That watch looks like it does more than tell time. It probably has a setting to change time to your wish.
That watch looks like it does more than tell time. It probably has a setting to change time to your wish.
Yes, I'd buy that watch MM we blokes like our toys.
Now, when it is delivered you will need to sign for it. you could do worse than to use one of these.-
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MONTBLANC-...item1e687c6662
It was good enough for Rameses the Second AND Mozart.
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I've got a £20 watch from Argos. Now we have phones , they seem to do everything else including telling the time, but I wouldn't give up my wristwatch. I forever be raising it unecessarily and gazing bemusedly at my freckled wrist.
Last edited by Paulclem; 11-20-2011 at 06:48 PM.
Hmm watches are very useful for glancing at and sighing when Mrs P is shopping/getting changed/getting her coat on/getting tea ready/brushing her hair/being in the bathroom/on the phone and driving to an appointment.
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Heh, for me, watching the watch ranks right up there with 'breathing' and all that other stuff.
That's looks like an exclusive biro Pren!
As you may know I have a thing about pens and watches and their prices, and my honest rule is never to lay out more than ten for the former or a hundred for the latter. Trouble is I've also got a thing about technology (and steam punk) and it means I miss out on a lot of automatics (Seiko have re-issued their old Rolex-copy auto lines which are about the closest thing to actual Rolex autos dependability-wise as you can get), and I owe myself a full black Citizen eco drive, but it's over my limit by a mere five. Maybe I'll make the stretch for Christmas...
My wrist usually sports a five buck Casio imitation, just because it's ultra light and easy to read the full day and date at a glance (elements of which I seem to keep forgetting).
I like a heavy stainless steel analog chronograph for exercising (practical), and a good auto skeleton watch is a marvel for loose moments and just turning the brain off for precisely three minutes, though they require regular professional cleaning - the price tag should include a further hidden couple of grand to cover future dusting unless you learn to do it yourself.
But probably the most potentially useful watch I've stumbled across features a television remote (no I haven't bought one - [yet], but what a time saving idea! You'd save the time you'd normally waste searching for the proper remote)
I might go overboard with a diver sometime in the distance - not an Omega, I'd be happy with an El Cheapo provided it looks good - I wonder what Parker would have to say about that?
I got a watch for Christmas when I was about twelve. I wore it for six or seven weeks.
I just can't see the point. Very rarely does anyone look at their watch to find out the time - it's a sort of nervous tic, really (or possibly a nervous toc) - and even when they do want to know what the time is, in almost all cases knowing the time will make no difference. People on delayed trains look at their watch constantly. I, having no watch, will get to London Bridge at exactly as late as them, at whatever time it is. When I get there, like them, I'll look at the clock on the platform. I, however, won't look at my watch before looking at the clock on the platform, and then again straight afterwards. If I'm meeting someone outside the station, I'll say, "Sorry I'm late - train was delayed." I won't ostentatiously look at my watch as I hurry towards them, explain about the train, show them my watch, sigh, look at my watch again and ask whether they think we have time for a drink before the show, expecting them to look at their watch in order to decide.
However, I can see a use for watches - which you might enjoy considering here.
As to pens, I toss them across desks, I leave them places, I chew them - I get through about four biros a day. It'd be pointless me having a nice pen and I can't really see what the advantage is. If it improves your handwriting, that seems to me an admission that one favours style over content. My feeling towards pens, really, is that - like cats, umbrellas and cigarettes - they don't really belong to anyone, and you should just use whichever one you find lying around.
Good story Mark.
I like those free pens charities send you with their mail drops.
I only ever had one watch that survived the rigours of my trade, that was a £5.99 ten year gauranteed battery sealed up plastic digital thing. However the strap wore out after a year or two and a replacement was more than the watch was worth. Anyway I bought a metre of 12mm black knicker elastic for £1.99 and used that to make straps for the next for the next 12 years. Best watch I ever had. I like the price of prestige, rather than the prestige of price.
Last edited by prendrelemick; 11-19-2011 at 02:00 PM.
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Right with ya there. I'm an incorrigable shoe fixer-upper - if they've been comfortable and look like they can be fixed, if only for another day, I'll have a go with nails, staples, twine and pvc.
And sometimes paint and varnish make 'em look good as new.
Using a watch in my opinion is cheating. The real talented people can work out the time by reading the sun's position in the sky. It proves even more rewarding when you get it right as well.
My first watch was the first adult gadget I owned on the road to independance. I was ten and got it for my birthday. It was one of those timex watches that kids had, and a wind up one. I thought it was great, and got real pleasure being able to tell the time at any time without reference to anyone else.
Of course you're quite right Mark about the ostentatious wrist gazing, and it making no difference to arrivals. For me it has become a gesture of irritation, and is also the source of the game "Surreptitious" where you are listening to a powerful bore and try to glance at it without them noticing.
That one was one of the funniest I ever heard.Originally Posted by Big Dante
I have a leather jacket of which I have become fond. I think I adore it, and to me it gets better with age. It's really a rag, according to everyone else, but I take it anywhere. People say that in winter, I wouldn't take it off to go to the bathroom. It's about 20 years old, and I have two brand new ones that I received as birthday presents. They are useless.
I used to have an old jacket that was given to me by a mate. I really liked it too, but it looked like it had belonged to a former, and unsuccessful, lion tamer.
My business partner loaned me a brown leather jacket during a trip to Poland a few years ago because I had packed carelessly. It's still with me. He doesn't mind. Before that, he had loaned it to his brother, who eventually returned it but only after purchasing one that looks and feels exactly the same (I've tried that on, too).
The inside lining is torn in places and there is a cigarette burn on the collar, obtained while queuing for Iron Maiden tickets.
I don't think I'm returning it any time soon.
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine...
There is something about wearing a leather jacket that makes a chap feel a bit James Deanish. I had one that Mrs P thought ever so attractive - until we were married - then it was deemed too scruffy and replaced by knitwear.
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