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Xenex writes:
"In the wake of the Android Ware [Video] announcement, I have been giving thought to the impact these watches could have on our life. 'The more I read about smartwatches, the more I appreciate my "dumb" watches' writes Shawn Blanc. 'But I don't just wear a watch to know what time it is. Part of the reason I wear one is as an excuse not to pull out my iPhone.' Basically: when you look at a watch you see the time, when you look at a smartphone for the time you also see notifications. Avoiding my phone is definitely a factor for me nowadays, and a 'smart' watch might just be another distraction."
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'Dumb' Watches and the Technology in our Lives
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(Score: 1) by stephenw32768 on Monday March 24 2014, @02:01PM
I wear a dumb watch; specifically, a mechanical one. I think there's something glorious about a mechanism that can tell the time, to an accuracy within seconds in 24 hours, using only gears and springs.
Plus, I like the chukka-chukka-chukka ticking sound of a clockwork movement.
It's obsolete technology, sure, but nonetheless appealing.
-Stephen
(Score: 2) by everdred on Monday March 24 2014, @02:30PM
I'm with you. While I have a handful of quartzes in my rotation, my favorites are easily my self-winding ones. What they lack in the accurate timekeeping department, they make up for with a certain something else.
We don't take no shit from a machine.
(Score: 1) by darkfeline on Monday March 24 2014, @03:53PM
I agree with this, though I'd characterize clockwork as romantic or mysterious rather than glorious. I'd want to own a good mechanical watch for the same reason I'd want to own a solid, well-bound hardcover book.
(Score: 1) by stephenw32768 on Monday March 24 2014, @06:12PM
I need to expand my rather limited adjective pool, "glorious" is one of my standard go-to expressions of appreciation. I agree with you, "romantic" and "mysterious" are both good and fitting descriptions of the appeal of clockwork. For me, they don't tell the whole story though, the technical aspects are appealing too.
It seems to me that watchmaking is simultaneously an art, a science and a craft. The same can be said of programming. If I'd been born two centuries earlier, perhaps I'd have been a watchmaker.
-Stephen
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday March 24 2014, @11:37PM
And I might have been one of your customers. :)
(Score: 1) by youngatheart on Monday March 24 2014, @09:57PM
My wife bought me a beautiful watch [zales.com]. It is silent, solar powered, light, thin and subtle. It is jewelry with a function and it doesn't require me to reset it every month or two.