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Post by Martin on Jan 4, 2021 18:21:55 GMT
Now it's come back looking like new I've been reluctant to wear it every day again but I need to bite the bullet and just start putting it on when I get up like I used to. Same here. But equally at the moment, I find I don't bother wearing a watch at home most of the time. Similarly, my wife has also stopped wearing a normal watch at home now in favour of a fitbit and, whilst I am not tempted by a fitbit, part of me is tempted by an Apple Watch as a way to not walk around even at home with two iPhones all the time. Having an Apple watch helps when you have a separate work phone, especially at the weekends when it meant I could put my work phone in Lindsays handbag and pick up any notifications. It also does a pretty good job as a handsfree phone if you need it to as well. I can't remember the last time I wore my 'nice watch', but it would have been at the back end of 2019 when I went to a couple of Christmas events.
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Jan 4, 2021 19:58:25 GMT
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Post by Andy C on Jan 4, 2021 19:58:25 GMT
Same here. But equally at the moment, I find I don't bother wearing a watch at home most of the time. Similarly, my wife has also stopped wearing a normal watch at home now in favour of a fitbit and, whilst I am not tempted by a fitbit, part of me is tempted by an Apple Watch as a way to not walk around even at home with two iPhones all the time. Having an Apple watch helps when you have a separate work phone, especially at the weekends when it meant I could put my work phone in Lindsays handbag and pick up any notifications. It also does a pretty good job as a handsfree phone if you need it to as well. I can't remember the last time I wore my 'nice watch', but it would have been at the back end of 2019 when I went to a couple of Christmas events. What have you got ? I’ve just ordered a watch winder as mine gets so little use it’s a right pita setting the time and date every time I wear it
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Post by Stuntman on Jan 4, 2021 20:23:46 GMT
Really Andy? Surely setting the time and date takes no more than a minute or two at most.
If you're only wearing the watch occasionally I'm surprised you needed the watch winder - unless it means that you will actually then see the watch more of the time and get pleasure from that?
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Jan 4, 2021 20:40:03 GMT
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Post by Andy C on Jan 4, 2021 20:40:03 GMT
Sometimes I have to scroll through a whole month! It doesn’t take long I just find it annoying
I’ve also heard it’s not good for automatic watches to sit for long periods- parts can cease up.
I got a great deal on a barrington winder so it will be nice that it’s always moving and ready to use straight away.
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Post by Martin on Jan 4, 2021 20:41:17 GMT
Having an Apple watch helps when you have a separate work phone, especially at the weekends when it meant I could put my work phone in Lindsays handbag and pick up any notifications. It also does a pretty good job as a handsfree phone if you need it to as well. I can't remember the last time I wore my 'nice watch', but it would have been at the back end of 2019 when I went to a couple of Christmas events. What have you got ? I’ve just ordered a watch winder as mine gets so little use it’s a right pita setting the time and date every time I wear it Tag Carrera. I’ve also got a Citizen ecodrive, which used to spring back to life and sort the date/time when it was exposed to light, but it’s even longer since I wore that. I often get some ‘want’ for an Omega Speedmaster (when passing a jewellers...) but it would be a waste of money really. I have zero desire for anything more expensive than that.
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Post by Stuntman on Jan 4, 2021 21:00:27 GMT
I wear about 5 of my watches regularly, another two occasionally, and the other 6 hardly ever. So I need to thin the herd but I don't really want to faff around with eBay or similar.
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Post by Roadsterstu on Jan 4, 2021 21:07:04 GMT
I wear about 5 of my watches regularly, another two occasionally, and the other 6 hardly ever. So I need to thin the herd but I don't really want to faff around with eBay or similar. Hire them out?
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 5, 2021 9:48:04 GMT
Really Andy? Surely setting the time and date takes no more than a minute or two at most. If you're only wearing the watch occasionally I'm surprised you needed the watch winder - unless it means that you will actually then see the watch more of the time and get pleasure from that? I actually do have a watch winder sitting here on my desk but we rarely use it. Between us we have I think six mechanical watches, but the only one that gets worn with any regularity is my Rolex and it doesn't even have a date display, therefore it's not an issue if it stops. The rest are kept locked away.
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 5, 2021 10:31:43 GMT
W2.1's birth year Rolex was serviced a couple of years ago after keeping bad time and shows no real issues since. It's well over 40 years old. I get frustrated that she doesn't wear it more often.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 5, 2021 14:58:09 GMT
I get frustrated that she doesn't wear it more often. Same here. My wife also has a small Cartier watch (which she bought herself) that she prefers for daily wear on the basis that it's slimmer, lighter, a quartz model (so doesn't need winding) and not in her view as flashy. As such the Rolex gets kept for best.
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 5, 2021 15:38:05 GMT
A cautionary tale for everyone: My late stepfather was raised in very tight financial circumstances (he won a scholarship to Alleyn's and his mother had to take in cleaning and ironing to make ends meet after his father did a bunk) during the second world war. Having been very bright and successful he then amassed a lot of things over the years and frequently purchased two of anything so that he had a spare or items "for best". This includes a 12 place setting Royal Doulton dinner service purchased in the UK at some point in the '80s and shipped to the USA, where they then lived. There is a Japanese china dinner service that has been rolled out for various occasions over the years. Even though the Royal Doulton was supposedly "for best", has been moved between states in the US, to Germany, to its current residence in the dining hall in France and he's been dead some 7 years now the dinner service remains unused. Never keep anything "for best" - stuff is there to be used.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 5, 2021 17:05:43 GMT
We got an expensive Royal Doulton dinner service in various components between engagement and marriage 30 odd years ago and it was kept for best. I think we got it out about half a dozen times since then. We got rid last year as it was just taking up space and it really wasn’t to our taste anymore.
Our best is now a modern Vileroy & Bosch set that Mrs Sacamano won while at FIAT ( they were really good at looking after and incentivising their dealerships, much better than VW/Audi).
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 5, 2021 19:12:46 GMT
Likewise we received a Wedgwood dinner service as part of our wedding gifts and only infrequently use it if we have people over for dinner. That hasn't happened any time recently for obvious reasons, so we made sure to haul it out this year for supper on both Christmas and New Year's Eve.
My aunt wins the best dinner service story. Her maternal grandfather (my great-grandfather) was the Chief Justice of the White Raj in Sarawak when the Japanese invaded during WW2. The Sydney Morning Herald had this to say on 29 January 1942:
Escape of Sarawak Chief Justice
Mr H Thackwell-Lewis, the Chief Justice of Sarawak, has arrived in Australia after an amazing escape from the Japanese at Kuching. With the Treasurer of the Government, some naval officers and officers in charge of directional finding apparatus, he struggled through the jungle for five days while the Japanese bombed the tracks.
The party eventually arrived at Fontianik, a Dutch Province. From there they were transported to Batavia.
Everything was left in Kuching. Mr Thackwell Lewis, who had just come out of hospital after a severe attack of dengue, faced the five-day under awful conditions.
"We made about 17 miles a day" he said "and it is amazing what one can do and stand when in such a situation. It is beyond the imagination to be eaten alive by mosquitoes, to wade through mud and slush up to the waist, while the Japanese had an idea where we were and dropped bombs continuously for two days. At night we slept in dark houses - tribal affairs - and in all this time we had no food except a little coconut juice, jungle fruits and some rice we got from the natives. We had no water".
Except that the underlined bit depends on your perspective. For my aunt has the remnants of a dinner service that she inherited from her grandfather and which he told her they carted with them through the jungle as they fled. Surely only a British colonial civil servant could flee through a jungle pursued by bombers, with a dinner service...
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 5, 2021 20:30:21 GMT
(snip) Surely only a British colonial civil servant could flee through a jungle pursued by bombers, with a dinner service... I wonder if the dinner service was the main, or only, thing they decided to take with them as they fled??
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 5, 2021 21:02:11 GMT
Likewise we received a Wedgwood dinner service as part of our wedding gifts and only infrequently use it if we have people over for dinner. That hasn't happened any time recently for obvious reasons, so we made sure to haul it out this year for supper on both Christmas and New Year's Eve. My aunt wins the best dinner service story. Her maternal grandfather (my great-grandfather) was the Chief Justice of the White Raj in Sarawak when the Japanese invaded during WW2. The Sydney Morning Herald had this to say on 29 January 1942: Escape of Sarawak Chief Justice
Mr H Thackwell-Lewis, the Chief Justice of Sarawak, has arrived in Australia after an amazing escape from the Japanese at Kuching. With the Treasurer of the Government, some naval officers and officers in charge of directional finding apparatus, he struggled through the jungle for five days while the Japanese bombed the tracks.
The party eventually arrived at Fontianik, a Dutch Province. From there they were transported to Batavia.
Everything was left in Kuching. Mr Thackwell Lewis, who had just come out of hospital after a severe attack of dengue, faced the five-day under awful conditions.
"We made about 17 miles a day" he said "and it is amazing what one can do and stand when in such a situation. It is beyond the imagination to be eaten alive by mosquitoes, to wade through mud and slush up to the waist, while the Japanese had an idea where we were and dropped bombs continuously for two days. At night we slept in dark houses - tribal affairs - and in all this time we had no food except a little coconut juice, jungle fruits and some rice we got from the natives. We had no water". Except that the underlined bit depends on your perspective. For my aunt has the remnants of a dinner service that she inherited from her grandfather and which he told her they carted with them through the jungle as they fled. Surely only a British colonial civil servant could flee through a jungle pursued by bombers, with a dinner service... Makes you damn proud to be British. There’s also a whiff of Carry on up the Jungle.. 😀
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Post by Stuntman on Jan 5, 2021 22:04:30 GMT
Great story. I hope that he ate the jungle fruits and the rice using the dinner service on each of the nights in the dark houses, and drunk the coconut juice out of the finest bone china cups.
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Jan 5, 2021 23:26:24 GMT
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Post by Roadrunner on Jan 5, 2021 23:26:24 GMT
I love the jungle escape story.
I am another who sees no point in keeping things for occaisonal best use only. Our Wedgwood wedding present dinner service comes out almost every weekend, along with the decent cutlery. I don't have a best watch, so the Seiko is used every day.
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Post by Tim on Jan 6, 2021 9:06:28 GMT
We got silver cutlery as a wedding gift and it gets used as much as a cheaper Viners set - they all live in the same kitchen drawer.
I've got some Wedgewood that I inherited from my gran but it's in the same unopened box that it arrived in in 2000 and is still in the attic room at my mums. I've no idea what to do with it. Does Wedgewood have any value?
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Post by Andy C on Jan 6, 2021 9:23:06 GMT
Our ‘dinner service’ was from Next, and my mugs are EVO, Liverpool FC and Only Fools and Horses
All dishwasher safe, which is all that matters.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Jan 6, 2021 11:30:57 GMT
All dishwasher safe, which is all that matters. So is mine, she never drops a cup.
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Post by racingteatray on Jan 6, 2021 13:51:41 GMT
Great story. I hope that he ate the jungle fruits and the rice using the dinner service on each of the nights in the dark houses, and drunk the coconut juice out of the finest bone china cups. Indeed! When my aunt moved to a retirement home a couple of years ago, she was parcelling out surplus antiques and furnishings to those of us family members who wanted them. I had hoped to get the jungle dinner service but alas one of my cousins exercised filial precedent and snaffled it.
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Post by Big Blue on Jan 6, 2021 15:06:06 GMT
Indeed! When my aunt moved to a retirement home a couple of years ago, she was parcelling out surplus antiques and furnishings to those of us family members who wanted them. I had hoped to get the jungle dinner service but alas one of my cousins exercised filial precedent and snaffled it. I sense an opportunity for some "Kind Hearts and Coronets" activity to gain access to it. I fired an arrow into the air She came to rest in Berkeley Square
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 9, 2021 18:05:40 GMT
I (finally) got this off ebay in early December for just over £90. I think I bid 3 times as it kept failing to meet reserve. I just liked the design, plus being all titanium I knew it wouldn't be heavy. It is a 2013 "special edition" to mark the Americas Cup; eco-drive 100m waterproof but not radio-controlled timing. No instructions but they are available off the web, plus there are videos on YouTube. Most 2013 Americas Cup editions are in stainless steel with either s/s or fabric straps; the all titanium version seems very rare, especially in Europe. It's been abused and I suspect that the glass has been changed judging by the fact that it seems almost perfect whereas the "body" and dial surround have numerous marks, chips, scratches and scrapes. The strap was on the wrong way round with the clasp opening incorrectly, and the pins holding the strap to the case were sticking out........ I turned the clasp around and have replaced the strap pins with paperclips which seem just the right size, cut down, to fit and hold without wriggling loose. If lockdown ends and shops re-open I'll have a think about getting the correct pins fitted. Meantime, I love it, and it keeps excellent time too, a couple of seconds per month fast.
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Post by johnc on Jan 9, 2021 18:30:35 GMT
I bought this before Christmas to replace the Red Arrows version which my wife had put away in a box when we moved house. Unfortunately I only found it be accident in August or thereabouts and it had totally run out of power rendering it useless! Apologies for the quality (or lack of) of the photo
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 9, 2021 19:27:17 GMT
I bought this before Christmas to replace the Red Arrows version which my wife had put away in a box when we moved house. Unfortunately I only found it be accident in August or thereabouts and it had totally run out of power rendering it useless! If you leave it in sunlight or under an electric light for a few hours, it should start again of its own accord. Most of the eco-drive range, if deprived of light, go into a deep sleep mode to conserve battery life. That 2013 sailhawk I bought - if it gets hidden by your shirt sleeve for a few minutes, also goes into power conservation mode where the second hand stops until it senses light falling on its face, same as it does overnight. If your Red Arrows won't restart, worth contacting Citizen UK for advice, they're not that far from me in Wokingham. try their website for an email contact form
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Post by johnc on Jan 9, 2021 19:29:30 GMT
I bought this before Christmas to replace the Red Arrows version which my wife had put away in a box when we moved house. Unfortunately I only found it be accident in August or thereabouts and it had totally run out of power rendering it useless! If you leave it in sunlight or under an electric light for a few hours, it should start again of its own accord. Most of the eco-drive range, if deprived of light, go into a deep sleep mode to conserve battery life. That 2013 sailhawk I bought - if it gets hidden by your shirt sleeve for a few minutes, also goes into power conservation mode where the second hand stops until it senses light falling on its face, same as it does overnight. If your Red Arrows won't restart, worth contacting Citizen UK for advice, they're not that far from me in Wokingham. try their website for an email contact form Thanks Chris. I did get it started but it won't reset to the correct time. Even if I manage to set it manually, the next time it picks up the radio signal, it changes the time to something different!
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Post by ChrisM on Jan 9, 2021 22:31:37 GMT
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Post by johnc on Jan 10, 2021 8:49:45 GMT
I reset it a couple of times using Youtube videos for help but I will try the official manual you have linked to. Thanks.
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Feb 20, 2021 17:59:15 GMT
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Post by Andy C on Feb 20, 2021 17:59:15 GMT
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Post by ChrisM on Feb 20, 2021 20:44:12 GMT
JC: Any news/luck with your Red Arrows Ecodrive?
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