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GQ article - Why True Watch Heads Never Set the Time on Their Watches

Dsloan
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Waltesefalcon Waltesefalcon
Yes, yes you have. All a watch is is a piece of jewelry. No one uses them to tell time.

I guess I should have been tipped off by the fact that my local fancy watch AD has "Jewelers" in their name instead of "Rugged Mens Tools Retailers".
 
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Waltesefalcon Waltesefalcon
Yes, yes you have. All a watch is is a piece of jewelry. No one uses them to tell time.

No one???…… that’s an exaggeration…. And I’m the proof, I use watches for the purpose of monitoring time., their decorative nature is a secondary feature.
 
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That diamond encrusted piece of excess baggage could only tell me that it is time to make an optometrist appointment for another prescription for reading glasses in order to discern what time that hideousness is indicating.
 
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That sparkly shit is most undudely……. True dudes both straight and gay would and indeed should avoid it and any bloke wearing it like the plague!
 
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Waltesefalcon Waltesefalcon
Yes, yes you have. All a watch is is a piece of jewelry. No one uses them to tell time.

To tell the time, of course not. But we can assume that someone with a fully "can't even see the hands" diamond watch is not the same watch lover that someone with an original Ed White.
 
hen
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Luckily I am not a true watch head and the only watch related things I follow is OF, that saves my from a lot of bullshit it seems.
 
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Lately the 🤬 cats tell me when it’s 5am (their breakfast) and 5pm (their dinner)… won’t need a watch soon.
 
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The budgies tell me it’s 7 in the morning and 7 in the evening
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Surprising how much noise can fit in such a small bird!
 
hen
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I`ll stick to my wrist watch, wrist cat or wrist bird would be a bit troublesome. 😀

Nice cat and birds thou.
 
Pastorbottle
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I dunno the budgies are quit happy to sit my shoulder, head and hands……quite a fashion statement is a birdie hat!
 
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Pastorbottle Pastorbottle
I dunno the budgies are quit happy to sit my shoulder, head and hands……quite a fashion statement is a birdie hat!

True and Its probably light as a feather, but how about the water resistance?
 
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There's always time for duck!
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My dad used to set his watch and the house clock one hour and forty-five minutes fast working on the principle it was earlier than it looked and he would never be late for anything. I never figured it out either.
 
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Scottie Scottie
My dad used to set his watch and the house clock one hour and forty-five minutes fast working on the principle it was earlier than it looked and he would never be late for anything. I never figured it out either.

Yeah my mum did that for a while, she figured that if the clock was 1/2 an hour forward, us kids wouldn’t always be running late…..it wasn’t long before we had it figured and made good use of that time buffer, and we were still always late.
She gave that nonsense up before long.
 
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Funny as I had a conversation with a young set his watch 5 minutes fast always not long ago at work.
Asked him what his time zone was called.
Asked if all the world’s time zones were set to the same. (Use Zulu time and many overseas time zones at work for flights landing)
Asked him is there any other measurements or standards he fucks around with other than time.
Banned him from giving the time at work 😉
😁😁

(side note. Granting a vessel or plane pratique is a important role and a precise time is always give and recorded for official purposes)
 
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I would never use watchwinders (really what is the point?) but at the same time I would never wear a watch knowing it had the wrong time set.

MY IWC Ingenier needed resetting every day due to not being serviced since I bought it on the used market. To be honest that was annoying but certainly better knowing it showed mostly correct time throughout the day than just plain unwound!
 
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Scottie Scottie
My dad used to set his watch and the house clock one hour and forty-five minutes fast working on the principle it was earlier than it looked and he would never be late for anything. I never figured it out either.
My gf sets her clock 12 minutes fast to not be late and is constantly doing conversions to know the real time.

what the literal f
 
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Foo2rama Foo2rama
My gf sets her clock 12 minutes fast to not be late and is constantly doing conversions to know the real time.

what the literal f
This is my experience with people employing that practice as well. They set the clock fast to not be late but because they’re conscious of it they just convert to the real time in their head anyway. You should go and set everything 20 minutes fast without her knowing. Then maybe it will work.
 
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