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TheHulk · 7 March 2023, 01:28 PM

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Originally Posted by watchvert

Imagine you had a watch 4-5 years ago and then you got bored of it somehow and then years later decide that you really miss it and want it back in your collection, but not any other watch, but that SPECIFIC one with the serial number you had.

Is there any way of finding out where that watch now is and, perhaps, making an offer to whoever owns it to purchase it from them?

That exact watch?? Is there a way to locate that exact watch? What a ridiculous question. Do u think there’s a computer chip inside the watch in which you can find its location? Watch is gone….

Oystersteel92 · 7 March 2023, 01:54 PM

Nearly impossible unless you go all private detective and trace it down, assuming you could get those involved to cooperate.

True story: When I was a kid, our next door neighbor had a '64 Ford Galaxie. It sat in his driveway and he would drive it occasionally. We moved when I was 9, and a year later it shows up in the driveway of our new neighbor. Turns out they were old friends and they had done a deal. Never got the full story, but both men were obsessed with this car. Over the next 15 years they proceeded to sell it back and forth to each other several times, and as they aged so did the condition of the car. Eventually the first neighbor died and owning the car at the time, the new neighbor bought it from the widow. The car proceeded to rot in his driveway and fall down on it's suspension, and when the new neighbor and his wife eventually died, the car got hauled off for scrap.

That's an extreme story, but don't be those guys.

LA_LEC · 7 March 2023, 03:21 PM

I could never part with a watch that I had for that length of time. You not only miss the watch but more than that, I think - you miss the memories it used to bring back each time you looked at it...

That's what my watches do for me, remind me of adventures I have had while wearing it and lived to tell the tale!

Ensign · 7 March 2023, 04:55 PM

You still have feelings for your ex!

I recall the TV chief Alton Brown had his dad’s Omega stolen and decades later found it on Ebay.

7 March 2023, 03:21 PM	#3
LA_LEC "TRF" Member Join Date: Dec 2012 Location: Los Angeles Watch: Explorer Posts: 1,793	I could never part with a watch that I had for that length of time. You not only miss the watch but more than that, I think - you miss the memories it used to bring back each time you looked at it... That's what my watches do for me, remind me of adventures I have had while wearing it and lived to tell the tale! __________________ 16610 ♛ 16610LV ♛ 214270 MK2 "Life is far too short not to wear a Rolex!"

7 March 2023, 01:54 PM	#2
Oystersteel92 "TRF" Member Join Date: Mar 2020 Location: The South, USA Posts: 991	Nearly impossible unless you go all private detective and trace it down, assuming you could get those involved to cooperate. True story: When I was a kid, our next door neighbor had a '64 Ford Galaxie. It sat in his driveway and he would drive it occasionally. We moved when I was 9, and a year later it shows up in the driveway of our new neighbor. Turns out they were old friends and they had done a deal. Never got the full story, but both men were obsessed with this car. Over the next 15 years they proceeded to sell it back and forth to each other several times, and as they aged so did the condition of the car. Eventually the first neighbor died and owning the car at the time, the new neighbor bought it from the widow. The car proceeded to rot in his driveway and fall down on it's suspension, and when the new neighbor and his wife eventually died, the car got hauled off for scrap. That's an extreme story, but don't be those guys.

7 March 2023, 04:55 PM	#4
Ensign "TRF" Member Join Date: Jul 2018 Location: America Posts: 715	You still have feelings for your ex! I recall the TV chief Alton Brown had his dad’s Omega stolen and decades later found it on Ebay.

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