Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jim, Thanks for your comments. In addition to my analog cameras and 28 Märklin locomotives, I am also enamored of analog electronic instruments. While my digital multimeter has features not found on analog multimeters, there's nothing like the swing of a fine pointer over a mirrored scale. May not be as accurate but it sure is classic. Kurt Ann Arbor Jim Brick wrote: > At 08:38 AM 9/13/00 -0400, khmiska wrote: > >Jeff, > >I agree wholeheartedly. I have one of the original Omega Speedmasters which > >I bought in '69 or thereabouts. In the late 80s it stopped working. Recently > >I paid about $140 to have it repaired. I understand the original ones are > >worth nearly $2K now. I wear it almost every day, this wonderful throwback > >to analog devices. Long live analog watches. Long live analog Leicas and > >Rolleiflexes. By the way, my Märklin trains are all analog also. > >Regards > >Kurt > >Ann Arbor > > After having a mechanical watch (Croton Chronograph Dive Master) for 20 > years, then when it started getting funny, I bought a Sieko digital watch. > It was a good watch, accurate as hell, but electronic and digital. Ugh! > > I wore this watch for fifteen years, yearning for a "real" watch but the > cost seemed prohibitive. So in September of 1998, while in Switzerland, I > bought a new Omega Speedmaster from a very fine Jeweler in Interlaken (Hans > Fiechter,) who made arrangements for me to pick it up at the factory in > Biel (a great experience,) and I paid only a little over half of what the > same watch costs here in the US . I priced this watch in Germany and > Holland and it was the equivalent of the US price. > > I now have a "real" mechanical watch to go with my real mechanical M6's. > > Jim