Pocket Watches.

**Dreadbelly** · 17th December 06, 04:44 PM

I thought I'd ask. Since most of us seem to like quality and old timey stuff.

I can not wear a wrist watch. I seem to sweat pure acid, and I generate weird electrical fields which cause any electrical timepiece I wear to become highly inaccurate and haywire.

So, I was thinking about a mechanical pocketwatch. You know, the kind you wind up. Been looking online, don't know what I should get. A lot of pocket watches don't even say if they are mechanical or not.

I'd like something I can clip on to my sporran ring and slip in to my sporran. Something nice, but plain. Well, I guess plain. Scenic pictures of trains or deer on a watch don't do it for me.

I know somebody here is bound to know about this stuff.

**Splash_4** · 17th December 06, 04:46 PM

Like you I can not wear a watch. Check out wal-mart. They have a number of plain pocket watches, including the one I use that uses a d-ring to clip to your belt.

**Dreadbelly** · 17th December 06, 04:54 PM

Is it mechanical or battery powered?

I destroy small electrical objects by being around them for any real period of time... I just had a digital watch that I never once wore die in my sporran from just being to close to me. I knew something was terribly wrong with the little blighter when it tried to tell me that it was 72:00 o' clock. Timex no less.

I think I need a wind up watch, which seems to be a rare beast now.

**KiltedKnight** · 17th December 06, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

Is it mechanical or battery powered?

I destroy small electrical objects by being around them for any real period of time... I just had a digital watch that I never once wore die in my sporran from just being to close to me. I knew something was terribly wrong with the little blighter when it tried to tell me that it was 72:00 o' clock. Timex no less.

I think I need a wind up watch, which seems to be a rare beast now.

72:00? So? I've been there. With a Timex too. I purchased a Timex dive watch about 25 years ago when I was doing a lot of SCUBA diving. The first dive that I made was pretty deep and while descending I felt what seemed to be something hitting my wrist, I looked but didn't see a crazy fish or anything near my wrist but later when I looked to check my bottom time I realized that the watch had been crushed by the weight of the water and it was reading some very disturbing time for two days before it finally died.

In this case TIMEX didn't take much of a licking and it stopped ticking.

Chris.

**Dreadbelly** · 17th December 06, 08:16 PM

I can't explain the electrical thing. I know it sounds weird. Not only that, but I can 'feel' electromagnetic fields around me. I've met exactly one other person that can do that, and they too, had problems with things like watches shorting out and failing.

Hey Rex, get any weird feelings around objects that generate fields? Just curious.

Wearing wool hose really magnifies the effect, which is really strange. :confused:

**GMan** · 17th December 06, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

I can't explain the electrical thing. I know it sounds weird. Not only that, but I can 'feel' electromagnetic fields around me. I've met exactly one other person that can do that, and they too, had problems with things like watches shorting out and failing.

Hey Rex, get any weird feelings around objects that generate fields? Just curious.

Wearing wool hose really magnifies the effect, which is really strange. :confused:

I know that you guys are a charge to be around.

OK lets get serious here. I adore pocket watches, nothing adds to the character of a man by having a timepiece of that type around.

Any watchmaker (shop) worth their weight will be able to direct you to what you are looking for.

Good luck on your search my friend.

**g koch** · 18th December 06, 03:41 PM

WESTCLOX used to make a little wind-up pocket watch called the SCOTTY.

They'd be $5.00 on a cardboard display by the register at the drugstore.

Had several of them.

There's a bunch of them on eBay right now for 'round $10.

http://search.ebay.com/Westclox-Scotty_W0QQfromZR40

**Rex_Tremende** · 18th December 06, 04:20 PM

Originally Posted by Dreadbelly

Hey Rex, get any weird feelings around objects that generate fields? Just curious.

No, but I've been known to repel people.

Could be a different problem, though.

R.

**Splash_4** · 17th December 06, 05:00 PM

That is too funny! As I recall, they have both types.

**Rex_Tremende** · 17th December 06, 05:24 PM

I also can't wear a watch because they stop working when I wear them, but I've learned over the years to rely on other sources for the time. Now I just use my cell phone, which, thankfully, does not seem to susceptible to my energy field or whatever it is that I radiate.

I've been told I have a bright yellow aura and light up rooms with it. Maybe that has something to do with it.

Regards,
Rex.