Friday, June 19, 2009

Small details.


A month or so ago I picked up a second watch. A simple cheap Timex in the submariner style. I had been wearing the dressier not for US sale Seiko hiking and thought it might be a good idea to not do that, since I would rather not want to mail it back to Japan for repair if I were to hit/drop it against a rocky trail.

Today I just felt like wearing the Timex for the orange strap. It's a cloudy/drizzly day, I'm wearing dark brown pants and a dark grey shirt. Brighten life up a bit.

Unfortunately it also uncovered a new unconscious twitch - the Seiko is an automatic winding mechanical watch. The winding mechanism makes a barely audible clicking noise as it rotates when you move your wrist. It also has a slightly impreceise fitting leather band, so I have to shake my forearm slightly to center the watch on my wrist occaisionally.

The Timex has a quartz movement. It has neither the feedback nor the odd band, but I've done the centering shake of the wrist a couple times expecting it to do something.

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