Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] wristwatches
From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:17:16 -0400

But my Seiko watch, in addition to its extremely accurate time keeping
function, looks nice and is comfortable to wear (it's also an analog
chronometer).  Why should I penalize myself and replace it with some
mechanical dinosaur just because it keeps accurate time?  If someone has a
fetish about that, they can just set the wrong time on it.   It can keep
the wrong time very accurately as well!

Dan C.

At 10:11 AM 15-09-00 -0700, telyt560@cswebmail.com wrote:
>On Fri, 15 September 2000, Bmceowen@aol.com wrote:
>
>> 
><SNIP> 
>> I expect only one thing from a watch -- to 
>> be able to look at it and know what time it is. Any watch that fails to 
>> perform this basic task is a piece of junk -- no matter what it costs .
. . 
>> 
>> Bob (wears a Seiko quartz) McEowen
>
>"Man with one watch knows what time it is.  Man with two watches not sure."
>
>It doesn't matter much to me if I'm 5 minutes late or 5 minutes and 20
seconds late.  A rough idea is good enough.  There are plenty opportunites
to re-synchronize with the rest of the world.  The trick is to include
enough extra time into my daily life to allow for traffic snarls, a kid's
tantrums or the marvelous light on the meadow.  For the vast majority of
us, how precise a timepiece do we really need?  If you do need +/- 2 sec
precision per month, is that lifestyle doing you any good?
>
>Doug (battered Timex) Herr
>Birdman of Sacramento
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