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.

[SLWoodster]

Agreed. But I also don't like the Rolex too shiny. Like it with some wear marks. I have thought about getting clasp stickers once or twice.

[csaltphoto]

My sub has a shit ton of scratches now but the two most prominent were inflicted the first day I wore it to work... So yeah, hard to forget those.

[StillTrying]

The big diagonal scratch is from a summit attempt of Mount Ritter. So sometime scratches are remembered.

[Ten Ten & 32]

The only lasting memory of this one is thinking ‘Oh! Sh*t’




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[Andad]

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"?

Yes, and they really annoy me.

The scratches that is……..

[thesharkfactor]

In 2004, a week after I got my 1st new Rolex (14060M) I was walking down Port St. in Stirling with a girlfriend, a steep hill and wet, I slipped and fell, landed on the clasp of my new watch leaving a rather large and nasty scuff.
Memories.

[George58]

snorkeling in a lake dived down to look at some rocks laying on the lake bed when I got right up to them a big catfish charged me protecting her eggs I moved my arms back to back up and smashed my watch on a rock I forgot was behind me left two big nicks to the lugs great funny memory grown man scared of a catfish lol