Two part post
So, a couple of weeks ago I was asking about timegraphers like these:
Consensus was that they worked well and were worth the money. I picked up this one for $33 off of Amazon. I'm happy and disappointed with it. The ad for this one; and most other like it, say you can hook it up to your computer, tablet or phone. Well that's not true, as most phones and tablets will not power a device that's plugged into it's USB port.
So, I have to plug it into my computer. That's not all bad though. It didn't come with the software like I thought, but it was easy enough to find. The software is nice and gives you a bunch of info. It will let you take screen shots, but it saves them in a proprietary format. Could be a good way to save them for future look up, but it's hard to share the data with others.
The material it's made out of feels pretty cheap, but what do you expect for the money? Overall I'm happy with my purchase. If I were to grade it on a 1-10 base, I would give it an 8. Mostly because of the cheap plastic. It does a real good job of reading the watch.
Now for the second part of this post. About a week ago I posted about my new Indian assembled vintage style Roamer. I mentioned that my LWM had given it a good inspection and told me that it was in fact a vintage FHF movement and was running as good as could be for the movement. Well, I think that was a bit of an understatement. The picture above is my Roamer on this timegrapher.
That's probably the best $35 watch I'm ever going to buy.
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I prefer the time when watch lovers just wore their watches and checked the accuracy via the phone number that gave the correct time. Usually once a week. We'd check the time and re-set the watch and move on with our lives and watches until a week went by and then make the call, and re-set again in a week, paying zero attention to how far the watch was off. We were happy, we loved watches, and we'd never imagine a time when people would care about to the second time. So many newbies are turning appreciation for watches into some sort of warped obsession with perfection which, in reality, is achieved by a mechanical watch that, even if off by 30 seconds a day, is over 99% efficient.
Too bad , really, you're missing the point of watch collecting.
I prefer the time when watch lovers just wore their watches and checked the accuracy via the phone number that gave the correct time. Usually once a week. We'd check the time and re-set the watch and move on with our lives and watches until a week went by and then make the call, and re-set again in a week, paying zero attention to how far the watch was off. We were happy, we loved watches, and we'd never imagine a time when people would care about to the second time. So many newbies are turning appreciation for watches into some sort of warped obsession with perfection which, in reality, is achieved by a mechanical watch that, even if off by 30 seconds a day, is over 99% efficient.
Too bad , really, you're missing the point of watch collecting.
I'm not missing anything. Watch collecting is different for everyone. It's too bad that you feel that anyone who doesn't do it the way you would do are doing wrong.
Maybe when you grow up a bit you'll learn that you're not always right. Or, then again maybe you won't.
Either way it really doesn't matter what you think.
Have fun with your own collection.
I do own those one, its god for me.👍