SUBSIM wristwatch thread

[Sailor Steve]

I have a friend whose preferred timepiece is an old pocketwatch.

[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

I have a friend whose preferred timepiece is an old pocketwatch.

Oh, that's pretty cool. I was thinking about fixing up my grandfather's old pocketwatch and using it, but I thought it might seem too pretentious for someone of my age.

[HunterICX]

Mine:

Lotus -


HunterICX

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by DarkFish

Steve, you're younger than your age would suggest Nowadays pretty much everyone does it like that. It seems like among people my age I'm about the only one who still has a watch

Not a shabby move, a common trick used by muggers is to ask you the time, so you pull out your mobile to see, and they either nick it or have a good look at it and judge its worth so they can mark you as a potential.

[CaptainMattJ.]

Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

Well, it looks cool, but you'd clearly spend more time looking at it to figure out the time than you would if you asked the person sitting next to you. Overall, that's a pretty silly design, and the red one has an eerie resemblance to the Hal 9000 from 2001: A Space Odessy.

Do not worry about the time, Dave.

goodbye accurate time display!

And, i think 2001 a space odessy is easily the most boring film i have EVER watched.

[Hitman]

One of my favorite quips over the years, when seeing a clock with no marks or numbers (just hands) was, "Hey, they make watches & clocks without the minute marks, and they make them without numbers, eventually the darn things will be so fancy they will make them without hands."

It has happened.

I'm sorry to dissapoint you, but watches without hands do exist for a long time:



Just joking

[Platapus]

I am most pleased with my Omega Seamaster Professional. Despite not diving any more, I think it has a nice classy but not gaudy look.

[Jimbuna]

No prizes for guessing where mine came from

[TarJak]

They still make christmas crackers in Newcastle do they?

A fence on the streets?

[August]

I just picked up one of these in the Bargain Cave at the Cabelas up in Maine for $50 bucks.



The luminescent dots on the numbers 1, 2 and 3 had fallen off...

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Not a shabby move, a common trick used by muggers is to ask you the time, so you pull out your mobile to see, and they either nick it or have a good look at it and judge its worth so they can mark you as a potential.

Where do you live then?....Sherwood Forest?

Up North if you can tell them the time they know you've been educated and probably have a job and therefore a bit money in your pocket....they simply beat you to the ground and rifle yer pockets

Originally Posted by TarJak

They still make christmas crackers in Newcastle do they?

Originally Posted by privateer

A fence on the streets?

Yes....to both of ya

Originally Posted by August

I just picked up one of these in the Bargain Cave at the Cabelas up in Maine for $50 bucks.



The luminescent dots on the numbers 1, 2 and 3 had fallen off...

You were robbed

[frau kaleun]

Originally Posted by Neal Stevens

One of my favorite quips over the years, when seeing a clock with no marks or numbers (just hands) was, "Hey, they make watches & clocks without the minute marks, and they make them without numbers, eventually the darn things will be so fancy they will make them without hands."

It has happened.

GAAAAAH that would drive me crazy.

We had a cheap plastic wall clock in my office at work with hands but no numbers on it. It drove us crazy, especially when it came to discerning at a glance the difference between almost 4:30 (time to pack it up and go home, yay!) and almost 3:30 (another hour? *groan*).

I finally got fed up and painted numbers on it with White-Out one day.

Originally Posted by privateer

A fence on the streets?

I was gonna go with "the evidence locker"...

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

Where do you live then?....Sherwood Forest?

Up North if you can tell them the time they know you've been educated and probably have a job and therefore a bit money in your pocket....they simply beat you to the ground and rifle yer pockets

Well, it is grim oop norf.

[Castout]

Imust say the idea is brilliant and it is cool. Though I don't see myself ever buying it. It's just so not me.

Originally Posted by Rockstar

Can you predict what stocks to invest in so I can make my fortune?

I believe I could help you but would work much better if you asked that say 2 years ago than now that prices have gone up. But then again you won't put stock on my saying or a stranger

Buy Israeli stocks but not just any Israeli company but the safest would be ones that cater to Israeli domestic retail. . . . .unfortunately Israel has only a small domestic market so I wouldn't think such companies would worth a lot

Israelis have been enjoying a good time after a scare due to global crisis but for how long is anybody's guess. They've got money. I just hope they won't worship it.