As mentioned in another bloody Speedmaster thread, I have a Speedy Pro that was given to me as a 21st birthday gift back in 2002... That I've worn a lot.

It got coated in drink when I worked in cocktail bars as a student, I've cracked a crystal falling off a slide, the clasp is a swirly patch of desks diver goodness, I briefly lost it in snow when learning to snowboard (along with my dignity) and it features the rare, and as yet undesirable DO82.5 (dent over 82.5) from where I clanked it into an alternator pulley on a 1985 Audi UR Quattro.



So it's had some use... But doesn't look any worse for it.

How about yours?

Share the evidence that you've worn those tool watches, rather than kept them in their boxes!

 

Mine slipped off my wrist getting ready for a shower, and the tiles installed a unique CO300 (Chip over 300).

Oh, did i mention this was within a week of getting it? Yeah. Great.

 

Hey you nicked my DO90 joke! They aren't free you know!

 

This place is like a Pommie boarding school @padders, The Lizard has 1758 more posts than you so he wins.

But don't be put off, just take it on the chin old chap.

Now go and make me some toast and Vegemite or you'll get a damned good thrashing.

(Another popular feature of British boarding schools).

 

It's free now. Life of it's own. I'm gonna teach it to all my friends.

 

I dropped mine from a breathtaking height (2 inches) onto a feather bed.

Came up smelling roses though, thank goodness. NDAA bezel on mine, pretty rare.

 

Whew!
Talk about luck!
What sort of roses was it smelling? (or do you want to throw an "of" in there).

 

Right away Sir! Sir, what is this thing you speak of called Vegemite? Is it some god awful cheap colonial version of Marmite? Don't make me be the toast rack again Sir.

I went to an English Midlands Grammar School which wasn't far off this.

 

South England Grammar School here... Is there a support group?

 

I fear this may be it!

 

One of these of course.

 

Home Counties Comp. you posh buggers.

 

Don't make me use my Latin GCSE against you, let us join, instead, in our love of Speedmasters.

 

Well my story is almost too painful to recount.

It wasn't a Speedie, and I wasn't wearing it, but I kick myself every time I remember it.

I can't bear to re-tell the unfortunate series of events, so you'll have to go here.

 

I'll go put some marmite on toast for youJim, it's the least I can do...

 

Don't get too smug and comfortable in your flannelette pajamas my little Pommie mates, as soon as we've finished with the American vegemite crowd we're coming after marmite!

 

Pajamas? I'd sooner be seen in an Invicta.

 

I just wear the shit out of this beater


And leave this on the table while above abuse goes on

 

That's why you're the brains of this operation Andy...

 

YOU BOY!!! Walk, don't run with that precious Swiss timepiece.

Here is a v poor pic of mine (obv not a Tin Tin) and its relations to lighten the mood during your detention:



No car related damage on mine as yet but I did lose a Oris Big Crown in a foam party once when I took it off and put it into my top pocket for safe keeping. Drink had been taken.