Watch out

Does it matter if it does everything you want/need? It must have done something right for you to have bought it in the first place.

Wear your metal watch on your right wrist on the few occasions you need something smart, inefficient, maybe showing the wrong date and/or time. 😁

The plastic one? It’s a G Shock digital solar thing. They don’t make that model anymore (it’s about 15 or 16 years old I think) but there are modern versions. 200m waterproof too so ideal for timing yourself in the swimming pool (if that’s of interest)

I got it for biking/swimming/beach wear but since “that” event it has become my main watch.

I got mine for the oxygen sensor. Mrs bpg was nagging me about sleep apnoea, guess who now has an oxygen machine and goes to bed looking like a muzzled Hannibal Lecter. Clue, it isn't me.

I could live without the "you haven't connected with your smartphone for x days" nagging from the watch though.

I’ve been delighted with mine. Had it for 15 years and it still pleases me as much as the day it arrived.

It has a simple, slow-pulsating movement designed for a pocket watch, avoiding some of the reliability hazards of miniaturisation and complication — a bit like a Harley Davidson engine, if you like — so it’s very low-maintenance. Close to no-maintenance, in fact; I replaced the original strap in 2019 but the case has never been opened and it’s still as accurate as ever, to a few seconds a week. It passes my economy-of-effort test.

Eberhard’s biggest market is Italy. Mine came from a shop in the Brompton Arcade but the replacement strap is from a dealer in Naples. The only other place I can recall seeing any in a shop window is the Altstadt in Cologne, not that I’ve spent much time looking. But I like it that I’ve ever seen someone else in a meeting wearing one. You don’t get that with Tag Heuer, or even Rolex.

That’s interesting WDB, nice to have something a little unusual. I had a Tag Night Diver that was my go to “daily driver” for more than 30 years until I gave it to my son about 5 years ago. He had always coveted it and I think I gave it to him when he did well in his A levels.
He has worn it daily since. Must be a robust thing as it still looks and runs well. I sometimes fancy wearing it but that ship has sailed.

Re meetings, coincidentally, you don’t tend to see many plastic digital watches being worn in them either! 😉

I wore the Seiko in the pool last night to see if I could get on with it. Theory being that it wouldn’t weigh much in the water, and it’s on a rubber strap right now. It was ok actually, and half a mile of front crawl got it wound up.

Yes, I have one of those too. I bought it for travel but post-covid it’s become the one I grab if I’m going out and just want something tough and easy to read.

Mine is eight years old and has lost its ability to recover immediately from the dormant state it goes into if left in the dark for more than a day or two. But it’s fine if I leave it in the open, so that’s what I do.