Re: Ruggedness?


JG wrote:
Tony Stanford wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, at 11:45:42, JG <jg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
How anyone can 'make-a-point' of wearing a watch for any activity that
involves that much water I find totally incomprehensible !!

Well, here's one reason. I am very short-sighted, and I cannot see the
clock on the wall of the swimming pool at my club when I am swimming.
For fitness' sake, I like to swim for a certain length of time, but it
always seems like hours, instead of the minutes that I actually swim for.

So unless I wear a watch, I get out of the pool too early. I walk up the
clock, peer at it, and then get back in again, much to the amusement of
watchers.

So, I can wear my glasses in the pool, or a watch. ;-}}

My comprehension has been updated :)) Maybe you should lobby for a
larger clock in the pool.

I swim with a dive watch. I time my swims and use my watch bezel to
time my swim. since I don't stop, I can check, while swimming, how much
time I have swum, etc. To me, the most important feature in my watch is
water resistance and a bezel. I also like an auto, so I will not have
to change batteries. My experience with quartz is that when I get the
battery change all the water resistance is gone. Cheap seiko autos and
invicta autos do the job. I don't know about the seiko 100m. However,
my seiko 200m has done great. so has my invicta 8926. Only problem is
that they gain time.

I am thinking to get one of those pulsar solars for less than $100. It
has the features that I like, the precision of quartz and not batterie
changes.

Andres

Can you get 'prescription' goggles?

JG

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