Re sapphire crystals, my Tisot Titanium has a Saphire crystal and after approx 13 years still has not scratched. It aslo keeps reasonably accurate time (with a few seconds per month.)
----- Original Message ---- From: Steve Rooke <sar10...@gmail.com> To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Sun, July 10, 2011 2:54:26 AM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] Am I the only Time Nut who doesn't wear a watch? I still wear my Tag Heuer F1 midsize from back in the 80's. Although I'm on my second plastic bezel, the first wore so bad it eventually dropped off, and I have been through countless straps, the sapphire crystal is as good today as the first day I got it. They just don't seem to scratch at all, l but I understand that they can chip if hit hard enough, which still surprises me given the rough treatment my watch has gone through. OK, I'm a heathen for having a quartz watch, but it still keeps good time and it's light enough not to cause wrist ache. Steve On 9 July 2011 07:09, Chuck Harris <cfhar...@erols.com> wrote: > I too love wearing a wrist watch.... Since I am always working with > machines, > I tend to scar my watches up quite a bit... therefor I tend to wear cheap > watches... my current favorite is a Russian automatic dive watch that I > picked > up on ebay for $60. > > I only wear automatic winding mechanical watches. They are more than > accurate > enough to help me plot my way through life. > > Speidel Twist-O-Flex bands are the only type worth wearing in my opinion. > > -Chuck Harris > > William H. Fite wrote: >> >> Bravo, Rob. I thought I was the lone voice crying in the wilderness in >> support of watches. >> >> My "beater" is an Omega Seamaster that goes everywhere and does everything >> all the time. My others tend to sit in their rocker boxes and seldom get >> worn. > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > -- Steve Rooke - ZL3TUV & G8KVD The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. - Einstein _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there. _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.