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2024-06-18 at 5:07 PM UTC in New watch.
Originally posted by Jiggaboo_Johnson Back when diver's watches were a thing only 1% of owners actually dived.
You can use it to time literally anything though, the point was that it's a mechanically completely simple way to include a timer functionality with no additional mechanisms other than just a rotating bezel that can be separate from the waterproofed envelope and is easy to interact with.
It's just a "current time when I started" marker. -
2024-06-18 at 4:31 PM UTC in Text-Based Rape?Ya I got raped by a rotato once
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2024-06-18 at 4:27 PM UTC in New watch.Also the dial markings are now used as an aesthetic choice but back in the day they were supposed to be for diving watches, e.g. to use as a dive timer, especially the rotating bezels. So like you could rotate the bezel so the arrow points at the current time, then the minute hand will tell you exactly how many minutes have elapsed along the marked bezel. So say you have a 20 minute oxygen tank, you can mark and time 10 minutes exactly rather than remembering "I went in at 10:33, now it's 10:47, 47-33=14 minutes I've been under".
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2024-06-18 at 4:24 PM UTC in New watch.Yea not a fan of NATO straps either.
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2024-06-18 at 3:45 PM UTC in Text-Based Rape?
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2024-06-18 at 2:13 PM UTC in Text-Based Rape?
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2024-06-18 at 2:12 PM UTC in Text-Based Rape?
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2024-06-18 at 1:38 PM UTC in Text-Based Rape?What if the text was received and interpreted by an AI rapebot on the other end? Id say that totally changes the calculus.
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2024-06-18 at 12:52 PM UTC in Text-Based Rape?Only text based communication, let's say it's a completely unrelated man and a woman conversing from opposite sides of the planet but their continuing the conversation is enforced.
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2024-06-18 at 12:51 PM UTC in Text-Based Rape?Do you think it's possible to rape someone purely via text?
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2024-06-18 at 8:45 AM UTC in New watch.Big fan of Mickey Mouse
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2024-06-17 at 9:14 PM UTC in New watch.
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2024-06-17 at 9:11 PM UTC in If I have a Newmans own frozen pizza in the freezer, I am incapable of bringing myself to order a pie on the phone.Newman was a loser, a bum, he didn't know his ass from a fucking hole in the ground
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2024-06-17 at 8:33 PM UTC in New watch.I think newer technology is better in that specific department actually
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2024-06-17 at 8:29 PM UTC in New watch.Still there's a different feeling to something made of 500 delicate cogs and gears and springs and windings and flywheels and tourbillions and stuff.
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2024-06-17 at 8:28 PM UTC in New watch.Aviator shades, fresh haircut, collar shirt with rolled up sleeves, and this bad boy I rock so well
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2024-06-17 at 8:25 PM UTC in New watch.
Originally posted by Cowboy2013 What do you think of G-shocks?
When you talk about engineering are you only talking about auto-winding watches? It's the only thing that is guaranteed to work when Russia and China finally get fed up and start hitting us with EMP's…. If we're lucky.
They've got their place but that place isn't in my world. It's funny because I like and own some Casio digital watches and think they look quite cool. But no G-Shocks. I think they are great watches for people in rough professional etc.
But yes I do just mean mechanical watches when I talk about the beauty and engineering etc. On some higher end watches, you get creative engineering require to create "complications" like moon phases and stuff like that. A lot of engineering was required to figure such mechanisms out and perfect them.
Still, I do like digital watches too. On some level they are still functional objects and it's hard to beat a nice clear digital display for readability.
As a bonus, like I said, some digital watches look pretty cool too. Like how can you not love this classic pirate looking mofo:
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2024-06-17 at 7:36 PM UTC in New watch.My watch is like my partner, my buddy, something so reliable I could lose my sense and come back, and defer to it to have kept track while I was out. A watch is like a soldier, a partner, a keeper of accounts. It's a precision machine that is always by my side and it does exactly one very specific set of things, and it does so hyper reliably. It is like if "competence" was condensed into one artifact of human origin, it would be watches.
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2024-06-17 at 7:33 PM UTC in New watch.Somehow every time I go looking at watches, I find like 50 that surprise and delight me in new ways. There are son many out there already and then there's new ones released all the time! And in such a tiny target envelope, people make such lovely and tasteful designs, sometimes they're even fun and wild and still manage to pull it off with class!
Watches are expressive. They tell you a lot about the designer. More importantly, they tell you a lot about the man wearing them. There's so much room to choose, both well and poorly. Like if I see a fucker wearing an Invicta, I know he is lost. -
2024-06-17 at 7:30 PM UTC in New watch.
Originally posted by Dirtbag What do you love about watches?
"A dandy on the boulevards (…), strolling at leisure until his Breguet, ever vigilant, reminds him it is midday."
Alexander Pushkin
Eugen Onegin, 1825-1833
They used that in a Breguet ad too and specifically
"… ever vigilant…"
That was a perfect articulation of what attracted me to watches.
A modern watch is a beautiful object. It's a lot more engineering than most people care to think about, packed into a a perfectly compact envelope. Back in the day, timepieces were artifacts of cutting edge engineering. You should look up "Marine Chronometer" and read about the history, take a moment to appreciate what it took to get to a modern watch.
Keeping time is important. It's critical. It is deeply fundamental to what makes us human now, not just in the past when we were primitive animals.
So to me a watch is emblematic of a lot.
Then there's the aesthetic aspect of it
