Cursed Reading Glasses!
Oh the stifling attacks on one as he ages! Creaky joints, softening loins…and delapidating eyes in need of reading glasses!
Few occurrences as I age emotionally beset me more than the constant need to use my readers through the course of any day to see anything smaller than a moose in my rear view mirror.
Stark is the path of this progressive reality as I wear and try to enjoy many of my watches. Be it textured dials or delicate hour and minute hands, I increasingly find it a necessity to put on my readers to simply see the time. It has frankly become quite the cruel joke I would never have envisioned as a younger man.
Does your aging eyes increasingly prohibit your enjoyment of wearing a watch?
Time dictates my linear path to its bitter end. My watches keep me one step ahead of time…and one foot out of the grave.
not while I have my glasses on 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I am lucky at 68, don't need glasses to read, and OK to drive without glasses. But, no one mentioned that night vision goes downhill with age. 🙄
Jumping hours are now even more out of the question.
I am lucky at 68, don't need glasses to read, and OK to drive without glasses. But, no one mentioned that night vision goes downhill with age. 🙄
Indeed! The darkness seems to turn the road into a wormhole.
Jumping hours are now even more out of the question.
Precisely.
More so with LED headlights. Law needs changing, LED for main beam only. And a maximum lumens for dipped beam.
More so with LED headlights. Law needs changing, LED for main beam only. And a maximum lumens for dipped beam.
In the U.S. we have to deal with ungodly-sized trucks equipped with humongous LED beams…brighter and more unsettling than the Rapture itself.
Analogues and I'm fine. However, when it comes to digital, I have to have big digits or I can't see them without my glasses on.
I haven't broken twenty yet and my body is already failing me. I cough as if I chainsmoke daily and both of my knees are about as functional as a frying pan made out of ice.
What I will be eternally grateful for is good vision. If all else fails, that is the sense I want. My vision will never be as sharp as it is now when I'm a few years older, a truth I learnt from my watchmaker. He was eighteen too once and didn't need a loupe to see the parts. Now, he no longer officially services watches.
Unlike most youngsters, I think about myself sixty years from now. I need to enjoy this vessel while it lasts.
I haven't broken twenty yet and my body is already failing me. I cough as if I chainsmoke daily and both of my knees are about as functional as a frying pan made out of ice.
What I will be eternally grateful for is good vision. If all else fails, that is the sense I want. My vision will never be as sharp as it is now when I'm a few years older, a truth I learnt from my watchmaker. He was eighteen too once and didn't need a loupe to see the parts. Now, he no longer officially services watches.
Unlike most youngsters, I think about myself sixty years from now. I need to enjoy this vessel while it lasts.
mid forties is about the magic age for many folks when the near or far sightedness begins to rear its ugly head.
I haven't broken twenty yet and my body is already failing me. I cough as if I chainsmoke daily and both of my knees are about as functional as a frying pan made out of ice.
What I will be eternally grateful for is good vision. If all else fails, that is the sense I want. My vision will never be as sharp as it is now when I'm a few years older, a truth I learnt from my watchmaker. He was eighteen too once and didn't need a loupe to see the parts. Now, he no longer officially services watches.
Unlike most youngsters, I think about myself sixty years from now. I need to enjoy this vessel while it lasts.
Little made me realize my near vision was seriously diminished more than trying to do anything beyond a battery change inside the case. When I built the Rotate! kit, I was awful and couldn't see what I was doing with the tiny screws and stuff, and I mucked up the hairspring trying to regulate my Seiko 5. Since then I got the illuminated magnifying headset and stuff was finally clear, as it had been to the naked eye not so long ago.
What is this watch? I want one
What you really need is this 50mm high contrast beauty . You can read it from across the room 😁🤓
What is this watch? I want one
It’s an Armitron Ridgemont design called the Flashback.
What you really need is this 50mm high contrast beauty . You can read it from across the room 😁🤓
That’s gorgeous!
It’s an Armitron Ridgemont design called the Flashback.
Is there a model number @DariusII ? Im having a hard time finding it
Is there a model number @DariusII ? Im having a hard time finding it
Just go to armitron.com and type ‘flashback’ in the search at the top of the page. It will bring up three colorways. I actually wish I’d have gotten the chocolate with the lavender dial…but I digress.
I've needed glasses since I was around 19. Without my glasses seeing the microscopic battery listing on a caseback can be terrible. I'm told if not for astigmatism I'd probably not need glasses, but still annoying.
Mid 50s here. I relate to the plight, but also have weirdly dodged it so far, somewhat.
I’ve one eye not bad at distance, one good when close. My brain magically fuses the image and it’s imperceptible.
I Use glasses for night driving and movies but they’re optional most of the time. So I wear glasses about 50% of the time and only for distance viewing.
Don’t get me started on huge vehicles with eye melting LED head and brake lights. FFS how can than be legal.
One suggestion re colorways: I’ve got watches that range from always legible to ‘what were they thinking’
The best legibility BY FAR is white indices on a black dial. And I’ve a big selection of divers to choose from, but the colored dials don’t come close.
Mid 50s here. I relate to the plight, but also have weirdly dodged it so far, somewhat.
I’ve one eye not bad at distance, one good when close. My brain magically fuses the image and it’s imperceptible.
I Use glasses for night driving and movies but they’re optional most of the time. So I wear glasses about 50% of the time and only for distance viewing.
Don’t get me started on huge vehicles with eye melting LED head and brake lights. FFS how can than be legal.
One suggestion re colorways: I’ve got watches that range from always legible to ‘what were they thinking’
The best legibility BY FAR is white indices on a black dial. And I’ve a big selection of divers to choose from, but the colored dials don’t come close.
Hopefully you may dodge the readers ‘all the time’ for years to come.