Anything in the realm of watch collecting consistently piss you off or cause you to shake your head? Mine is when you post an email inquiry to either dealers who ostensibly are in the business of selling watches or parts, or watch service concerns (watchmaking, dial, hand, or bracelet restoration), who don't have the courtesy to even respond that something is NLA, they are not taking new business, are backed up for six-months, etc. What's particularly galling and amusing is if they are consistently posting on the forum around the same time you sent them mail, so you know their wives haven't offed them, they haven't tumbled down the stars in the abandoned house they were exploring, or the guy in the hockey mask hasn't eviscerated them. What's yours?
For sale listings without a case back photo. Either it's in poor condition and the seller is a jerk for not revealing the damage, or it was somehow overlooked by a seller who is slightly less of a jerk.
People who ask a question and openly state they are too lazy to search for the answer themselves, so they want you to do the work for them.
People who ask for information about the condition of a watch, and are told that it is re-dialed and frankened, and then (1) get angry and refuse to believe it, or (2) say "Thanks, so how much do you think it's worth?"
"For condition, please just look at the pictures." [Although I appear to be a professional dealer and would welcome your money...] "I don't have the right tool to remove the back right now." "I know/care almost nothing about this watch, so here instead is a history of the company I found somewhere."
People who talk down to or condescend new comers who clearly came to a forum because they recently caught the bug and need guidance navigating the waters.
Which ties into my absolute biggest pet peeve- trying to market a problem as a positive- the fucking “spider dial” isn’t a thing- Rolex admitted it was failure of materials. It’s not a feature- it’s a flaw!!
That, my friend, is a very slippery slope. After all, the most desirable patina is, in that sense, also a "flaw", resulting from finishing lacquers or luminous materials that deteriorated and changed colors over time.
I once bought a bracelet on eBay where the seller pushed all of the links together in his picture to make it look tight. It was really "stretched"/loose and I made him take it back and give me a refund.
The persnicketiness surrounding the world calatrava. Yeah, we get it, it’s incorrect unless you’re referring to a Patek model. You know what’s more annoying than using it incorrectly? Constantly reminding people that they’re using it incorrectly.