to each their own. I have a Speedy that I wore for over 30 years pretty much every day that looks better than that.
That doesn't seem right. It can't be much of living if there's nothing to show for it.
look, maybe you simply don’t care and that’s fine. But one can be very active, play sports, work in many places, travel the world, etc - without constantly slamming the left wrist into things. With the right mindset it becomes second nature to keep the watch out of harms way. It’s like saying that a life that doesn’t result in many injuries and scars isn’t worth living. It’s a matter of maturity and experience level and, frankly, not everyone is cut out to live with a nice timepiece.
It’s like a nice car. I drive it as I see fit - but I don’t run up and down the curb and I tend to park away from people who will carelessly slam their doors into my vehicle. That sort of thing.
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look, maybe you simply don’t care and that’s fine.
It’s a matter of maturity and experience level and, frankly, not everyone is cut out to live with a nice timepiece.
Seems a weird sort of living ensuring you don't damage a precious on your wrist. Probably makes you walk sort of weird or hold your arm weird. I've never broken a bone, never a major sickness, gone to the ER twice in my life on my own two feet.
And I wear my watch on my right wrist. 😉
Thanks so much for all the feedback!
It seems like there is a strong consensus and there’s no point in asking if I don’t take the answers on board, so the pen will stay in the drawer and the scratch will remain.
I’m already much more at peace with it, thanks to your comments, and have since put the watch on a new OEM alligator strap which looks absolutely incredible - feels almost like I have a brand new watch, scratches and all!
Great to hear you’re at peace with this. I would be SO tempted to take a finer grit paper than the brushed finish (like 1000 grit) and gently, with the existing grain, brush a tiny bit of one of the edges of the scratch to see if I could take the curse off it. The down side of this, which is very likely, is that the angle of the new stokes are off, it looks worse, and then both sides have to be re-brushed. But damn, is it tempting…
My stuff does get knocked about because I do real work, with lots of hard metal stuff.
I don’t spend my life sitting at a desk. In fact you need a whip and a chair to get me near a bloody desk!
Nothing productive happens in an office!
I have a much abused sacrificial quartz Invicta that gets worn in the worst environments, welding and grinding.
I haven’t been able to kill it, I remove the welding burns and spatter with a file.
It was given to me, as a broken watch. Which I fixed ( easy fix, an escutcheon for the date window had come adrift and got tangled up with the hands, just untangled and glued it back in place. ) So it didn’t cost me anything.
I find the welding spatter annoying as i the little spheres of molten metal stick to the watch case and bracelet and solidify as sharpish little pricks that catch on everything. The sparks from the grinder burn into the mineral crystal as gritty bits of corundum and metal.
They give it a loverly abrasive texture. I scrape these of with a blunt wood chisel.
I’m surprised that the stray electrical currents from welding haven’t fried the quartz movement, as they can quite easily damage electronics.
But it keeps going, though it does rip through batteries, depending on usage they last from 3 to 6 months.
As I weld and grind right handed my left hand is often used to hold and steady the workpiece and as such cops a fair bit, it and the left wrist must be made of asbestos. I don’t like to work with gloves, no sense of feel, so only use them when absolutely necessary and nearly always have my sleeves rolled up, otherwise damn things always catch fire.
And gloves should never be worn when grinding as it’s too easy to lose control of the angle grinder.
When using high amperage on big heavy welds the welding gauntlets come out, to protect from the sunburn from the welding.
Now we need a picture of that Terminator Invicta !
Figured if I spent $4350 on it, I'm gonna wear it! Worn it every day since early November give or take a day, here or there.
But yeah, if you wear your watch, it's going to get scratched. Of course, you want to be the one to scratch it but if you hand it to a friend and they scratch it, you did hand it to them.
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