What's the worst your Rolex has been through and didnt sustain any damage?

[thenewrick]

AD says, “this watch has 100 meters of water resistance”

But how many meters of feces resistance?

[EEpro]

Originally Posted by thenewrick

AD says, “this watch has 100 meters of water resistance”

But how many meters of feces resistance?

[Macnavara]

Originally Posted by Vitola

What's the worst your Rolex has been through and didn't sustain any damage?

A couple of days ago I went golfing with my friend and he drove the cart. I had my Air-King in a Rolex service pouch inside of the velour valuables pocket in my bag and my friend proceeded to monster truck over bumps, off of curbs, over cracks and ruts in the cart paths, etc. Extremely jarring! I didn't even think about my Rolex until we got back to the car after the round and i was going to put it back on. Then I got worried! But, nothing seems to have happened to it, I guess. It's keeping time and ticking absolutely fine. As a matter of fact, I feel like it's actually keeping better time now, lol. Before this, it was fast by about 4 seconds a day. Now over the past two days it's only ahead by about 2.5 to 3 seconds.

Interested to hear your guys stories!

A RSC service.....came out the other side unscathed unlike some of the horror stories I’ve read about

[Andad]

Originally Posted by HONDABBQ

Divorce.

= winner.

As far as I go even proximity to water is out of the question.

[doramas]

Use it every day without taking it off no matter what I'm doing

[Yess]

These threads.

Seriously, some of you have unhealthy relationships with your watch.

Must be awful to live in fear about something happening to an inanimate object.

[Andad]

Shirley you can lighten up?

[fmc000]

Smashed against the wall playing squash. My left arm was hurt, the watch didn't even notice it.

[adawil2002]

<-----My 16550 & I have been through everything together for 34 years. Has a chip in the crystal from hitting a rock once when I fell rock hopping across a creek some 30 years ago. Still my first & favorite Rolex.

[Speedbird-1]

I swore, repeatedly and, VERY LOUDLY at the news on TV coming out of America the other day.
I was wearing my GMT.
It's still ticking......shockproof, apparently.

[chris242]

My runabout got struck by lightning a couple months ago, with me in it. Fried the antenna, all electronics including my cellphone which was in a waterproof box. Quite the experience to say the least.
However the 216570 Polar I was wearing at the time never missed a beat and is still running perfectly.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[chris242]

Originally Posted by thenewrick

Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

[bungle]

Originally Posted by Baco Noir

Too many sugar free sweets?

[fskywalker]

Originally Posted by Theothergreg

I used my Macbook Pro the other day and I didn't get a scratch on the clasp of my new Submariner.

That saved me from having to start a thread about the anguish of getting a scratch and asking if I should replace it or send it in for repair.

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by chris242

My runabout got struck by lightning a couple months ago, with me in it. Fried the antenna, all electronics including my cellphone which was in a waterproof box. Quite the experience to say the least.
However the 216570 Polar I was wearing at the time never missed a beat and is still running perfectly.


Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Thank your lucky star, Michael Faraday, invented his cage.

[Justingtr]

Originally Posted by BlakeA

I’m surprised some people on this forum can even manage a bowel movement considering the level of retention exhibited here. ��

Just make sure to take off your watch first you wouldn't wanna damage it on the porcelain

Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk

[gleiden]

I sat through Star Wars Rise Of Skywalker and my Hulk was fine at the end of it.

[Screwly]

Originally Posted by bungle

Too many sugar free sweets?

Ha!

[jamesbondOO7]

Fallen off a horse (or usually with the horse) several times.

[Polarexplorerii]

Originally Posted by Theothergreg

I used my Macbook Pro the other day and I didn't get a scratch on the clasp of my new Submariner.

That saved me from having to start a thread about the anguish of getting a scratch and asking if I should replace it or send it in for repair.

[Smobews]

Originally Posted by Yess

These threads.

Seriously, some of you have unhealthy relationships with your watch.

Must be awful to live in fear about something happening to an inanimate object.

Why exactly do you follow Rolex Forums? What do you get out of it? Judging by your post count, you seem to have a lot to say in the last 11 months.

[Yess]

Originally Posted by Smobews

Why exactly do you follow Rolex Forums? What do you get out of it? Judging by your post count, you seem to have a lot to say in the last 11 months.

Nah mostly just saying "nice" or "congrats" on incomings... Like you and your 220+ plus in two months

[JSolution]

Got into a couple of fights over the years....

Wouldn’t recommend a Rolex as a go-to watch for a fist fight, the crown really digs into your hand, actually have a small scar there

[bp1000]

Originally Posted by Baco Noir

Did you try out the pulp fiction thing ?

[MrGoat]

Originally Posted by JSolution

Got into a couple of fights over the years....

Wouldn’t recommend a Rolex as a go-to watch for a fist fight, the crown really digs into your hand, actually have a small scar there

My right usually gets the point across so haven’t used the left in 12 yrs or so. Back then I wore heavy bulky invicta’s and don’t recall any discomfort. Problem is now my hand swells up so bad I can barely move my fingers and I don’t recover like I did in my early to mid 20’s so now I only fight when I absolutely have to. Kinda sucks to have a feisty old lady sometimes.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[mmmmp]

Originally Posted by BlakeA

I’m surprised some people on this forum can even manage a bowel movement considering the level of retention exhibited here. ��

Ha, ha! Sadly, quite true for some, but your prose is hilarious.

Sent from my SM-A520W using Tapatalk

[SunTzu]

Multiple nights out after work in Manhattan not going home waking up on an apartment floor wondering how I got there but my grandfather’s 1967 5513 was still on my wrist Surprised one of the dancers at Scores never tried to slip it off

I’m long retired from that activity and the Rolex doesn’t get much action.


Sent from Crapatalk

[mmmmp]

Back in the1980's the Entertainment Industry was still deluged with dope like coke, so don't believe the stories of post-Belishi's death, "Hollywood Cleaned up it's Act." Coke was the culture: try working 16 hr. days 20 days consecutively and chemical help is not merely helpful, it's essential.

For me, I haven't touched the 'devil's dandruff' in decades, but I was no choir boy back then and both my brother and I worked in the biz. The incident I relate below is why "Dope is for Dopes." (But, to be honest: it can be a lot of fun too!)

So in the late eighties I headed over to my brother Adam's pad to get high, have a couple of drinks and watch Seinfeld. We started a conversation about Lost in Space which had a sequence in which a Monkey boy was being hypnotised by a watch on a chain. The boy snatches the watch and keeps it! (Ya' gotta see it to get the joke.) We start talking watches and Adam asks to see my AK up close. I slip it off and carefully try to hand it to him.....and.....He attempts to 'snatch' from my hand a la Lost in Space!

Instead of holding on to it, he grabbed it loosely and it sailed, no kidding, about 15 feet away, hit a hardwood floor and (I guess?) slid another few feet into to the baseboard. I was mortified! Mr brother Adam (the new Monkey Boy!) was silent.
I treasured that watch and took very good care of it...and (the new) Monkey Boy knew it!

So, I walked over to pick it up, barely had the balls to look at it but I did. The was a paint scratch on the crystal and the watch had stopped. I hacked it and decided I'd deal with it the next day. With a fresh set of eyes, things looked okay. I polished the glass and removed all the paint. I gently pushed in the winding crown and gingerly felt all positions. Nothing bent or sticky/scratchy/gritty. I gave it several winds and on about the tenth turn it started running. But, time would tell.
It ran another 8 years or so and was functioning when I sold it.

A golf cart ride is nothing to concern yourself with. As you say, it needed some 'breakin' in'! Seriously, all the best.














Sent from my SM-A520W using Tapatalk

[Speedbird-1]

Nice story.



Ps. It's called 'Fratricide'!

[jimcameron]

Originally Posted by BlakeA

I’m surprised some people on this forum can even manage a bowel movement considering the level of retention exhibited here. ��