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May 25, 2022 8:14:06 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2022 8:14:06 GMT
I have a couple of “good” watches. Always liked them as both timepieces and as a form of jewellery.
Anyway, they both have metal straps and clearly at the moment, they won’t fit over a plaster cast.
Neither will fit on my right wrist either as it must be thicker than my left (stop it!)
Adjusting them would require the insertion of links and I just couldn’t be bothered with that for what is hopefully a short while.
So, I’ve been wearing, on my right wrist, my Casio GShock digital thing which has a plastic strap with a buckle.
It normally only gets used on occasions when I’m doing something active or potentially hazardous to an expensive watch.
Had the thing for nigh on 20 years I guess.
It is solar powered and is 100% accurate all the time due to picking up a radio time signal. Very comfortable to wear, weighs very little, is dive standard waterproof and it “knows” what time it is wherever it is in the world. It has an alarm, a stop watch and it knows when to adjust from BST to GMT. Oh, and it lights up if you want it to.
It could hardly be described as a thing of beauty I suppose, but the thought hasn’t escaped me that it’s actually way more useful than either of the others.
Think it cost about 80 quid back then. Which sounds like a lot for a plastic watch I suppose, but it has never needed a service or a battery.
Makes me wonder why I don’t just wear it all the time really.
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May 25, 2022 8:35:20 GMT
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Post by bpg on May 25, 2022 8:35:20 GMT
Funny things watches. Think I've mentioned before I've always thought I wanted a Breitling Navtimer until recently when my wife offered to buy me one and I couldn't justify the amount in head for a watch.
We've now had a front door fitted that cost twice as much. Buy shares in companies that supply and fit front doors in Germany. 🤯
Back to watches. I bought a smartwatch at the start of year, full email on your wrist, Michael Knight control the radio in the car, blood oxygen levels, heart rate, exercise monitor blah blah blah.
It requires a charge every 24-36 hours, I can't be bothered. It's another desk ornament.
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 8:47:43 GMT
Never seen the need for anything other than a 10 quid Casio, and even having said that I don't wear mine any more as I have a phone with me at all times. The only time I miss a watch is on the very rare occasion I'm sitting with someone, need to glance at the time and don't want to make it all that obvious by pulling a phone out of my pocket. But I think that's happened once since I started forgetting to put a watch on in the mornings. Of course these days glancing at a watch also involves getting my glasses out of a pocket first...sigh.
Utterly superfluous to my life now.
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May 25, 2022 8:50:30 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2022 8:50:30 GMT
Well, both of my “other” watches have Swiss automatic mechanical movements. Neither keeps particularly accurate time and need adjustments a couple of times a week.
That, and servicing them every few years at no mean cost.
Think I might have had a mini epiphany.
Could sell them and buy another bike I guess…
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May 25, 2022 8:53:06 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2022 8:53:06 GMT
Yeah, y’see, I don’t want a phone with me at all times, or at least I don’t want one that’s switched on all the time. I quite like being off the grid a bit sometimes.
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May 25, 2022 8:57:23 GMT
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Post by WDB on May 25, 2022 8:57:23 GMT
I’ve gone plastic watch too but in a different way. Years ago I had a succession of ‘Up’ fitness tracker bands that I wore on my right wrist. They didn’t do much — and had no built-in display — but fed activity information to an excellent iPhone app that let me compare my activity levels from day to day and give my not-so-inner geek some numbers to use motivation. Sadly, the software was better than the hardware and the things kept breaking, to the point where I (and everyone else who’d bought one) gave up.
Then in 2020 I bought a similarly bijou Garmin Vivo Sport. This has a heart rate monitor and GPS that yield useful information on bike rides and similar. And it has a display. I started out wearing it on the right, but something about my WAH desk meant that it kept snagging on the edge while I worked a mouse. And I wasn’t really going anywhere anyway, so I swapped it to the left and left the watch in a drawer. And that’s where it still is. I do occasionally bring it out if I’m meeting someone, but the little Garmin is usually all the watch I need. It needs charging but usually only a couple of times a week and that can be done in half an hour while I’m at my desk.
I have a nice watch and a couple of useful ones, but I doubt now that I’ll ever see through my own Breitling idea. (I like the Superocean Heritage with the blue dial and the mesh bracelet. But it’s £4,000, which would buy a lot of socks to keep in the same drawer.)
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 8:59:52 GMT
Yeah, y’see, I don’t want a phone with me at all times, or at least I don’t want one that’s switched on all the time. I quite like being off the grid a bit sometimes. Yeah there is that. Although you can use Do Not Disturb mode. A phone is a far handier thing to have about you than a watch in case of an emergency though (such as a bone-breaking bicycle accident out in the sticks...). |
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May 25, 2022 9:06:52 GMT
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Post by WDB on May 25, 2022 9:06:52 GMT
Best not try getting it out to check the time as you ride, though. I don’t think Humph was advocating no phone, ever.
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May 25, 2022 9:25:54 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2022 9:25:54 GMT
I find phones are a bit inconvenient in swimming pools too…
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May 25, 2022 9:43:10 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2022 9:43:10 GMT
Just googled that Garmin Vivo thing. That is quite pleasingly even nerdier than my g shock. Fair play!
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Post by EspadaIII on May 25, 2022 10:57:36 GMT
I have lots of watches sitting in a drawer at home including a nice Swiss automatic..
About 15 years ago I bought a Seiko quartz with Date, Seconds, Minutes, Hours and luminous display, Fabric strap. It cost £100 and I bought it for travelling, with a slim but sturdy steel case which is waterproof. It has had no more than four batteries and one new seal. I now wear it constantly. Easy to read, smart enough for most events, and has taken a battering without complaint.
I keep looking at a Smart Watches but I don't want to be disturbed to whole time. I am sure if I bought one it would soon find its way into the drawer....
But I feel naked without a watch on... otherwise I would simply use my phone/computer for the time.
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May 25, 2022 11:06:07 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2022 11:06:07 GMT
Seiko make very good watches. Good choice.
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May 25, 2022 11:16:03 GMT
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Post by Humph on May 25, 2022 11:16:03 GMT
I know what you mean by the feeling naked thing.
I’m starting to feel the same about socks. Age thing no doubt, but I’m very reluctant to be without socks these days. 😬
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Post by EspadaIII on May 25, 2022 15:20:57 GMT
Men wearing shoes without socks are making a fashion statement - and that statement is "look at me, I like sweaty, slimy feet; so I must be stupid"
This bloke is a perfect example... Pierpaolo Piccioli. I now regret ever reading Espadrille's 'Hello'.
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Post by bpg on May 25, 2022 15:58:27 GMT
I used to feel naked without a watch, now I have to remember to put one on.
When I do wear a watch my daily watch is a Slow Round 08. It has one hand that goes round the dial once per day. It's pretty handy at helping carve the day up. I don't need to know to the exact minute what time it is and most of my meetings start on the hour or half hour.
The battery is reportedly good for four years and can be changed anywhere.
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