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Tell us a surprising watch fact..
I’ll go first…
The little pocket on your Levi’s was originally designed for your pocket watch!
Here was me thinking it was for keys or coins or something.
So you next. Share the knowledge.. what you got for us?..
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The price of a watch has very little to do with the cost of making it.
The price of a watch has very little to do with the cost of making it.
The price of a [insert luxury item] has very little to do with the cost of making it.
You can use your watch as a compass for general direction finding.
The price of a watch has very little to do with the cost of making it.
Although if it’s Christopher ward is is 1/3rd the cost
You can use your watch as a compass for general direction finding.
How?
Although if it’s Christopher ward is is 1/3rd the cost
Yes I'd guess CW have lower gross margin than most.
Shit....I better get my weed outta there!!!
Here's another:
Seiko could equip all its watches with sapphire crystals and still turn a profit, but it would be less good for shareholder value.
How?
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Amazing!
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Very cool. I was aware that some Seikos have a compass bezel but didn't realise you could do it with any watch.
Watch as a compass:
Put the watch horizontal. In Northern hemisphere point the hour hand to the sun, and South is midway between the sun and 12 on the dial.
In Southern hemisphere the same method finds North.
Some watches (like the Citizen Promaster Navihawk A-T) have a rotating compass bezel, but obviously any rotating bezel helps make it easier to fix the other ordinals.
Picture below unashamedly taken from Citizen website.
Thank you for explaining. Was stuck in meetings and couldn’t answer.
Very cool. I was aware that some Seikos have a compass bezel but didn't realise you could do it with any watch.
Yes, the Alpinist has a compass bezel, but you use it in conjunction with the hour hand and 12 marker to then turn the compass bezel to mark south
The world's first Television advert was for a Bulova watch
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