don’t really have any good watch stories. I’ve never been in a situation where I was entirely dependent on my watch, I haven’t really had relationships or friendships start because of watches, and I haven’t had too many memorable moments in life to which a watch was attached. (This isn’t to say I haven’t had cool experiences or meaningful relationships LOL, just not super watch-related.)
It makes me wonder if any of y’all have stories attached to watches that are important to you!
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Aaron
Interested in all things watches!
New York, NY, USA
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7.25” / 18.42 cm
When in 1987 I completed my apprenticeship I decided to buy a nice watch I went into the jewelers and the choice for what I wanted to spend was either a Rolex air king or this omega. Obviously Rolex being an old man’s watch at least in my mind I purchased the omega. Wore the watch every day for years and it looked like new even accidently through a full rugby match (long sleeves in those days)🫣 wore out one strap and cried at the price for an oem replacement. Eventually the strap wore out again and due to two young children I couldn’t afford the new strap so I put it in my wife’s jewelry box where one day my youngest daughter found it played with it then dropped it out the window 🤬 worse was to come when my wife ran it over with a lawn mower. Heart broken doesn’t come close. Good news my wife replaced it with my first speedmaster. Still I missed that little watch so I looked everywhere for one for twenty years I looked at all the devile watches on eBay and google searches at least once a week but nothing then a few months ago while looking at vintage dirt bikes on eBay this popped up in Japan. It wasn’t cheap but how could I not. So while it’s not my actual watch it’s the exact model and I feel like it might as well be 😊
Nope, most folk think I'm nuts for spending >£200 on a watch 😂. We'll get a moment one day
I’m in a similar position to you 😅
Except every morning my 2 year old comes into my room and asks for “my (his) watch”. Everyday. Without fail. And out of my 4 watches he only picks the one I bought to mark his birth. It’s as if he knows that watch is his..
I bought a watch once. The wife was mad.
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Oh goodness there are so many I don’t even know which one to choose from but ok let’s go with this one…the year was 1982 and while in class everyone was sporting their new Casio Marlin W-400 if you didn’t have one you just didn’t exist. So being the watch guy I was back then I knew I had to do something until I can get one on my wrist. At the time I had a Pulsar Alarm Chronograph so I used to boast how great my watch was comparing (which the W-400 imo was the better watch but no one needed to know that) to theirs. Eventually I was able to get to Chinatown in Manhattan, NYC and pick up a W-400 so at least now I existed. Not even a month after jogging through the neighborhood my hand grazed a wall and scratched the watch in a couple places I was emotionally hurt for at least a week. About a year later I ended up homeless and being on the streets at night they rob you blind so every night I would dig a hole near where I used to sleep and bury it to safeguard it from being taken. One morning I got up went to my buried spot start digging and was unable to find the watch I ended I digging up multiple areas with no luck so for several days in several different places I dug and dug and dug and could not find the watch, could you imagine how I felt? Fast forward decades later I was scrolling through eBay and saw a W-400 up for sale when I look at the item to my surprise there were the exact same damage on the crystal and case mine had yes in the same spots. I bought the watch of course with no questions attached and now it’s in my collection but to this day I’m still questioning is this the same watch that was buried so many years ago?