Memory of Scratches - Really?

[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.

[stark1]

Originally Posted by Guppydriver

My Pelagos LHD!

Like most, my rule of thumb is to avoid taking a shit at a public restroom as much as possible.

However, I was in the San Francisco airport last year after having arrived from...you guessed it....Mexico. I needed an immediate option.

Anyways, after having just paid for the sins of every white European that exploited the Americas it was time to clean up.

The TP dispenser was this metal contraption that resembled a mediaeval torture device. The first pass was uneventful, but I lacked the foresight to leave enough ply for round two. In a scene reminiscent of Roman Holiday, I had to reach under and in to search for a remnant of what can only be described as translucent tracing paper.

What I didn't see was that there was a piece of metal that was bent inwards and as my hand vacated the underside of the dispenser it caught my Pelagos and put a deep scratch on the side of the titanium case. It's a vertical scratch that goes from the bezel to the caseback.

I honestly don't think I could have inflicted a more significant scratch had I intentionally tried. The good news is that I did get my BLNR call just a short week later. Getting a huge scratch was bad enough, but to have to be constantly reminded of "meat sweat day" every time I see it just adds salt to an already bitter wound.

Pure poetry to me. Well written indeed, and I know exactly where you're coming from. Very similar story to me when returning from Peru a few years back.

[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