Memory of Scratches - Really?

[Chester01]

Originally Posted by vesnyder

I've read multiple times on the site that members take pride in their screatches and wear and tear on their wacthes as "memories". How many of you really look at the scratches on your timepieces as memories - let alone even remember how and when they got any particular scratch. I have been wearing watches a long time and have gotten plenty of marks and scratches and cannot remember any of them. For 95%+ of my sracthes I just look down one day and there it is and I have no idea where it came from or how I got it. Is it just a figure of speech when forum members say that "look at the memories"?

No, sometimes I remember the scratch. I had two on my speedster when I owned one. One that the AD did changing my bracelet and the other at dinner with my kids. Its not each individual scratch, but the collective that I see when I look down at my 16610, now almost a quarter century on my wrist and that's the life I have lived over that span. It will never be polished. Perhaps when I hand it to my son and he can make his own. Who knows.