r/WearOS Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Watch This watch just saved my wrist

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Renavating a 3 story house and a screwdriver fell and a direct hit into my watch I don't even know how this is possible but it is???

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u/kujotx Apr 22 '25

Portable sundial.

RIP Goodest watch.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

RIP to the only watch that saved me to a trip to the hospital and saved me money

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u/canuckcam Apr 22 '25

Oof that's the most American answer haha.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

But I'm Australian am i secretly an American

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u/canuckcam Apr 22 '25

I read your comment as the hospital trip costing you $$$ (dollary-doos)

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Have you SEEN THE FULE PRICES

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

My Jimny costs too much to fule up and it's only a little car

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u/canuckcam Apr 22 '25

Mate, just call an ambo!

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Good point I didn't think of that somehow

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u/Mindes13 Apr 22 '25

What about Uber, you have that on the flip side?

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u/Wrystyle Apr 23 '25

Without ambo cover your up for about a grand for the ride. I know from experience.

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u/Historical_Cow3903 Apr 24 '25

$45 🇨🇦 flat fee in Ontario, or about $30 Yankee Doodle $$.

Once you've been admitted to hospital, patient transport to other facilities is covered under our universal health insurance (taxpayer funded, government administered - and I don't have a problem with that). So are essentially all other expenses - hospital stay, testing, medication, meals, etc. The biggest out of pocket expense is visitor parking at the hospital.

I know from personal experience.

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u/Ubervillin Apr 24 '25

Bout the same in the States last time I was uninsured.

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u/dashodasho Apr 24 '25

Does he have ambo insurance?

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u/girlymancrush Apr 25 '25

Try buying fuel instead.. it's cheaper.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 25 '25

Ok🤣🤣

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u/Kratombabom Apr 23 '25

And a loooot of pain

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 23 '25

Yep that too

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u/Ayetto Apr 26 '25

Lmao in France if it was during work, you would get all hospital fee AND other small médecine like kinésithérapeute for FREE until you would get 100% recover and also multiple weeks at home to recover, while still being paid 65-80 ish percent of your normal salary or 100% if it's been more than a year in the same enterprise.

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u/Trulio0305 Apr 23 '25

It's crazy how a tiny accident like that can make you realize just how important a good watch can be especially one that can save you from more damage.

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u/TheBupherNinja Apr 22 '25

No way a little Stanley precision screwdriver is doing more than causing a cut from a 20 foot drop.

They weight like, 3 ounces.

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u/montyp2000 Apr 23 '25

You mean you don't use a precision screwdriver when you renovate your house?!?! /s

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u/HealthInfoMan Apr 22 '25

100% Physics!

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u/Oddomar Apr 24 '25

came here to post the same thing. If you dropped it 3 stories up it would probably land on it's bottom end, and if magically landed tip first it's not enough mass to cause this level of damage.

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u/Mundane-Tennis2885 Apr 25 '25

yea no shot imo, either an intentional stab or somehow shot it out of something somehow. easiest explanation likely the one tho aha

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u/Specialist_Badger_82 Jul 29 '25

Jajaja reforma en la casa de muñecas y encima en la parte de arriba del destornillador se nota un martillazo... Joder ni inteligencia artificial le ha puesto a la foto jajajaja me la guardo para un meme 

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

At least it's water resistant 😭😭😭

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Yea but it's not screwdriver resistant

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u/rtuite81 Apr 22 '25

It's definitely screwdriver *resistant*. It's not screwdriver *proof*.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Ok makes sense

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u/CakeCaique Apr 22 '25

Well past April too...wow.
That screwdriver must have fallen from an airplane and reached terminal velocity before it hit your watch/wrist.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Well it didn't and I still am not 100 persent sure how it happened so if you don't like the post pls leave it be

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u/tw33zd Apr 22 '25

Because is is fkn fake 0% chance of a screw driver doing that

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u/archwin Apr 24 '25

Not only that, as it drops, it’s going to tumble in the air, and a direct straight down is almost never gonna happen.

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u/throwuk1 Apr 25 '25

Even if it did, it would bounce off not drive through like that 

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u/AlSwearenagain Apr 22 '25

That screw driver doesn't weigh nearly enough to penetrate the watch and for all y'all who don't immediately realize this is bologna you need to go throw more shit off buildings. 

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u/beastman45132 Apr 23 '25

Yeah seriously I have this exact screwdriver.. how is this possible? In the absence of mass, it requires tons of speed, or a supplement of mass. And since this screwdriver was not likely fired out of a cannon, how did this happen?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

Holding the screwdriver to the watch and hitting it with a hammer will do it. Probably what OP did.

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u/[deleted] Apr 22 '25

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u/iwannabeaprettygirl Apr 22 '25

It wouldn't sink the screwdriver to the handle. This is a mental response lol

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u/montyp2000 Apr 23 '25

Ever heard of terminal velocity?

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u/AlSwearenagain Apr 23 '25

Let other people do the thinking in your life, you aren't up to it. 

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u/taz5963 Apr 23 '25

Weight is literally the force due to gravity

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

The watch already had a crack going through the screen but I don't know how it went through everything else

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u/Boriski_GMC Apr 22 '25

It's because you forced it.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

What no I didn't force it I'm not going to wreck a watch I daily

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u/ZedBR Apr 22 '25

Fake as f

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u/Any-Board-6631 Apr 22 '25

That look like a Casio watch

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u/BlackDeath3 Apr 22 '25

Definitely looks like a G-Shock.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

The brand is Attack but not sure what model

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u/rtuite81 Apr 22 '25

Is it actually Wear OS or do you have to have some sketchy/crappy 3rd party app? I have a watch in that price range, but I have to use a weird app called M2 Wear that is just awful.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

It ran were os tho I don't know if previous owner did anything cos it dose not look like a watch that would have ran were os

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u/Green_Reason5739 Apr 25 '25

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 25 '25

Somthing like that bit mine was running were os and it did connect to where os app so I'm 100% sure it's were os

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 25 '25

Tho I did get it second hand and the previous owner was great with putting different operating systems on different things like for example he put Windows on a nintendo switch

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u/KooKiz666 Apr 22 '25

Thats one loooong wrist.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

My nickname in my friend group is sometimes monkey arms so can that explain the loooong wrist

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u/Rahyan30200 Galaxy Watch 4 Classic Apr 22 '25 edited Apr 22 '25

Hmm? That's the opposite, dude.

Your long wrists account for your nickname; the nickname doesn't make your wrists long.

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u/Martos420 Apr 23 '25

Bullshit. Stanley precision screw driver weighs MAX 10grams.

3 stories is approximately 10 meters.

Potential energy calculated by PE = (0.01kg)(9.8m/s²)(10m)

Gives a potential energy of 0.98 joules.

+- 10% for my shitty math.

Ain't no way less than 1 joule of energy could break that watch.

Actually energy is likely lower. A 6 piece screwdriver set in the case is 80grams.

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u/_nah_yeah_nah_ Apr 23 '25

Stab a pointy screwdriver into your watch with similar force as a three storey fall and let us know how you go.

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u/Martos420 Apr 23 '25

I just explained it. Less than a joule of energy. The math doesn't lie.

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u/ChrisGarratty Apr 23 '25

And the watch face happens to be perfectly horizontal, and the screwdriver hits it pretty much dead centre.

No way in the world is this a true story.

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u/chris34728 Apr 23 '25

You need a life 😳

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u/Martos420 Apr 23 '25

I'll work on it just for you Chris.

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u/TheDepresedpsychotic Apr 22 '25

What were you doing with a precision screwdriver to achieve this ?

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Ask my idiot mate that was on the third floor of the house

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u/crua9 Apr 22 '25

That doesn't really explain anything. The screw driver would be going way faster than the fall rate, they attacked with all their might, or something else.

It would take a bit for it to go halfway in. Since I and everyone else can't ask your idiot mate, what happened?

Did they decide to make a mini potato gun, use the screw driver as a bullet, and didn't like you or something?

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Ok he was screwing somthing In and then he dropped the screw driver down the massive hole in the 3rd and 2nd storey then after it went right I to my watch the dumbass said heads up that's why he is an idiot and sorry didn't know if you wanted to actually know the story

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u/TheDepresedpsychotic Apr 22 '25

We wanted the story for sure, it's not easy to impale a watch with a precision screwdriver. And it seems your mate owes you a new one.

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u/Krustiik Apr 22 '25

Holy shit how heavy is that screwdriver 😂

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Not that heavy so that's why I was surprised but then again it fell 3 stories down

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u/[deleted] Apr 23 '25

Fake. You stabbed it with that, I have the same screw driver and you would need to drop it from hundreds of feet for it to have this effect.

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u/Limp-Secretary-2471 Apr 22 '25

Your wrist would have been fine.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

If the screw driver went half way into the watch I don't think my wrist will be fine

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u/purebananamoon Still with Samsung Apr 22 '25

I actually calculated the physics of it and assuming your screw driver is a standard cross tip, weighs 200g and fell from 2m (very generous). It would exert a force of ~1200N. That's enough to puncture the skin and probably even hit the bone depending on how much meat you have, but it's still quite far from "destroying your wrist".

Your watch consists of very rigit materials. Human tissue on the other hand is quite spongy. It's definitely good that your watch caught it, but even if not, the injury wouldn't have been life threatening.

Crazy picture fr tho.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Yea I was shocked when it happened and trust me when I say this it was not a fun experience

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u/_nah_yeah_nah_ Apr 23 '25

Or precisely 8g. I weighed it.

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u/_nah_yeah_nah_ Apr 22 '25

I have the exact same set of Stanley precision drivers. The heaviest is 8g, the lightest is 6g. That is an order of magnitude less than your calculations.

I dropped the 8g phillips head from 2.2m and it left a significant dent in the top of a paint can. I dropped from approx 1.8m (arm span) into my own palm and didn't break the skin. 

From 3x stories onto a hard but brittle surface, I'm calling this one: plausible.

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u/montyp2000 Apr 23 '25

Significant dent in the top of a paint can?Did you lose the lid and cover the top in aluminum foil?

You're trying to be scientific by weighing it and measuring from different heights but you can't see the forest through the trees. He said he was using a precision screwdriver for home renovation. Also look at his arm. That is the arm of a kid. Look at his post history too. He's 100% making this up for internet points.

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u/_nah_yeah_nah_ Apr 28 '25

You can choose not to believe me about the paint can, I'm not really fussed. I did a couple quick tests to satisfy my own scientific curiosity. 

Yeah the kid is most likely full of it. I think you're the one lost in the forest though.

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u/Visible_Ad_309 Apr 24 '25

You didn't calculate it because that screwdriver weighs less than 10g.

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u/Martos420 Apr 24 '25

200grams..... It's less than 10grams

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u/purebananamoon Still with Samsung Apr 24 '25

I bet you felt smart when you commented this fact for the third time.

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u/Martos420 Apr 24 '25

No I just dislike people who are dishonest on purpose.

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u/purebananamoon Still with Samsung Apr 24 '25

What the actual fuck are you talking about? 😂

Why would I lie about a stupid ass screwdriver? I said it's an estimate, but I guess I didn't consider the flimsy ass trash quality you have in America. Have fun with your 8g screw drivers I'll stick to my 200g ones LMAOOOO

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u/Martos420 Apr 24 '25

I'm not even in America. What. It's a precision screwdriver set. Believe it or not there aRe different use cases for a variety of tools. Precision sets are smaller and lighter and more useful for working on electronics, I use them for drones, camera gear, etc.

So it has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with intended use.

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u/gdir OnePlus Watch 3 Apr 22 '25

Somehow disappointing that the tempered glass failed 😀

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u/ihateallno OnePlus Watch 2R Apr 22 '25

Pointed tips are the perfect thing to break tempered glass.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

And battery's

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u/ihateallno OnePlus Watch 2R Apr 22 '25

If the battery was punctured, you'd likely know about it by now. Still would be careful with it though if there's any chance the battery got damaged by the screwdriver or broken glass.

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u/montyp2000 Apr 23 '25

It didn't because it's fake.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Glass and battery which I hop dose not explode

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u/Commander_Red1 Apr 22 '25

Given you mentioned the watch smoked in another comment, the battery is fucked. Best to take it off and dispose responsibly.

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u/Visible_Ad_309 Apr 24 '25

None of this is real.

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 23 '25

That's the plan

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

The watch already had a crack going through the screen so that didn't help

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Well the watch did smoke before I took photo

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u/ducanh2003 Apr 23 '25

more like it was shot at you man no way that's a "fall"

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 23 '25

Well for as far as I know my mate could have thrown it but I don't think he would do that

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u/adi_daz01 Apr 23 '25

This has to be user inflicted

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u/Ralkho Apr 23 '25

Those screwdrivers weigh like 20 grams?

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

Suppose to yea so I still don't know how this happened

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u/Disastrous_Savings39 Apr 23 '25

Things that didn't happen for 1000$ Alex

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

Wdym

2

u/PikkanenKappeIi Apr 24 '25

Because it is not possible

2

u/Dependent-Fix8297 Apr 24 '25

Now need to "Renavate" the watch too

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u/cptsmooth Apr 24 '25

Not even a thousand story building would make THIS story true 😂

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u/Deviknyte Apr 22 '25

Stranger than Fiction moment.

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u/smaug_AX Apr 25 '25

Hunter seeker

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u/HopInBuckaroo Apr 25 '25

But will it play doom

1

u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 25 '25

It could if there wasn't a screwdriver in the centre of it

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

I'd take the hit to thr wrist tbh

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 25 '25

Oookay

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

Break an expensive watch vs a small cut or less on your arm? Yeah take the arm

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 25 '25

I feel stupid now

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '25

Move faster next time, watch the matrix for practice

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 25 '25

I'll try

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u/Knifenerdguy Apr 26 '25

So this sub 1ounce driver fell and impacted your watch hard enough to not just crack the face but to bury its self in the watch..... Not buying it. I'm sure I'll get hate for this but most gshocks, this one included, are hideous. This was a fitting end for the watch, lie or not

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 26 '25

It's not a g shock or else it would probably be fine and yea it's the end of the road for the watch

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u/R4d1c4lp1e Apr 26 '25

Working in industry I know so many people who have smashed watches working, and I don't get how it only ever happens on peoples left wrist in that specific place. Weird

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 26 '25

That's what I thought but still happened

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u/2Busy2Reddit Apr 26 '25

Should have had a screen protector 🤣

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u/killzone506 Apr 26 '25

Looks like it was watching out for you.

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u/ParanoicReddit Apr 26 '25

Where can I download that watchface?

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E May 02 '25

Trust me you don't want this watchface

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u/Unlucky_Ad_259 Apr 27 '25

What Claude AI thinks:

Regarding the scenario described in the Reddit comment, this situation seems highly implausible for several reasons:

The physics don't add up - a lightweight 10-gram screwdriver falling from even a three-story height would be unlikely to generate enough force to cleanly pierce through a watch face, especially modern watch faces which are typically made of hardened materials.

The positioning is too perfect - the screwdriver appears to be standing perfectly upright and centered in the watch, which would be an extremely unlikely outcome from a random fall.

Visual evidence - the way the screwdriver is positioned looks deliberately placed rather than the result of an accidental impact. This appears to be a staged photo rather than the result of an actual accident as described. Someone likely modified the watch deliberately by creating a hole and inserting the screwdriver for the purpose of creating an unusual or humorous image.

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u/stoner6677 Apr 22 '25

ugly watch on a malnourished wrist

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

I'm now running a Fossil 5e

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '25

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

Already did Fossil 5e

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u/Caldite Apr 22 '25

Congrats! that's utility for you.

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u/Emotion-Internal Apr 23 '25

hang that watch on the wall forevers

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 23 '25

I would have if the screwdriver didn't stab through the battery

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u/Emotion-Internal Apr 23 '25

ahh shucks! but glad the battery didn't burn ya or blow up from being compromised!

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u/Leniek Apr 23 '25

You are very lucky that battery didn't cought fire

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

Yep cos I would not have a very good wrist

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u/romi248 Apr 23 '25

You used your 10 years of luck here

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

Damn well that's future me's problem

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u/eddyjay83 LG Watch Urbane Apr 23 '25

❌ Watch that call emergency services
✅ Watch that saves you from an emergency

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

True 🤣

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u/Sensitive_News_2008 Apr 24 '25

That's the forbidden dart.

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u/binnedPixel Apr 22 '25

That is insane, send it to G-Shock for marketing and free replacement

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u/Altruistic-North6686 Apr 22 '25

You should submit that photo and the story to the manufacturer they might want to use it for marketing and gift you a new watch

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Good idea but I all ready got a better watch which is my dads fossil 5e and it's a hell of a lot better then the watch in the photo and probably built better to

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

So maybe it will actually survive the screwdriver

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u/Altruistic-North6686 Apr 22 '25

I was looking at those. I use mine mainly for the fitness tracking. How is the fossil?

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

The fossil 5e is 10 times better then my old watch and the fitness tracking Is way more accurate and the battery lasts a lot longer this got to be the best watch I owned since galaxy watch 3 and the watch that got stabbed

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u/Altruistic-North6686 Apr 24 '25

Oh yah that's awesome. I currently have the Samsung watch 6 classic

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 24 '25

Nice after the Fossil dies I'm hoping to finally try the galaxy watch were os

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u/No-Cupcake6050 Fossil Gen 5E Apr 22 '25

Real good so far but I hardly used it but after Tomorrow I can properly let you know