When a Horologist asks you the time...

[Honda]

Years ago when the lake would go down in the winter I would walk the shoreline looking for Indian relics. One day I noticed something odd and it turned out to be a Timex watch buried in the mud. It no doubt had fell off of a fisherman's arm when the water was up. I took it home and cleaned it up good. The time was accurate except one hour behind due to the time change. No telling how long it was down there. I still wear it from time to time. If I were to buy a watch these days I would probably buy one of the fancy Casio units that track the weather altitude and all that kind of stuff.

[Sandman]

I'd hate to be caught by them with a knock off

No..no.. was just kidding.. my knock off was known to all as my Rolodex..

It all came about after I was criticized by out teams sales manager after buying a knock off Gucci watch with half a dozen changeable colored betzel for my 3rd grade daughter to play with..

I would flaunt and quote the Rolodex in the office..

[Dave Grubb]

Now I am going to tell on myself

At some point in time, and I think I was back in the US by that time, I broke the band. Replacing a band is not as simple as you might think and so there was an interval of time where I was without my watch.

To bridge the gap I bought a Seiko electric---and that was a big mistake. I am anal--even for an engineer, and one of the reasons I bought the Rolex was to have a watch that kept perfect time---which it did---almost---but not perfect. The damn Japanese Seiko did I ended up putting the Rolex in the drawer when it came back and continued wearing the Seiko

[UTAH]

Yep, wearing different watches much of the time, you eventually learn which ones you can count on and which ones you cannot. As mentioned by Dave, this is often is not connected to status or price.

Hunter

[mgrist]

Dave mentioning Seiko reminded me that I'm had to of them, I gave my first one to my son and the second was my ex-wife's husband. It looks brand spanking new but needs a battery. I hope that's all it is anyway. whoops, the ex-husbands is a fossil and there's a brand new Nautica. I could have sworn there was a Seiko. I'm drawing a blank imagine that.
I found it, smallish all gold color at least.

[wacojoe]

I guess it is not odd that the geezers around here have not mentioned owning or even wanting an Apple Watch or one of the Android synching ones. Anyone have one or too unimpressed to mention it?

[Truckman]

I guess it is not odd that the geezers around here have not mentioned owning or even wanting an Apple Watch or one of the Android synching ones. Anyone have one or too unimpressed to mention it?

I'm still getting over the shock of actually owning an Apple phone...Maybe after the Omega factory runs out of parts for my watch, I'll try one of those new-fangled ones...But not likely before......Ben