[time-nuts] Am I the only Time Nut who doesn't wear a watch?

Mark Spencer mspencer12345 at yahoo.ca
Sun Jul 10 15:18:04 UTC 2011


Re sapphire crystals, my Tisot Titanium has a Saphire crystal and after approx 
13 years still has not scratched.   It aslo keeps reasonably accurate time (with 
a few seconds per month.)



----- Original Message ----
From: Steve Rooke <sar10538 at gmail.com>
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts at febo.com>
Sent: Sun, July 10, 2011 2:54:26 AM
Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Am I the only Time Nut who doesn't wear a watch?

I still wear my Tag Heuer F1 midsize from back in the 80's. Although
I'm on my second plastic bezel, the first wore so bad it eventually
dropped off, and I have been through countless straps, the sapphire
crystal is as good today as the first day I got it. They just don't
seem to scratch at all, l but I understand that they can chip if hit
hard enough, which still surprises me given the rough treatment my
watch has gone through. OK, I'm a heathen for having a quartz watch,
but it still keeps good time and it's light enough not to cause wrist
ache.

Steve

On 9 July 2011 07:09, Chuck Harris <cfharris at erols.com> wrote:
> I too love wearing a wrist watch.... Since I am always working with
> machines,
> I tend to scar my watches up quite a bit... therefor I tend to wear cheap
> watches... my current favorite is a Russian automatic dive watch that I
> picked
> up on ebay for $60.
>
> I only wear automatic winding mechanical watches.  They are more than
> accurate
> enough to help me plot my way through life.
>
> Speidel Twist-O-Flex bands are the only type worth wearing in my opinion.
>
> -Chuck Harris
>
> William H. Fite wrote:
>>
>> Bravo, Rob.  I thought I was the lone voice crying in the wilderness in
>> support of watches.
>>
>> My "beater" is an Omega Seamaster that goes everywhere and does everything
>> all the time.  My others tend to sit in their rocker boxes and seldom get
>> worn.
>
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Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
- Einstein

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