Wristwatch spoiler...
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I have a Seiko self-winding watch that gains or loses 5 minutes a day. Forty years ago, you had self-winding watches that wound their springs with any inadvertent movement of the wrist. And they kept perfect time. I have been told to pick up my watch with my right hand and shake it violently 12-16 times and for good measure wind the spring up with an equal number of turns. If I do that, the watch gains maybe a minute or two a day as opposed to losing several minutes a day. To think that it cost $600! A $10 electronic watch keeps better time than this crap! And this piece of sh!t has 31 days in a month as the standard. So I have to manually adjust the date 5 times a year too! Somebody ought to teach the Japanese that old rhyme: Thirty days hath September April, June and November ........
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I can't say I find Rolex watch beautiful. sorry.
I'd rather be phishing!
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and it is still only accurate to -2 to +4 seconds, per day! For that money I want an atomic clock!
You can get one for about $100. A watch that synchronises itself to the radio signal broadcast by the various atomic clocks of the world. A small desktop version can be had for under $30.
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Poor man's Rolex :-)
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Poor man's Rolex :-)
I was put of them by my first boss, who for many months use to always show his rolex[^] off in many ways that you could think. and as it was one of these Jewelled watches as I see is show off jewelery and nothing else
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I was put of them by my first boss, who for many months use to always show his rolex[^] off in many ways that you could think. and as it was one of these Jewelled watches as I see is show off jewelery and nothing else
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Yes, that is the poncey version that only a girlie-man would wear. :laugh:
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Yeah but can you play Astroids on it? Uh-huh I thought not!
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$21,000. Wink | ;)
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But why?
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...and every time you look at it, you think "It's 14:32, and I could have bought a Rolex instead"... :sigh:
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I did. About 20 years ago I won £1,500 and so bought myself a *Rolex Oyster Date*. Apart from the times its been serviced I've worn it every day since and only take it off if I'm doing particularly mucky work such as working on the old car.
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Buy a good one, you'll pay less Dmn fine watches[^]
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If the BOM+ cost* for this is around $1000, the remaining $20,000 is for the Seiko brand. So, Brand value = 20 * BOM+ value. Aside, which other products have higher Brand/BOM+ ratio? * including labour, overheads, etc.
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I did. About 20 years ago I won £1,500 and so bought myself a *Rolex Oyster Date*. Apart from the times its been serviced I've worn it every day since and only take it off if I'm doing particularly mucky work such as working on the old car.
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It's the servicing cost that's the killer! :laugh: What is it now, about £400 every three years? I know they raised the price from £250 a few years back.
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Like 700 of my current watch, shipping included. I love wristwatches, I have one since I was six and at age 10 I abandoned the cheap plastic wristband in favor of steel ones. When I was 14 my dad bought me a wonderful auto-winding Citizen, it costed 100$ and was pretty precise - about 20 sec/day which is very little compared to the supposed infinite life of the watch (after all he was wearing a 15 years old Seiko and used it at work, he's been both a truck driver and a mechanic so it was abused a lot and was still perfect. Also batteries cost 10$ each X|). Well, 3 years later the mechanic was elephanted up and the clock face rotated in place so the 12th hour would sit on varying positions. Repairing it was nigh impossible. Well elephant it, I'll buy a new one - a very beautiful auto-windong Citizen for 150$. Same problem, but after 1.5 years. OK elephant Citizen, elephant auto-wind, I'll buy a cheap Casio. 9 years and 10$ of batteries later I still had it on my wrist, changed a week ago because the wristband ruined. My dad's reapiring it (he has the spare part) but I bought another Casio - as beautiful as any Citizen I ever had.
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It's the servicing cost that's the killer! :laugh: What is it now, about £400 every three years? I know they raised the price from £250 a few years back.
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My last service was a few years back and cost £300. I've had it serviced twice so far, maybe get another one in a few years. Every 3-4 years is too much.
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... because we will see the price of Apple Watch raised to $50,000.
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I am a collector of such things (nice watches that is), and have 9 right now, running from about $20 to this one http://www.watchismo.com/devon-steampunk.aspx[^], which retails at around $28,000. (it was a gift, I rarely wear it - not my style :-D ) http://www.Watchismo.com always has some nice ones available.
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I am a collector of such things (nice watches that is), and have 9 right now, running from about $20 to this one http://www.watchismo.com/devon-steampunk.aspx[^], which retails at around $28,000. (it was a gift, I rarely wear it - not my style :-D ) http://www.Watchismo.com always has some nice ones available.
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Sure that's not a Turing Machine? :-D
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Who on Earth would want another one? :laugh:
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I would. The one I have needs an assistant/trainee. :-\
