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Glossary of watch sale terms (your contributions welcome)

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Serviced By My Watch Maker: The little gears spin as determined by some dude down the street with a door and a shingle and has an oddly sized screwdriver or two.

Serviced by our in-house watchmaker: Somebody opened the watch (maybe not) and spit on it. Basically every watch bought from a dealer that had been "serviced by their in-house watchmaker" had to be properly serviced (again) by My Watchmaker
 
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Serviced By My Watch Maker: The little gears spin as determined by some dude down the street with a door and a shingle and has an oddly sized screwdriver or two.

He makes keys too!
 
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Gently worn in rotation with other watches/ Rarely worn/ Never really bonded with it: I didn’t think my [wife/husband/partner] would notice I got another watch, but they did; this is a relationship-salvage sale.
 
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An honest example: I’m making a virtue of how sh!tty this watch looks.
 
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New Quality Leather Strap - I flogged the BOR separately and replaced it with this pleather POS.
 
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Rare And Vintage - Anything made more than six months ago.
 
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Gently worn in rotation with other watches/ Rarely worn/ Never really bonded with it: I didn’t think my [wife/husband/partner] would notice I got another watch, but they did; this is a relationship-salvage sale.

LOL 😀
 
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Not getting the wrist time: It's my ugliest watch and it has to go
 
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Newly serviced: I took it to the guy in the mall kiosk and paid him $20 to replace the cracked crystal with this yellowish piece of plastic that will probably fall out.
 
Dan S
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Military style: not a real military watch.
Diver style: rotating bezel on a chrome-plated case that may be safe for hand-washing.
 
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You won’t find another in this condition…………this is probably the worst available, all the others out there are much better!
Check the photos, they are part of the description………..the photos are low res, poorly lit and out of focus!
Automatic quartz………I have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, but I’ll keep talking anyway!
Swiss quality…………made in little Switzerland, Shanghai
 
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Original dial, original lum: That Speedmaster dial WAS originally produced as a Speedmaster dial and the lum was used for the first time on THAT dial. Those plump, bright orange caterpillars on the hour indices that glow like the noon sun....meh.
 
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Two of the same watch bundle, not-running: I tried to fix one using a donor watch, but I broke that one, too.
 
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