Have you ever "totaled" a watch?
In the automotive body repair business, we use the word "totaled" to describe a car that has been wrecked beyond (economical) repair. A roll-over, a side-swipe, whatever. In the mechanical repair end of the business, we use the term "mechanical total" to ...
How about one . . .
. . . I'm about . . . . . . to total? Yup, it's an IWC cal 89. The story is so excruciating that I can't bear to tell it. Let's just say the effort to find one part for this movement is akin to an act of Congress, and leave it at that. Art ...
That orange Seiko gave me a painful memory
I was cleaning and fixing up a nice little solar watch as sort of a barter deal for a friend. After finishing, I set it above a lamp so it could charge up. Sadly it got too much heat and the translucent plastic dial overlay wrinkled up like a Ruffles pota...
I thought I Totaled it
My Panerai PAM 320. I dropped it 8 ft down the stairs. A couple of screws came out of the movement and it stopped. I thought it was gone. Or going to cost a bomb to fix. I got away with just a movement service and its back to normal. Although it takes a b...
