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Post by Deleted on Nov 18, 2018 14:19:08 GMT
I like the aesthetics, as a contrast to my analogues and activity-based watches.
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Post by Martin on Nov 29, 2018 13:32:49 GMT
Really pleased with my Apple Watch, works really well with the Outlook app and battery life is excellent. An added bonus, the BMW connected app works on the watch. You also check the cars status, lock/unlock doors, get walking directions to where it’s parked etc Range is good, I filled up 180 or so miles ago. The car looks white in the picture, but it’s actually silver (wheels are right too)....it’s important to get the details right! The Golf has a blue one on the dashboard when you start/stop the car, but it’s a fairly basic one on small wheels.
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 29, 2018 13:43:19 GMT
Range is good, I filled up 180 or so miles ago. The Watch or the car? If the watch needs refuelling every 180 miles that the car is driven.......
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Post by Martin on Nov 29, 2018 13:44:03 GMT
Range is good, I filled up 180 or so miles ago. The Watch or the car? If the watch needs refuelling every 180 miles that the car is driven....... The range is 180 + 398 and it depends whether that’s walking or driving miles!
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 29, 2018 13:47:07 GMT
True !
I ordered the watch I'd been wanting for about a decade on Black Friday at about 6pm after I'd got home from work and had yet another email offering "further reductions", which took the price from £230 to £150. It was delivered by recorded delivery just before 11am on Saturday, less than 17 hours later. Truly impressive. Anybody want to buy some slightly used watches that I now no longer feel inclined to wear (see earlier post, somewhere above) ??
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Post by Tim on Nov 29, 2018 14:07:28 GMT
No but you've failed to say what the watch you actually bought was.
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 29, 2018 15:30:33 GMT
No but you've failed to say what the watch you actually bought was. This one: I would have bought it on a BA flight about 7 years ago but they didn't have it on the plane I was on :-( At the time IIRC it was £149 when the price in the shops was £169, and since then the price has crept upwards, somewhat !
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 29, 2018 15:57:23 GMT
They're nice watches - a few years ago the company I was working for gave out half a dozen to shop floor guys for long service awards.
If you run fast enough down a corridor while wearing one you get plumes of red, white and blue smoke out of the crown.
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Post by Tim on Nov 29, 2018 16:44:22 GMT
Mmm I like that. It looks close enough to my Casio Edifice that I reckon I could sneak it into the house without Mrs Tim noticing...
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Post by ChrisM on Nov 29, 2018 17:52:02 GMT
If you run fast enough down a corridor while wearing one you get plumes of red, white and blue smoke out of the crown. Does HM the Queen know ??
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Post by canadian bacon on Jan 19, 2019 16:00:57 GMT
I don't get smart watches, my mobile is either on the desk or in my pocket, so if I need it, its always nearby, though my millennial team members do look at me like I am an alien for wearing a watch, they just don't get it (but this is the same group of people that called a calculator an 'adding machine')..
happy new year to all by the way!
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Post by johnc on Jan 19, 2019 17:34:01 GMT
I just look at what has happened to record decks. I Used to have a Michel Focus 1 and replaced it with a Linn Sondek both of which lived in the attic for years and at some point in 2 house moves disappeared. I believe my wife may have been responsible. The Michel Focus cost me about£400 with the arm and the Linn around £650 from memory. I could currently get about £4,500 for the pair of them.
So as far as I am concerned technology can do what it likes, I am keeping my mechanical watches safe - in the knowledge that one day they will be back in fashion and worth a fortune. Maybe!
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 19, 2019 17:55:56 GMT
.....replaced it with a Linn Sondek both of which lived in the attic for years and at some point in 2 house moves disappeared. Linn was founded by, and as far as I know, still run by Ivan Tiefenbrun. Every so often, a letter of his is published in the Reader's Letters page in Autocar, the most recent one was not that many weeks ago
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Post by johnc on Jan 20, 2019 8:26:41 GMT
.....replaced it with a Linn Sondek both of which lived in the attic for years and at some point in 2 house moves disappeared. Linn was founded by, and as far as I know, still run by Ivan Tiefenbrun. Every so often, a letter of his is published in the Reader's Letters page in Autocar, the most recent one was not that many weeks ago They used to have their factory just a couple of miles from where I am currently sitting, until they moved to near Eaglesham, I think. My Dad used to insure their stuff as it travelled all over the world.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2019 9:25:45 GMT
.....replaced it with a Linn Sondek both of which lived in the attic for years and at some point in 2 house moves disappeared. Linn was founded by, and as far as I know, still run by Ivan Tiefenbrun. Ivor!
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Post by Stuntman on Jan 20, 2019 14:23:05 GMT
Back on topic, I have treated myself to a new watch recently after reading about it in evo last year. It arrived yesterday and I'm very pleased with it. It's a Roue SSD One: rouewatch.com/shop/ssd/?attribute_pa_ssd=ssd-oneI'd still really like a TAG Heuer Monaco but a Roue is much more affordable territory!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2019 8:49:05 GMT
Which one? I preferred the silver case, myself!
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 21, 2019 10:16:22 GMT
They used to have their factory just a couple of miles from where I am currently sitting, until they moved to near Eaglesham, I think. My Dad used to insure their stuff as it travelled all over the world. In another life I used to supply a specialist cable to Linn at their Waterfoot factory near Eaglesham so I used to visit quite regularly. You drive along what seems like a park road and all of a sudden, set down in a hollow, is this modern factory. It was the first factory I visited where they had autonomous robots running round the assembly floor, delivering components to each workstation. The office was one huge room with the boss sitting at one end and two rows of desks - purchasing on one side, sales on the other. I turned up one day and there was a tent outside reception. Inside was the newly released Aston Martin Vanquish - a £15k option was a Linn audio set up for the car which they were still developing, so I got to sit in it and play around a bit while engineers busied themselves fitting stuff.
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Post by Stuntman on Jan 21, 2019 21:18:00 GMT
Which one? I preferred the silver case, myself! The first one (black case, red logo). I like them all, the one I chose was my marginal favourite. They make four different watches (CHR, SSD, HDS and CAL) but they are all quite similar. I'm tempted to add an HDS One, with the silver case: rouewatch.com/shop-roue-watch/
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2019 8:25:53 GMT
I think that's probably the best-looking of the lot, personally.
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Post by LandieMark on Jan 24, 2019 18:14:09 GMT
The problem with having many watches and wearing only one of them, is that when you come to change your mind (like I did tonight as the Garmin needs charging) and want to wear a different one, all the batteries are flat. I have lifetime battery on a lot of them but it looks like I'll have to take them in. I have a Citizen Eco-Drive that I really liked, but I dropped it on a tiled floor and the crystal smashed. It wasn't worth replacing.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 24, 2019 18:21:25 GMT
Really pleased with my Apple Watch, works really well with the Outlook app and battery life is excellent. I have never really wanted an Apple Watch until now. The key difference now being that you don't need to carry your phone around with you in order for it to work if you buy the right version. Which suddenly makes it really appealing. I also like the look of the stainless steel version with a leather strap.
Only small problem is the cost for the version I'd like.
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Post by Martin on Jan 24, 2019 18:37:10 GMT
Really pleased with my Apple Watch, works really well with the Outlook app and battery life is excellent. I have never really wanted an Apple Watch until now. The key difference now being that you don't need to carry your phone around with you in order for it to work if you buy the right version. Which suddenly makes it really appealing. I also like the look of the stainless steel version with a leather strap.
Only small problem is the cost for the version I'd like.
I bought it with the cheapest (rubber) strap and have purchased a couple of extra straps from Amazon, a nice black leather one and a metal ‘link’ bracelet that’s an exact match for the watch. IIRC Apple wanted another £100 for a better strap, the leather one was just over £20 and the metal one just under so I saved £60 and have straps for different occasions including the original one for activities
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Post by LandieMark on Jan 24, 2019 19:17:06 GMT
That’s what I did when I had my Apple Watch.
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 25, 2019 8:15:44 GMT
The problem with having many watches and wearing only one of them, is that when you come to change your mind (like I did tonight as the Garmin needs charging) and want to wear a different one, all the batteries are flat. I have lifetime battery on a lot of them but it looks like I'll have to take them in. I have a Citizen Eco-Drive that I really liked, but I dropped it on a tiled floor and the crystal smashed. It wasn't worth replacing. The batteries go flat whether or not you wear the watch..... Citizen charge around £100 to change a glass, I know as I had to get one of mine changed a few months back. Don't recall hitting anything with it but when I put it on one morning, there was a large chip out of it at the edge. Problem is that they won't quote to change the glass even if you send them a photo and supply all the model information, they insist on seeing it, and of course they won't just change the glass but insist on giving it a service at the same time..... so £100 to replace the glass was actually more than I'd paid for the watch in the first place (but as I'd had it for several years and it was significantly discounted when I bought it, like almost all of the watches that I have bought myself) I felt it was worthwhile. EDIT: And for normal quartz watch batteries, in general terms, Poundland is your friend (if you have the skills and tools to remove the backs)... if not for them, I'm sure that I'd have binned many of the older, cheap watches that I still have
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 25, 2019 8:31:45 GMT
I've always found that repair places don't charge that much to replace the battery but then they stiff you with the charge to pressure test it to ensure it is still water resistant afterwards.
With regard to the Apple Watches; they're still a bit too "Captain Scarlet" for my taste and I'd be a bit self conscious using one. There are other smart watches that seem to have nailed the aesthetics better, if not the usability.
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Post by LandieMark on Jan 25, 2019 8:47:21 GMT
The problem with having many watches and wearing only one of them, is that when you come to change your mind (like I did tonight as the Garmin needs charging) and want to wear a different one, all the batteries are flat. I have lifetime battery on a lot of them but it looks like I'll have to take them in. I have a Citizen Eco-Drive that I really liked, but I dropped it on a tiled floor and the crystal smashed. It wasn't worth replacing. The batteries go flat whether or not you wear the watch..... Citizen charge around £100 to change a glass, I know as I had to get one of mine changed a few months back. Don't recall hitting anything with it but when I put it on one morning, there was a large chip out of it at the edge. Problem is that they won't quote to change the glass even if you send them a photo and supply all the model information, they insist on seeing it, and of course they won't just change the glass but insist on giving it a service at the same time..... so £100 to replace the glass was actually more than I'd paid for the watch in the first place (but as I'd had it for several years and it was significantly discounted when I bought it, like almost all of the watches that I have bought myself) I felt it was worthwhile. EDIT: And for normal quartz watch batteries, in general terms, Poundland is your friend (if you have the skills and tools to remove the backs)... if not for them, I'm sure that I'd have binned many of the older, cheap watches that I still have Well, yes they do. The problem being is that I don’t check them.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 25, 2019 18:12:32 GMT
With regard to the Apple Watches; they're still a bit too "Captain Scarlet" for my taste and I'd be a bit self conscious using one. There are other smart watches that seem to have nailed the aesthetics better, if not the usability. I know what you mean. However, the problem with the others, apart from the usability, is the sheer size of them. I have fairly thin wrists for a bloke and anything above a 40mm case starts to look distinctly oversized. I tried on one of TAG's smart watches and it was huge - felt like you'd need wrists like Jason Statham to not look silly wearing it.
So the 40mm Apple Watch appeals. I'm not sure I care much about screen size. What appeals is the idea of using it to free myself from my smartphone screen. I could go out without my phone and therefore start to wean myself the frankly terrible habit of checking the bloody thing all the time.
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Post by johnc on Jan 25, 2019 19:51:05 GMT
My issue with an Apple watch would be trying to see what it said or who was calling (got to that age when I need reading glasses).....and I still can't get used to people walking down the road talking into their wrist!
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 25, 2019 21:42:11 GMT
.....and I still can't get used to people walking down the road talking into their wrist! Didn't you watch "Thunderbirds are go" when you were a kid? Gerry Anderson was years ahead of his time !
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