Embarrassing watch revelations

[meijlinder]

It's Saturday night and the second bottle of wine has been opened. Feel it's time to come clean. We're all friends here so no need to hide it anymore.

Up until not long enough ago, I thought it was Panerai Radomir and not Radiomir.

I can't be the only one with some skeletons in the closet. I reckon we all have that one piece of information we had completely missed or misinterpreted.

So what were your glaring lacks of knowledge? Did you think Omega was the only watch that's been to space? Perhaps you thought 100m WR actually meant you could take the watch down to 100m?

[OrangeSport]

I always get Parnis and Fortis confused....

Two very different companies!

[MarkO]

I thought Philippe Patek was one person's name, got confused when I kept seeing it the other way round .

[Donf]

On Saturday nights,
after the kids were in bed,
the wife was sound asleep,
the late night 'Creature Feature' was over,
I'd get a beer,
some salty tostados
and a bowl of killer salsa,
check all the windows,
lock the dog outside,
cover the aquarium, .
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and watch Invicta 'infomercials' on shop NBC. During the Jim Skelton era.

[meijlinder]

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and watch Invicta 'infomercials' on shop NBC. During the Jim Skelton era.

We never got those here. Have heard so much about them on forums, so almost want to check if there isn't some on YouTube or similar.

[mlcor]

I will only pronounce names like Jaeger LeCoultre properly when I'm in Europe; I think it sounds silly and pretentious if I do it here in the States. So I'll only say "JLC" here...

[jraul7]

Up until a couple of months ago, I pronounced Heuer like "he-u-er", instead of "HOY-er"

[Nokie]

Still cannot pronounce A. Lange & Sohne........

[OhDark30]

A Lang-uh and Sunn-uh is near enough for me

[geoffbot]

For years I thought an auto (7750) wound ccw. Turns out that's just the click, clicking.