Let’s say a stranger damages your Rolex.

[WatchYoSelf]

Originally Posted by ROLEX MAN

Are you serious?

It's a watch!!

If someone treads on your shoes, would you ask for new ones?

If they were worth like $80k, maybe.


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[Peanut1pool]

So a guy walks into a bar..

[aleexxxxx]

Originally Posted by DRS Enabled

No escape from reality

Open your eyes

[indianmachine]

Rolexes are meant to take a beating. Unless the person takes your watch and throws it straight into the ground I think it would be fine from any unwanted grazing.

[Jack T]

Most thoughtful queries on here result in a flurry of nonsensical responses. When someone posts a nonsensical query, new depths are likely to be plumbed.

[arcadelt]

Originally Posted by WatchYoSelf

Totally. I’m laughing at how worked up they’re getting about a watch question lol

It's not just a watch question. What do you do if someone scuffs your $500 pair of shoes on the street or burns a hole in your $1000 dinner jacket with a cigar at a function or breaks a $120 plate at a dinner party at your home? The answer for most people is you suck it up in the hope that in a civilised society they suck it up if you accidentally do the same to them.

[WatchYoSelf]

Originally Posted by arcadelt

It's not just a watch question. What do you do if someone scuffs your $500 pair of shoes on the street or burns a hole in your dinner jacket with a cigar at a function or breaks a $120 plate at a dinner party at your home? The answer for most people is you suck it up in the hope that in a civilised society they suck it up if you accidentally do the same to them.

Nah, the value is way higher. Your logic is off. Try again.


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[inadeje]

Originally Posted by dpt.calvin

Wear long sleeves next time.

Please don’t get them started with a new idea “kevlar/carbon fiber Rolex watch over-sleeve protection”

I can half visualize the ads now….

[GradyPhilpott]

I think that if someone dropped a heavy piece of hard luggage on your watch and it shattered the crystal, I don't believe it would be untoward to calmly point out that their accident seriously damaged your $10,000 watch.

Maybe you'd find that one in a million airline passenger that has a sense of dignity, personal responsibility, and an insurance policy, who would exchange information with you, along with the name of their insurance company.

These days an airline who damages your luggage and contents is liable to just laugh in your face for being a rube and putting something of value in your luggage, which happened to me once.

So, finding a passenger in an age of people flying barefooted in their pajamas with a bad case of "bed head," it is very unlikely that you'd find one of the above and you'd be lucky to get more than a mumbled "eff you."

[DRS Enabled]

Rolex built watches for the US Navy SEALs but you're afraid of someone scratching your watch with their luggage on your Delta Comfort Plus flight

[WatchYoSelf]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

I think that if someone dropped a heavy piece of hard luggage on your watch and it shattered the crystal, I don't believe it would be untoward to calmly point out that their accident seriously damaged your $10,000 watch.

Maybe you'd find that one in a million airline passengers that has a sense of dignity, personal responsibility, and an insurance policy who would exchange information with you, along with the name of their insurance company.

These days an airline who damages your luggage and contents is liable to just laugh at you for being a rube and putting something of value in your luggage, which happened to me once.

So, finding a passenger in an age of people flying barefooted in their pajamas and a bad case of "bed head," it is very unlikely and you'd be lucky to get more than a mumbled "eff you."

Thanks for this thoughtful response. So many people on this thread have been extremely critical, but responses like these prove there’s interesting discussion to be had about this topic.


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[Mr. K]

Well.... Not to sound too logical. But legal liability....

Can you get past the first 2?

1 Duty owed
2 Duty breached

In any given situation, what was the duty owed? And did the person neglect to uphold that Duty? Most of these duties can be found in laws and statutes.

For example if the guy was riding his bike on the sidewalk and mowed you down, damaging your watch, he did not uphold his duty to ride in the street or watch for pedestrians. He broke that Duty and you could go after him.

You would have to have something that would show the other person was at fault, and because of that they damaged your watch.

For the record..
3 Proximate cause
4 Actual damages

But I'm sure someone with an actual law degree can chime in

[Aquaholic_user]

Originally Posted by aleexxxxx

Open your eyes

Look up to the skies and see

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[arcadelt]

Originally Posted by WatchYoSelf

Nah, the value is way higher. Your logic is off. Try again.

Value is not the prime issue, but coverage of your risk acceptance, and everything direct and peripheral that entails. If your risk aversion is so high (as yours appears to be by even conjecturing on the scenario) that the loss was too much for you to bear, you'd either avoid or mitigate against the risk, or insure against it. Most other people answering here know that the damage caused by a causal accident as you put forward does not result in total loss, but merely acceptance of a scar or the cost of a service (immediately or delayed until the next interval is reached) for maybe around the value of the pair of shoes I mentioned. If you can’t afford the service, then maybe you can’t afford the watch.

BTW, no one cares that you are using Tapatalk on an iPhone

[arcadelt]

Originally Posted by WatchYoSelf

Thanks for this thoughtful response.

Ha, ha…because they agreed with your particular value position.

[denmanproject]

Originally Posted by Aquaholic_user

Look up to the skies and see

Sent from my balloon knot

I’m just a poor boy

[joejet]

Originally Posted by denmanproject

I’m just a poor boy

I need no sympathy.

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by arcadelt

Value is not the prime issue, but coverage of your risk acceptance, and everything direct and peripheral that entails. If your risk aversion is so high (as yours appears to be by even conjecturing on the scenario) that the loss was too much for you to bear, you'd either avoid or mitigate against the risk, or insure against it. Most other people answering here know that the damage caused by a causal accident as you put forward does not result in total loss, but merely acceptance of a scar or the cost of a service (immediately or delayed until the next interval is reached) for maybe around the value of the pair of shoes I mentioned. If you can’t afford the service, then maybe you can’t afford the watch.

BTW, no one cares that you are using Tapatalk on an iPhone

Are you unaware that smartphones put what phone you are using in your messages and that not everyone knows how to find that switch that is buried under several menu layers in order to delete that ad, or even cares to?

[shaunylw]

I’ve had it happen. I had an explorer scratched by a ladies diamond ring when she was walking by. It was right on the crystal. It was one of those random left wrist to left hand collisions. Not much i could or would do, just bad luck.

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by WatchYoSelf

Thanks for this thoughtful response. So many people on this thread have been extremely critical, but responses like these prove there’s interesting discussion to be had about this topic.


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I'm disappointed in most of the responses here also.

There's little doubt in my mind that at least some of the people who scoff at your question would sue the offending party in a heartbeat.

[JC316]

Originally Posted by WatchYoSelf

People often move into YOUR vicinity in places like airplanes. It’s totally possible a passenger could drop their bag right on your lap while attempting to put it in the overhead. Happens all the time.


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Rolex has a reputation for making quality/ durable products. So I'd probably contact Rolex about QC issues and express my utter dissatisfaction with their product.

As everyone should if they scratch and or drop their watch and it no longer works like it did when they first purchased.

Or accidents happen and life goes on.

Question I'm more curious about is how often a watch is damaged due to another's negligence.

Way I see it, if the impact is great enough to damage the watch, it probably saved my wrist.



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[JC316]

Originally Posted by arcadelt

BTW, no one cares that you are using Tapatalk on an iPhone

Hey! What's wrong with Tapatalk!

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[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by JC316

Hey! What's wrong with Tapatalk!

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Not a damn thing. It's a great app.

[arcadelt]

Originally Posted by JC316

Hey! What's wrong with Tapatalk!

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Nothing, I use it myself…but I don’t tell everyone about it or the device I am using.

[TheHulk]

Dumbest question of the year so far

[arcadelt]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

Are you unaware that smartphones put what phone you are using in your messages and that not everyone knows how to find that switch that is buried under several menu layers in order to delete that ad, or even cares to?

No, I'm not unaware as I am using Tapatalk - you just don’t know that, because I took the trouble one time to dig into the untold depths of the settings to turn that off

[Sunny Arizona]

I wore mine in Iraq so….doubt USAA would have covered it.

Originally Posted by WatchYoSelf

How do you move forward? Do you ask to take a photo or their drivers license, as you would if they rear ended you in a car? Ask for their insurance? Take photos of the damage immediately following the incident? I kid, but I’m curious about the correct course of action.

This thought crossed my mind the other day when I was on a cramped plane and people were throwing around their luggage.


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[DRS Enabled]

Originally Posted by joejet

I need no sympathy.

Because I'm easy come, easy go

[Danny83]

With the way things are you can sell it and still make a 50% mark up Ha

[VogelPhoenix]

Originally Posted by WatchYoSelf

As mentioned in my original post, I was in a cramped plane in coach.

see, that's your mistake right there.