Knowing the time can come at a price, but not for Crocodile
Dundee who looks at the sun and tells the time for absolutely nothing. By this
means he can do it accurately to within a second of Australian Eastern Standard
Time. Of course, he lives with crocs in the mangrove swamps of Oz where the sun
shines all the time. I live in the concrete jungle of Essex where the sun
occasionally shines, but even I can tell the time for next to nothing by
looking at my Lorus Sports V 501-X22 wristwatch. This quartz cheapie cost only
a few pounds, ten or so years ago, and a packet of LR 626 batteries I bought
eighteen months ago cost a few pence. They will keep the watch going for the
next 40 years! Even now, twenty LR 626 batteries can be had at Amazon UK for just
£1.47.
Not so long ago I was at Lakeside where there are a number
of shops selling wristwatches, and I was astonished to see that a Breitling watch
can set you back £9,500. No doubt, part of the cost is for paying David Beckham
to pose for photos of him wearing their watches. TAGHeuer watches are cheaper, in
the region of £6,000. Presumably Leonardo DiCaprio, whom the latter use on
their advertising material, is cheaper to hire than Beckham.
Of course, most people today can know the time accurately by
consulting their mobile phones at no extra cost.
Links
Brietling Watches
TAGHeuer Watches
Time Stops
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo DiCaprio - Official Site
David Beckham – Official Site
David Beckham
‘Crocodile Dundee’
How Quartz Watches Work
Australian Standard Time
Watch Batteries at Amazon
2 comments:
Hi Bill,
My brother has a small collection of expensive watches, that is his vice, I remember he showed one to me which was describe as either a divers watch or a submariners watch and came with an Aligator skin wrist band.. What really made me smile was that it came with instructions not to let the strap get wet :)
Bill, I wear a Casio watch that my daughter bought me for my birthday a few years ago. I know it cost £35, but it is solar powered so it will be quite a while before it needs the battery changing. It has many complicated functions, but the most valuable is the ability to show the state of the tide at any given time. Its a handy reference, but as you say mobile phones tell the time and much more. My phone has a tide prediction app, a navigation app with proper digital charts updated regularly, Sailing Almanac which gives me weather and navigation updates and even loads the latest information onto Facebook for me to see when I'm at home. I can also use my phone to take pictures and video to document my sailing.
All for a lot less than £9,500.
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