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··Home For Wayward WatchesDo you ever do stupid stuff to your watch?
Mad Dog once started a great thread about objects encountered in one's daily life that are dangerous to watches. Apparently I've become a dangerous object to watches.
I probably would be better off not to tell this on myself, or if I want to go through with telling I should join WUS or Rolex Forum and relate this tale there rather than to clutter this fine forum with such an embarrassing admission.
But, since I committed my thoughtlessness with an Omega watch I'll tell it here.
I slapped the livin' hooey out of my Speedmaster earlier today.
A friend and I were enjoying a late lunch this afternoon. Was a Cajun place where the crab cake appitizers are good enough to make you "slap your granny."
Drinks and crab cake appetizer had just been brought out when a pesky fly began stridently pestering both of us. He just would not leave us be!
We waived him off repeatedly as we munched down on the crab cakes. By the time the main dishes of Cajun yumminess were brought out I was heartily sick off dealing with the fly. Oh, and he was a wily bird too, evading our efforts, first to effectively shoo him away, then to swat him into oblivion with bare hands.
Finally, he lit on my Speedmaster. Right on the outside edge of the bezel at 6 o'clock. I got ready to make my move, muttering to my luncheon companion to watch and see if I was too old and slow to make the kill. I made my best effort to speedily swat and slapped my Speedmaster but good!
The instance I effected this move I immediately came to my senses ... just in time to mentally ask myself: "now why did I just do that?!"
The Speedmaster appears none the worse for sustaining a no-holds-barred slap event. It normally keeps time to within the same minute originally set for longer than a week, even ten days without becoming a minute off, either fast or slow. It trends toward slightly fast, but is within the "most pleasing accuracy" status here, hence receives consideration for long trip events when I might be away for a week or more.
It may be a little puzzled watch, being slapped like that when it was innocently minding its own business. Don't know if the watch's fine timekeeping is compromised. but the poor thing runs yet and appears to be gen'ning out normal accuracy some eight hours later.
Oh, and I missed the fly.
Mad Dog once started a great thread about objects encountered in one's daily life that are dangerous to watches. Apparently I've become a dangerous object to watches.
I probably would be better off not to tell this on myself, or if I want to go through with telling I should join WUS or Rolex Forum and relate this tale there rather than to clutter this fine forum with such an embarrassing admission.
But, since I committed my thoughtlessness with an Omega watch I'll tell it here.
I slapped the livin' hooey out of my Speedmaster earlier today.
A friend and I were enjoying a late lunch this afternoon. Was a Cajun place where the crab cake appitizers are good enough to make you "slap your granny."
Drinks and crab cake appetizer had just been brought out when a pesky fly began stridently pestering both of us. He just would not leave us be!
We waived him off repeatedly as we munched down on the crab cakes. By the time the main dishes of Cajun yumminess were brought out I was heartily sick off dealing with the fly. Oh, and he was a wily bird too, evading our efforts, first to effectively shoo him away, then to swat him into oblivion with bare hands.
Finally, he lit on my Speedmaster. Right on the outside edge of the bezel at 6 o'clock. I got ready to make my move, muttering to my luncheon companion to watch and see if I was too old and slow to make the kill. I made my best effort to speedily swat and slapped my Speedmaster but good!
The instance I effected this move I immediately came to my senses ... just in time to mentally ask myself: "now why did I just do that?!"
The Speedmaster appears none the worse for sustaining a no-holds-barred slap event. It normally keeps time to within the same minute originally set for longer than a week, even ten days without becoming a minute off, either fast or slow. It trends toward slightly fast, but is within the "most pleasing accuracy" status here, hence receives consideration for long trip events when I might be away for a week or more.
It may be a little puzzled watch, being slapped like that when it was innocently minding its own business. Don't know if the watch's fine timekeeping is compromised. but the poor thing runs yet and appears to be gen'ning out normal accuracy some eight hours later.
Oh, and I missed the fly.
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