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this is when i need a left-eye icon for 'covetousness', but what color would it be?
So what I realized I want need deserve, over the past month, is a watch with two dials.
I'm not talking about one of these ones with an ordinary face and then teensy wee dials with the minute hand and the hour hand and the second hand listed separately on the inside. Those are dumb. What I'm after is something with two separate faces on the same band, so I could stop with the stupid resetting of my watch when I fly back and forth -- which I don't actually do anyway, the resetting I mean, because resetting my present watch is such a pain in the ass. The knob is teensy and hard to turn, so it takes whole minutes to set it forward or back five hours, and by the time I've gone around a few times it's hard for me to tell if it's been five rotations or four or six, and by that time I have no idea where to leave the minute hand anymore. And I like the minute hand to be accurate for the place where it matters; that means, as a student, that I want my watch to match my professor's office clock. A watch with two faces would take care of all this quite nicely, and if it happened that I went to a third place -- as I did this Christmas, in fact, when I went to Hong Kong, with my watch still set on Greenwich time -- I could change one of the faces and set it according to the other one, so I'd never have to guess with the minutes.
In fact, the SkyMall catalogue advertises a watch with three faces. Overkill? Perhaps, but look at it.
is it not fabulous?
And unfortunately, the corresponding dual-time watches are ugly, viz:
feh.
So, the dual-face one is already more than I can realistically afford (I mean; the watch I'm currently wearing cost me £15 a year and a half ago, and this dual-face one is $175. Why don't I just buy a second £15 watch, you ask? but where's the fun in that?), and it's ugly (but comes in several colors)(all ugly). The triple-face one is far more than that (at $250), but is extremely nifty.
Your assignment: point me at two- or three-faced watches that are both affordable and cool. I've Froogled and looked on amazon.com and come up with nothing, so I'm ready for![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sanj-like shopping experts to do their thing.
:-D
[eta: Oh! And, I started looking in Hong Kong, where the prices are so preposterously reasonable, and I found one (1) dual-faced watch, which was (a) fairly ugly and (b) too long, I mean, the two faces together covered the whole width of my wrist, which the more I think about it was pretty surprising in Asia where everyone's bones are smaller than mine. The description of this triple-faced watch says the case is 36.5 mm in diameter; I don't know what it means "diameter", since the thing is rectangular, but assuming it's 36.5 mm long, that's about the same as the watch I'm wearing now (approx. an inch and a half). The one in Hong Kong that was no good was more like 60 mm (approx. 2.5 inches). Ugh.]
I'm not talking about one of these ones with an ordinary face and then teensy wee dials with the minute hand and the hour hand and the second hand listed separately on the inside. Those are dumb. What I'm after is something with two separate faces on the same band, so I could stop with the stupid resetting of my watch when I fly back and forth -- which I don't actually do anyway, the resetting I mean, because resetting my present watch is such a pain in the ass. The knob is teensy and hard to turn, so it takes whole minutes to set it forward or back five hours, and by the time I've gone around a few times it's hard for me to tell if it's been five rotations or four or six, and by that time I have no idea where to leave the minute hand anymore. And I like the minute hand to be accurate for the place where it matters; that means, as a student, that I want my watch to match my professor's office clock. A watch with two faces would take care of all this quite nicely, and if it happened that I went to a third place -- as I did this Christmas, in fact, when I went to Hong Kong, with my watch still set on Greenwich time -- I could change one of the faces and set it according to the other one, so I'd never have to guess with the minutes.
In fact, the SkyMall catalogue advertises a watch with three faces. Overkill? Perhaps, but look at it.
is it not fabulous?
And unfortunately, the corresponding dual-time watches are ugly, viz:
feh.
So, the dual-face one is already more than I can realistically afford (I mean; the watch I'm currently wearing cost me £15 a year and a half ago, and this dual-face one is $175. Why don't I just buy a second £15 watch, you ask? but where's the fun in that?), and it's ugly (but comes in several colors)(all ugly). The triple-face one is far more than that (at $250), but is extremely nifty.
Your assignment: point me at two- or three-faced watches that are both affordable and cool. I've Froogled and looked on amazon.com and come up with nothing, so I'm ready for
sanj-like shopping experts to do their thing.:-D
[eta: Oh! And, I started looking in Hong Kong, where the prices are so preposterously reasonable, and I found one (1) dual-faced watch, which was (a) fairly ugly and (b) too long, I mean, the two faces together covered the whole width of my wrist, which the more I think about it was pretty surprising in Asia where everyone's bones are smaller than mine. The description of this triple-faced watch says the case is 36.5 mm in diameter; I don't know what it means "diameter", since the thing is rectangular, but assuming it's 36.5 mm long, that's about the same as the watch I'm wearing now (approx. an inch and a half). The one in Hong Kong that was no good was more like 60 mm (approx. 2.5 inches). Ugh.]
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nextag.com (and by extension overstock.com) has the $175 watch for $80, and the $250 watch for $99.99. DUDE. [bookmarks][dances the giraffe around the room]
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