A watch that has lived... and died.

Engee · Jul 3, 2021

I know many people here don’t always go for pristine looking time pieces. They like the fact that a watch shows signs of use. It gives the watch that uniqueness. Watches are tools after all, made to be used, so being a little marked, scratched, even bashed is no bad thing. It all adds to the charm.

With that in mind someone might be interested in this Aqua Terra currently available on eBay. Reminds me of Salvador Dali.

Fortunately there are no pictures of the wrist.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174824378714?hash=item28b458515a:g:1gQAAOSwqMZg3y6i

Dan S · Jul 3, 2021

I clicked the link hoping for a good story, but no luck. Hopefully the watch wasn’t on a wrist when this happened. At the very least there are some spare links there if someone needs them. 😀

gbesq · Jul 3, 2021

Missile testing?

Engee · Jul 3, 2021

gbesq
Missile testing?

It does make you wonder what must have happened to get that result. As @Dan S said, let’s hope it wasn’t on someone’s wrist at the time.

dsio · Jul 3, 2021

Omegas take on the Cartier Crash. Would be funny to somehow get it working again with one of those extra tiny quartz movements and a custom crystal of sorts.

gbesq · Jul 3, 2021

This is a job for Archer. I don’t think that stuff is going to buff out.

Omegafanman · Jul 3, 2021

Engee
I know many people here don’t always go for pristine looking time pieces. They like the fact that a watch shows signs of use. It gives the watch that uniqueness. Watches are tools after all, made to be used, so being a little marked, scratched, even bashed is no bad thing. It all adds to the charm.

With that in mind someone might be interested in this Aqua Terra currently available on eBay. Reminds me of Salvador Dali.

Fortunately there are no pictures of the wrist.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/174824378714?hash=item28b458515a:g:1gQAAOSwqMZg3y6i

Salvador would have worn it just with a new strap I think :0)
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Engee · Jul 3, 2021

“You and your damn watches!” She screamed. “We can hardly afford to feed the children. We have unpaid bills piling up, you’ve been on the bench since the pandemic started at it looks like you’re going to be let go, and then you come home with a gormless grin across your face saying ‘hey baby, look what I just picked up at the local OB’.”

And with that she grabbed it from him, and launched it out of the 9th story window onto the road below.

Darlinboy · Jul 3, 2021

Engee
A watch that has lived... and died.

I thought this thread was going to have a "Live and Let Die" connection. But your script isn't bad. 👍

Engee
“You and your damn watches!” She screamed. “We can hardly afford to feed the children. We have unpaid bill piling up, you’ve been on the bench since the pandemic started at it looks like you’re going to be let go, and then you come home with a gormless grin across your face saying ‘hey baby, look what I just picked up at the local OB’.”

And with that she grabbed it from him, and launched it out of the 9th story window onto the road below.

DaveK · Jul 3, 2021

Send it to Omega for service?

dsio · Jul 3, 2021

DaveK
Send it to Omega for service?

Send it to Archer maybe and get him to do a photo series on using the watchmaker’s sledgehammer to belt it back into shape

Donn Chambers · Jul 3, 2021

Wow. Just wow. I am trying to imagine how the case became that deformed - even if they had put it in a vice, I can’t imagine someone could have crushed it so much. Not sure there are gonna be many useful parts in that one.

Canuck · Jul 3, 2021

The answer!

Archer · Jul 3, 2021

gbesq
This is a job for Archer. I don’t think that stuff is going to buff out.

Sorry, but I'll be busy with this one:

A Speedmaster of a customer of mine. He was wearing this when a German Shepherd bit him - you can see where a tooth has damaged the dial after puncturing the crystal. The bracelet snapped and that allowed him to get his hand free, but he didn't come out of it unscathed - I will save you all the picture he sent me of the underside of his wrist...in case anyone is squeamish...

I'm afraid that AT is toast.

STANDY · Jul 3, 2021

Maybe it was tested by J Neilson

This guy scares any knife maker. Watch the gusto he puts into testing these knives. This is ice but I watch each week him do it on everything from deer antler to bike frames

Archer · Jul 3, 2021

STANDY
Maybe it was tested by J Neilson

This guy scares any knife maker. Watch the gusto he puts into testing these knives. This is ice but I watch each week him do it on everything from deer antler to bike frames

That was shot before he started to suit up in near body armor to do all the testing...

WestCoastTime · Jul 3, 2021

Most folks here have probably already seen Hodinkee's The Long Return videos, but at about 7:00 in Part 2 can see Tudor Restorations forming a custom jig out of brass to reform the case for a Tudor Submariner (bullet strike, in this case)

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NGO1 · Jul 3, 2021

Come back in 5 minutes…good as new

M'Bob · Jul 3, 2021

An ineffectual and shameless attempt by Omega to emulate the Cartier Crash…

Larry S · Jul 3, 2021

So I was out working under the car and I took my watch off….

A watch that has lived... and died.

Engee

Dan S

gbesq

Engee

dsio

gbesq

Omegafanman

Engee

Darlinboy

DaveK

dsio

Donn Chambers

Canuck

Archer

STANDY

Archer

WestCoastTime

NGO1

M'Bob

Larry S

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