W.I.S.

[Watchnewby]

One is a Watch Idiot Savant (WIS) if he/she does the followings:

1) Your wife/girlfriend is always waiting impatiently at the door for you to go to a function/dinner because you cannot decide which watch to wear for the occasion.

2) You have a powerful LED light by your bedside to charge lume;

3) Regardless of whatever the conversation over a meal, one can always find a way to bring up something about watches, whether modern or vintage.

4) When looking through photo albums, you always look to see which watch you were wearing, and get kind of ticked when your timepiece didn't make it into the picture.

5) You even sleep with your favourite watch on your wrist.

6) You have carpal-tunnel syndrome in your right wrist from winding automatic watches.

7) Out in the open, one will most likely be looking at other people watches.

One have more than 3 watches (I think) in his/her collections.

Any more?

[siodee]

Well, I seldom do that, cause I only like my babes at home 

[Omnipotent]

i'm guilty for #4, 7 and 8..

i would love to try #5 but scared i'll wake up to a dinged watch 

[hanz079]

These are the ones that I can come up on top of my head...

You have a fire in the house and the 1st thing you wanna rescue is your watches.

You run in the rain without protection but keep your wrists and watch in the pockets afraid that it might come into contact with rainwater.

You look at your watch 10 times but not to look at the time.

You actually wait for someone to ask you the time.

You notice a what's on the wrist of a beautiful girl before you check her boobs out.

You spend more time winding your watches than brushing your teeth every morning.

You notice your watch first when you look at the mirror.

You plan your holiday around watch shopping.

You often think of techniques/reasons to hide/justify your purchases from your spouse.

You bought every watch thinking you can leave it for your son/daughter to justify the purchase....

And end up flipping it 6 months down the line to get another.

You think water resistant ratings do not matter coz you are not letting your watch come into contact with water.

You take off your watch when washing you hands.

You know what 7750, 5100, 2824, 2892, 3135, 3186 means.

28800 is the perfect beats per second of a watch movement, not your modems' bitrate.

You buy a watch for everyone in your family to justify an incoming huge purchase for yourself.

You check the latest posts in watch forums like this before you check your email.

You spend more time choosing which watch to wear than your spouse doing her makeup.

You go to the casino to gamble wearing a seamaster bond or rolex sub hoping you can be suave as 007 himself and end up losing loads.

Your whole day is ruined when you found out there's a micro ding on your watch.

You bought 2 of the same watch so that you can wear one and keep one.

You stay in front of the PC looking at the Sirim Malaysian Standard Time Webpage and set all your watches to at least -1/+1 every evening....

And you feel disappointed when one of the watches are off by -3/+3 in the morning...

 

[David_cheong]

hanz079...

Thats a good one. I believe most of the 88%  being said are in the mind of a WIS.

cheerio, and continue to be one...

dc

[GlySinn]

One is a Watch Idiot Savant (WIS) if he/she does the followings:

1) Your wife/girlfriend is always waiting impatiently at the door for you to go to a function/dinner because you cannot decide which watch to wear for the occasion.

2) You have a powerful LED light by your bedside to charge lume;

3) Regardless of whatever the conversation over a meal, one can always find a way to bring up something about watches, whether modern or vintage.

4) When looking through photo albums, you always look to see which watch you were wearing, and get kind of ticked when your timepiece didn't make it into the picture.

5) You even sleep with your favourite watch on your wrist.

6) You have carpal-tunnel syndrome in your right wrist from winding automatic watches.

7) Out in the open, one will most likely be looking at other people watches.

One have more than 3 watches (I think) in his/her collections.

Any more?

Oh dear...... i have an LED torchlight in my car & at home to charge my lume 

[Watchnewby]

Those are good ones for a WIS, Bro Hanz.
I like your third one.

Any other members here would like to contribute?

[hanz079]

The only german that you can pronounce perfectly is Ay Langay Unt Zohnay.

You use the chronograph function to time your trip to the office, your walk to the corner store etc.

You use the tachymetre function to see if it is accurate with your car's speedometer.

You can memorize every Rolex Reference numbers but you can't remember your close relatives phone numbers by heart.

ETA stands for the ebauche manufacturer for you instead of Estimated Time of Arrival.

IWC stands for International Watch Company for you instead of Indah Water Consortium.

You know what PP, VC, ROO and AP stands for.

The only thing that interests you for Wimbledon is the Rolex ads.

[hanz079]

Here are some that I found elsewhere... pretty funny.

Has a annual budget of $500 on the purchase of a new watch and posts the question on the Timezone forum "which one is better? a Rolex or a TAG?"

Wears a triple date chronograph with moon phase everyday, but cannot even tell time from the basic hour and minute hands on the dial without a pair of reading glasses.

Starts winding up his collection of manual wind watches and finishes the last one just as the power reserve on the first one runs out - and then starts all over again.

Ten minutes after meeting someone for the first time, can tell you what kind of watch the person was wearing, but can't remember their name. ;-)

Buys magazines only for the watch ads, reads none of the articles

Has nightmares about Rolex world domination . . .

A Watch Idiot Savant is someone who spend a large fortune on watches to have a small fortune on watches.

Wakes up in the emergency room and asks the nurse if his watch was scratched.

Knows how to set every chronograph ever made but has no idea how to make his VCR display anything besides 12:00.

...if you read a poster on "Back pain" as "Blancpain"

...if you inconspicuously pull your sleeve up to reveal your watch when meeting someone new.

...if you go in a watch store to browse and end up teaching the salespeople how to set and operate all the chronographs.

Borrowed from TZ

[Watchnewby]

From countspin :
(Note: some may be the same as from tz)

W.I.S is someone who :
- opens the back of a new Patek on the first day of acquisition and hand winds the rotor to tighten up the main spring.
- takes the 200 meter water proof Seadweller off from the wrist and puts it into the deepest pocket before walking into a storm without any rain gear.
- waits every 60 minutes in front of a radio controlled clock all weekend in order to adjust all his/her 14 mechanical watches to the accuracy within -2/+2 seconds per 24 hours.
- spends $500 plus on polish equipment and materials and works 20 hours in order to refinish a $200 worth SS bracelet.
- has an annual budget of $500 on the purchase of a new watch and posts the question on the CountSpin chat forum “which one is better? a Rolex or a TAG?”
- wears a triple date chronograph with moon phase everyday, but cannot even tell time from the basic hour and minute hands on the dial without a pair of reading glasses.
- memorizes all serial numbers of the Rolex watches made in the past 60 years but keeps forgetting the wedding anniversary.
- a Watch Idiot Savant is someone who can be so distracted by his watch, that he fails to note the time.
- sends his watch to the Bahamas to ‘unwind.’
- who bases his vacation destination on the water resistance rating of his watch.
- starts winding up his collection of manual wind watches and finishes the last one just as the power reserve on the first one runs out - and then starts all over again.
- politely asks his wife and daughter to be quiet and turns off all noisy appliances so he can listen to the rotar on his new Valjoux-equipped Hamilton Chrono spin.
- ten minutes after meeting someone for the first time, can tell you what kind of watch the person was wearing, but can’t remember their name.
- a WIS is one who can tell you the start up date of most Swiss watch companies but cannot remember his anniversary or his kids birthdays. 
- remembers to wind all his watches, but forgets to take out the garbage on garbage pick-up day.
- can recall every watch purchase and what he was doing at the time he snagged the deal on CountSpin but cannot remember the dinner party he and his significant other are invited to that weekend.
- meets Cindy Crawford and notices her “my choice” Constellation long before her chest.
- has a watch collection that equals the cost of a new 911 but drives a Toyota Camry. 
- convinces his wife to put off having that next kid so he can get a Patek 5035.
- plans a vacation strictly around watch shopping.
- has the number of the Naval Observatory Master Clock on speed-dial, or worse memorizes it.
- knows personal details of posters on watch forums.   
- spends more time gazing at and fondling his new watch than he does his significant other.
- thinks about watches, not baseball, during coitus.
- has nightmares about Rolex world domination.
- a Watch Idiot Savant is someone who spend a large fortune on watches to have a small fortune on watches.
- someone who remembers what watch their proctologist was wearing.
- one who considers safe sex putting their watch in a Scatola del Tempo box.
- is a person who cannot deal with anyone whose hands don’t point to 10 and 2.
- wakes up in the emergency room and asks the nurse if his watch was scratched.
- takes off his watch before sex.
- knows the two-letter Internet country code for Switzerland.
- gets his watches serviced more often than he gets his cars serviced.
- thinks that Ferraris are made by Girard-Perregaux and wonders why Porsches are made by so many different companies.
- knows how to set every chronograph ever made but has no idea how to make his VCR display anything besides 12:00.
- owns more watches than the guy selling fake Rolexes on 42nd Street.
- thinks that Gilbert and Schugart wrote “HMS Pinafore”.
- actually looks forward to having strangers ask him for the time.
- buys a Tag-Heuer so his 3-year-old can learn to tell time.
- owns $15K worth of watches and wakes up to a $15 Sony digital alarm clock.

[Scott C.]

OOOoohh NO!!!

But i have pass this stage already kakakaka but occasionally i still buy new watch la 

[watchmanu]

Hi MWF mates,

Got one scenario to shared. 

Hubby : Baby, which watch you want to wear today? 
Wifey : Hubby, which watch you will wear? 
Hubby : I'm gonna wear OMEGA today. 
Wifey : OK la, i will wear OMEGA also. 

Are we (husband and wife) WIS too? 

[watchmanu]

Hi MWF mates,

Got another one scenario to shared. 

Hubby : Baby, which watch you want to wear today? 
Wifey : Hubby, which watch you will wear?   
Hubby : I'm gonna wear ROLEX today.   
Wifey : OK la but but but i don't have Rolex la. 
Hubby : Nevermind, temporary wear Rado la which Rolex look-a-like. 
Wifey : OK lor, what to do...yani. 
Wifey : But hubby promise to buy me Rolex ar. 
Hubby : "boleh" 

Are we (husband and wife) WIS too? 

[Hellkite]

My fiance will just space out and give monosyllabic answers most of the time when I talk about watches. Guess I haven't been working hard enough to convert her. Hehe..

[siodee]

Hi MWF mates,

Got another one scenario to shared. 

Hubby : Baby, which watch you want to wear today? 
Wifey : Hubby, which watch you will wear?   
Hubby : I'm gonna wear ROLEX today.   
Wifey : OK la but but but i don't have Rolex la. 
Hubby : Nevermind, temporary wear Rado la which Rolex look-a-like. 
Wifey : OK lor, what to do...yani. 
Wifey : But hubby promise to buy me Rolex ar. 
Hubby : "boleh" 

Are we (husband and wife) WIS too? 

Well, definitely, both of you share the same interest, WIS.  Unless with the scenario below

Hubby : Baby, which watch you want to wear today? 
Wifey : Hubby, which watch you will wear?   
Hubby : I'm gonna wear Omega today.   
Wifey : OK la but but but i don't have Omega la. 
Hubby : Nevermind, you can wear Tag atau DKNY la. 
Wifey : OK lor, what to do...yani. 
Wifey : But hubby promise to buy me Omega ar dengan satu diamond necklace, atau cincin pun boleh. 
Hubby : Huh, beli watches and diamond, kenapa sayang? Abang cari makan susah la...
Wifey : Kesian nya, tapi abang beli itu Omega pun saya tak tahu, abang kena fair juga, ok la...abang kerja susah betul, macam itu, diamond sudah cukup, apa kata abang???
Hubby :   
 

 

[watchmanu]

My fiance will just space out and give monosyllabic answers most of the time when I talk about watches. Guess I haven't been working hard enough to convert her. Hehe..

hellkite, do not convert her. share the "poison" with her! 

[watchmanu]

Well, definitely, both of you share the same interest, WIS.  Unless with the scenario below

Hubby : Baby, which watch you want to wear today? 
Wifey : Hubby, which watch you will wear?   
Hubby : I'm gonna wear Omega today.   
Wifey : OK la but but but i don't have Omega la. 
Hubby : Nevermind, you can wear Tag atau DKNY la. 
Wifey : OK lor, what to do...yani. 
Wifey : But hubby promise to buy me Omega ar dengan satu diamond necklace, atau cincin pun boleh. 
Hubby : Huh, beli watches and diamond, kenapa sayang? Abang cari makan susah la...
Wifey : Kesian nya, tapi abang beli itu Omega pun saya tak tahu, abang kena fair juga, ok la...abang kerja susah betul, macam itu, diamond sudah cukup, apa kata abang???
Hubby :     

 

+10   

[Hellkite]

My fiance will just space out and give monosyllabic answers most of the time when I talk about watches. Guess I haven't been working hard enough to convert her. Hehe..

hellkite, do not convert her. share the "poison" with her! 

Sharing... but different people have different interests.. Part of being human.