Any watch connoisseurs that could suggest an "exotic" watch?
NotDracon
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I don't know much about watches, but I've gotten the itch to obtain a peculiar watch recently.
"Peculiar" as in exotic, strange and out of the ordinary. If it's your bog standard 12-hour face watch or a digital watch with nothing else, I'm not interested.
So far, the oddest watch I've ever owned was a Casio CA53W-1 which was this thing:
A neat little thing that could serve as a calculator and store phone numbers, among other things. I should still have it in a drawer somewhere. But this isn't enough for me anymore, I want something more "odd". Something less conventional, or if it is conventional, that has a feature or design that makes it stand out.
A recent contender for my attention has been the Nixoid series of watches, which are digital watches only they use nixie tubes to display digits instead of an LED screen.
So, does anyone know of any weird watches they could toss my way? Please don't suggest smartwatches here, I already have a phone that does more than it could ever do. I don't need a redundant mini-phone on my wrist.
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They worked just fine in getting a train in the clear on a siding on time.
nothing from me I always just had cheap watches as I broke them often
back in high school I had a aunt send ( who worked at westclock ) me a digital watch in th emid 1970"s it was very early model you had to push the button every time you wanted to see the time it would show up in red numbers very small on a black screen
fun story one day at work many years ago in a meeting one of the fellows really liked real nice watches $$ and was showing off his recent purchase I dont remember the brand but it was a nice one
one of the other guys at the table ask what time is it ?
well its 1:00 PM
the other fellow held up his hand exposed a Timex watch and said look at that 1:00 same as yours and it cost fifteen bucks at Walmart
it got a huge laugh and the fellow with the nice watch shook his head and said you just don't get it 🤨
Dont know if its exotic, but I got one of the Stauer jobs advertised in all the gun magazines.
I'm a bit more hoi polloi and thus can't help ye.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Don't own it but have always been impressed with that watch James Colburn wore in the movie "Our Man Flint' back in the 60's.
It had these feelers that popped up and rotated back and forth to quietly and gently wake you up!
On a side note, I do own a nice Rolex that was gifted to me from a relative many years ago. I was going to gift it to one of my sons who lives just outside of a big city (Detroit).
After some deep thought I changed my mind. He attends a lot of concerts, sporting events, and large crowded doings in the city. Such a watch is an attractant to criminal slime balls.
I drove a bus on a schedule for 38.5 years. The day I quit driving my watch came off. I know a half hour after the sun goes down it will be dark.
After growing up with cheaper watches in the 1960's........and some digital ones in the 1970's.......I discovered the Timex Ironman series in the late 1980's. I'm wearing one right now.......on it's sixth battery. The second one is for lap swimming.
Anywho..........in the early 2000's I decided I needed a nice "dress" watch. I ended up getting a Rado Ceramica Multifunction, that's both analog and digital, with additional functions.
It's a nice watch that I wear on occasion.
A pic of one:
https://assets.catawiki.nl/assets/2022/7/14/3/7/5/375aaad9-1a82-4e61-9b19-691958f60acd.jpg
I have bad eyes and need corneal transplants, with that said my son got me a watch for christmas that "talked" you pushed a button and it told you the time, only thing was with my hearing aids I couldn't understand what the watch was saying, some days you just can't win……..
I probably have seven or eight watches lying dead in a drawer. The most unusual is one with the case and band made entirely of Hawaiian Koa wood. An interesting one I've seen advertised is a Stauer with the face of a 1938 Studebaker dial. I sold a Bulova Accutron a few years ago that sat in that drawer for half a century. Some collector just had to have it.
Had to look it up…The Koa is by Earth Wood Watches and Stauer Dashtronic
https://earthwoodgoods.com/
https://www.stauer.com/category/watches
Koa is a VERY expensive wood. It only grows in a limited area and there are very few trees harvested. It's one of the prettiest woods on the planet.
Not exotic or hi-tech but for 41 years of "Duty, Honor, Country"——-Ray
Ditch Runner, Timex— "takes a licking and keeps on ticking" ———Ray
Timex slogan: Takes a licking and keeps on ticking
I told timex to stick it where the sun don't shine and then lick on it. This was after their 3rd attempt at doing a repair and charging each time and it would not keep on ticking.
Most user friendly reliable watch I've ever owned is a Garmin.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sylvester-stallone-watches-sale-including-120715377.html