OK you can laugh..

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

Ah. I wear mine on the inside of my wrist. Something learned at college as the lecturer could not then tell that you were checking the time:-)

I'm not sure this reduces damage.

regards

In message , geoff writes

Can you guarantee reliability:-)

Actually I have considered this and found my criteria unavailable as a package.

Viz. Stainless strap and case not polished to *chrome* finish. Quartz operation but not digital, large luminous hands, no calendar, water resistant to unplanned immersion, no fancy bezels/mini dials etc.

My last Seiko was close but now around 150ukp.

regards

That's an interesting idea.

Can't glance at the time, though.

I think I used to break them a lot because I'd catch/pull the strap when I was carrying things or working on something. I don't miss having it on my wrist - checking the time by opening my wallet isn't really any different than someone pulling their phone out of their pocket and checking that, I suppose.

Working on a railway where the timetable was almost clockface, I usually knew the minutes by the trains, but could get a bit lost over the hours.

Every second Aberdeen service meant a cuppa though, and early lunch was the King's Cross.

Owain

In message , Tim Lamb writes

I can guarantee the diameter of the watch face,

... probably

In message , Tim Lamb writes

Nobody needs a watch if they're this clever:

I don't think they want to answer this question.

I think we have established there are no watch menders on the panel:-)

regards

I did the same (about $5, so comparable in price) for the workshop last year. It's been sitting there, blinking at me, for a good few months now after the last power cut knocked it out. One day I'll get around to resetting it... :-)

cheers

Jules

Try these:

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Bruce saying something like:

Last time I looked, there was nothing of the sort available, but I suppose the military necessity of recent incursions into foreign hostile nighttime territory has made the covered watch dial a good thing.

Glad I could help. The seller is very reliable too.

In message , Bruce writes

Moving on... The solution to my dead watch problem arrived in this mornings post.

For a modest subscription of 20ukp TIME are willing to send me a TIME expedition watch along with 54 issues of their magazine!

Do you think they read this newsgroup? Or is it just possible that they have communicated with National Geographic for which someone kindly purchased me a years subscription, last Christmas.

regards

I hope the watch is worth at least £20, because I wouldn't read 54 issues of TIME if they paid me that.

With any organisation of which you are a member, or anything to which you subscribe, or any other organisation which has your address on file, you are at risk of them selling their name and address data to marketing firms.

At one time, I was a member of a professional body and their version of my address details included a typo. Every time I got junk mail with the same typo I knew where they got my name and address from.