Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/09/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt > >-------------------------------------------------- >Visit the Northwestern Alumni Association portal >page at http://www.nualumni.com to get free >web-based e-mail and many other exciting features. > >