Annoying people with your watch.
I find watches have many uses, but for me annoying people is the one I get most pleasure from, usually it is my other half.
I am lucky to own an old Omega that has a jumping hour hand. When going on holiday and about to land, the pilot will usually say “ blah blah and the local time is” where I will casually pull out the crown and forwards or backwards etc with the hour hand. I do this in the most smug and condescending way with a stupid look on my face and this drives my other half nuts and gives me immense pleasure.
So the question is how do you wind up your significant other with your watch?
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Paul
From the UK, I am a watch nut, from the age of 18 been putting £5ish aside each week to fund my watch passion and never stopped.
Wirral - UK
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7.00” / 17.78 cm
When my wife shows to me her new pair of shoes I just say indifferently “hm ok but you have so many honey! They look all the same”. Which is exactly her reaction when I show her a new watch I have bought 😈😝
Ah, tiz other way round with my Mrs - we consider ourselves to be "naked " or "invisible" if we're not wearing a watch, so ignore each other if we're not wearing one
.. - and my better half is a bugger for not bothering to set/wind her watch, & often when we're out I'll glance at her watch & see it's at the wrong time - which for an accuracy nut like me can be most triggering 🤣🤣🤣
I try many things but the Casio hourly chime seems to be the only one that really works. Stopping conversation to count my pendulum clock striking the hour is a similar annoying horological habit.
Ah, tiz other way round with my Mrs - we consider ourselves to be "naked " or "invisible" if we're not wearing a watch, so ignore each other if we're not wearing one
.. - and my better half is a bugger for not bothering to set/wind her watch, & often when we're out I'll glance at her watch & see it's at the wrong time - which for an accuracy nut like me can be most triggering 🤣🤣🤣
Have to try that!
That’s easy, by simply purchasing another one 😂
Just talking talking watches with my son or (especially) watching YT videos about the topic, gets comments and an eye roll 🙄from my wife. Depressing 🤪
My wife has just given up on caring lol. She actually does find watches she does like though which is sweet.
Watching watch videos, and asking her to look at my watches on the display case.
Pretty sure she secretly loves my watches, just like she secretly loves me 🤔
Just talking talking watches with my son or (especially) watching YT videos about the topic, gets comments and an eye roll 🙄from my wife. Depressing 🤪
Actually John, you and Elliot talking watches (not just you two), that I put on my big tv gets a glance that would make most people quake in their boots.
I have an odd relationship with my wife regarding watches, she actually e transfered a few thousand dollars into my checking account recently without telling me, it was her contribution towards a new watch, haha. I have a habit of taking my watch off for her to examine when she bothers to notice what I am wearing when we are out dining, that pacific gracious gesture drives her to distraction. I make no remarks when she shops for her vanity objects, she returns the favour.
One should loudly complain about the cost of watch service, and that skilled labor is hard to find these days. Maybe add that you "practically feel naked" while your [insert luxury watch brand] is being serviced.
My wife gets annoyed with me trying to pick what watch I will wear to whatever event or occasion we might be dealing with. I ask her what she thinks of this watch or that watch. she tells me what she thinks and then I go the other direction with a different watch.😂It’s not that I don’t value her opinion. It’s just that she doesn’t understand the difference between a dive watch on a bracelet and a dress or sports watch on a bracelet. She thinks if it’s on a stainless steel bracelet then it’s a dress watch! She does let me buy watch after watch knowing that I have way to many. That’s one of the great things about the women I love!
My wife honestly doesn't care about watches. At all. For her they're time telling devices - that's all.
She also thought my Omega Seamaster and Casio Duro "are exactly the same."
As long as any new watch is accompanied by "I got an amazing deal" I'm good. She doesn't pay attention at all.
I'll let that ride and buy my Speedy before the cat's out of the bag 😂
Looking at the watch I'm wearing, then making an observation that there is a "lack". Which will be interpreted as laying the groundwork for a watch purchase. "This is a great watch, BUT if I bought the version with the chronograph, I could time the eggs to perfection", "I fancy a dip in the sea/pool, BUT its a shame this only has 30m resistence" and so on.
I do this exact thing with my BBPro. My wife rolls her eyes very hard.
I do this exact thing with my BBPro. My wife rolls her eyes very hard.
One of life’s pleasures.
to wind her up I just show the receipt … Noo - I am joking …. I never show her the receipt ;)
Interesting.. that you need to wind up your significant other .. for of us, the significant other is always fully wound 😀
I don’t have a SO, but my cat is very accepting of my watch addiction!
Life would be so peaceful if I made such a trade!