What's the worst your Rolex has been through and didnt sustain any damage?

[fmc000]

Smashed against the wall playing squash. My left arm was hurt, the watch didn't even notice it.

[adawil2002]

<-----My 16550 & I have been through everything together for 34 years. Has a chip in the crystal from hitting a rock once when I fell rock hopping across a creek some 30 years ago. Still my first & favorite Rolex.

[Speedbird-1]

I swore, repeatedly and, VERY LOUDLY at the news on TV coming out of America the other day.
I was wearing my GMT.
It's still ticking......shockproof, apparently.

[chris242]

My runabout got struck by lightning a couple months ago, with me in it. Fried the antenna, all electronics including my cellphone which was in a waterproof box. Quite the experience to say the least.
However the 216570 Polar I was wearing at the time never missed a beat and is still running perfectly.


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[Speedbird-1]

Originally Posted by chris242

My runabout got struck by lightning a couple months ago, with me in it. Fried the antenna, all electronics including my cellphone which was in a waterproof box. Quite the experience to say the least.
However the 216570 Polar I was wearing at the time never missed a beat and is still running perfectly.


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Thank your lucky star, Michael Faraday, invented his cage.

[gleiden]

I sat through Star Wars Rise Of Skywalker and my Hulk was fine at the end of it.

[Largoshark]

Originally Posted by gleiden

I sat through Star Wars Rise Of Skywalker and my Hulk was fine at the end of it.

Nice! When I came out of that movie I freaked because my Daytona was suddenly running 3 hours behind...or so I thought. But nope, just felt that way

[Boopie]

Originally Posted by gleiden

I sat through Star Wars Rise Of Skywalker and my Hulk was fine at the end of it.

Which one had Princess Leia floating in outer space? “The Last Jedi”? Truly awful. I laughed out loud. For reference, I was about 8 when the first “Star Wars” came out, and loved the character; I still have my original action figure.

Even though I have TSA precheck and Clear, airport TSA agents made me take off my Rolex. I typically travel with the green Rolex pouch, and had it handy. It was a tense few moments when I was separated from my watch. I don’t think, however, TSA has ever swiped a Rolex.

I’ve also dropped it a couple of times on my hardwood floors. All OK. We know someone who designed a custom workshop with hardwood floors...he chose wood so tools falling on the floor won’t be damaged.

[jamesbondOO7]

Fallen off a horse (or usually with the horse) several times.

[SunTzu]

Multiple nights out after work in Manhattan not going home waking up on an apartment floor wondering how I got there but my grandfather’s 1967 5513 was still on my wrist Surprised one of the dancers at Scores never tried to slip it off

I’m long retired from that activity and the Rolex doesn’t get much action.


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[mmmmp]

Back in the1980's the Entertainment Industry was still deluged with dope like coke, so don't believe the stories of post-Belishi's death, "Hollywood Cleaned up it's Act." Coke was the culture: try working 16 hr. days 20 days consecutively and chemical help is not merely helpful, it's essential.

For me, I haven't touched the 'devil's dandruff' in decades, but I was no choir boy back then and both my brother and I worked in the biz. The incident I relate below is why "Dope is for Dopes." (But, to be honest: it can be a lot of fun too!)

So in the late eighties I headed over to my brother Adam's pad to get high, have a couple of drinks and watch Seinfeld. We started a conversation about Lost in Space which had a sequence in which a Monkey boy was being hypnotised by a watch on a chain. The boy snatches the watch and keeps it! (Ya' gotta see it to get the joke.) We start talking watches and Adam asks to see my AK up close. I slip it off and carefully try to hand it to him.....and.....He attempts to 'snatch' from my hand a la Lost in Space!

Instead of holding on to it, he grabbed it loosely and it sailed, no kidding, about 15 feet away, hit a hardwood floor and (I guess?) slid another few feet into to the baseboard. I was mortified! Mr brother Adam (the new Monkey Boy!) was silent.
I treasured that watch and took very good care of it...and (the new) Monkey Boy knew it!

So, I walked over to pick it up, barely had the balls to look at it but I did. The was a paint scratch on the crystal and the watch had stopped. I hacked it and decided I'd deal with it the next day. With a fresh set of eyes, things looked okay. I polished the glass and removed all the paint. I gently pushed in the winding crown and gingerly felt all positions. Nothing bent or sticky/scratchy/gritty. I gave it several winds and on about the tenth turn it started running. But, time would tell.
It ran another 8 years or so and was functioning when I sold it.

A golf cart ride is nothing to concern yourself with. As you say, it needed some 'breakin' in'! Seriously, all the best.














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[Speedbird-1]

Nice story.



Ps. It's called 'Fratricide'!

[GONZO2LR]

I take my Sub off before bed, i leave it on my dresser chest.....
The next day i completely forgot to put it on before leaving for work....
all day long i was worried about it, just sitting there and not on my wrist...
11 hours later when i got home, i ran inside and it was still there safe...
i was so worried.….
thank you for listening......

[whattimeyougot]

Originally Posted by GONZO2LR

I take my Sub off before bed, i leave it on my dresser chest.....
The next day i completely forgot to put it on before leaving for work....
all day long i was worried about it, just sitting there and not on my wrist...
11 hours later when i got home, i ran inside and it was still there safe...
i was so worried.….
thank you for listening......

I would have gone home over lunch to rescue it!


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[chris242]

Originally Posted by whattimeyougot

I would have gone home over lunch to rescue it!


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me too!! hahaha


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[Mr. Superlative]

Just made oatmeal wearing my Sub...
Did not sustain a single scratch.

[1791]

1978 Explorer 1016. Over 30 years working in oil refining. It took a beating and is still ticking.

[Aldwyn]

I have parked in bad neighborhoods in Baltimore several times while wearing a Rolex... so far, not a scratch on any of my Rollies any of those times. Even at night!

[HogwldFLTR]

For me I've worn mine in the ocean, snow shoeing, hiking, running, basically anything I do. I try not to have catastrophes which would catastrophize either me or the watch!!

[droptopman]

Wear mine everywhere. Had a few car and motorcycle accidents over the years. Bad bike wreck in 1991 wearing a sub. Got a few scratches on the bracelet, but otherwise no big deal. Had a screw come out on a 1016 Explorer bracelet while swinging a golf club and watch went sailing down the cart path. Put a few scratches in it but kept running. YES I wear my watch while playing golf...So used to it, it feels weird if i do not have one on. Throws my timing off. Seriously.

[MrGoat]

I just thought about it and remembered I pulled a guy from a flipped over semi truck on the 27th of October. It held up perfectly as I ripped a half broken windshield and windshield wiper out of the way. Not to mention cleaning up fantastically with water and then alcohol afterwards.


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[Setarip]

War.


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[DCheeta]

Running of the bulls in Pamplona, 14060 survived a human-caused fall to the cobblestone road leading down into the bullring. Red Cross worker pulled me under the wood fence as a last straggling bull was bearing down on me. Watch was just fine aside from a scratch on the bezel insert. My knee was pretty bashed up and bloody though.

[18078pres]

from 1999 to 2013 on my wrist aquanaut 5066 doing me job in public safety, police and fire responsibilities

[steve099]

I was drugged , robbed and thrown in the bay in an asian country in 2019. Nearly drowned.

Split my nose, broken rib, various other injuries. I still have the mark from the bat or bar across my left side from whatever they hit me with.

Wallet and phone were gone but my 116619LB somehow remained on my wrist. I sometimes think to myself I probably got thrown into the bay for refusing to give it up after the beating , so they got annoyed and pushed me in.

I only snapped out of whatever was slipped in my drink when i hit the water after being thrown off the dock into the bay. Lucky for me I am very well fed and float rather well.

It took 6 or so hours for someone to find me in the water, he wasnt strong enough to get me out at low tide. He came back with 4 or 6 police who fished me out. Being a white man far from home and who had obviously upset the wrong people, the police e threatened to charge me for beating myself up and throwing myself in the bay.

Is that hectic enough for you lads?

[envuks]

Originally Posted by steve099

I was drugged , robbed and thrown in the bay in an asian country in 2019. Nearly drowned.

Split my nose, broken rib, various other injuries. I still have the mark from the bat or bar across my left side from whatever they hit me with.

Wallet and phone were gone but my 116619LB somehow remained on my wrist. I sometimes think to myself I probably got thrown into the bay for refusing to give it up after the beating , so they got annoyed and pushed me in.

I only snapped out of whatever was slipped in my drink when i hit the water after being thrown off the dock into the bay. Lucky for me I am very well fed and float rather well.

It took 6 or so hours for someone to find me in the water, he wasnt strong enough to get me out at low tide. He came back with 4 or 6 police who fished me out. Being a white man far from home and who had obviously upset the wrong people, the police e threatened to charge me for beating myself up and throwing myself in the bay.

Is that hectic enough for you lads?

What the heck-tic?!

This is such a horrible story. I’m glad you’re here today to share it. It sounds like you 116619 survived as well. Cheers to that, but so sorry to read about this misfortune


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[jamesbondOO7]

[Chester01]

I got my 16610 at 22, (now mid 40’s) and worn mountain biking, tennis, golf, baseball, climbing, hiking, at work, and everywhere in between. No damage ever.

[Combine man]

Back in 1990 i wore my Sub whilst restoring a steam engine,I wore it while we riveted up 250 boiler rivets with a compressed air hammer,and all the cutting and welding operations,I can report that weld splatter does not stick to the crystal, but plays havoc with the bracelet,as does the dust and grit from an angle grinder preventing the bezel from turning till you flush it out with plus gas.
A year later it went back to Rolex service centre in Kent UK,for a service and they wanted to take it into protective custody. 3 weeks later it came back as good as new to do another 10 years active service at work,as well as being kicked by our horse and knocking off the bezel.
Wear them and enjoy them

[GolfJunkie]

Left my BLNR on my night stand a few years back. We had just gotten a puppy (Sheepadoodle) and he was suspiciously quiet so I went into our bedroom to find him on the floor with my BLNR in his mouth. Couple scratches but no damage.