I'm almost sorry I started this thread...
it led me to EBay and I now have a bid in on a birth-year (1965) Bulova!
it led me to EBay and I now have a bid in on a birth-year (1965) Bulova!
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Like a champ. Much less drift than my chip-powered devices. A new battery lasts me 3-4 years.
I would be happy to have either one. Did the cheap one look like this, or was it shaped differently?
There’s too many things that have the time on them to wear a watch. Cars, computers, phones, appliances, TVs, billboards, etc., etc., etc. I’m never a couple seconds from seeing the time without wearing a watch.
I trust my own watch more than any other device or clock. But I usually wear a digital.
I voted no because that's my natural state. I do have to wear a watch when I'm running rehearsal so that I can get what I need to accomplished.
It was the generic module that countless junk barns sold in different cases/bands... Round on sides but I think top and bottom of the actual plastic module was flattened a bit...
A watch is far more than a timepiece. It’s a great smile, polished shoes, stellar education and successful career right on your wrist. Women/men, business and thieves flock to them.
Believe it or not some of the early Seiko digitals had that same kind of day marker with the little line above the day of week.
But I'm amazed that some watches are able to be made so cheaply. Just the fact that people are making counterfeits of the Casio F91 which is already a fairly cheap watch to begin with. It's fake, but is there really a difference in quality, I wonder? But I'm willing spend a little more for more water resistance.
On the flip side (and please don't take this as discounting your comment), it can be a crude, ostentatious display of wealth and status. In Hong Kong, watches are enormously popular (much more so than anywhere else I've lived) for both purposes
I didn't wear one for a long time (I had a pocket watch for a while when I was 19 or so but then stopped when I started carrying a phone), but got infected with the enthusiast disease a little while ago. My daily wearer is a 1971 Seiko Bell-Matic alarm watch, which belonged to a family member who passed away a few years ago.
By the way, there was a good OT thread here for watch enthusiasts started a while back, with much mechanical watch talk (and ogling of @HeavyDuty's arm hair).
One of the reasons for getting this cheap Casio Illuminator AQ-180WD was the battery life. It's working fine for over 7 years now, although the analog clock runs a minute a month quicker than the actual time.
By the time the battery runs down, the case will be worn out.
I'm considering a solar watch to follow it up.
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The last mechanical watch I bought didn't run for long.
Handpainted in St. Petersburg (Leningrad then), bought as a souvenir in February 1990 near Nevsky Prospect (Не́вский проспе́кт) from a guy that wanted western currency for it.
He sold it for a Deutschmark and a British pound note.
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Does anybody really know what time it is?
Does anybody really care?
If so, I can’t imagine why.
We’ve all got time enough to die.
Mid 60’s. My phone is my watch.
Does anybody really care?
If so, I can’t imagine why.
We’ve all got time enough to die.
Mid 60’s. My phone is my watch.
I love the song. But even if I felt the way the singer did, I would still wear a watch. It's just a cool gadget.
If I leave the house without a watch, my left arm feels weird. I always show up on time, you’d be amazed how a little thing like showing up on time helps with your rep when it come to getting gigs. 
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I work on electrical and machinery.
No jewelry or loose clothes. Ever
I work on electrical and machinery.
No jewelry or loose clothes. Ever
From L-R, Seiko Excelsior, Curren something, Bulova Precisionist, and a Citizen Promaster titanium.
I did an experiment last year - I set them all to the same time according to Time.gov and checked them a month later. All were fast; the Precisionist was the most accurate, but I was surprised to find the Curren ($11 @ Amazon) got second place! It was followed by the Seiko and then the Citizen.
Anyway, I wear the Bulova most of the time now, but take the Seiko and Citizen our once in a while to charge them (solar powered). The Curren gets duty when I’m doing Some form of manual labor or working on my car. It’s rare that I’m without a wristwatch, and feel naked without one.
And I have no desire for some new-fangled I-watchamacallit or whatever, so get off my lawn.
Raz
Yup yup. I have a short list of watches I want to/will eventually own down the line. For right now here are the two I rotate between (nether are me):
Omega Seamaster Professional 2254.50
Alpina Alpiner Chronograph "Panda"
Omega Seamaster Professional 2254.50
Alpina Alpiner Chronograph "Panda"
