By Special Order Only
California Girl’s watch died over the weekend. I’m almost certain that it’s the battery which is a nuisance since it has to be special ordered directly from Seiko. I’d like to get her a nice new watch; but, since we have his and hers watches, I’ll probably just get another battery. It was supposed to last 5 years; but, both this one and the original one lasted for less than half of that. If we had known beforehand that a replacement battery would be so hard to find, we would have never purchased the set. Unlike hers, my watch is still running on the original battery.
We like to have matching stuff. It’s kind of a trademark of ours. We don’t overdo it; but we do like jewelry and other accessories that remind us of each other. For example, we always have coordinating costumes at Halloween. If anyone has suggestions for a nice coordinated set of his and hers watches we’d love to hear them. We don’t want to spend too much money; but we’d really like a matched pair. After the “fun” we have had with batteries, we’re thinking that we would like to have automatic (self-winding) movements. And, or course enough water resistance so that we can swim in them. (It gives us a funny tan, so we don’t usually wear them in the pool; but, sometimes we do need to know the time). The only thing I can say is our next set of watches will not be Seikos.
Other than the battery being such an annoyance, we really like the watches. They keep very accurate time and are perpetual calendar models so we only have to adjust them when changing to or from daylight savings time. Even though they only display the date, they “know” what month and year it is and adjust the date accordingly. It’s a good idea; but poor execution. I guess the same could be said about many things.
We’ve got clocks all over the house; and we’ve always got our cell phones with us; so we don’t really need a watch to know the time; but it’s a touch of elegance that we like share. I’ve always thought that timepieces were symbolic of relationships. Hopefully we’ll be able to find something that is a suitable remembrance of ours.
June 24th, 2008 at 12:26 am
I don’t know if they would fall into the “too-much” category, but my wife and I really like our Citizen Eco-Drives… We’ve only had them for two years, but they recharge from sunlight, and never need batteries. Most of them are rated as “divers watches”. We don’t dive, but we have been swimming with oursz without any problems…
June 24th, 2008 at 1:36 am
DisappearingJohn: I like the Citizens, in fact m we almost got some of them instead of these; but they are made by Seiko and that company is not going to get any more of our money. They’d probably be fine; but it’s a hard-headed principle thing now.
June 24th, 2008 at 11:53 am
After years of wearing and distroying watches because of my job i have elected to go the watchless route. The cell that is perpetualy with me knows what time it is to the milisecond no mater where in this country I end up at the end of the day. at first the bare wrist was noticed but that spot finaly tanned after 35 years. Hard headded is good sometimes. Stick to it. Hewlet Packard is on my never again list because they no longer support a perfectly functioning printer in Vista. Pass the contraceptive jelly please. Sorry for the rant. Best to both of you J&W
June 25th, 2008 at 4:46 am
Carolina Jim and Wife: I am right there with you. I won’t be buying HP products anymore either. Even when they do support a new OS, they char $10 for the driver disk rather than just posting updated drivers on the web; even if the device is only a few months old. I’ve run into this problem repeatedly; both with Windows XP and Vista. They’ve squeezed me for the last time.