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What's The Longest Time You've Misplaced a Watch?
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arturo7
·Maybe 5 years? I had no idea what happened to it. It was just gone. Then one day, I got a new golf bag and began transferring all the stuff from the old bag to the new. There it was, nested in with some tees and old stinky golf gloves.
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FREDMAYCOIN
·Look what I just found in a poster tube. Finding a lost watch is the best feeling. Missing for 3+ months.
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Larry S
··Color Commentator for the Hyperbole.No so much watches but I have three MB pens that during my global travel days, took turns going missing, often for a year or more, me thinking, “well its gone”, forgetting about it, then voila!
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140dave
·No lost watch but I did just recover a Jackie Robinson autograph this weekend that I misplaced 10+ years ago. I had pretty much convinced myself I must have sold it at some point and forgot.... I found it in a box labeled "old kitchen stuff/junk" in my basement 
Guess my wife was right, I really need to clean the basement more often.... lol
Guess my wife was right, I really need to clean the basement more often.... lol
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Canuck
·Jackie Robinson spoke at my high school assembly in the late 1950s. Later, there was a meet and greet outside the principal’s office. I got his autograph. I wasn’t into baseball, but a friend had a Robin Roberts game worn ball cap, so I thought he might appreciate the autograph, so I gave it to him! Fast forward. Our son is a Seattle Mariners fan. I told him about having given Robinson’s autograph away, all those years ago. Bitter, bitter disappointment!
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JayBe
·I don't know if I can call it "misplaced", but I while cleaning out my parents attic last year, I found my brother's old watch. I thought it was lost, but there it was at the bottom of a box with miscellaneous stuff (mostly books). It must have been almost 30 years since I have last seen it.
Of course, there was a battery in it and the movement is pretty much toast, but I would love to revive it for obvious reasons.
I think its a Puma branded Citizen diver, but I am not sure. My most romantic plan would involve sourcing a fitting automatic movement (Citizen or Seiko) and try to make it work, but I have no idea if the dial, hands, etc can fit and if the case/lid allows for such an endeavor. So it's been sitting in my drawer since, waiting for my enlightenment.
Of course, there was a battery in it and the movement is pretty much toast, but I would love to revive it for obvious reasons.
I think its a Puma branded Citizen diver, but I am not sure. My most romantic plan would involve sourcing a fitting automatic movement (Citizen or Seiko) and try to make it work, but I have no idea if the dial, hands, etc can fit and if the case/lid allows for such an endeavor. So it's been sitting in my drawer since, waiting for my enlightenment.
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Canuck
·As I see it, your only hope would be to try to pin down the identification of the subject watch using the numbers at the bottom of the dial below the 6, to try to pick up a donor watch with (hopefully) a useable movement. Forget trying to fit a mechanical, self-wind movement to the case. An auto wind movement would be about twice as thick, so no room in the case.
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Dsloan
·I've been looking for a box of cheap vintage watches I bought from from a fellow forum member... Going on 5 weeks now. Wife go overzealous with decluttering, I think.
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JayBe
·As I see it, your only hope would be to try to pin down the identification of the subject watch using the numbers at the bottom of the dial below the 6, to try to pick up a donor watch with (hopefully) a useable movement. Forget trying to fit a mechanical, self-wind movement to the case. An auto wind movement would be about twice as thick, so no room in the case.
Yeah, I thought so as well. That is why I called it a "romantic" idea, instead of plan. But thank you for confirming that doubt, now I have a more clear path. 😀
There is a number in the movement that is hard to make out due to the acid damage. It's W471 JEPIC CORP, but it does't lead me anywhere. Same with the number on the dial (W4703226-052). 🙁
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OneTwo
·And this was what a CK2998 went for in the early days:
https://omegaforums.net/threads/fs-omega-2998-6-good-cond-working-perf.1225/
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gbesq
·Does international shipping during Covid count? If so, the answer is a very, very long time. 🫨
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Walrus
·Still counting, my wife hid my watch boxes a year and a half or two years ago from the thieves, I retrieved everything but a three watch holder which is still MIA. For all know the thieves got it.
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STANDY
··schizophrenic pizza orderer and watch collectorBack in the day it was 3 or 4 watches coming in a week for most watch seasons.
Had 3 parcels of watches in on the table after being away for a few days with work. Opened all three and was keen on two and other sat on the table to be put away with the cloth placemats for several years in a draw. Was like getting a free watch
Bought a Seiko diver in 2010 for a work trip to Panama. Didn’t end up taking it and went in a cupboard whilst I was away for 6 weeks (under the placemat draw)
Found brand new in box in 2016-17
Had 3 parcels of watches in on the table after being away for a few days with work. Opened all three and was keen on two and other sat on the table to be put away with the cloth placemats for several years in a draw. Was like getting a free watch
Bought a Seiko diver in 2010 for a work trip to Panama. Didn’t end up taking it and went in a cupboard whilst I was away for 6 weeks (under the placemat draw)
Found brand new in box in 2016-17
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Togri v. 2.0
··Wow! Custom title... coolThe bracelet clasp on my 1970s Casio also broke and I lost the watch.
As it happened on the only occasion that I was in a trapeze harness and the racing dinghy had capsized in the English Channel, I didn’t worry to much but I can still picture it floating off my wrist (we were both under water) and I was concentrating on getting under the buoyed hull (I’d seen 'The Poseidon Adventure') where I was able to unclip the entangled harness.
I never went back for the watch, or near a racing dingy again 😀
Sounds very dramatic. But The Poseidon Adventure is a great movie, one of my favourites when I was a kid. Only I was pretty sad when Leslie Nielsen died on the bridge when the wave hit 🙁
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Jantar
·Thought I’d misplaced a Waltham once until I saw it on the wrist of a friend a few years later and recalled I gave it to him because the watch he had at the time broke.
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josiahg52
·Like someone else in this thread, I lost a watch right after high school as I was heading off to the Navy and haven't seen it since. It was a Timex "Rolex" day/date. I'd like to find it but it's a been too many decades now so not likely.
I also misplaced a MB pen that I purchased when in the Navy. Used it for taking logs and such. After I left the service, I remember using it for a quite some time and then all of a sudden it was gone. Took about ten years but I found it in the inside pocket of a jacket I obviously hadn't worn in a long time. Nice jacket, too.
I also misplaced a MB pen that I purchased when in the Navy. Used it for taking logs and such. After I left the service, I remember using it for a quite some time and then all of a sudden it was gone. Took about ten years but I found it in the inside pocket of a jacket I obviously hadn't worn in a long time. Nice jacket, too.
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Darlinboy
··Pratts! Will I B******S!!!My little sister was sitting on my couch trying to watch something and looking for the remote down the side of the cushion, she found a 16610 submariner in a plastic zip lock bag, pulled it out and goes “is this… a Rolex?”. I didn’t remember ever owning a 16610 but eventually figured out I’d taken it on trade for a Speedmaster 321 several years earlier and fallen asleep on the couch after doing the deal and having some drinks.
This also answers the eternal question....
How do you know when you have too many watches?
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JGreenman
·Not (yet) lost a watch, but regularly forget that I have these "side collections" of Swatches and Soviet watches that I don't think about so often. I really should streamline the collection. But it's so nice to have a Raketa Komandirskie and Copernicus. And those others.. damn.
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JayBe
·Not (yet) lost a watch, but regularly forget that I have these "side collections" of Swatches and Soviet watches that I don't think about so often. I really should streamline the collection. But it's so nice to have a Raketa Komandirskie and Copernicus. And those others.. damn.
