Pocket Watches.

[Dreadbelly]

I thought I'd ask. Since most of us seem to like quality and old timey stuff.

I can not wear a wrist watch. I seem to sweat pure acid, and I generate weird electrical fields which cause any electrical timepiece I wear to become highly inaccurate and haywire.

So, I was thinking about a mechanical pocketwatch. You know, the kind you wind up. Been looking online, don't know what I should get. A lot of pocket watches don't even say if they are mechanical or not.

I'd like something I can clip on to my sporran ring and slip in to my sporran. Something nice, but plain. Well, I guess plain. Scenic pictures of trains or deer on a watch don't do it for me.

I know somebody here is bound to know about this stuff.

[Splash_4]

Like you I can not wear a watch. Check out wal-mart. They have a number of plain pocket watches, including the one I use that uses a d-ring to clip to your belt.

[Dreadbelly]

Is it mechanical or battery powered?

I destroy small electrical objects by being around them for any real period of time... I just had a digital watch that I never once wore die in my sporran from just being to close to me. I knew something was terribly wrong with the little blighter when it tried to tell me that it was 72:00 o' clock. Timex no less.

I think I need a wind up watch, which seems to be a rare beast now.

[Splash_4]

That is too funny! As I recall, they have both types.

[Rex_Tremende]

I also can't wear a watch because they stop working when I wear them, but I've learned over the years to rely on other sources for the time. Now I just use my cell phone, which, thankfully, does not seem to susceptible to my energy field or whatever it is that I radiate.

I've been told I have a bright yellow aura and light up rooms with it. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Regards,
Rex.

[Jimmy the Celt]

I have a Colibri seventeen-jewel mechanical pocket watch that was a gift from my ex-fiancee. It's a fine watch and keeps perfect time, unless I forget to wind it at the proper time.

[neo71665]

My mother works in jewelry at a wal-mart and the do indeed carry wind up watches.

[sav]

I have a Colibri mechanical pocket watch my parents gave me as a gift that I use almost every day. I highly recommend the brand.

[auld argonian]

Last couple of pocket watches that I've bought have been battery operated...I have a couple here that are mechanical and either annoyingly or comfortingly loud tickers depending on your outlook on life...

...you bring up the watch thing on a day when I'm wearing one of my standby work watches (I'm quick painting the kitchen before the holiday) which is a military style Timex that is not only mechanical but in a plastic case on a nylon strap...the thing is a tank and I've had it for a very long time...takes the proverbial licking and keeps on ticking...

Best

AA

[KiltedKnight]

Is it mechanical or battery powered?

I destroy small electrical objects by being around them for any real period of time... I just had a digital watch that I never once wore die in my sporran from just being to close to me. I knew something was terribly wrong with the little blighter when it tried to tell me that it was 72:00 o' clock. Timex no less.

I think I need a wind up watch, which seems to be a rare beast now.

72:00? So? I've been there. With a Timex too. I purchased a Timex dive watch about 25 years ago when I was doing a lot of SCUBA diving. The first dive that I made was pretty deep and while descending I felt what seemed to be something hitting my wrist, I looked but didn't see a crazy fish or anything near my wrist but later when I looked to check my bottom time I realized that the watch had been crushed by the weight of the water and it was reading some very disturbing time for two days before it finally died.

In this case TIMEX didn't take much of a licking and it stopped ticking.

Chris.