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    Craftsman
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    WABI

    We recently had a decorator paint a couple of rooms. I was intrigued by his watch, which he tells me cost him £20 in an unclaimed lost property auction several years ago. He says that at the end of the day he wears it in the bath or if the paint is particularly stubborn, pours a kettle of boiling water on it.



    I've never been a fan of G Shocks but I was impressed. (And yes, he did keep the paint on the walls an not on the carpets).
    David

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    I have a dw5600 I wear for decorating and it has been paint spattered (although nothing like that example!) on dozens of occasions. It comes up like new under a warm tap and the worst blobs come off with a rub of the fingernail. It doesn’t seem to show any ill effects from the paint at all


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    Wabi'd right up.







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    Ignorance breeds Fear. Fear breeds Hatred. Hatred breeds Ignorance. Break the chain.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ralphy View Post
    Wabi'd right up.







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    Ralph, mate, that’s not wabied, that’s wrecked...

    Simon

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    ^ builders watch

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    This thing just won’t die! £40 from Argos nearly 15 years ago.


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    020 by david towerss, on Flickr

    018 by david towerss, on Flickr

    017 by david towerss, on Flickr

    Nw over 20 years old and absolutely hammered to hell and back, still keeps perfect time and is deadly reliable!

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    Old post resurrection!

    No apologies for the resurrection of this post.

    My question is this, is Wabi a total no-no these days?
    I'm sure when I first joined here, there were watches of various stages of Wabi posted in both watch talk and the SC.

    It appears to me everyone expects a watch of no matter what age to be as good as new now.


    Cheers,

    Adam.

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    I actively seek watches with a bit of life on them.
    In fact my more modern, newer watches are not getting worn anymore. I have come to the conclusion they don’t really suit me.
    Watches with ‘wabi’ are unique, no 2 watches will be alike.
    There seems a trend for people to like wabi as long as it’s even and crisp; people moan about hands and dials not matching, even though they were made by different company’s using different batches of lume, yet in the same conversation they moan about vintage colour luminova being fake.
    It seems to me the trend is to want the warmth wabi brings as long as the watch looks brand new which kind of defeats the point to me.
    Last edited by Sinnlover; 20th February 2021 at 22:00.

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