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AquaracerBlue said:

Forgive my ignorence, but WIS? Isn't it WUS?

I've met some people on pure chance from some other forums before. Usually you recognize them from a picture they post. It really is a small world afterall.

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• self trained to sleep in 5 positions with wearing his/her COSC certified chronometer in bed.
• opens the back of a new Patek on the first day of acquisition and hand winds the rotor in 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 minute 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 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.
• memorizes all serial numbers of the Rolex watches made in the past 60 years but keeps forgetting the wedding anniversary.
• A WIS is someone who bases his vacation destination on the water resistance rating of his watch.
• 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.
• Can tell you the name, address and phone number of all the high-end watch stores in his home town, but cannot remember the same info re. a relatives residence.
• 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 that time but cannot remember the dinner party he and his significant other are invited to that weekend.
• 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.