Last week I got fed up with quartz watches that are forever needing replacement batteries. I got on Ebay and for $6 bought a little wind up watch. It arrived in record time, as if the seller had psychically intuited my future purchase and already put it in the mail before I even bought it.
Upon receiving it, I wound it up, set the time, and started monitoring it. Other than Sunday, when I forgot to wind it, it keeps terrific time. And it’s so gosh-darn cute! It’s made of stainless steel with a white face, black numerals and a black strap, just like my stupid quartz watch that needs a new battery at least twice a year.
I’m not sure how old the watch is, but it’s a Timex and was listed on Ebay in the 1940-1969 category, making it at least almost as old as I am, if not a decade or two older. And still going strong!
We sure knew how to make things back in the day, didn’t we?
Sometimes old ways are best!
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Pictures, please! I love watches!
Here's the ebay pic, for as long as it's up: my watch
I don't think this pic really captures how nice it is, though.
Maybe I'll take a picture of my own.
I put it to my ear tonight. It was the first time I'd heard the ticking of a windup watch since the '70s. It made me smile. :-)
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Too cool!!
There are also watches that self wind, just from teh motion of your body throughout the day. Used to have this fancy-dancy Seiko diving watch that was like that. It was a man's watch, though, and big and bulky in accordance with the guy's principle of equipment: Bigger is Better, lol.
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