I'd like to start with my horological Darwin award for the day...happened not more than an hour ago.... I recently purchased a Reactor Critical Mass watch in yellow (a nice beefy diver, with superlumed face). I twas my first ever super lume watch, so I figured I'd give it a good charge and see what the hype is about super luminova. I forgot about the watch......after unscrewing the ceiling light fixture cover and putting it inside not 2 inches below a 100W bulb. I was looking for the watch, and just as I looked up, I heard a *pop*, which was the crystal popping off. The face is scratched a bit, and the plastic tachymeter ring has melted and shriveled up. Other than that, the movement works, watch was hot as hell.....and I'm retarded. I wonder if I should try and have the factory replace the inner ring, or just take the dial out and paint the outside edge.....I only paid &60 for the watch used on Ebay, but the thing is I absolutely LOVE it....I'd wear it every day for the rest of the summer.....man this sucks....so lets hear if I'm not the only one out there with a chromosome missing...haha.
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Stupidest thing you have ever done to one of your watches
- Thread starter moscar45
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ROFLMAO, 
OMG i guess this one tickled my funny bone just right , i almost tipped out of my chair, lmao
well i dont have one that good but i was working on a watch one time and it wasnt mine , lol but i was pulling the hands off of it to relume and all the gears and dial came out with it , so then i was like what the hek , no biggie well i put it back together gears that is and then i get to reluming it and found myself using regular paint on the dial instead of superluminova , talk about your mind in the gutter, lmao it was going on so smooth because it was water base paint , i didnt even realize it till it got clumpy on about the 3rd or 4th marker , lmao
joe(rbj69)
OMG i guess this one tickled my funny bone just right , i almost tipped out of my chair, lmao well i dont have one that good but i was working on a watch one time and it wasnt mine , lol but i was pulling the hands off of it to relume and all the gears and dial came out with it , so then i was like what the hek , no biggie well i put it back together gears that is and then i get to reluming it and found myself using regular paint on the dial instead of superluminova , talk about your mind in the gutter, lmao it was going on so smooth because it was water base paint , i didnt even realize it till it got clumpy on about the 3rd or 4th marker , lmao
joe(rbj69)
I gave my father-in-law a Navi from Silix for his birthday last year. He said he clamped a hemostat onto the crown, and whipped it around a few dozen times really fast to wind it. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
I'm putting in the new Asian 7750 from Ajoesmith over at Repgeek this weekend. :roll:
I re-educated my father-in-law on automatics. :|
I'm putting in the new Asian 7750 from Ajoesmith over at Repgeek this weekend. :roll:
I re-educated my father-in-law on automatics. :|
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To test the waterproofing on my fiddy, I buried it in the sand at the beach, and lo and behold, this knucklhead shows up, and
really puts the stress test on my 127 !
really puts the stress test on my 127 !
sixbennetts said:I gave my father-in-law a Navi from Silix for his birthday last year. He said he clamped a hemostat onto the crown, and whipped it around a few dozen times really fast to wind it. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
I'm putting in the new Asian 7750 from Ajoesmith over at Repgeek this weekend. :roll:
I re-educated my father-in-law on automatics. :|
YIKES!!! bye bye click-wheel LOL
daytona4me said:I thought if I put my 111H in the Microwave it would make the Lume brighter...
It didnt!
I hope you're kidding? LOL
Straps on fire.. dial melting.. crystal exploding.. doesnt really matter what the lume looks like at that point! HAHAHA
dizz
The most stupid thing i've ever done is open my watches.
Had I left them alone my watchbox would be about 100% fuller and I wouldn't have drawer full of dead ones which would still be happily ticking away had I not f**ked them up.
Leave them alone, thats my advice.
Had I left them alone my watchbox would be about 100% fuller and I wouldn't have drawer full of dead ones which would still be happily ticking away had I not f**ked them up.
Leave them alone, thats my advice.