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Signs you’re still new(ish) to watches

Felix_La_PuBelle
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After reinstalling a bracelet.
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Davidt
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I’ve been collecting watches almost 15 years and I left the flip lock on the wrong side of the clasp a month or so ago!

I also wore a watch to work not too long ago and it was lunchtime before I realised the two half’s of the strap I’d put on didn’t match!
 
Canuck
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Ran into a guy recently, who asked me to “fix” his broken Seiko automatic. The calendar wasn’t changing! I won’t ask if you can guess what his problem was.
 
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Ran into a guy recently, who asked me to “fix” his broken Seiko automatic. The calendar wasn’t changing! I won’t ask if you can guess what his problem was.
Was changing while he ate lunch?
 
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Earlier this year I bought my first GMT and I took it back to the dealer complaining that it wasn't working correctly. The GMT hand wasn't keeping up with the hour hand. They had to politely and gently explain to me that the GMT hand rotated on a 24hr basis not 12hr. I was under the impression that if I set the GMT hand to a certain time zone it would move respective to and equally with the hour hand. I own some pretty nice watches and I've been collecting off and on since the '80s but I'd never owned a GMT. They were cool about it but I was pretty embarrassed.
 
Felix_La_PuBelle
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Earlier this year I bought my first GMT and I took it back to the dealer complaining that it wasn't working correctly. The GMT hand wasn't keeping up with the hour hand. They had to politely and gently explain to me that the GMT hand rotated on a 24hr basis not 12hr. I was under the impression that if I set the GMT hand to a certain time zone it would move respective to and equally with the hour hand. I own some pretty nice watches and I've been collecting off and on since the '80s but I'd never owned a GMT. They were cool about it but I was pretty embarrassed.

Whenever I want a GMT hand set to the same time as the hour hand it always takes me a minute to figure it out when each hand is pointing at a different number.
 
Felix_La_PuBelle
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Davidt Davidt
I also wore a watch to work not too long ago and it was lunchtime before I realised the two half’s of the strap I’d put on didn’t match!

For a second I pictured two buckle ends on both sides of the watch then realized you wouldn’t have made it far putting the watch on.
 
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two half’s of the strap I’d put on didn’t match!
2 different socks I can imagine, don't tell me your strap drawer looks like this::stirthepot:::
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YY77 YY77
2 different socks I can imagine, don't tell me your strap drawer looks like this::stirthepot:::
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Apart from the colours of your socks, that looks exactly like my watch drawer 😯
 
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Was changing while he ate lunch?
Does the answer have anything to do with time travel? Parallel universes? Butterfly effect?
 
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elephantcage elephantcage
Does the answer have anything to do with time travel? Parallel universes? Butterfly effect?
@JimInOz 's supposition is that the guy's watch was set twelve hours off, so the date was changing at noon instead of midnight.
 
SpeedyPhill
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You enter an Omega boutique thinking the people there know about the Apollo missions, the 105.003-63 or at least which "Moonwalkers" are still alive... 😳
 
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@JimInOz 's supposition is that the guy's watch was set twelve hours off, so the date was changing at noon instead of midnight.
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Reminds me of the thread years ago where the newbie stayed up to midnight each night (and getting run down) because he’s watch wasn’t changing on exactly midnight.
 
asrnj77
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Finding “projects” and thinking “this will just take a bit of TLC and will become a steal” ::facepalm1::
 
Spruce
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Does my watch look too small on my wrist?

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Yes, absolutely but not to worry - I have skinny wrists and will be happy to wear it on your behalf 👌
 
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