It seems that after you've found the right bits for you vintage project, sourced the perfect strap or bracelet, and then have given it a much-needed service, then your interaction wth the timepiece diminishes significantly, other than the wearing. For that reason, lately, I seem to be having more fun with my manual-winds versus the automatics. With the autos, you may wind it a bit at the beginning, but then if you wear it consistently, you're just slapping it on every day without much more than the admiring glance. But winding a watch seems surprisingly gratifying. You feel the mechanism, you get subtle feedback on the movement, it's sort of a fun ritual. I find I keep gravitating towards those pieces I have to wind. Sort of like those who use the clutch in a car - you can't make a terribly persuasive argument to keep doing it, but for whatever reason, it's engaging. So what about you: a "wind" person, auto fiend, or whatever catches your fancy at the moment?
Dude, you can manually wind an automatic if watch winding it floats your boat. Literally engaging! Pun intended? EDIT: there are two good reasons to drive a stick shift: (a) it's a great antitheft device since manual shifting is going the way of the dinosaur and (b) an automatic isn't driving.... it's riding with control of the steering wheel.
Three: Have you ever tried texting and driving with a manual? It's next to impossible and reminds you how foolish it is
It is a good thread title, and I'm sure M'Bob absolutely meant it as the double entendre everyone thinks. However, it's not good enough to overtake "Patina or evidence in a murder case?" for the OFfie.
Out of the ten watches I keep in a watch box I'm usually keeping 3-4 of them running from day to day even though I might not have worn them that day or even recently. There are varying reasons for this: some watches don't have seconds hack so getting a good minute hand/seconds hand synchronization is tricky and not fun to repeat on a regular basis, others have multiple calendar-related complications that I don't want to have to re-set. I don't mind winding watches at all, whether they're manual or automatics -- it gives me a little 'personal time' with them that I enjoy. I have excellent calluses on my thumb and forefinger from daily watch-winding
I honestly misread it at fist as the joys of not pissing in the wind! That probably says more than about me than it does anything else though
Any talk of a fist in the same breath as passing wind or pissing in the wind makes me quite uncomfortable.
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