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My favorite watch ever was a self-winding mechanical Swatch. I suspect they (Swatch) acquired the company that made it. Disappointingly, when the pins that held
by gwbas1c 3y ago
My favorite watch ever was a self-winding mechanical Swatch. I suspect they (Swatch) acquired the company that made it. Disappointingly, when the pins that held the band on started to slip, there was no good way to repair it.
I've since switched to a smart watch, but I keep getting tempted to go back. I generally use my smart watch as a very gentle alarm, and for fitness tracking. I just don't want to be the geek who wears two watches. Maybe I should only wear it at night?
- ghostganz 3y agoA self-winding watch needs to be worn for hours each day to not run out of power. A manual-wind watch will be a better choice for a night-only mechanical watch.
- jgwil2 3y agoYou can get a watch winder to keep your automatic wound even if you don't wear it all the time.
- gwbas1c 3y agoI took off my self winding watch at night and it worked fine. > night-only mechanical watch I said that I was thinking of only wearing a smartwatch at night, because I really like the gentle alarm in the morning. What I didn't say was that I use a smartwatch for tracking my sleep patterns.
- massenpunkt 3y agoThe Swatch brand was founded 1983 by ETA CEO Thomke and his Engineers. ETA is a watch movement manufacturer. Speaking of Swatch and mechanical watches: the Sistem51 is an interesting watch, since it's the only mechanical watch ever fabricated in a 100% automated production line. The parts are welded together and held by a single screw. https://www.swatch.com/en-us/sistem-51.html https://www.swatch.com/en-us/sistem-51.html