What is a WIS?

[Nicko]

I know I am one, but what does the acronym mean? I feel stupid for even asking this question....

[R1@160@alltimes]

watch idiot savant

[Pep04]

Originally Posted by R1@160@alltimes

watch idiot savant

Thats not what it means.....

It's a response to your wife: What? I'm not Stupid!!!! (after buying your third Rolex in the same year)

[kyle L]

Originally Posted by Pep04

Thats not what it means.....

It's a response to your wife: What? I'm not Stupid!!!! (after buying your third Rolex in the same year)

:rof l:

[1000ftSub]

Originally Posted by Pep04

Thats not what it means.....

It's a response to your wife: What? I'm not Stupid!!!! (after buying your third Rolex in the same year)

[Nicko]

Originally Posted by R1@160@alltimes

watch idiot savant

Thanks, this was the only straight answer

The rest of you are clueless just as I am but are afraid to ask

Now, back to watches...BTW, I found this and decided to repost...


You might be a WIS....

...if you find yourself looking at your watch 6 or 7 times in a row and still don't know what time it is.

...if you read a poster on "Back pain" as "Blancpain"

...if you spend more time switching straps than wearing the watch.

...if you own more watches than hours in a day.

...if when you look in a mirror, you look at your watch before you look at your face.

...if you get to the end of your driveway, then go back in the house to change watches.

...if you inconspicuously pull your sleeve up to reveal your watch when meeting someone new.

...if even at K-Mart, you check out the watches.

...if you rationalize your latest watch purchase with astrology.

...if you spell relief R.O.L.E.X.

...if you use your chronograph for...

- timing a raindrop running down your window.

- timing the walk to the corner store.

- timing how long it takes for your dog to "come" from across the park. Then trying to work that out in miles per hour.

- timing a 15 minute nap.

...if your watch cost more than your car.

...if you look at your watch ten times before you see what time it is.

...if a beautiful woman walks into the room, and you look at her companion's watch.

...if people in the office are afraid to ask you the time, because it will take you ten minutes to finish telling them.

...if you spend longer winding your watches than brushing your teeth each morning.

...if you are reading this post and feeling guilty.

...if you check TimeZone before your e-mail at work each morning.

...if a key purchase decision is how to hide it from your wife.

...if know the meaning of 7750, 5100, 8926, 3706, 2893, 5513, 992, etc.

...if you have a separate watch for each day of the week, and another one for evenings.

...if the only German you can pronounce correctly is "A. Langay unt Zohnay".

...if your wife gives you grief for strapping your automatics to the grandson's legs because you can't afford an automatic winder.

...if the jewelry rider on your homeowner's insurance costs more than the policy on the house.

...if you know what time advertising directors set watches to before photographing them for an add - and why.

...if you remember when a Heuer chronograph cost $79.95 from an add in the back of Road & Track (and still kick yourself for not buying one then).

...if you go in a watch store to browse and end up teaching the salespeople how to set and operate all the chronographs.

...if every watch and clock in your house is always within 5 seconds of WWV.

...if you know all the Swiss Cantons but not the capital of USA.

...if your pets have names like El Primero, Valjoux, and Lemania..

...if your children are named Patti & Phillipe.

...if you think the Magna Carta was signed at a quarter past twelve, and not 1215AD.

...if you believe that Charles I was beheaded at 4:49 in the afternoon.

...if you think that World War II ended at a quarter to eight in the evening.

...if you remove your JLC Master in a pub, puts it face down on a (new) beer mat, and shows off the Master Control seal on the back.

[snowbird]

Just like a lot of the watch terminology that we all love to discuss, it's not a widely understood term . . . I would tend to say that anyone who knows what a WIS is, it's because they are themselves a WIS . . .

[BASSETHOUNDS]

Originally Posted by Nicko

Thanks, this was the only straight answer

The rest of you are clueless just as I am but are afraid to ask

Now, back to watches...BTW, I found this and decided to repost...


You might be a WIS....

...if you find yourself looking at your watch 6 or 7 times in a row and still don't know what time it is.

...if you read a poster on "Back pain" as "Blancpain"

...if you spend more time switching straps than wearing the watch.

...if you own more watches than hours in a day.

...if when you look in a mirror, you look at your watch before you look at your face.

...if you get to the end of your driveway, then go back in the house to change watches.

...if you inconspicuously pull your sleeve up to reveal your watch when meeting someone new.

...if even at K-Mart, you check out the watches.

...if you rationalize your latest watch purchase with astrology.

...if you spell relief R.O.L.E.X.

...if you use your chronograph for...

- timing a raindrop running down your window.

- timing the walk to the corner store.

- timing how long it takes for your dog to "come" from across the park. Then trying to work that out in miles per hour.

- timing a 15 minute nap.

...if your watch cost more than your car.

...if you look at your watch ten times before you see what time it is.

...if a beautiful woman walks into the room, and you look at her companion's watch.

...if people in the office are afraid to ask you the time, because it will take you ten minutes to finish telling them.

...if you spend longer winding your watches than brushing your teeth each morning.

...if you are reading this post and feeling guilty.

...if you check TimeZone before your e-mail at work each morning.

...if a key purchase decision is how to hide it from your wife.

...if know the meaning of 7750, 5100, 8926, 3706, 2893, 5513, 992, etc.

...if you have a separate watch for each day of the week, and another one for evenings.

...if the only German you can pronounce correctly is "A. Langay unt Zohnay".

...if your wife gives you grief for strapping your automatics to the grandson's legs because you can't afford an automatic winder.

...if the jewelry rider on your homeowner's insurance costs more than the policy on the house.

...if you know what time advertising directors set watches to before photographing them for an add - and why.

...if you remember when a Heuer chronograph cost $79.95 from an add in the back of Road & Track (and still kick yourself for not buying one then).

...if you go in a watch store to browse and end up teaching the salespeople how to set and operate all the chronographs.

...if every watch and clock in your house is always within 5 seconds of WWV.

...if you know all the Swiss Cantons but not the capital of USA.

...if your pets have names like El Primero, Valjoux, and Lemania..

...if your children are named Patti & Phillipe.

...if you think the Magna Carta was signed at a quarter past twelve, and not 1215AD.

...if you believe that Charles I was beheaded at 4:49 in the afternoon.

...if you think that World War II ended at a quarter to eight in the evening.

...if you remove your JLC Master in a pub, puts it face down on a (new) beer mat, and shows off the Master Control seal on the back.

Scary ... reading this is like staring in a mirror or listing to some of my wife's remarks ..

[s.justinlee]

what time do advertisement directors set the watch to ? and why?

[Speed]

Man...I think I was a member for at least three months before I figured out / googled WIS!!!

[TheVTCGuy]

Originally Posted by Speed

Man...I think I was a member for at least three months before I figured out / googled WIS!!!

Don't feel bad Bill... I think I was for 6 months before I found out what it was!

[TheVTCGuy]

Great list Steve! Let's see how many apply to me....

That one... and.. this. . and this one.. and definitely... and... uh... yeah.. and... hmmm.. one more... and... the next... and... wow... uh.... this.... and.....


OK, I need professional help...

[Speed]

Oh no!!!! I resemble that list!

[padi56]

WIS = Watch Idiot Savant.



1.A person self trained to sleep in 5 positions while wearing his/her COSC certified chronometer in bed.

2.A person who opens the back of a new Patek on the first day of acquisition and hand winds the rotor to tighten up the main spring.

3. A person who takes his 2000 meter water proof Rolex SD off from the wrist. And puts it into the deepest pocket,and three plastic bags before walking into a rain storm without any rain gear on.

4.A person who waits every 5 minute in front of his radio controlled clock in order to adjust all his/her 14 mechanical watches to the accuracy within -2/+2 seconds per 24 hours.


5. A person who can memorises all serial numbers of the Rolex watches made in the past 60 years but keeps forgetting the wifes wedding anniversary.

6. A person who washes his/her watch in luxury shampoo,polishes with specially bought cloth.Then rests it on another specially bought cloth just encase they scratch the stainless steel.

And reading the many many posts on TRF we sure now have quite a few above.

[R1@160@alltimes]

Great lists

[JJ Irani]

Watch It Stupid!!

[Sonny Crockett]

Watch Is Singing to me

[Idle Swede]

.

I'm not a WIS but a RIS.

and if you don't believe me I can prove it.

[SDDS]

great job Steve

[JBat]

at some of these posts!

[Safetrends]

We are full of today!

[gone-rolex-mad]

Originally Posted by Nicko

I know I am one, but what does the acronym mean? I feel stupid for even asking this question....

Glad you asked I had no idea

[Safetrends]

Originally Posted by Nicko

I know I am one, but what does the acronym mean? I feel stupid for even asking this question....

Not a stupid question you needed a answer and you got one. Thanks for asking.


Stupid is as stupid does, that is what moma says.

[Rob_b]

I think a savant is someone with a mental problem, like the movie Rain Man, perfect with numbers, but totally sucks at everything else. A savant doesn't connect with the world like everybody else, you can have a maths savant, music savant etc..... It is all their lives focus on, ask them anyother question or task, and it would be difficult. I wonder if a real, medically documented watch savant actually exists out there

[TheVTCGuy]

You know, it's funny, I looked up "WIS" in the Dictonary and this was the definition...

[Safetrends]

Wait just a single moment I know I saw it here somewhere.......

[Dr. Robert]

W.I.S.
Wife is screaming....................

[Safetrends]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

W.I.S.
Wife is screaming....................

[Armand]

Originally Posted by Dr. Robert

W.I.S.
Wife is screaming....................

Hahaha!

How true!

H

[Safetrends]

Originally Posted by Armand

Hahaha!

How true!

H

You just had to re-start this thread.