fossyant
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Well, my smart watch went zzzz last night. Second one to fail within a year, so awaiting a warranty return !
Well, my smart watch went zzzz last night. Second one to fail within a year, so awaiting a warranty return !
I think you really like watches and horology as do a bunch of people on this thread. You all should take a look at this excellent book by Rebecca Struthers:
The Hands of Time.
Long ago I decided that expensive branded watches no longer represented good vfm for me - they never did in truth, but I had convinced myself that they were worth every penny.
I have owned Omega, Rolex, TAG & Breitling and tbh the external build quality, as far as a day to day user like me goes, is no different to that of a few hundred pounds worth of Seiko, Tissot etc.
Yes, some movements are clever but really does it matter? Generally you can't see them anyway. Manual winders are a complete PITA to own, automatics need a rocker-box if you don't wear them every day and a quartz is a quartz - nothing special.
And none keep time as accurately as a GPS tool watch.
I can't see the point of having one tbh. Mrs SD has a nice Breitling which she wears every day - it has sentimental value and it is a nice looking thing in SS with gold rider tabs and strap link inserts but, it always needs adjusting to keep near to perfect time ditto date changes on several months per year.
My couple of hundred quids worth of Garmin just sorts itself out and updates everything via GPS each day.
Need an Apple Watch, my series 4 is going strong after nearly 4 years of daily wear, also in swimming pool. Yes, it needs to be charged every night now but not a hardship
I bought a 7 on a deal but not using yet, keeping for 'best' (along with the Tag)!
She was buying fake goods from a dodgy website - what did she expect ?
He who is without sin cast the first stone!
Errr...what ?
She'd have got a much nicer watch if she'd spent the same on a Seiko or Citizen.
I think an assumption is being made that we've all bought fake stuff at some point or other, knowing that it's a fake.
Will admit I have, and yes, it was a watch. But I was a schoolgirl, my 11+ Swatch had just been nicked* and I bought a fake Gucci off the market simply because it was purple and green, and it was a combination of the colours the TWR Jaguars were running - purple for the Silk Cut Group C cars, and green for the Castrol IMSA ones.
That watch lasted me up until I went to uni.
* My much wealthier classmates didn't need an ugly black & dark green plastic watch - they were wearing Tissot rock watches FFS - but I guess I was the Luna Lovegood of my year...