Apple Watch? Get serious!!!

[jakelafort]

Time?

What is time?

I got no time for time. Watching a watch record time aint sublime. My watches gather dust. Watches are for me a bust. To dust we shall return. Watches i spurn.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I have worn a Fitbit since 2014. Current model is a Versa 4 for steps and BP monitoring. I have averaged just over 10K steps a day since Jan 1st 2018. I have a Tag Heuer (present in 2005) but I seldom wear it. I put it back into its box after a month.

Oh yeah, I also have this t-shirt 🙂 (it’s an Irish thing!)

 

[Unseen]

jakelafort wrote:

Time? What is time? I got no time for time. Watching a watch record time aint sublime. My watches gather dust. Watches are for me a bust. To dust we shall return. Watches i spurn.

A watchmaker with his talent did make
a watch which his needs it did slake.
He wound it quite tight,
It took flight in the night,
And since then everything’s jake.

[Unseen]

Any doubt that watches can be an art form? Consider the watches made by Jacob & Co. They make Rolex watches look like toys and cost far more than any Rolex that isn’t encrusted with diamonds and other precious jewels.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I really like the timepieces these Irish brothers make.  Website.

[Unseen]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I really like the timepieces these Irish brothers make. Website.

Very interesting watches indeed. I haven’t noted any prices on display anywhere, but with the level of craftmanship and the high level of design and innovation and with some models featuring a tourbillon*, they won’t be cheap.

* A tourbillon is a mechanical complication** found in the movements of certain high-end mechanical watches. It is a mechanism that constantly rotates the balance wheel, balance spring, and escapement while the movement is running to counter the effect of Earth’s gravity on the isochronal properties of the balance wheel and spring. Tourbillons were invented during the era of pocket watches and are both hypnotic and fascinating to watch. They are usually a bit expensive compared to watches without them. The term “tourbillon” also refers to a vortex, especially of a whirlwind or whirlpool.

** Any part of the watches movement above and beyond what’s needed to simply tell time is called a “complication.” Familiar complications include the ability to display the day of the week, the date, the year, to perform stopwatch functions, perform a reminder alarm, keep track of a second time zone, and so on.

[Reg the Fronkey Farmer]

I think I recall hearing a price range circa $65K for the tourbillion…..but I could be wrong. I guess its a case of if you have to ask the price…….

[Unseen]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:

I think I recall hearing a price range circa $65K for the tourbillion…..but I could be wrong. I guess its a case of if you have to ask the price…….

…you can’t afford it.

Here are a few more insanely creative watches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsU7BEee8CY

I apologize for the fact that Youtube doesn’t seem to want to display the graphic.

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[TheEncogitationer]

Jake,

Agree or disagree, to whatever degree or peragee or apogee, you and Time For Timer are like-minded thinkers on making a rhymer!
😁

Fun and friendly Secular Saturday Morning Street-Smarts set to rhyme and music! What’s not to love? Especially this nugget of worldly wisdom: “Remember: You’re the Only You You’ve Got!”

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[jakelafort]

Enco,

I remember. I recall. Aint forgot that little yellow fucker at all. I don’t hanker for a hunk a cheese. Other comestibles put me at ease. Still others ward off disease. But that self righteous little fucker makes me angry, makes me pucker.

[TheEncogitationer]

Jake,

I remember. I recall. Aint forgot that little yellow fucker at all.

Now, now, Jake. No need for veering dangerously close to hatred of either the Asiaic or the jaundiced, among either cartoon characters or actual persons living or dead. 😁

I don’t hanker for a hunk a cheese. Other comestibles put me at ease. Still others ward off disease.

Only a suggestion. No one said you had to choose cheese, though some kind of complete protein is good for strength and immunity.

Also, I find that low-moisure part-skim Mozzarella, Ricotta, Cottage, Feta, and Velveeta-style soft cheese are wonderful lower-fat alternatives to hard Swiss and Cheddar. 😋

Abstainers and partakers are not enemies when they are both free. Abstinence from cheese means more for the partakers if they please. And partaking of curdled alimentation means for abstainers less temptation. 🤔 😁

But that self righteous little fucker makes me angry, makes me pucker.

Relax, Jake. Time For Timer is the only Time that isn’t real. Only his messages are real and preserved for all posterity on YouTube if they will but heed his sage–and preserved, pickled dill–counsel. 🥒😍

[PopeBeanie]

Unseen wrote:

Out of curiosity, is super accuracy necessary for you in some way? Is it useful or just a “thing” that you like?

It’s both.

Using public transit to go everywhere, I often have to time departures to the fraction of a minute, especially when I have to consider how fast I have to walk or run to get to a bus stop. The bus pickup times are surprisingly accurate, and never earlier than scheduled, because missing a bus that passed by too early can be much worse for riders than waiting a few minutes for a late bus. I could use my phone for timing too, like Enco, but it’s not as easy to glance at in a hurry, especially on a bike. And I forget my phone at home too often.

Loving to know I have my timepiece always updated to the second seems also to be a geeky obsession, I guess. That’s not a handicap as far as I can tell, plus I learn what makes that kind of precision technically possible, e.g. from a signal transmitter in Colorado.

To be sure, I don’t wear my watch (or anything else) as jewelry for show.

[Unseen]

@PopeBeanie

Any of my mechanical watches will keep time well enough for your transportation needs. LOL

If a watch is 5 or 10 seconds slow or fast, you’d never know the difference between your watch or any properly functioning mechanical watch.

[PopeBeanie]

Unseen wrote:

Any of my mechanical watches will keep time well enough for your transportation needs.

I believe it. Do any of them cost less than $40, or run on solar power?

[Unseen]

PopeBeanie wrote:

Unseen wrote:

Any of my mechanical watches will keep time well enough for your transportation needs. My watches don’t depend on a wireless connection or solar power. They are powered by my physical activity.

I believe it. Do any of them cost less than $40, or run on solar power?

Have you checked the current price of your watch?. Look it up and tell us what it is. I bet it’s more than my least expensive one which was about $57.

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