wanna buy a watch?
Old Chinese proverb: Man with watch knows what time it is. Man with two watches never does.
I will never be one of those people who owns a Rolex (so please, spammers, stop with the offers already). A watch, to me, is a functional thing that lets me know, within reason, what time it is. It's not some timeless treasure, or statement, especially spending the majority of its time under a shirtsleeve cuff. I want to be able to glance at it and know how much longer I have before I'm supposed to be someplace, or how much longer I have to endure whatever situation I may find myself in...that sort of thing. I want it to be right, and I want it to last a long time. Whether or not it has one or more diamonds in it, or is made of 5 gazillion karat gold is inconsequential.
Well, about eight years ago I sunk what, to me, was a considerable amout of money in a Seiko kinetic watch. It was an investment, I told myself. You never have to wind it. It never needs batteries. All you have to do is wear it and move occasionally, and it stays wound. I'll have this thing for the rest of my life.
Well, there's stuff they don't tell you about those kinetic watches...stuff that yes, if I had researched it a bit more I would have learned, but I wasn't thinking of a loophole search. I was buying the last watch of my life. For eight years it was exactly that, so I guess I can't complain. Then came the stretch, a few months back, when I was sick for a few days. I didn't wear the watch, so it stopped. Ever since then, I couldn't get it to keep time. Oh, it'd work for an hour or two after vigorously shaking it, and giving it to the twelve year old bundle of energy to shake for a while, but not for an entire day. No matter what I did with it, by morning the hands would stop, usually not making it even an hour after I went to bed. So I took it to a watch repair place, and heard, "Oooohhhh, Seiko kinetic. I can't touch this. Only Seiko can touch this. You'll have to send it back to them." I learned that there's a little capacitor thingie that stores up the energy when you move your wrist, and this capacitor thingie goes bad after ooohhhh...say...eight years. It has to be replaced, but only Sieko can do it, so you have to send it to them. Then I read stories about people who did just that, got their watch back and still, it didn't work. So I decided, why go through all the trouble of packing the sucker up and sending it to Seiko to fix, when I can probably get a new watch cheaper than the repair bill and be reasonably assured it'll work?
As it turns out, we had a ton of credit card points and were looking for something to do with them. One of the options was a new, battery operated Seiko watch. It'll be here (so says the credit card company...not the one David Spade works for) mid December.
So there's my public service announcement for the day. Those kinetic watches are nice things, but if you're thinking it's good for the rest of your life, think again.
I will never be one of those people who owns a Rolex (so please, spammers, stop with the offers already). A watch, to me, is a functional thing that lets me know, within reason, what time it is. It's not some timeless treasure, or statement, especially spending the majority of its time under a shirtsleeve cuff. I want to be able to glance at it and know how much longer I have before I'm supposed to be someplace, or how much longer I have to endure whatever situation I may find myself in...that sort of thing. I want it to be right, and I want it to last a long time. Whether or not it has one or more diamonds in it, or is made of 5 gazillion karat gold is inconsequential.
Well, about eight years ago I sunk what, to me, was a considerable amout of money in a Seiko kinetic watch. It was an investment, I told myself. You never have to wind it. It never needs batteries. All you have to do is wear it and move occasionally, and it stays wound. I'll have this thing for the rest of my life.
Well, there's stuff they don't tell you about those kinetic watches...stuff that yes, if I had researched it a bit more I would have learned, but I wasn't thinking of a loophole search. I was buying the last watch of my life. For eight years it was exactly that, so I guess I can't complain. Then came the stretch, a few months back, when I was sick for a few days. I didn't wear the watch, so it stopped. Ever since then, I couldn't get it to keep time. Oh, it'd work for an hour or two after vigorously shaking it, and giving it to the twelve year old bundle of energy to shake for a while, but not for an entire day. No matter what I did with it, by morning the hands would stop, usually not making it even an hour after I went to bed. So I took it to a watch repair place, and heard, "Oooohhhh, Seiko kinetic. I can't touch this. Only Seiko can touch this. You'll have to send it back to them." I learned that there's a little capacitor thingie that stores up the energy when you move your wrist, and this capacitor thingie goes bad after ooohhhh...say...eight years. It has to be replaced, but only Sieko can do it, so you have to send it to them. Then I read stories about people who did just that, got their watch back and still, it didn't work. So I decided, why go through all the trouble of packing the sucker up and sending it to Seiko to fix, when I can probably get a new watch cheaper than the repair bill and be reasonably assured it'll work?
As it turns out, we had a ton of credit card points and were looking for something to do with them. One of the options was a new, battery operated Seiko watch. It'll be here (so says the credit card company...not the one David Spade works for) mid December.
So there's my public service announcement for the day. Those kinetic watches are nice things, but if you're thinking it's good for the rest of your life, think again.
John put this out here at 8:37 AM
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