My girlfriend took my speedmaster!

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Aussie Jim

·Feb 17, 2021

RI Omega Fan

Please tell me that’s your wrist...

I was thinking the same, but way too discrete to mention.....

 

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Dan S

·Feb 17, 2021

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Would gladly take that gilt one of your (her) hands 😜

Not likely that I could get permission to sell that one. 😁

Interestingly, that 2639 was actually one of the first vintage watches I ever bought, many years ago. I found it on eBay, totally naive, and just got lucky. When I look back at photos of the watches I bought in those days, almost all the others were crap, and they are long gone.

 

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Foo2rama

·Feb 17, 2021·Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...

bgrisso

My GF grabbed this a few mins after it turned up in the mail. Granted, with the vintage fostner band it showed up on, it's a nice fit for a lady.....

I’ll date you if I get that piece!! 😉

 

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Foo2rama

·Feb 17, 2021·Nowhere near as grumpy as he used to be...

FooGirl refuses to let me sell my Speedy date that I personally am not a fan of.

She wears a watch as a lefty...

 

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eugeneandresson

·Feb 17, 2021

Foo2rama

FooGirl refuses to let me sell my Speedy date that I personally am not a fan of.

Say the magic words ‘It makes you look fat’...

 

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Archer

·Feb 17, 2021·Omega Qualified Watchmaker

eugeneandresson

Say the magic words ‘It makes you look fat’...

You forgot "and then duck!"...

 

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vlaspri

·Feb 18, 2021

Great thread OP!

I don't know how about you gentlemens, but all my efforts to make my wife wear one of my watches end up with her "Come on, you know me, I'm too clumsy to wear a vintage Swiss watch", so I bought her a plenty of girlish nato straps to match her favorite Seiko.

 

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SpaceCowboy

·Feb 18, 2021

I let my girlfriend borrow my 166.062 with no return date. One of the watches I was too quick to pull the trigger on, you can probably see what the problem is with this one. 🤔 When we go out, she prefers the Memovox. That one definitely has a return date, approximately 10 minutes after we get home. 😀

 

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ghce

·Feb 18, 2021

So in the interests of risk minimisation I suppose as a watch collector I should remain monogamous if I wish to retain my collection ( and other important bits too).

 

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Fritz

·Feb 18, 2021

She took my Bulova railroad watch, my Mustang, my virginity, a shirt or two, 37 years of my life and she has her eye on my 66 Honda.

i still think I got the better end of the deal.

 

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Shabbaz

·Feb 18, 2021

Fritz

She took my Bulova railroad watch, my Mustang, my virginity, a shirt or two, 37 years of my life and she has her eye on my 66 Honda.

i still think I got the better end of the deal.

Haha. Great story. Sound like you found the love of your life!

 

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Fritz

·Feb 18, 2021

Shabbaz

Haha. Great story. Sound like you found the love of your life!

Damn straight, I picked her up at the side of the road when her moped broke down, four years later we rode away from the church with her riding sidesaddle on the back of my 53 Triumph. She even had an extra veil made to fit over her crash helmet!...

 

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Fritz

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Shabbaz

·Feb 18, 2021

Fritz

Haha. Looks great!!

 

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Screwbacks

·Feb 19, 2021

sharing also a funny wifey watch story. when a close friend of mine celebrated his 50th birthday years back, we were having a dinner with his betterhalf. then i gifted him a nice oversize vintage birthyear seikomatic. his wife tried to wear it on and eventually said, my hubby and i were born the same year. end of story.😁😀

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