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Do You Wear A Watch ?
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Given that you can tell the time from your phone, I pad, cooker, fridge and TV etc do you really need one, if so why?
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It fascinates me that Theland thinks that some of us take our cookers and fridges out with us. TTT takes a kettle but they're not inconvenient
16:11 Sat 16th Jan 2021
in my watch winder case I have one of these, it's the only thing that my dad left me: https:/
different colour face otherwise the same.
different colour face otherwise the same.
blimey, Chris, time is money in your case. You can have mine a lot cheaper
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Nothing wrong with Sekonda, Chris. Once attended a jewellers which had just been blown up (in Belfast, 70s) and the jeweller sold me a Sekonda whose only 'bomb damage' was the fact the second hand would not return to zero when using the stop-watch facility. Can't remember how much i paid for it, but the jeweller no doubt claimed for it on his insurance. For a good few years after that, i bought nothing but Sekonda watches and the most paid was about £70.
Tora, love the GP, very 70s! I don’t have any retro ones, unless you count a Tag Monaco but that’s a repro of the Steve McQueen one
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Yes I’d forgotten you needed 2 hands to operate the digital ones. Crazy, and it seemed like the end of the analogue watch at the time. How wrong we were.
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Yes I’d forgotten you needed 2 hands to operate the digital ones. Crazy, and it seemed like the end of the analogue watch at the time. How wrong we were.
yes, well they were a great novelty but ultimately impractical. Soon superseded by the LCD ones, and I do have a retro Casio one of those:
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I also got a binary watch for a laugh, no computer programmer should be without one. It totally mystifies non IT people when you tell the time with it!
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I have worn a watch since the day I had one as a child, I was fascinated with its luminous dial and was forever looking at it under the bedclothes.
It may be a generation thing, but having grown up before there were mobile phones and digital clocks, a watch meant you always knew what the time was, and I still check my watch for the time, never my phone.
With regard to expensive watches, unless it actually looks as expensive as it is, and is therefore a jewelry accessory, I can't see the point of paying a fortune for a watch. I paid about thirty pounds for mine more than ten years ago, and it doesn't tell me the time three times less well than it would if I had paid three hundred pounds for it.
In fact, thinking about it, a watch is one of the few items you can buy where you achieve absolutely no improvement or loss in functionality whatsoever, no matter how much or little you pay for it.
It may be a generation thing, but having grown up before there were mobile phones and digital clocks, a watch meant you always knew what the time was, and I still check my watch for the time, never my phone.
With regard to expensive watches, unless it actually looks as expensive as it is, and is therefore a jewelry accessory, I can't see the point of paying a fortune for a watch. I paid about thirty pounds for mine more than ten years ago, and it doesn't tell me the time three times less well than it would if I had paid three hundred pounds for it.
In fact, thinking about it, a watch is one of the few items you can buy where you achieve absolutely no improvement or loss in functionality whatsoever, no matter how much or little you pay for it.
I'd like Jack Reacher's skill - always knowing the time to the minute, without a watch.
Although, interestingly, he wore a watch in the earlier novels, and not in the later ones, although surely such a skill would have been present throughout his life - it's not something you can learn.
My late father-in-law never wore a watch but always knew the time within ten minutes.
Although, interestingly, he wore a watch in the earlier novels, and not in the later ones, although surely such a skill would have been present throughout his life - it's not something you can learn.
My late father-in-law never wore a watch but always knew the time within ten minutes.
AH: "I can't see the point of paying a fortune for a watch" - depends on the watch but essentially a Rolex, for example, is an investment. Years ago an old mate of mine said if you have savings Rolexes are free, just buy one and it well never be worth any less. I bought a Rolex Submariner Steel 16610 in 1997 for £1800 - it's now £5k minimum, mine was a lot better than free and also its incredibly tough, accurate and reliable.
Zacs - // Andy, using your analogy, I could buy a t shirt and jeans from Primark for about £30, but there are times I need (and feel good) in a suit. //
Your analogy does not work.
A suit looks and feels completely different from a tee-shirt and jeans, and each is appropriate in its own social setting, and not in the other's - so a comparison is meaningless.
Whereas a thirty pound watch tells the time in exactly the same way as a three-hundred pound watch. It may have gizmos like phases of the moon, but the basic function and motivation for carrying either is precisely the same - to tell the time.
Your analogy does not work.
A suit looks and feels completely different from a tee-shirt and jeans, and each is appropriate in its own social setting, and not in the other's - so a comparison is meaningless.
Whereas a thirty pound watch tells the time in exactly the same way as a three-hundred pound watch. It may have gizmos like phases of the moon, but the basic function and motivation for carrying either is precisely the same - to tell the time.
TTT - // AH: "I can't see the point of paying a fortune for a watch" - depends on the watch but essentially a Rolex, for example, is an investment. Years ago an old mate of mine said if you have savings Rolexes are free, just buy one and it well never be worth any less. I bought a Rolex Submariner Steel 16610 in 1997 for £1800 - it's now £5k minimum, mine was a lot better than free and also its incredibly tough, accurate and reliable. //
Buying a watch as investment is one thing - buying it to tell the time is another, and as I pointed out, a three hundred pound watch does not tell the time ten times better than a thirty pound watch, and that is what you buy a watch for.
Buying a watch as investment is one thing - buying it to tell the time is another, and as I pointed out, a three hundred pound watch does not tell the time ten times better than a thirty pound watch, and that is what you buy a watch for.
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