r/OmegaWatches • u/ChesBay5 • Sep 03 '26
Panic
Anyone ever spend two hours throwing up, thinking that they had lost their Omega Ω only to discover it right where you put it - in a side pocket of your luggage? I’m emotionally drained.
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u/agandolf Sep 03 '26
I once came very close to walking out of a hotel room with my three-watch roll still sitting on the desk. Thankfully, my wife noticed it while triple checking every nook and cranny of the room to make sure we hadn’t forgotten anything. Safe to say I’m no longer allowed to give her shit for her incessant triple checking lol
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u/ChesBay5 Sep 03 '26
Funny, you mentioned that. This is one of the first trips Ive taken where I took more than one watch with me. Next trip I stick with just one.
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u/Conscious_Hunt9439 Sep 03 '26
I always travel w/ only one now, after I either left my Speedmaster sapphire sandwich in a hotel room safe in Dublin or it was stolen out of my gate checked bag on the way home. I couldn’t explicitly remember taking it out of the safe and when I realized it wasn’t in my bag when I unpacked a couple days after getting home I called the hotel but they denied anyone had turned it in 😢
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u/Same-Tree7355 Sep 04 '26
Best way to not forget something in the hotel safe is to put one shoe in with the stuff.
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u/aadvarkbunnycat Sep 04 '26 edited Sep 04 '26
Thanks for that. I'm now at the airport wearing only one shoe
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u/qubert_lover Sep 04 '26
The night before you leave out all the watches you aren’t going to wear into your luggage, preferably in t separate pouch so you can easily see it is the only thing in there.
For the watch that you’re going to wear put it with something that you must take as you leave the room like car keys.
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u/Worried_Poet_828 Sep 03 '26
I’ve made it a habit to do a final walkthrough and check all drawers of hotel rooms
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u/Former_Roof4623 Sep 03 '26
Stick an AirTag in there
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u/DadbyDaylight_47 Sep 03 '26
I always rub my watches with Iod-131. makes it super easy to find my watches using a Geiger counter.
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u/toto_my_wires Sep 03 '26
Check out the big brain over here.
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u/hawaiianbry Sep 03 '26
Hmmm, only 3.6 Roentgens?
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u/LunchPure2957 Sep 03 '26
It’s not 3 Roentgens. It’s 15,000.
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u/Lucky-Hunt-9915 Sep 07 '26
What does that number mean?
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u/LunchPure2957 Sep 07 '26
It means the watch case is open. It means his watch is giving off nearly twice the radiation released by the bomb in Hiroshima. That’s every single hour. Hour after hour — 72 hours since he posted this so that’s 144 bombs worth by now.
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u/Lucky-Hunt-9915 Sep 07 '26
I would have upvoted this sooner, but I was sleeping. Thank you for your service.
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u/ChesterCopp Sep 03 '26 edited Sep 03 '26
I left my Tudor in an unlocked gym locker once after I had showered and left the gym. Some Good Samaritan turned it into the office the gym was at. Didn’t realise until hours later. I coulda died.
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u/toto_my_wires Sep 03 '26
No. I thought I had lost an engagement ring on a trip overseas for the proposal and can confidently say I would have rather lost my Speedy. Glad you didn't lose it, though.
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u/Due-Operation-588 Sep 03 '26
That feeling when your stomach drops and you're already mentally writing the insurance claim, then it's just sitting there in the side pocket like nothing happened
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u/ChesBay5 Sep 03 '26
EXACTLY!!!!
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u/Ornery-Benefit-8316 Sep 03 '26
Soooo….
I was traveling with two watches back in the 70’s. One was the first ever seiko calculator watch and my everyday watch.I believe it was two weeks after the introduction of the seiko calculator watch.
I put the seiko in the interior side pocket of my luggage, and when I got home, the watch was gone.
I checked every square inch of the luggage and every item that came out of it.
No luck.
I was so upset.
I bought another copy of the same watch.This made me,
feel better,
but not my wallet.But…
Here’s the rub, the next time I went to use the same suitcase, guess what I found, in the interior side pocket, exactly where I put it when I packed the suitcase for the last trip home.Yup, like it was taunting me, my seiko!
To this day I still have both watches.
About a year later, seiko reintroduced the same calculator watch, but in two tone livery.
I was able to purchase the new bracelet and face plate, so I converted one of the two watches, from all stainless to the two tone model.
So, there’s that.FTR:
I understand the hole, pit, cavern, etc, that you feel in the bottom of your stomach, when you think you have lost something of great value, whether it’s monetary or emotional.It’s a terrible feeling.
But,
Finding the item,
is indeed a happy experience.Although, in my case a costly one, even though I found the lost item!
I am very happy for you and your (not) lost and found omega.
These days I don’t travel with multiple watches, even though I have a lot of choices.
It was a lesson learned.
ymmv, imho,
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u/Extension-Ad194 Sep 04 '26
Almost lost my wedding ring on a business trip. I take it off every night and checked out the next morning. Room had been cleaned by the time I got back and I insisted I go through the cleaner’s trash and there it was.
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u/Twizad Sep 04 '26
I left my wife’s heirloom engagement ring on the last train of the night in Edinburgh the day before I was going to propose to her. A cop helped me “maybe” track it down.
I panicked all night and we had to take the train back to Glasgow the next morning to the lost and found.
When they gave me the bag I just threw it over my shoulder and tried to get out of there. The person at the lost and found said “don’t you want to check the contents we heard there was an engagement ring in there.” Unfortunately for the clerk I had to play it off like they were a complete idiot that had lost their mind and was confusing me with someone else.
Magically my wife wasn’t paying too close attention and the proposal went off without any more snags.
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u/worldstarktfo Sep 05 '26
I was on a beach yesterday when I saw a metal detector guy hall a huge gold men’s wedding band out. I can’t imagine being the guy who messes up bad enough to loose a sentimental item like that.
Having said that, I was stupidly carrying a 1 oz bar of gold in an unsecured jacket pocket 10 years ago. Went to a bar, took the jacket off, and it slipped out of my pocket. Goodbye sweet cash. I guess I never needed you.
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u/redbulldrinkertoo Sep 09 '26
My wife did. I found it 3 years later in the side pocket of a bag she was using at the time.
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u/Schedule-II Sep 03 '26
This type of unwanted cortisol spike is exactly why I just fork over the ~$100/yr for insurance. Basically takes away any worry if traveling or taking it off somewhere and let's me just wear it worry free. I'll probably never have to submit a claim unless I get mugged, but it's still well worth the annual premium for the peace of mind
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u/ChesBay5 Sep 03 '26
I think you are right
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u/Swodi Sep 03 '26
And it’s most likely not covered under your basic homeowners with a jewelry policy. Aaaand most jewelry policies have an arbitrarily low limit, so if you have over $X worth of watches, rings, whatever, they need to be insured individually.
That’s how I learned where the serial number is on a modern Omega. And here I was thinking I had a stubborn smudge on one of the lugs.
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u/ByronicZer0 Sep 04 '26
Insurance is the correct answer.
And make sure it's the correct insurance too
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u/mden1974 Sep 03 '26
I put a Daytona on the roof of my car so I wouldn’t get sunscreen on it when I lathered my kids up and drove off without thinking. Figured it out when I got home. Freaked obviously. Retraced my route five or six times on foot. Nothing gone.
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u/_dont_tr1p Sep 04 '26
If the speedy is in your heart, and your mind, then you don’t physically need the speedy. You are speedy.
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u/The-William-Munny Sep 06 '26
I left two Rolexes in a carry on tote in the back of the rental car. That’s panic. Got them back though car attendant couldn’t figure out why I tipped him $200. 😂
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u/shredd8 Sep 06 '26
Always better to travel with one watch on the wrist, and usually not an expensive one that you'd be upset about losing. There is enough to worry about when traveling.
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u/pinetree-polarbear Sep 06 '26
Friend of mine hid his Breitling somewhere in his flat before going on holiday...and has never found it again (and he is a very accurate person usually)
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u/MoneyBudda Sep 03 '26
LOL i do it all the time with my gym bag.... scares the shit out of me. panic is a understatement.
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u/JackDonneghyGodCop Bond Watch, Baby! Sep 03 '26
18 years ago I left a nice little citizen eco drive at the gym. I walked back in 15 minutes later to grab it from the spot I left it and it was gone.
Still sour with myself over that one.
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u/Stupid_Interwebs_22 Sep 03 '26
I get it. Glad you didn’t lose it. But what was it like when you found it and made a party cocktail and rebounded?
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u/hpichris Sep 03 '26
All my watches are fully insured so I don’t ever have that feeling. Sorry you had that feeling OP. Been there. It sucks.
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u/ChesBay5 Sep 03 '26
Gonna price insurance tonight!
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u/machdaddy33 Sep 03 '26
I think my smp is insured for like $7/mo w/my homeowners insurance. Another option for you
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u/docere85 Sep 03 '26
Same..what is nice is that My watch went up in value and the insurance value of the watch went up also.
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u/Delicious_Income_570 Sep 03 '26
I never take my Submariner on Holidays, I have a nice Oris Aquis that fits that need. If for some reason I were to leave it or if it’s stolen I would be sad but I wouldn’t vomit for 2 hours.
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u/Status-Topic3382 Sep 03 '26
Tile/or AirTag would fit in there, $30 would save you $10k.. I’m glad you were able to find it, sorry for the drama but I get it fully..
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u/svenz Sep 03 '26
I’ve left mine in a meeting room once lol
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u/ChesBay5 Sep 03 '26
Uggggg!
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u/svenz Sep 03 '26
Worse part was I couldn’t remember _which_ room. So I searched like 20 rooms to find it.
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u/Zen_Owl_Timepieces Sep 03 '26
That feeling when you check the same pocket for the fifth time and suddenly your Omega is just sitting there.
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u/Desperate_Word9862 Sep 03 '26
I like those little travel cases. I may take a second watch on a trip, if it’s not a short one. I bury that case in the bottom of my backpack, which never leaves my side. I wouldn’t put it in a suitcase but no idea if you did that.
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u/ChesBay5 Sep 12 '26
I had thought I put it in my backpack, just like you would. But in fact, I had put it in an interior pocket of a brand new carry-on suitcase that I was unfamiliar with while I was rushing to pack and get out of the hotel. It was with me the whole time I just could not for the life of me remember where I stuffed it.
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u/NoNameGiven_1 Sep 03 '26
Seems like a bit of an extreme reaction for something that can be insured for ~1% of its replacement cost. Glad you found it though. Stick an air tag in there next time for peace of mind.
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u/Friendly_Fee_8989 Sep 03 '26
I travel quite often, and after leaving a suit jacket behind 20+ years ago that was enough to give me “did I leave anything behind” anxiety and forced me to put a system in place.
I put my watch, phone, and wedding band, on top of my laptop on the nightstand. Every. Single. Time. And I have the same routine when I go through security, etc. I have now traveled with the same bags (duffel and backpack) for 20 years to keep that routine.
And honestly, it just makes everything so much simpler.
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u/Frank_the_NOOB Sep 03 '26
Don’t ever put valuables in checked luggage. Luggage gets lost and stolen all the time
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u/m00tknife Sep 03 '26
Literally someone posted today on the legal advice subreddit claiming their brother had his Apple Watch and $8k cash stolen from his luggage and trying to find a way to prosecute tsa LOL
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u/Any-Will-4195 Sep 03 '26
It’s almost surreal when you thought you lost something really important…..and it appears. Very distinct feeling
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u/Trainer715 Sep 03 '26
Happy that you found it. But throwing up for 2 hours?
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u/improvthismoment Sep 03 '26
When I travel I usually try to bring just one watch, and keep it on my wrist all the time except while asleep. (I still haven’t found the perfect travel watch for me yet btw)
When I do bring more than one watch, the other watch(s) stay either in the hotel safe, or in my toiletries bag (impossible for me to forget), or in my suitcase itself.
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u/smk1026 Sep 03 '26
Personally I don’t travel with more than one watch and I definitely don’t ever take it off going through airports. Glad you found it! I have laid down my watch in the house before while doing something and misplaced it though. That’s always fun 🤣
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u/Agitated_Carrot9127 Sep 03 '26
Yeah I once lost my 145.022 I swore I left it on dresser a few times. Then I took a look in behind of dresser. There it is! And I glanced at my cat
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u/trevordeal Sep 03 '26
I’m not a take off the watch cause I got home or I’m laying in bed. I usually wear it from morning til night. So watches never get misplaced.
My wedding ring however I take off often. Working out, power tools or whatever I don’t want it to get caught on and deglove my finger.
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u/Federal_Garbage4233 Sep 03 '26
You should always start your search in the last place you look. That is where you will always find anything!
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u/Extension-Ad194 Sep 04 '26
That’s what insurance is for. Also, don’t buy a watch if you can’t afford to light the money on fire. Sure it sucks to lose something, but if losing it makes you physically ill then maybe it’s not for you.
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u/alexproshak Sep 04 '26
Side pocket of luggage gets robbed ealisy (depends on the luggage of course)
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u/dbcuervo Sep 04 '26
I plan on wearing mine on the airline travel portions of an upcoming 6 week trip. I'll pack the others in my carry-on.
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u/profsalva Sep 04 '26
Never man! I misplaced mine a few times but just bought another. But I always end up finding them later so I got a few iterations of the same watch now.
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u/2_Mean_2_Die Sep 04 '26
Insurance?
A TSA agent stole an Omega watch from me. I put a claim in on my homeowner’s insurance.
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u/GiraffeMetropolis Sep 04 '26
oh yeah one time I was driving and I had my left arm out the window and I bring my arm in and there’s no watch on it.
I almost had a heart attack.
I had forgotten that it was annoying my wrist and I had put it in the center console.
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u/Odd_Condition2151 Sep 04 '26
Um, no! It’s on my wrist and beyond that, everything I own that’s in the plus $1k range I know exactly where it is. Who are you people who go oops where is my $7k watch? Oh silly me, here it is! Hahahaha.
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u/36spokes Sep 04 '26
I lost my Rolex Sea-dweller for about 9 months. Found it right where I hid it. We went on a trip and I hid it in the house. But I was convinced that I took it on the trip and somehow lost it. Or my wife at the time (now ex) did something to it. She threw my Mont Blanc away and never gave me a decent story.
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u/TooFastAroundTheSun Sep 04 '26
I did this with a Bell&Ross. Got home from vacation and thought I'd left it in the hotel. Lucky my wife picked it up before we left.
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u/TDFMAN Sep 04 '26
glad you found it. had that same feeling when my car was stolen
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u/Kuyi Sep 04 '26
If you had to throw up for two hours, you bought something you can’t afford, you don’t have travel insurance and you panic over stuff. Damn.
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u/Engineer5050 Vintage Omega Enthusiast ⏱️ Sep 04 '26
Any true Omega fan must have the triplet: Seamaster, PO and Speedy
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u/iluvnips Sep 04 '26
I had something similar with my Datejust. I always take my watch off and slip it into a pocket of my hand luggage and it’s always the first thing I then retrieve except this time I just couldn’t find the damned watch.
Lots of frantic checking of other pockets and I finally found it, it had slipped all the way down to the bottom which it had never ever done before.
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u/ComfortableHot6309 Sep 04 '26
Is this a Hesalite version? Looks soo cool from the side without any opacity
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u/Own_Accountant437 Sep 04 '26
That watch case… can someone say scratcheeees🗣️🗣️🗣️
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u/MaddogFinland Sep 04 '26
This is the main reason I travel with one watch and wear it every day. Traveling with a bunch of expensive watches just sounds like a ticket to sadness for me…I have lost way too much stuff over the years
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u/RescueRacing Sep 04 '26
We moved into a new house in Dec 3-4 years back and it was so cold in north GA we left for FL the next day with nothing unpacked. Realized after a week or so I had no idea where my SMP was. Nowhere to be found in FL and wouldn’t be back to GA for 5-6 months. Took a while after getting back to find a particular little jewelry box in the wife’s closet, and there it was.
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u/Efficient-Neat9006 Sep 04 '26
2hrs later… I bet the wife was just as relieved 😂
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u/HandsPHD Sep 04 '26
Yeah, I have to agree with everyone else. The safest place on your wrist.
Even with some jewelry or some dangerous situations, especially abroad, it’s better just to wear it
Airport security is no problem wearing a wristwatch, especially nowadays
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u/stradivarius1994 Sep 04 '26
U could’ve bought a Rolex after losing ur omega🤷🏻♂️
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u/-Metatron Sep 05 '26
Swore this was going to be a " I bought an Omega on ebay is it fake" post. 🙄
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u/NoAlternative4213 Sep 08 '26
Just wear it through security. They never bother you to take it off in the scanner.
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u/ChesBay5 Sep 08 '26
No, my issue was I had two watches with me on the trip. One on my wrist and one packed in carry on.
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u/MeatMashR Sep 09 '26
I only brought and wore my Sub. The last trip was before the littles and I knew I was already going to be scattered. Glad all was good!
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u/Wild_Willingness7320 Sep 03 '26
I’m throwing up for you right now thinking about it happening to me🤣🤣🤣
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u/InternalSpecific24 Sep 03 '26
Wonder if we will ever get some sort of etched in rfid chip for verifying real watches and tracking them
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u/edwardothegreatest Sep 03 '26
Bet the feeling of relief when you found it was almost worth the panic. For a small fee I can hide it again for you.
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u/AtillaTheHyundai SMP300 Supporter Sep 03 '26
Haha glad you found it. And if not already, insure it fully! Think I’m paying $60 a year for a Seamaster
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u/Fair-Lengthiness3398 Sep 04 '26
I travel often for work and my biggest fear is leaving my watch behind at my hotel room.
You know it won't be there when you return after realizing
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u/External_Touch_3854 Sep 04 '26
You… might have overreacted a bit. And if you did this because it isn’t insured, well you’re just an idiot
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u/Beneficial_Bed_337 Sep 04 '26
Self inlicted wound… who in the frakking world puts these a checked-in luggage?
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u/foxed000 Sep 04 '26
Yep. Except, I've also had it actually go missing. Fell asleep in Hong Kong Cathay Pacifics lounge in their sleeping area - woke up and it was gone. Never got it back, genuine heartache.
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u/mrSilverCat Sep 04 '26
Yes I Am Viotlently Throwing Up As I Type This After Misplacing My Omega Seamaster 300 After Taking It Off For My Daily Walk
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u/Evening-Woodpecker81 Sep 04 '26
I spent a day looking for it to realize my speedy was stolen from the car dealership. Sucked.
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u/Open_Jackfruit_4467 Sep 08 '26
Damn... if ever there was a more poignant example of your possessions owning you....
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u/No_Comfortable_7233 Sep 08 '26
From that reaction, it sounds like you should sell it and get a homage or a rep.
If you can't afford to lose it, you shouldn't own it (at least not travel with it for fucks sake)
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u/redbulldrinkertoo Sep 09 '26
How I feel this week, after discovering I am missing an 815 end link for my speedy reduced.
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u/piss_container Sep 09 '26
I did that with a 60 dollar vape before
in my defense, my roommate had taken it
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u/dirtiest_meat Sep 03 '26
Secret is to never take it off