What?! A water watch? Show us your unconventionally-powered watch.
I found my water watch about 1987 in some kind of gift shop in either Anchorage or Fairbanks, AK. I remember thinking its claims unlikely you just wet the little cells through the three holes in either side with water and the watch will magically come to life. Well, it's been doing it now for about 35 years. The display begins to dim after about a week, and that's when you just place the watch under a running tap and recharge. It has a crisp display and is quite accurate. Show us your quirky watch that may be unconventionally-powered to foster a fun discussion.
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Darin
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.
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I don't even know what other options there are besides mainspring (hand wound & Automatic, battery (quartz, mecha-quartz, Kinetic), solar and now water.
Wow, I’ve never seen a water watch like that. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything weird and wonderful in my collection yet. I’d like to add more unusual things, but I rarely come across such things.
Wow, I’ve never seen a water watch like that. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything weird and wonderful in my collection yet. I’d like to add more unusual things, but I rarely come across such things.
Yeah, me finding that was a fluke. I've never come across anything like it since.
Wow, I’ve never seen a water watch like that. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything weird and wonderful in my collection yet. I’d like to add more unusual things, but I rarely come across such things.
Yeah, it's just a cool watch. And it's transparent design was years before the whole craze after the translucent iMacs came out.
We used water activated batteries like that on the Pibal/celiling ballons lights(small balloons for calculating wind speed at the low levels, or low level cloud heights), and on the radiosondes for the larger weather balloons.
I had no idea they made watches like that though.
We used water activated batteries like that on the Pibal/celiling ballons lights(small balloons for calculating wind speed at the low levels, or low level cloud heights), and on the radiosondes for the larger weather balloons.
I had no idea they made watches like that though.
I must say what you said is most fascinating! Perhaps someone thought to apply such to this watch, but it was short-lived?
It's an interesting use of that type of battery, at least from my perspective.
The batteries we used for the Pibals and ceiling balloons were so old they came in tin cans like paint cans. The raidosonde batteries were new right up through 2009 when I stopped working in the unit that was doing regular balloons, some time after that they switched to 4 AA batteries.
Solar powered.
Im going with solar too
https://www.uncommongoods.com/product/revolutionary-water-powered-watches
thats so cool!
Wow I've only seen these in comic book ads and dismissed it as something from a comic book ad. Very cool!