Obsessive, Compulsive Wristwatch Rituals

YY77 · Feb 18, 2023

blubarb
For me. I will wear every newly purchased watch (used or new) for exactly 24 hours from and it must not come off the wrist for anything or anyone during that time 🤨.

Jones in LA
Brilliant!

Same with me, but with an added bonus ritual: when the watch first goes on my arm I register the time in my WatchTracker app. Since I have no idea how my watch's timekeeping will go...good, bad, COSC compliant, fast, slow, waiting that 24 hrs to register its timekeeping in WatchTracker is like waiting for Father Christmas to come to the house.

I can top this, I leave a new arrival overnight for the first 6 days in DU/DD/etc positions to determine which position overnight is best to balance the daytime gain/loss.

Jones in LA · Feb 18, 2023

YY77
I can top this, I leave a new arrival overnight for the first 6 days in DU/DD/etc positions to determine which position overnight is best to balance the daytime gain/loss.

Yes, your obsessiveness is top-shelf!

kohster · Feb 18, 2023

Wait a minute....(hah!).....I thought setting the time by rotating the hands counterclockwise removed any.....what's the term....lash? from the works. Like if you set the time by moving the hands forward, there may be a little bit of play in the gears such that the internal works all need to catch up and mesh together to actually start moving the hands again, so you end up with the minute hand actually being a little bit off. How does that balance against any bad luck brought about by moving the hands backwards to set the time?

Fatcat · Feb 18, 2023

I have a weird ritual when I buy watches specially from friends , when I wear it I send them a picture saying look at your EX is travelling 😀)))) , I am lucky 100% of the people laught all the time depending of the situation. For some watches 3 or 4 years sending emails and Whatapps and good friends or sellers 😀))

Pastorbottle · Feb 18, 2023

kohster
Wait a minute....(hah!).....I thought setting the time by rotating the hands counterclockwise removed any.....what's the term....lash? from the works. Like if you set the time by moving the hands forward, there may be a little bit of play in the gears such that the internal works all need to catch up and mesh together to actually start moving the hands again, so you end up with the minute hand actually being a little bit off. How does that balance against any bad luck brought about by moving the hands backwards to set the time?

So poor ol’ blubarb should only adjust backwards……… that should scramble shit a bit.

Well done that man! That’s a very well played bit of messing with his head! 😁

blubarb · Feb 19, 2023

kohster
Wait a minute....(hah!).....I thought setting the time by rotating the hands counterclockwise removed any.....what's the term....lash? from the works. Like if you set the time by moving the hands forward, there may be a little bit of play in the gears such that the internal works all need to catch up and mesh together to actually start moving the hands again, so you end up with the minute hand actually being a little bit off. How does that balance against any bad luck brought about by moving the hands backwards to set the time?

Nice, my friend, and it is encouraging to see that you are taking this matter as seriously as both dear PB and myself are. Interestingly, PB argues correctly with his intriguing priori that given my new superstitious ritual of not winding the hands anti-clockwise, that I/we can only move in a clockwise direction (being time forward) and in a westerly direction in both mechanical and conceptual space-time. So to his outstanding premise I am forced to agree that only westwards/clockwise movement is possible for a lucky existence. Time and luck move forwards. However, Koshter, you do present a philosophical and mechanical incongruence for us serious ritualisers to consider. The backlash. I believe Newtonian and Einsteinian physics may support both positions no matter how cognitively dissonant the reality is (though Quantum Physicists may not agree). So, as we all have some loose agreement with my/our sound position of a westwards-clockwise movement of the hands to avoid bad luck, I would otherwise propose a thought experiment; however, the bus is arriving for our day's outing and with some luck a bit of backlash to take up the slack 😁😁

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Perhaps some sense to it:

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Eventually that's gotta be bad luck no matter how you wind up thinking about it 😀😁

Ps. For those who have yet to read the book or view Milos Forman's cinematic interpretation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, do yourself a favour and watch on Netflix as they have just added it - in Australia at least.

Obsessive, Compulsive Wristwatch Rituals

YY77

Jones in LA

kohster

Fatcat

Pastorbottle

blubarb

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