@kdfrawg Familiar with them. I had a problem with the first models because of nerve damage in my left arm. When that pendulum inside did the CLACK thing, I felt it clear in my teeth. I understand they're not quite like that now.
As for design, I'm looking for a non-cheap but functional watch. Not a statement. Just something that friggin works. I'm looking online right now at Kinetics. I've narrowed it to three.
I think my next watch will be a good, self-winding / Kinetic. Something I will not have to entrust to a moron while I am shopping or squint over myself every time a battery needs changed.
@larand My big thing with a watch is that, sometimes, I think we spend far too much time looking at our smart phones. "What time is it", doesn't have to mean, "While, I'm here, I may as well check mail, Twitter, Facebook, whatever".
In my case, "I'll fire up OneNote and check this. Oh, better fire up Deliveries and see when X is going to be delivered. Oh, email. Text this person and that person."
I'd like to just go, "It's eight minutes after five" and go on with my life.
// @kdfrawg
@skematica This is why I want to pick up retailers who complain that, "No one goes to brick and mortar anymore", and shake them.
Hillaeiously, the Nexus 7 is working like a brand new unit. Not sure what happened when it had its little spasm and rebooted but it seems to have cured it's own ills.
Really bugs me how retail responds to the threat of online sales by doing less of what differentiates them from online sales.
Aside from a pair of converse high tops and a bottle of bourbon, the shopping excursion was a bust.
The jeweler managed to change the battery in my Mondaine but failed to reattach the back. The Seiko outsmarted her. Also looked at a wedding band to replace the one I threw in the trash nine years ago when Sidekick and I were being stupid and decided to divorce. Was told that they couldn't resize rings there and it would have to be sent off for two weeks. I left before my opinion of the place could chew through the restraints.
Finding a GOOD leather coat was also too much to ask. Unless I wanted to look like a pretend biker, of course. My sense of fashion is in a completely diffferent neighborhood. I'll go to Nashville for it. Will look for a real jeweler while I'm up there. Not one staffed by air headed eye candy.
