tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post6100680306324932789..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: blue, control, grandmaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-74121521995618586352010-07-26T09:41:29.342+01:002010-07-26T09:41:29.342+01:00My first watch was a baby Timex with a bright lime...My first watch was a baby Timex with a bright lime yellow face and a stripey nylon strap, very 1960s. I think I was about 8, and couldn't tell the time very well. It was wind-up of course, and when it broke down a few years later, my mum suspended it with the back open over a dish of paraffin, which worked a couple of times. <br /> <br />I dislike glittery girly watches, had an early Swatch for a while - the plastic moulding broke irreparably when it was just out of guarantee - and various others, but was never very comfortable with any of them. Then with the wonders of Internet shopping I discovered I could get a small and very simple Timex, round black face with slightly silvery figures, and a slim black leather strap, really a grown-up version of the one I had when I was a child. I like it more than most, but in fact I don't really like wearing a watch at all, and only do so when out of the house.<br /><br />Oh, and this watch lights up when you press the winder, which is useful when staying in strange places or during rather tedious musical or other events.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-48334404364425425542010-07-24T17:11:03.359+01:002010-07-24T17:11:03.359+01:00Watchless - almost as bad as being eyeless in Gaza...Watchless - almost as bad as being eyeless in Gaza. I am incompletely balanced but the mental deficiency is much harder to bear: a watch is proof that time is passing and I for one would not wish it to stop. My mother bought me a mechanical Longines for my twenty-first and Mrs BB bought me an electrically powered Longines for, I think, my sixtieth. Both have severely classical analogue faces such that I could, if I wished, tell the time to the nearest 15 seconds.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-84354165349753201122010-07-24T01:57:00.150+01:002010-07-24T01:57:00.150+01:00Oh, I'm just reading the very same issue of th...Oh, I'm just reading the very same issue of the National Geographic Magazine, and fascinated by an even older ancestor.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.com