I always wear a watch. I have taken a fondness for Citizen Ecodrive watches but still prefer a mechanical self winding watch like the Seiko 007 (which is a wonderful and inexpensive dive watch). I like setting my watch on the night stand and in the quiet of the night hear the ticking.
I wear a dive watch when diving and use them on each dive. Sure, I could look at the computer and READ the elapsed time but with a watch I can SEE the elapsed time. And I do not have to push any buttons.
For three years I visited SoFla and a particular dive chain store. There in the corner of the case was a sad TiZilla. Missing it's box, papers and bezel and barely making do with the case lighting to keep it's little capacitor beating. Poor thing. Each year I looked at it and each year they gave me a ridiculous price. Then one year, I asked, expecting the same answer and the lady said you are the only person who asks about that watch, once every year! Apparently she remembered. So, finally, they sold it to me for virtually nothing and I walked out of the store and right back in and asked her to send it to Citizen, which she laughed and gladly did. Two months later, my TiZilla arrived in my mailbox, complete and ready to rock and NO CHARGE!
And I am known not to carry a cell phone all the time. And sun dials are cool, I have a few but they do not work so well on my wrist.
One time, years ago, I walked into the woods of the Bob Marshall Wilderness area and did not come out for weeks. I ate bark and bugs, wrasseled griz, caught fish with my hands and slept in a tree ( to avoid being eaten buy the afore mentioned griz). You know, I did not see any USB ports on the rocks, none in that pine tree either! But my auto winding Seiko kept time for me. Then one day I walked out, hitched a ride to a restaurant (I think it was a Denny's) and ate five full meals. Then the cute waitress drove me back to my Ford van. I think I will end the story there.
Merry Christmas,
N
I wear a dive watch when diving and use them on each dive. Sure, I could look at the computer and READ the elapsed time but with a watch I can SEE the elapsed time. And I do not have to push any buttons.
For three years I visited SoFla and a particular dive chain store. There in the corner of the case was a sad TiZilla. Missing it's box, papers and bezel and barely making do with the case lighting to keep it's little capacitor beating. Poor thing. Each year I looked at it and each year they gave me a ridiculous price. Then one year, I asked, expecting the same answer and the lady said you are the only person who asks about that watch, once every year! Apparently she remembered. So, finally, they sold it to me for virtually nothing and I walked out of the store and right back in and asked her to send it to Citizen, which she laughed and gladly did. Two months later, my TiZilla arrived in my mailbox, complete and ready to rock and NO CHARGE!
And I am known not to carry a cell phone all the time. And sun dials are cool, I have a few but they do not work so well on my wrist.
One time, years ago, I walked into the woods of the Bob Marshall Wilderness area and did not come out for weeks. I ate bark and bugs, wrasseled griz, caught fish with my hands and slept in a tree ( to avoid being eaten buy the afore mentioned griz). You know, I did not see any USB ports on the rocks, none in that pine tree either! But my auto winding Seiko kept time for me. Then one day I walked out, hitched a ride to a restaurant (I think it was a Denny's) and ate five full meals. Then the cute waitress drove me back to my Ford van. I think I will end the story there.
Merry Christmas,
N
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