The ultimate minimalist wristwatch

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Now you have two problems. What time is it? And which way is your orientation point?

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Goddam dubyas, emasculating the male noun to wo-man.

Ristband, man, ristband.

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That would also be a T S Eliot watch: “Points to one end which is always now.”

It would be nice to have a version of this thing which had a sweep second hand and no other hands, and a dial which said “Now” all the way round. Because a purely stationary one is not Zen, since Zen says that everything is in constant flux as per the koan:

Yesterday I had rice to eat
Today I’m hungry again.
Eat rice, drink water.

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ALSO…I’d have to be awake during the daytime. ~sighs~

(i know you well enough from our BB interactions to know you share same problem of being awake at night…lol.)

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I’m on the day shift now. I’m enjoying the [vitamin] D I’m getting. But yeah, I still end up staying up till like 3AM just so I can chat with friends on the other side of this stupid little dirtrock.

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I assume it has a minute counter to time the newborns…

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Lifeclock.

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sorry, Lifeclock.

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Is this type of product somewhat of an “end of days” indicator?

It’s useless, and wasteful. As my grandfather would say. But I agree.

Doesn’t this stuff only show up in mass production just before everything collapses?

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Seriously though, I started the night shift thinking I wouldn’t miss the day at all. I had practically no local friends, I live with my family, and the less I interact with them the more comfortable I am. But just the sun… I get why people worship the sun now. It’s worth a whole lot in your life.

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Conspicuous Sloth + Wasteful Consumption.

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What, kind of ghastly arriviste has to pay someone to tell them the time? My natural air of authority and command means I can get anyone to tell me the time. I know, I know, some are just born to greatness. The rest of you will just have to mimic it with your fistfuls of grubby cash.

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Back in the 80s I bought myself a Tissot rock watch to celebrate something, and after the first couple of years it never worked except for a month or two each time I try to get it repaired. I occasionally wear it anyway, just because I like having the polished granite on my wrist. Periodically I change the time to something within an hour or two of the actual time, just as a fidgit. When people ask me the time, as an irritating number of watchless people do, I just silently turn my wrist so they can see the watch.

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Nice try, but not even close.

I bought this “watch”:

http://www.bookofjoe.com/2007/08/out-of-time-wat.html

created by German artist Ina Seifart (http://www.inaseifart.de/) in 2007 for $150 from the Museum of Modern Art store (sadly, they no longer carry it).

Stainless steel.

Priceless.

And timeless, so much so, she called it the “Out of Time” watch.

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I do this just by having all my watches get broken or have dead batteries. And then follow your method.

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I’ll draw one on my wrist. At least that one will be right twice a day.

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I have an elderly Russian skeleton watch. It’s hard to read the hands against the background of gears, so I only check the time if I really need to, and it’s only right within a couple of minutes. When it eventually breaks I doubt it can be repaired.
But then I don’t need to catch trains.

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The ‘last updated’ date on the FAQs is 1st April. This looks like a very slick April Fool’s joke.

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If it had one of those little ball-bearing maze puzzles in it, I’d buy it.

Well. . . probably not, but still . . . at least it would have a use besides reminding me I don’t care about what time it is every time I look at my wrist.

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You’re sorted!

If you have $12000…

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