- We've all seen this
one before...We get it often enough that it begs for a
more elaborate definition...
Newbie
Question... What does WIS stand for? (nt)
WIS,
W.I.S. or Watch
Idiot Savant, Defined:-
- Basically it means
Watch Idiot
Savant.
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- Mirriam-Webster's
Dictionary
defines ‘Idiot Savant’ as:
- One entry found
for idiot savant.
Main
Entry: idiot
sa·vant
Pronunciation:
'E-"dyO-sä-'vän,
or same as IDIOT
and savant for
respective singular and plural
forms
Function:
noun
Inflected
Form(s):
plural idiots savants
/-"dyO-sä-'vän(z)/;
or idiot savants
/-'vän(z)/
Etymology:
French, literally, learned idiot
Date:
1927
1 : a mentally defective person
who exhibits exceptional skill or brilliance in
some limited field
2 : a person who is highly
knowledgeable about one subject but knows little
about anything else
- So a Watch
Idiot Savant basically is someone who
is exceptionally skilled, brilliant or
knowledgeable about Watches but is particularly
worthless in most if not all other topics. If you
remember back to the movie “Rain
Man”
starring Dustin
Hoffman and
Tom
Cruise, Dustin
Hoffman played Raymond Babbitt an Idiot Savant who
can count cards at a BlackJack table, tell you the
weather on any day for the past forty years, quote
accident rates for all forms of transportation
methods, knows the entire phone book past the D's
anyway, and is ‘an
excellent driver’.
Hoffman even won an Oscar and a Golden Globe for
his portrayal... So a Watch Idiot Savant is
essentially the same thing except about
watches.
-
- Now there are
subclasses of WIS's as well. Since my watch
collecting focus is Chronographs, one could apply
the CIS or Chronograph Idiot Savant label to me,
etc.
- Hope this
helps...
-
- -- Chuck
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