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So, my last post up for the year, since I’m hoping to finally get a bit of time off from work, and will likely sleep for a week, haha, but what a great year it’s been, in no small part thanks to finding this outstanding community!
This is just sharing some watch related gadgets, because, well, watches, right?!
This was also from all the way back to Black Friday….and from even further back….
First is something I picked up quite a few months ago and hadn’t posted up here, which I just realized, today, in going through my photos. I guess I’d planned to post it, and spaced it off.
Anyway, this watch related buy stemmed from my having a store credit card I hadn’t used in years, and I got the usual notice that some creditors levy, which is that, “Hey, if you don’t use your card soon, we’re closing your account, so spend money with us, or else!” So, I found one of the cheapest things I could get was this rather nifty little clip on watch, from Dakota watches. Kinda cool, I thought…
At twenty bucks, it’s hardly a watch by any standards, I suppose, but it’s a reliable little quartz, even WR to thirty meters, just an aluminum case and mineral glass, but boasts a version of Timex’s Indiglo type technology, it seems.
I just thought it was a cool watch to clip onto my work satchel. It’s a bit oddly built, haha, in that it hangs upside down, when clipping it onto anything, which seems some poor planning. One would expect that, when suspended from the attached clip, it would be right side up for checking the time, yes?!
But, hey, for twenty bucks and keeping my store account open for another five years, until they threaten me again with closing it for non-use, I’m not complaining! It has a cool field watch vibe to it, the electroluminescent glow is neat, and, as a watch fan, it’s a bit of fun gear.
Along the same lines, and thanks to Black Friday, the other item is Aragon’s “Drone” Clock. I first saw this on eBay, when initially exploring Aragon watches, thanks to learning about them here. I mistakenly thought these were four larger wall clock style pieces, in this design, since the pictures had no size reference to them, but they are four quite small watches, apparently meant to emulate a four propeller drone device, which is maybe a bizarre build element, given that this doesn’t fly, haha. But, it looks cool, and I like it.
When I first came across it, months back, it was a bit pricey for what it was, especially once I realized these were just four very small watches, not anything near to even a single wall clock size, once I learned their actual size. So, I had passed on getting it, back then. But, then Black Friday came along....
The notion of this being an actual wall clock, even though it turned out not to be, actually got me looking into watch reproduction style full size clocks. I saw one in the background of a YouTube watch channel once, and thought it was pretty awesome. I’ve since found some to add to my wishlist, a yellow-faced Breitling design, which is even lumed, as well as an Omega Seamaster one.
Anyway, this little four-watch set, which I could use for four different time zones, if I wanted to confuse myself, is about as big as a standard Altoids tin. It is lumed, somewhat well, which is novel, and it’s a hefty chunk of metal, so, a handy paperweight if needed, or just a stand-up desk prop that, again, is intriguing for a watch collector. The quartz are not terribly accurate -- I synced them, some weeks ago, and they are already out of sync.
Price had dropped to less than thirty bucks, and, since I was already on the Aragon website for the aforementioned and reviewed yellow Divemaster III, it was an easy “add to cart,” particularly given that it was the blue-faced edition of it.
Doesn’t suit my wrist, LOL, although I bet Invicta might take a stab at getting a strap on the thing as a new style! But, it does sit nicely on my desk, and makes a decent set of clocks to watch.
Always a fun hobby, this is, and made spectacular thanks to all you great people!!!
Have a safe and Happy New Year everybody!
This is just sharing some watch related gadgets, because, well, watches, right?!
This was also from all the way back to Black Friday….and from even further back….
First is something I picked up quite a few months ago and hadn’t posted up here, which I just realized, today, in going through my photos. I guess I’d planned to post it, and spaced it off.
Anyway, this watch related buy stemmed from my having a store credit card I hadn’t used in years, and I got the usual notice that some creditors levy, which is that, “Hey, if you don’t use your card soon, we’re closing your account, so spend money with us, or else!” So, I found one of the cheapest things I could get was this rather nifty little clip on watch, from Dakota watches. Kinda cool, I thought…
At twenty bucks, it’s hardly a watch by any standards, I suppose, but it’s a reliable little quartz, even WR to thirty meters, just an aluminum case and mineral glass, but boasts a version of Timex’s Indiglo type technology, it seems.
I just thought it was a cool watch to clip onto my work satchel. It’s a bit oddly built, haha, in that it hangs upside down, when clipping it onto anything, which seems some poor planning. One would expect that, when suspended from the attached clip, it would be right side up for checking the time, yes?!
But, hey, for twenty bucks and keeping my store account open for another five years, until they threaten me again with closing it for non-use, I’m not complaining! It has a cool field watch vibe to it, the electroluminescent glow is neat, and, as a watch fan, it’s a bit of fun gear.
Along the same lines, and thanks to Black Friday, the other item is Aragon’s “Drone” Clock. I first saw this on eBay, when initially exploring Aragon watches, thanks to learning about them here. I mistakenly thought these were four larger wall clock style pieces, in this design, since the pictures had no size reference to them, but they are four quite small watches, apparently meant to emulate a four propeller drone device, which is maybe a bizarre build element, given that this doesn’t fly, haha. But, it looks cool, and I like it.
When I first came across it, months back, it was a bit pricey for what it was, especially once I realized these were just four very small watches, not anything near to even a single wall clock size, once I learned their actual size. So, I had passed on getting it, back then. But, then Black Friday came along....
The notion of this being an actual wall clock, even though it turned out not to be, actually got me looking into watch reproduction style full size clocks. I saw one in the background of a YouTube watch channel once, and thought it was pretty awesome. I’ve since found some to add to my wishlist, a yellow-faced Breitling design, which is even lumed, as well as an Omega Seamaster one.
Anyway, this little four-watch set, which I could use for four different time zones, if I wanted to confuse myself, is about as big as a standard Altoids tin. It is lumed, somewhat well, which is novel, and it’s a hefty chunk of metal, so, a handy paperweight if needed, or just a stand-up desk prop that, again, is intriguing for a watch collector. The quartz are not terribly accurate -- I synced them, some weeks ago, and they are already out of sync.
Price had dropped to less than thirty bucks, and, since I was already on the Aragon website for the aforementioned and reviewed yellow Divemaster III, it was an easy “add to cart,” particularly given that it was the blue-faced edition of it.
Doesn’t suit my wrist, LOL, although I bet Invicta might take a stab at getting a strap on the thing as a new style! But, it does sit nicely on my desk, and makes a decent set of clocks to watch.
Always a fun hobby, this is, and made spectacular thanks to all you great people!!!
Have a safe and Happy New Year everybody!