Watch-friendly activities.

[pcarson]

Thanks, God! Wow, your folks must have either been very eccentric or wanted to toughen you up with THAT name. It's a great forum, and seems to embrace the odd digression from horological purism, which is nice. I feel very welcome.

[Prince]

Originally Posted by pcarson

Thanks, God! Wow, your folks must have either been very eccentric or wanted to toughen you up with THAT name. It's a great forum, and seems to embrace the odd digression from horological purism, which is nice. I feel very welcome.

LOL - Ed only uses that name when he wants to command great respect and attention. He's pretty down to earth most of the time, however!

And as for "embracing odd digression", we are masters at that, Peter!!!

[Rockrolex]

Originally Posted by pcarson

Thanks, God! Wow, your folks must have either been very eccentric or wanted to toughen you up with THAT name. It's a great forum, and seems to embrace the odd digression from horological purism, which is nice. I feel very welcome.

In addition to being masters of the odd digression, Peter, you will also find that we are the masters of the thread hijack. Hardly a thread gets by without being hijacked by someone. It's a practice we have developed to a high art form.

[Prince]

Originally Posted by Rockrolex

In addition to being masters of the odd digression, Peter, you will also find that we are the masters of the thread hijack. Hardly a thread gets by without being hijacked by someone. It's a practice we have developed to a high art form.

Indeed, Ed. Indeed!!! As I have said before - the best on the Internet!

[Blue Bull]

Originally Posted by pcarson

Thanks, God! Wow, your folks must have either been very eccentric or wanted to toughen you up with THAT name. It's a great forum, and seems to embrace the odd digression from horological purism, which is nice. I feel very welcome.

God Rock ... His son must be.. Kid Rock !!

[Blue Bull]

Originally Posted by pcarson

...and everyone I know who has had breast cancer has had breasts, but that doesn't seem to stop their almost universal appreciation. (Apologies to anyone on the forum who is offended by this observation. I'd hate to get banned so early, but really, can you be offended by a universal truth?)

We are fortuanate that we do have Fiwi,Amanda and DesertDogs on the forum....

[pcarson]

"It is better to be hanged for the truth than to suffer a liar's aquittal"

[pcarson]

Back to this nice new watch of mine. I want to take a straw-poll here.

Is there a limit to the contrived and affected wrist/arm positions that can be employed so as to allow strangers and friends the opportuntiy of admiring a new watch? I have done so much left-handed chin stroking over the last week, I am getting a nasty rash.

I have also told an implausible number of stories that have involved the teller pointing his watch (in the third person, mind you) at onlookers as a seamless visual part of an entertaining or enlightening story about aircraft arrivals in foreign countries and so on.

I have also attended an untold number of dermatologists' appointments just so I can move the watch, slowly and deliberately, to show them the obviously benign freckle that lies underneath.

My question to the group is this: where are the limits for maoeuvres that can be deployed in the name of displaying a watch? Using the above as starting points, can we find where that limit lies?

[Blue Bull]

Originally Posted by pcarson

Back to this nice new watch of mine. I want to take a straw-poll here.

Is there a limit to the contrived and affected wrist/arm positions that can be employed so as to allow strangers and friends the opportuntiy of admiring a new watch? I have done so much left-handed chin stroking over the last week, I am getting a nasty rash.

I have also told an implausible number of stories that have involved the teller pointing his watch (in the third person, mind you) at onlookers as a seamless visual part of an entertaining or enlightening story about aircraft arrivals in foreign countries and so on.

I have also attended an untold number of dermatologists' appointments just so I can move the watch, slowly and deliberately, to show them the obviously benign freckle that lies underneath.

My question to the group is this: where are the limits for maoeuvres that can be deployed in the name of displaying a watch? Using the above as starting points, can we find where that limit lies?

People,as a general rule, are really stupid when it comes to Rolex .Colleagues,unfortuanately,too ... especially those with flashy cars,that depreciates in value daily AND thats mostly owned by the bank...

You will get a positive response from someone who owns a Rolex.

[Alex Stylianou]

Originally Posted by pcarson

That's my impression, and thanks. I'll share his other piece of advice too, more for entertainment than anything else: don't wear it in the shower because soap can break the surface tension of the outer seal. That gem I had to disregard out of hand because I take watches off to sleep and some aspects of my work require "clean" arms so I have to stick my watch away, but I have worn lesser (much lesser!) watches in showers for 25 years and I haven't had a sudden soap incident yet!

just tell him to read this topic !!

[pcarson]

Just to clarify; when I said I hadn't had a soap incident in a shower for 25 years, I was making specific and exclusive reference to watches' waterproofedness. On re-reading the post, I can undersatnd that some people, especially those who went to boarding school, may have been uncomfortable with the level of self-disclosure here.

[pcarson]

Originally Posted by Blue Bull

People,as a general rule, are really stupid when it comes to Rolex .Colleagues,unfortuanately,too ... especially those with flashy cars,that depreciates in value daily AND thats mostly owned by the bank...

You will get a positive response from someone who owns a Rolex.

Chris, I have solved the problem. I intentionally fell from a small overhang yesterday so as to sustain a fracture of my left arm. The landing had to be carefully planned, so as to break only the humerus, otherwise it would have been a plaster. No sense in that for showing off a new watch. I can now spend all day in a collar-and-cuff which presents the new watch unavoidably to everyone I see AND has the added benefit of letting me concoct a glamorous story to go with the fracture.

I rotate the extreme sporting activity in my story to suit my mood. I'm finding the watch is finally getting noticed. I didn't plan for the break to be compound, but then, you can't make an omlette without breaking some eggs.

[Prince]

Peter, that's just TOO funny!!!

[pcarson]

Well, thanks Allan. I know bugger-all about watches, but am learning. While I learn, I'll just indulge one of my other hobbies, which is taking the piss out of myself.