Just in case there are those who are too young to remember the commercials.
I would never give her any of my good pieces as my wife could have remade this Timex commercial with her own version. With her 25 year old, never serviced Timex, she ran it through a complete heavy duty washing machine and dryer cycle. It came out fine. There were two separated bracelet links, but otherwise the Timex ran fine without any condensation. In some ways the washing episode was good for the watch, as it finally cleaned out years of ranch dirt from the watch crevices.