- New watch? - 3 Updates
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 29 07:39PM -0700 On 08/29/2016 05:30 PM, Michael Black wrote: > I have a few "atomic clocks" and it's fun to watch them all change numbers > at the same time. Any difference is not noticeable to the eye. Ours get hits while we're asleep. NOT going to stay up to watch. > everything, suddenly you're stuck with lots of clocks that are never quite > the same. But the atomic clocks, so long as they sync up, you know they > are right. There's nothing quite like owning a truly accurate timepiece. Those Swiss jerks have to make up for it with precious metal. -- Cheers, Bev Segal's Law: A man with one watch knows the time. A man with two is never sure. |
| BigDog811 <bigdog811@gmail.com>: Aug 30 07:31AM -0700 On Monday, August 29, 2016 at 10:39:23 PM UTC-4, The Real Bev wrote: > Cheers, Bev > Segal's Law: A man with one watch knows the time. > A man with two is never sure. Couldn't agree more. But don't sell those "Swiss jerks" short. I own a Rolex GMT Master that I bought in 1970 (that's 46 years ago for the arithmetically impaired out there). I've worn it almost every day since I bought it. It's never been serviced and keeps dead accurate time. The only time I need to adjust the time is twice a year when we spring forward and fall back. And a few times a year I have to run it forward to keep the date accurate. Before the misers who read this group go apoplectic about the cost of a Rolex; I paid $165 for it at a PX in Vietnam. That translates to a little over $3 a year so far, and going down each year I wear it. |
| The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com>: Aug 30 08:20AM -0700 On 08/30/2016 07:31 AM, BigDog811 wrote: > accurate time. The only time I need to adjust the time is twice a > year when we spring forward and fall back. And a few times a year I > have to run it forward to keep the date accurate. I have an Omega Seamaster. It's a lovely thing, but it needed to be cleaned every couple of years. Ultimately it was cheaper (but a bigger nuisance) to send it to Switzerland to be cleaned than to have it done locally. I wondered how a waterproof watch got dirty inside and was told that the lubricant hardens/wears out/deteriorates. That's just WRONG. > Before the misers who read this group go apoplectic about the cost of > a Rolex; I paid $165 for it at a PX in Vietnam. That translates to a > little over $3 a year so far, and going down each year I wear it. That's probably about what the Casio has cost... -- Cheers, Bev "History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government." -- letter from Thomas Jefferson to Baron vonHumboldt, 1813 |
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