You are correct, My kids call it a Harry Potter watch because of the way the hands switch when you move between alarm setting mode and the usual time display modes. There is this slight pause then they recompose themselves to tell the time. I gather it looks really cool!
----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 1:17 AM Subject: RE: [BlindHandyMan] tissot silen-t wow! Sounds like they went to another planet to make something so advanced. Speachless. I've read about it, but can't find any. On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Barry Levine wrote: > > The model name is the Tissot Silent T. > I don't know the model number off hand. > > The time is set by pulling out the crown and then tracing your index finger > around the bevel to the appropriate hour, then minute... Then releasing your > finger, and then pushing in the crown to actually set it. The alarm is set > in similar fashion, but you run your finger around the bevel in the counter > clockwise direction to set the alarm... I think. I haven't set the alarm > for quite some time, so someone correct me if I'm providing misinformation > on this. > > "What makes the vibration?" > I don't know. Tissot is quite proud of what it sees as a space-age > technology in the manufacture of the crystal. > > > --Barry > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:21 PM > To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] tissot silen-t > > what causes, or makes the vibrations? > Does it set with the crown as a standard analog watch/ How does one set > the alarm? > What is the model name? > Thanks > > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Dale Leavens wrote: > >> The hands are what I suppose you could call virtual, they seem to exist > under the crystal. they sort of dissolve and reform as the modes change but > they have no real meaning to the blind. You just feel these vibrating points > as your fingers pass over the position of the hands along the edge of the > crystal just inside the position of the number markers on the rim around the > edges of the crystal also known as the bezel. When sighted people look at > the watch they see hands through the crystal. >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> To: blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com >> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 1:22 AM >> Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] tissot silen-t >> >> >> so does it have traditional hands? How much and where is it purchased? >> Barry mentioned telling it via vibration, and that it had a vibration >> alarm?? >> >> On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Dan Rossi wrote: >> >> > Lenny, >> > >> > Yes, the dots and dashes on the bezel of the watch are very tactual. >> > Unless you have a pretty pour sense of touch, you should be able to >> > identify the locations of the dots and dashes. >> > >> > You actually run your finger around on the crystal just inside of the > dots >> > and dashes on the bezel, but the reality is that you are touching both >> > simultaneously. >> > >> > -- >> > Blue skies. >> > Dan Rossi >> > Carnegie Mellon University. >> > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Tel: (412) 268-9081 >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> > ---------------------------------------------------------- > -- >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1516 - Release Date: 6/24/2008 > 7:53 AM >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> >> > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p > age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various > List Members At The Following address: > http://www.jaws-users.com/JAWS/handyman/ > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ > > If you would like to join the JAWS Users List, then visit the following > address for more information: > http://www.jaws-users.com/ > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list > just send a blank message to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Groups Links > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1517 - Release Date: 6/24/2008 8:41 PM [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
