Watches

**lizbud** · 08-10-2009, 04:52 PM

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

**Medusa** · 08-10-2009, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

My ex-husband still carries one. He loves them.

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-10-2009, 07:24 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

Why only guys?

I have a lovely one that was my grandmother's. Have it in a display holder in my living room....

(Women wore them on a chain or a pin...)

**blue** · 08-10-2009, 09:48 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

Somewhere around here I do have a Russian Officers pocket watch.

**kokopup** · 08-10-2009, 10:24 PM

I do not wear jewelery of any kind. I worked around High Voltage before I retired so wearing any jewelery was a no no. I stopped wearing a watch as a teen when my stretch band of my watch got shorted across the starter selenoid of my car. When 75 amps travels through a gold band it turns cherry red instantly. Needless to say I had evidence of a stretch band on my arm and back of my hand for quite a while. When i got Married I told my wife I would wear a wedding band if she could find one made of jade or plastic.

**Killearn Kitties** · 08-11-2009, 03:27 AM

I have never got into the habit of wearing a watch. When I was young they used to stop within about 10 minutes of me putting them on. Once I started work, there were clocks, time display on phones, PCs etc.

I bought one a few years ago when I was travelling on my own, realising it might be useful to know the exact time even though I was away from my desk. I don't wear it normally, but I do try to remember to take it on holiday.

**Barbara** · 08-11-2009, 09:18 AM

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

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I bought one a few years ago when I was travelling on my own, realising it might be useful to know the exact time even though I was away from my desk.

Was that after you missed the flight to LA to the PT BBQ?

**Killearn Kitties** · 08-11-2009, 09:32 AM

Was there really any need to bring that up?

As a matter of fact, it was on my journey to LA. I have never been able to remember where it was that I had to re-route through, but as I went through the terminal, there was a stand selling watches and I thought "what a good idea!"

That is a completely different issue to the inability to set an alarm properly.

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-11-2009, 10:09 AM

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

As a matter of fact, it was on my journey to LA. I have never been able to remember where it was that I had to re-route through, but as I went through the terminal, there was a stand selling watches and I thought "what a good idea!"

It was Pittsburgh. Very unusual routing....UK to Pittsburgh to LA...

**RICHARD** · 08-11-2009, 10:46 AM

Originally Posted by blue

Somewhere around here I do have a Russian Officers pocket watch.

Umm,
What did you do with the Russian that previously owned the watch?

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-11-2009, 10:51 AM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

Umm,
What did you do with the Russian that previously owned the watch?

As you may recall...Ms. Palin can see Russia from her front porch. I'm guessing a passing Russian dropped it.

**Lady's Human** · 08-11-2009, 11:06 AM

Those things were CHEAP in East Berlin in the months after the wall fell. I have a Soviet General's hat. It cost me 5 deutchmarks.

**RICHARD** · 08-11-2009, 11:40 AM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

Those things were CHEAP in East Berlin in the months after the wall fell. I have a Soviet General's hat. It cost me 5 deutchmarks.

Great for 'role playing' with the babushkas?

If I would have known I would have sent you the money for a Russkie tanker's hat/helmet.

**blue** · 08-11-2009, 10:21 PM

Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

As you may recall...Ms. Palin can see Russia from her front porch. I'm guessing a passing Russian dropped it.

You are confusing real life with entertainment. Maybe you forgot to take your pills again.

Cell phones and PDAs are a security risk in some orginizations and that is why they are not allowed in meetings or in some cases at all on the premises.

I got the watch and Russian Officers hat of of Ebay cheap.