...they simply want to see what type of watch you wear.
Yeah, I'm a Horologist. It took me some years to recognize the syndrome. My wife pointed out my incessant need to accurately track time when I bought my first auto-winder. The soothing sounds of their motions have become somewhat of a sleep aid. And, helpfully, they keep my watches wound even when I'm away from home on trips. If any of you, my friends, are in Salt Lake City or Las Vegas and need a watch worked on, I'm your guy. I now have all the watch tools I need. Fortunately, they're so small they take up very little space.
Sadly, the new generation is not "into" watches. For, they carry their cell phones with them, that display the time. Fortunately, my Nephew (the doctor) is into automatic watches as well. We enjoy showing our collection to each other and discussing the merits/shortfalls of the same.
Hunter
I don't care if it hurts. I want to have control. I want a perfect body. I want a perfect soul. - Creep by Radiohead
My old wrist watch is in need of yet another rebuild...Since its last overhaul about 8 years ago, the little pushbuttons for the chronometer functions have both come off (I found one and saved it), and it seems to gain a minute every couple of days...The guy I went to here has since retired, and the OEM rep in Houston wants me to bring it in so they can send it to the factory...I don't know if I would live long enough to get it back, so I continue to wear it...
Sadly I have no current plans for a trip out west......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
I haven't worn a watch in at least the last 40-50 years. I hate metal stuff hanging off my body. I do have a 25 year watch the county gave me but I've never worn it.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible - Arthur C. Clarke
I can’t stand it when I forget my watch. Mine are always relatively cheap “railroad” watches with clear Arabic numerals on a white face for easy and quick reading. Current one is a Swiss Army brand. I also use a velcro-closing strap so it fits just right - not too tight, not too loose. Very utilitarian. I gave my fancy gold Omega dive watch to my grandson, but I doubt he wears it much, as Hunter says about the young generations. I was always afraid to jump in salt water with it anyway. Haven’t had an auto-winder in decades though.
Not exactly, but real close —
Love my new word - Horologist. Thanks, Hunter.
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“You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.” — Too fundamental to have an attribution
Thanks, Hunter...I bought it new 53 years ago...That was a couple of years before they became the official astronaut's watch and went to the moon...The cheapest new one I priced today was about $4K, and the new ones don't have the Caliber 321 movement mine does...I might hang on to it for a while...You probably don't want to know what I paid for it in 1967; I hate to hear grown men cry......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
I have a Rolex GMT Master---sitting in the drawer. It need work and I took it back to Rolex in Switzerland to have them do the repairs---I did not have the original documentation with me and they told me that if I left it they would have to send it back with tariffs that apply to new ones. I took it with me and planned to return with the documentation---but somehow I never did that. I bought that watch in 1964 in Hong Kong. I guess I need to get it taken care of so that the kids can realize a higher value at the auction :dunnon:
I do currently wear a watch, it is a MB logo watch that I was given when I bought the S Class. It is not flashy so the only people that recognize it are other MB owners.
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
Will someone explain to me what that tachymetre thingie on the watch is used to do?
It gives an average speed over a measured distance (mile, kilometer, centocubit, whatever)...Push the button at the start of the measured distance, push again when you reach the terminus, then read your speed directly from the number indicated by the chronometer hand...As an example if Captain Kirk pushed the button at the beginning of a lightyear post on the spatial turnpike and again at the next one, if the hand pointed at 350 the Enterprise would have been moving at 350 lightyears per hour......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
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