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[question] How do you all cope with tarnishing your nice watches? (alien.top)

submitted 1 year ago by Patently-Absurd@alien.top to c/watches@style.land

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Finally got my first decent automatic watch and managed to smack it off a door frame and scratch it up within the first week. Now all I can see are the scratches on what used to be a perfect bracelet and bezel. Is it normal to be bothered by this or is this just mental illness.

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[–] yardwhiskey@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

I have been wearing mechanical watches daily for over ten years, and I am at the point where I am only buying watches I am likely to keep in the long term. Part of that is acknowledging that eventually, they are all going to look quite scratched up. I try to take reasonable care of them, and I keep a Seiko SKX as my "beater" watch for rougher use, but I just don't worry about the daily bumps and bruises because I'm in it for the long haul and they're all gonna get knicked and scratched.