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Do you have a "lucky watch"?

  1. Mad Dog rockpaperscissorschampion Feb 15, 2017

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    Here's my "lucky watch" pictured below...my beloved Seiko 6309-7049 that I purchased new in 1987. Wearing it during the past 30 years of accident free flying in the military and at the airlines...as well as 2 years as a full time Cincinnati Police Officer on urban patrol without a critical incident...I call it my "lucky watch"...good times! :thumbsup:

    Show us your "lucky watch". :thumbsup:

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  2. Lukeeesteve Feb 15, 2017

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    I've never gotten lucky with Any of my watches :whistling:

    Honestly I can't say I have a lucky watch...longest I've had one is probably 5-6 years.
     
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  3. redpcar Feb 15, 2017

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    I think you have something here but I experience it in reverse. When something bad or unlucky happens to me I must blame the watch because I have a hard time wearing it again. Usually trade or sell.
     
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  4. Darlinboy Pratts! Will I B******S!!! Feb 15, 2017

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    All my watches make me feel lucky - lucky to have them!

    Thanks for sharing yours!




    p.s. don't buy a watch from @redpcar, apparently it'll be cursed! :eek: :p
     
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  5. redpcar Feb 15, 2017

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    I let a very cool Ranchero go one time because I deep-6'd a job interview. Every time I put it on, it reminded me of that bad day.
     
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  6. sxl2004 Feb 15, 2017

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    Ditto.
    Currently a Polerouter is in the hole. Pity
     
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  7. AnotherDon Feb 15, 2017

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    Here's my Lucky Watch

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    Limited Edition #13 of 50 done for a German IWC dealer in 2000.
     
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  8. Larry S Color Commentator for the Hyperbole. Feb 15, 2017

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    up until 2013, I had nothing but expendable quartz watches. Nothing like your Seiko. Truly an old friend.
     
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  9. noelekal Home For Wayward Watches Feb 15, 2017

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    I sure hope you're wearing that Seiko if I'm riding on your plane, Mad Dog.

    I've had this one probably 30 years, can't even recall exactly when I got it. It's my lucky field watch: hunting, fishing, hiking. Has been on lots of adventures.

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  10. Canuck Feb 15, 2017

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    I no longer have the watch I was wearing when i met my wife of (almost) 51 years. We met in 1963, and I acquired my Accutron in 1964, and was wearing on our wedding day in 1966. Still have it, still looks and runs like new! (I no longer look and run like new:)!)

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  11. DeepBlue Feb 15, 2017

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    I got lucky with my submariner on a few times, don't know if that counts?
     
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  12. Canuck Feb 15, 2017

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    You're bragging!
     
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  13. marcn Enough space to say witty Feb 15, 2017

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    A month after my oldest boy was born, I was heard to say "This is the last watch I swear I'll ever [insert: need to] buy!" ;)

    That was July of 1988, and now both of these buggars is about to turn 29, and one will get the other when they're both 30.

    Now is it a lucky watch? Hard to say, but I know I've been lucky to have such great kids.

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  14. jimmyd13 Feb 16, 2017

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    I have a "first date watch" ...
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    It's a watch I like and enjoy wearing; it's interesting enough to tell a story about, if it gets commented on; not expensive or "flashy", though and not something that someone can use to really form any opinion about. And, yeah ... I've gotten lucky with it a few times.
     
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  15. Canuck Feb 16, 2017

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    I somehow felt that this thread would end up eliciting all kinds of braggadocio about people "getting lucky", and watches. ;) Watches should be removed at such times. After all, why hurry?
     
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  16. jimmyd13 Feb 16, 2017

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    There's never a hurry ... but there's at least two ways to time the boiling of an egg. Of course, if you don't want soft boiled you should really use a watch.
     
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  17. Pvt-Public Feb 16, 2017

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    All my watches are lucky. Lucky to have survived my ownership. ::facepalm2::
     
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  18. Alpha Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega Collector Feb 17, 2017

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    Opaline AT which accompanied me on a rush hospital admission, told that another couple of hours and things would have been really serious.
    Why is it lucky ? As I am due in for some surgery soon it will be strapped on the wrist just in case :)

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  19. Togri v. 2.0 Wow! Custom title... cool Feb 18, 2017

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    Not lucky per se but the family watch bought by my grandfather, a resistance fighter during WWII, in 1951. Then after his death worn by my dad until his death in 2016 and now worn by me.

    So I have sort of made it into my lucky watch, since it carries so much family history and since I greatly admired my dad, who absolutely loved the watch.

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  20. Alpha Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega Collector Feb 18, 2017

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    Priceless, wear in the best of health :thumbsup: