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| Thread ID: 74888 | 2006-12-08 23:28:00 | weird mystery | Thomas01 (317) | PC World Chat |
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| 505259 | 2006-12-09 23:40:00 | Digital watches have no moving parts. Dead analog watches also have no moving parts, and are absolutely accurate twice a day. :thumbs: |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 505260 | 2006-12-09 23:51:00 | They are also more energy efficient and cost less to run :rolleyes: | Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 505261 | 2006-12-10 02:13:00 | $2 shops (in Christchurch anyway, at the moment) have cards containing a selection of different button cells if you want to have a play with it Thomas. At that price it might be worth a go. If it works, wrap it up nicely and put it under the tree for your wife. :D | Graham L (2) | ||
| 505262 | 2006-12-10 02:29:00 | Oh Graham, will you never learn !!! How long would you be in the doghouse if YOU did that???? PJ:horrified | Poppa John (284) | ||
| 505263 | 2006-12-10 02:37:00 | Oh Graham, will you never learn !!! How long would you be in the doghouse if YOU did that???? PJ:horrified That poses a conundrum... how would he time how long he was in the doghouse?, unless the dog was wearing a knock-off Tag :rolleyes: |
Shortcircuit (1666) | ||
| 505264 | 2006-12-10 20:01:00 | Possibly ended it's career by suicide when daylight saving arrived? Well actually thinking about the watch has made me suddenly remember what did happen to it. Yes it was a form of suicide. My son and I were swimming in the surf off New Brighton when I felt the watch strap come adrift and the thing dropped off. I actually saw it on the bottom - managed to get my foot on it but I was washed off by a wave and though I tried like mad to see it again never did. It was a week or so later my son made the interesting observation that as it was waterproof and the battery still good, then it was probably still working away and recording the time somewhere in the sea and could be doing so for months to come! Eerie. Tom |
Thomas01 (317) | ||
| 505265 | 2006-12-11 02:25:00 | . . . it was probably still working away and recording the time somewhere in the sea and could be doing so for months to come! Eerie . Tom So now it's trying to imitate a Rolex "Oyster"? |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 505266 | 2007-01-08 22:22:00 | Well there is a happy ending to this thread. I found an old battery with some life left in it so I put it in the mystery watch - and yes it worked - hands appeared on the dial and I could change the timing by pressing the tiny button on the side. So all those who reckoned it was a digital watch were right. It is now going quite happily on my desk where it will probably remain until it gets lost - I doubt that I will ever use it outside. But it was fun finding out Tom |
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