20 Feb
2007
20 Feb
'07
2:02 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
**>> snip <<**
A good mechanical watch will just keep going and
going with an
occasional clean and lube.
I read somewhere that watches themselves are on th
e
decline.
Apparently many folks simply use their mobile phon
e
as a time source.
You took the words right out of my mouth.
Since I got my 1st mobile around 2001 I haven't
used watches at all.
Before 2001 I never really used watches that
much anyway. I never needed them at school
and didn't go out much during my teen years.
Infact, apart from one my grandparents had
(with day of the month on it), I never used
watches until I left secondary school (summer
1996) and had to go out looking for work etc.
(I didn't want to do further education - sixth
form, college and Uni etc.)
Didn't Mozart grumble about being paid with pocket
watches instead of
money?
Cheers,
Chuck
But surely the watches would have been worth
more than money, to the right person of course?
Regards,
Andrew D. Burton
aliensrcooluk at yahoo.co.uk
20 Feb
20 Feb
2:22 p.m.
Apparently
many folks simply use their mobile phone as a time
source.
Since I got my 1st mobile around 2001 I haven't used watches at all.
4:17 p.m.
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 17:22 -0500, der Mouse wrote:
The phone is significantly harder to get to (have to
extract it from a
pocket, versus just turning my wrist), and the phone is significantly
harder to read under most circumstances.
There's also an element of "use the right tool for the job", but
that's
much weaker.
Personal taste issues are important, at LEAST on the items you carry
around. I have another reason. I work in insulated buildings, and SOME
of them are insulated well enough that the signal cannot reach the
phone. In those buildings, I don't have time information at all on my
phone. Unfortunately, MY phone just shows what it gets from the
service. No service = no clock information. I have a watch that sets
itself regularly from time standard radio signals. If I am somewhere
without such signals, it just coasts on in its uncorrected form, and
will re-synch when it next gets the signal. It's also solar powered, so
I neither need to buy replacement piles/batteries or wind it, or perform
wrist aerobics to keep it running. It has never moved away from the
"full" indicator in over a year of use.
Peace,
Warren E. Wolfe
wizard at voyager.net
7:15 p.m.
der Mouse wrote:
My watch died recently, and since then I have been
using my phone as my
mobile time source. I want the watch back. (Too bad it's broken; I
need to find another.)
Hmm, I got sick of replacing watch straps every couple of months - for the
last five years or so it's lived (strapless) in my wallet. It's given the
security guys at airports a fit a couple of times now :-)
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