On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 11:50:48 AM UTC-6, Bill McKee wrote:




i use my phone for a watch most times.

Me too. In fact, that's one reason why the discount houses are stocking less and less cheap wrist watches by the day. People rely on their cell phones.

On 2/12/2014 5:32 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 2/12/14, 8:26 AM, Poco Loco wrote:

Seiko story. Many years back I spent around $375 for a Seiko
'chronometer' with all the bells and
whistles. It worked for a long time, but then one day it died. I
figured it would be very expensive
to fix, so I just set it aside and bought a hundred dollar Swiss Army
watch.

One day I took the Seiko to the shop, thinking it would cost a fortune
to fix. The guy opened it up,
looked, said I had water damage (I swam with it), and it needed a new
movement.

"Oh ****," I'm thinking. "How much?" I ask. He replies, "$62".

Unreal.


SEIKO makes fine timepieces. Just about any electronic SEIKO is more
accurate than the old Rolex living in my socks drawer. My daily watch is
a stainless steel Luminox. The only downside is that when it is time to
replace the battery, you have to send the watch to an authorized repair
center for a new battery and waterproof seals, and to have the insides
of the watch closed under vacuum...or something like that. Grrrrr.

I've got a goldtone SEIKO that's about 25 years old, and runs well, and
a $20 Timex with a really good "nightlight" that also is accurate.

Anyone remember those awful LED watches?

I once worked for a start-up that was acquired by Seiko-Epson and got to
visit their headquarters in Suwa up in the mountains between Nagoya and
Tokyo. They had an impressive manufacturing facility with some simple
models assembled on a completely robotic line that spit out something
like a watch a minute. They were definitely sticklers for quality and
had some good engineers.

My first boss at Motorola had one of these.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-01