Curious what the experience has been... want to pick one up but that big ol’ magnet scares me a bit!

 

Antique watches with steel hairsprings and steel balance wheels Are far more prone to becoming magnetized than are newer watch which use alloy hairsprings and non-ferrous balance wheels. You won’t have a problem, I am fairly certain. Static electricity will magnetize older ones. I have a de-magnetizer which I maybe use 4 or 5 times per year.

 

Good to hear. Yeah, thinking about my watch is from the 50s and 60s mostly. Guess if need be I bust out the de-magnetizer.

 

Hmm... What?

 

I had one, none of my watches got magnetised and I would sometimes leave my ipad on top of my sealed watch box.
As a keyboard I really liked it, but it broke in the end and I was unsure if it was the connection area that was broken some moved on to a brydge. The brydge is a great keyboard but heavy and there is the Bluetooth lag which you will not get with the magic keyboards.
Do the newer magic keyboards have a trackpad? As I know there are third party keyboards for ipad that do

 

Yeah, the new magic keyboards have a track pad. I’ve heard great things but priced at $300 - $350 I’d love it not to break easily and not to magnetize my watches. I’m a simple man!

 

Years ago, I serviced a late 19th century Elgin ladies hunter cased watch for a lady. Weeks later, he husband phoned me, and I could sense the tension in his voice. He explained how the watch ran sporadically, and when it did run, it kept horrible time. I told him to bring it, which he did. It was badly magnetized. I asked him where she kept her watch, and he told me it was kept on her dresser. I asked about new carpets and static electricity. He told me they had just had new carpets installed in the bedroom, and they received static shocks, regularly. I demagnetized the watch and suggested she not keep it in a carpeted room. He phoned me several weeks later to tell me the watch was functioning perfectly, now that she kept it in the kitchen! Modern watches which use non-ferrous alloys at critical places wouldn’t act like that.