I just ran my watch through the wash. Well, that one didn't last long.
I probably should support my own watch habit rather than encourage people to give me things that, going by my history, I can expect to kill pretty quickly.
But do they survive being washed with the light colors? :-)
I did once have a watch that made it alive through the wash, an 80s digital spec'ed at 200-meter waterproof. Those ratings turn out to be highly optimistic (they assume purely static pressure, so you can't move underwater, and for damn sure don't push any buttons), but that was still good enough for sport diving, above 130'. And the wash.
Why, so I could have killed a better watch? plplplpl
The "time-set knob randomly gets jostled by cruft" problem went away once I learned not to keep it in a pocket where that could happen. Too bad I forgot to take it out of that pocket.
Part of it's that I type a lot and I used to play the drums. Both activities are hindered by wrist weights, even if those weights are only a few ounces.
The other part of it's that I, too, was a destroyer of watches. I used to go through about one every other month. Unless it was a really good watch. Then, I'd wreck it in a week or two.
Now, I have a pocketwatch for formal occasions (though I think it needs a new battery) and the rest of the time, I rely on one of my electric doodads or companions to tell me what time it is.
Maybe you -should- encourage people to buy you watches with the understanding that you'll burn through them quickly.
I've been doing pocket-watches for years, too. At first I would break, corrode, or otherwise jinx the band of my wristwatch, and so it would live in my pocket. Then I couldn't get used to having a dangly thing on my wrist again.
Maybe what I need is to buy my watches in sixpacks.
My father has a fun problem: he can only wear purely mechanical watches. If he wears an electric watch, it'll stop working after a few hours. He mentioned it to a doctor once. The doctor hooked him up to a galvanometer and a few other medical toys (No charge! I think the doctor was hoping for a research paper.) and eventually decided that my father was an excellent conductor and was probably killing the watches when he picked up static electrical charges.
I don't know if this class of solution would work, but: someone I know has a *ring* with a tiny little clock face. It doesn't have frills like an alarm, calendar, etc, but it fits on a ring. I don't know where she got it or if they can be gotten in "non-girly" styles, but if you find a source I'd bet that the answer to the latter would be "yes".
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But yeah, I sympathize. That's why I tell people not to give me expensive jewelry; I'm so very good at losing or breaking it.
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I did once have a watch that made it alive through the wash, an 80s digital spec'ed at 200-meter waterproof. Those ratings turn out to be highly optimistic (they assume purely static pressure, so you can't move underwater, and for damn sure don't push any buttons), but that was still good enough for sport diving, above 130'. And the wash.
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The "time-set knob randomly gets jostled by cruft" problem went away once I learned not to keep it in a pocket where that could happen. Too bad I forgot to take it out of that pocket.
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Part of it's that I type a lot and I used to play the drums. Both activities are hindered by wrist weights, even if those weights are only a few ounces.
The other part of it's that I, too, was a destroyer of watches. I used to go through about one every other month. Unless it was a really good watch. Then, I'd wreck it in a week or two.
Now, I have a pocketwatch for formal occasions (though I think it needs a new battery) and the rest of the time, I rely on one of my electric doodads or companions to tell me what time it is.
Maybe you -should- encourage people to buy you watches with the understanding that you'll burn through them quickly.
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Maybe what I need is to buy my watches in sixpacks.
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I don't know if this class of solution would work, but: someone I know has a *ring* with a tiny little clock face. It doesn't have frills like an alarm, calendar, etc, but it fits on a ring. I don't know where she got it or if they can be gotten in "non-girly" styles, but if you find a source I'd bet that the answer to the latter would be "yes".