Bottom line is that a watch, ring or any other metal jewelry can become a
heat-sink in a fire. Directly against your skin, it it will burn it.
Two other watch-related vintage racing notes:
1- After years of forgetting to remove my watch while working on my cars &
damaging all too many good watches, I learned about Rado watches -
ceramic-covered links on the bracelet & sapphire crystals. There may be
other similar available, but Rado is what I wear. After 12 years, the clasp
IS scratched. But, that's it. And, I must confess, I don't remove it while
racing.
2- Many vintage racers I've known over the years have been watch collectors.
Found that out many years ago when I worked for a watch magazine & was
showing a racer friend an article on BMW dashboard clocks that had just
appeared in an issue. We ended up as a group of about 6 racers who then
began discussing our watch collections. We generally had far more watches
than collector/race cars. Must be the synergy of our cars & often,
mechanical watches, or what are know as "complications." And, likely our
penchant to collect things.
Norm
'59 Turner, '60 Alfa & a tiny collection of watches dating from the 1800s to
the present
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