have you ever ... ahem ... LOST a watch?

Guess what I just found?

My GMT watch (OP) ... must have swapped watches in the office or so. ... was in the lower drawer (nicely rolled in micro bubble wrap)

The fact that I am messy doesn't mean I can't be anal...😟

I lost my Pebble watch. It was a Kickstarter campaign back in 2012. I wore it often, then got into real watches and just sorta forgot about it. Then I remembered it, and simply could not find it. I keep hoping I find it some place in the house.

You don't have that problen when you only got one watch, lol.

I lost my green $99 G Shock =/ For the life of me.. had no idea where I put it last let alone the last time I wore it. Didn't care too much until I recently thought about picking up another one only to find that it became a collectors item fetching above $500. I might just paint my white one green for $12 =)

My first semi-nice watch in college was a Victorinox and I got my hand stuck in one of those train doors that open on contact and it ripped the watch off my wrist but I only realized it like an hour later.

This is a nice thread. Happy stories and sad stories alike.

I lose things often when I go fishing: fly boxes, especially. Once, on the Green River in Wisconsin, in an area I call the Bermuda Triangle, I lost my glasses. I actually lost them while they were attached to my head, which is a hard thing to do. I managed to get home when another fisherman loaned me a pair of his prescription sunglasses, which enabled me to drive for three hours, as long as I kept one eye closed.

Once, when I was on the Ausable River in NY, on a wet and drizzly afternoon, I pulled up the sleeve of my raincoat to check the time, and my watch—a modest Victorinox that my wife Amy had given to me as a present when we first started dating in 1997--was not where it should have been on my wrist. I know it was there in the morning, as I always went out on the river with it. Then I remembered earlier in the day, I got caught in a strong current that pinched me from behind and caused me to spin around fast to keep my balance. Could it have come off then, I wondered? So I drove back to where I had been fishing, walked and waded a half mile to the spot, and 2 feet down among the Ausable's bowling ball rocks was a shiny object--the watch, which was still, to my surprise, still ticking.

Not an expensive loss but a couple years ago I left my solar GShock on the rear bumper to charge a bit while working out in the garage. Forgot about it and drove around town running errands. Never found it again. Promptly replaced with exact same model.

Better get blood type and tissue match while you are at it, spare kidneys don't grow on trees.

Yes, I was on vacation in the Bahamas staying at the Atlantis. They had to crazy slide that takes you under water or whatever and when I got up there the man said you have to take your watch off. So I begrudgingly took it off and put it my pocket. By the time I got down I knew it had flew out (duh what was i thinking would happen?) when I hit the water. I immediately told them and they were nice enough to stop anyone else from coming down for a few minutes but claimed they couldnt see anything.

Five years ago, I took two month trip through the jungles of northern Myanmar. The stoned (opium) driver of the canoe I'd hired ploughed it into a bank and a branch somehow got between my Batman and the nato strap it was on. I was convinced it had gone overboard, but the next day I dropped a knife into the oily water in the bottom and when I was fishing around to get it back found the watch and eventually both springbars.