• Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    one is a time saver, as you can get yourself out of almost any legal troubles on earth, as an untraceable get out of jail card.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      10 months ago

      Wouldn’t a nice fake work just as well for that purpose? Like not a 20€ fake from the Vintimille market but a nice one.

      • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        if they didnt know who you are somehow and couldnt come back to you then maybe. or maybe you’d be much much worse off.

        • Obi@sopuli.xyz
          2·
          10 months ago

          Good point for some reason I was only thinking of the “you’re getting bullied at a road stop by third world police in a country you’ll never go back to” types of situations.

            • Obi@sopuli.xyz
              2·
              10 months ago

              It happened to me once and cost me about 70€ if I remember well, basically the fine magically was exactly the amount I had in there which they saw during the search…

  • datelmd5sum@lemmy.world
    30·
    10 months ago

    The $40 watch is probably better at telling time because there’s a crystal oscillating there exactly 32768 times a second, instead of some gears and springs and shit that are roughly tuned to 10 Hz by a guy with a screwdriver.

    • Zerush@lemmy.ml
      1·
      10 months ago

      If radio controlled like mine, it’s syncron with the central EU atomic clock with 9.192.631.770 Hz. Not bad for €25.

    • whereisk@lemmy.world
      9·
      10 months ago

      No probably about it.

      Mechanical watches lose 10-15 secs per day which declines as they get older or aren’t serviced, a $40 Casio might miss 30 secs per month, never needs servicing other than a battery change.

      Mechanical watches are no longer utility items, they are fashion items that happen to tell time.

  • nednobbins@lemmy.ml
    17·
    10 months ago

    I’m just here to brag about my old Casio G-Shock.

    CSB: Just before the collapse of the USSR I was part of a youth sailing exchange program. They sent some kids here to compete in some races and we went there to compete. The whole thing was set up as a sort of goodwill ambassador thing. Back then rainbows were streaming out of all our asses because we thought that the end of the cold war would meant peace on earth and a new era of prosperity (oops). My dad gave me a G-Shock before I left.

    The official exchange rate sucked. 2 USD per Ruble. Fortunately we stood out like sore thumbs as soon as we showed up and some local “entrepreneurs” kindly offered us much better exchange rates (the best I managed was 20 Rubles per USD). Of course, these totally legitimate businessmen didn’t limit themselves to currency exchange. They also dealt in direct barter. They often tried to hawk one of their “military” Komandirskie watches for my G-shock. We’re talking craptacular mechanical POSes where numbers would fall off the face if you looked at them too aggressively. I told them that I’d trade but not for a watch. I wanted a sable hat.

    To show them how much better my watch was I took it off my wrist. Grabbed it by one strap and whipped it against the concrete floor as hard as I could. One strap popped off. I popped it back on while they laughed at me, showed them it still worked fine and I told them it was their turn. They didn’t take me up on that or give me a sable hat.

    But they gave up on trying to convince me that they had anything that could compete with my G-Shock. I’ve changed the battery on that thing twice since then. The light sucks and it looks basic AF but that thing will definitely outlive me and my whole family.

  • Wage_slave@lemmy.ml
    3·
    10 months ago

    I don’t wear much other than hoodies and jeans.

    Got a Citizen and it looks like I paid a mint for it in contrast.

    You can say it is the polish to this turd.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    6·
    10 months ago

    I don’t get why more people don’t have hybrid smartwatches (the ones with e ink displays)

    Love mine

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
    9·
    10 months ago

    My phone tells me the time and can communicate with people, lets me access the Internet, and has games. And it doesn’t evenb irritate the shit out of me when I need to type on a keyboard.

    • SuperSpecialNickname@lemmy.ml
      2·
      10 months ago

      There is something special about a watch (especially a mechanical one) that a phone can’t fulfill. It’s a tiny machine operated by gears and that’s just so amazing. When you get a watch where you can see the movement it just ticks the right boxes. And there are some really beautiful, amazing watches which don’t require selling your house.

    • dream_weasel@iusearchlinux.fyi
      1·
      10 months ago

      Which unfortunately means every time you pull it out you can get on lemmy, if you have a new email you can read and reply to it, you can play a quick bullet game of chess… Etc etc. Phones are great, but they are also finely tuned distraction boxes.

      I’m trying to wear my watch more.