Battered and damaged but better now.
When I got hit by the car last year my damage, dents, scratches, breaks was well documented. My bike took little to no damage so nothing to write about there. My jacket, clothes and phone were pretty much a loss. However my watch is a whole other story. This is that story.
Yes I still wear a watch, no I don't have a regular job I rarely need to know what time it is and yes my phone could tell me the time if I wanted to pull it out of my pocket. That's not the point. I just like having a watch, and if I'm riding the bike I can glance at my wrist but I can't take my phone out at 80 mph, or even 20 mph. A few years ago I got this Seiko Kinetic Titanium watch on what turns out to be a really good sale. I paid around a hundred buck. I checked around a lot after the accident for a replacement and the prices were more than double that for on a good sale for half the watch.
I was wearing it of course when we hit the freeway, we both took some impact damage and got scraped up as we rolled down the lane. I shattered my foot, the watch shattered it's glass and did a lot of internal damage that eventually a couple of hours later as we both lay on the emergency room bed thing it stopped altogether. I made it through my surgery to fix some of my internal damage a few hours later.
After I got home I looked over the watch pretty well and gave it some thought on what to do about it. I almost bought a new watch several times over the next few months but I never took the plunge, nothing was appealing to me over what I had, had. Eventually I sent it in to Seiko just to see how much it'd cost for it's surgery. The price was steep, as much as I had paid for it in the first place. I found new watches online the same make and model and even though they were now discontinued there were some out there, for around $400.00 bucks. Still the more I thought about it the more I thought this watch has history, we both were in a wreck we both got broken and we both are going to be scarred forever. We are both old and battered but we are still ticking. I said fix him. Today I got him back from Seiko. What a match we are.
My only regret in having him fixed is not having them fix it's one original shortcoming. The hands don't glow in the dark. I should have had them put hands on that would. I asked and it'd been about 30 bucks more and they were backordered so no idea how much longer it'd take. Still I should have done it.
Yes I still wear a watch, no I don't have a regular job I rarely need to know what time it is and yes my phone could tell me the time if I wanted to pull it out of my pocket. That's not the point. I just like having a watch, and if I'm riding the bike I can glance at my wrist but I can't take my phone out at 80 mph, or even 20 mph. A few years ago I got this Seiko Kinetic Titanium watch on what turns out to be a really good sale. I paid around a hundred buck. I checked around a lot after the accident for a replacement and the prices were more than double that for on a good sale for half the watch.
I was wearing it of course when we hit the freeway, we both took some impact damage and got scraped up as we rolled down the lane. I shattered my foot, the watch shattered it's glass and did a lot of internal damage that eventually a couple of hours later as we both lay on the emergency room bed thing it stopped altogether. I made it through my surgery to fix some of my internal damage a few hours later.
After I got home I looked over the watch pretty well and gave it some thought on what to do about it. I almost bought a new watch several times over the next few months but I never took the plunge, nothing was appealing to me over what I had, had. Eventually I sent it in to Seiko just to see how much it'd cost for it's surgery. The price was steep, as much as I had paid for it in the first place. I found new watches online the same make and model and even though they were now discontinued there were some out there, for around $400.00 bucks. Still the more I thought about it the more I thought this watch has history, we both were in a wreck we both got broken and we both are going to be scarred forever. We are both old and battered but we are still ticking. I said fix him. Today I got him back from Seiko. What a match we are.
My only regret in having him fixed is not having them fix it's one original shortcoming. The hands don't glow in the dark. I should have had them put hands on that would. I asked and it'd been about 30 bucks more and they were backordered so no idea how much longer it'd take. Still I should have done it.