20 Feb
2007
20 Feb
'07
1:34 p.m.
On 20 Feb 2007 at 11:48, Fred Cisin wrote:
. . . but we still consider the digital watch to be a
pretty neat idea
I'm going to express a very Tony Duell-ish sentiment. I have owned
numerous digital watches, including one or two that used LED displays
(you didn't check the time very often, because that really drained
the battery). But I don't own any now--just a couple of nice self-
winding Seikos. Even my digital stopwatch is no more, but my old
manual wind model is doing just fine.
One by one, my digital watches died from various internal maladies.
In the case of the digital stopwatch, the beep that sounded at the
end of a countdown decided to stay on continuously.
A good mechanical watch will just keep going and going with an
occasional clean and lube.
I read somewhere that watches themselves are on the decline.
Apparently many folks simply use their mobile phone as a time source.
Didn't Mozart grumble about being paid with pocket watches instead of
money?
Cheers,
Chuck