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| cloaked_wolf wrote: Didn't homer have one of these. Over twenty years ago? In The Simpsons? | |
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I think that the Flintstones did it.
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Sundial Watch |
I saw this today: http://www.fossil.co.uk/en_GB/shop/men/ ... ath=JR9886 Nice, but impractical. There is no hidden real watch - this is literally a sundial on a strap. |
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| Author: | cloaked_wolf [ Sat Apr 10, 2010 10:31 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch |
Didn't homer have one of these. Over twenty years ago? In The Simpsons? |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sat Apr 10, 2010 11:11 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | |||||||||
I think that the Flintstones did it.
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| Author: | belchingmatt [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:18 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | |||||||||
With no hollow casing, moving parts or battery it should be resistant up to 5km. |
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| Author: | jonlumb [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 7:39 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch |
I'd almost be tempted, especially as it's not that expensive in watch terms. Would need to see one in the flesh first though I think. |
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| Author: | Amnesia10 [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:05 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | ||||||||||||||||||
The leather strap might be the limiting factor. Though it would be useless as a dive watch for the obvious reasons. |
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 9:40 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch |
How does it work? 
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| Author: | soddit112 [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:37 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | |||||||||
im guessing it comes with a complimentary compass  and does no-one else see the inherent danger in having a sharp pointy metal thing attached to ones wrist? 
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 10:42 am ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | |||||||||
My first thought.
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:41 am ] | ||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | ||||||||||||||||||
I saw one in the flesh yesterday. It’s a pretty chunky thing - like most Fossil watches, it’s pretty big. There is no working compass in the watch or the strap, depsite other Fossil watches having compasses on the strap. The gnomon is a stuff rubber thing, so it’s not metal. I have a couple of replicas of Elizabethan timepieces from the Mary Rose. 
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 11:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch |
Is the gnomon luminescent so you can use it after sunset? |
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| Author: | paulzolo [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 4:05 pm ] | |||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | |||||||||
No, but I suppose you could carry a small torch to help you. |
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| Author: | ChurchCat [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:13 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Yes but how would you then hold the compass so that you knew which way the torch was pointing.
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| Author: | TheHobgob [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:32 pm ] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personally I would just buy a proper watch? II'm very happy with my citizen. Not to put a downer on your conversation 
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Sundial Watch |
myPhone has an app for that. |
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