But I did need a watch. Watches are very difficult. I need to really love it. It needs to speak to me in some way. When I was young, like 12 or 13 years, I got a watch for my birthday that was the coolest thing I have ever seen. The face was large, which I liked, and the numbers were actually musical..um... notation. Devices. One second. *time passes* Ok, they were musical accidentals and articulation. (I had to look it up) So instead of numbers there would be a sharp sign, a flat sign, a rest sign, etc. AWESOME. The hands were red and normal except the second hand--OH! It was about 10 piano keys. The second hand took up 1/4 of the face and it would all move each second (as a second hand should). I wish i could show you a picture. Wow. I miss you watch. (i put it in the laundry)
When selecting a watch, something that is really important to me is my ability to tell time when i look at it. I know. But I hate all those fancy "grown up" watches where there are 4 numbers and they're not even numbers, they're little specks. And then nothing in between. And then if it's rectangular--ahhhh.. i just can't read it and if you ask me what time it is i will tell you "mm... sometime between the hours of 3 & 6, give or take."
So I looked at some watches today in the shop. They were all stupid. And they weren't saying anything to me except "I'm an ugly piece of crap." I expected this. It's not often something really jumps out at me and, resigned, i was about to walk away but then I saw it. Perfect.
simple. elegant. digital.
p.s. despite its professional, Movado-esque look, this photo was amazingly awkward to take. Thanks to it, I can now call myself a contortionist. And i wish i had turned the watch upside down so it didn't read h:02 o'clock.
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I have gone watchless for a year and half now. I'm a cell phone clock guy now. Especially since a watch would end up very close to hundreds of mouths, and I wash my hands about 40 times a day which all equals an icky watch.
But since I ASSUME your watch will not be near many open mouths, I would say you made a nice selection.
I first read that as "I would say you made a nice skeleton." And I was going to say, "that's weird, and thanks." ha.
Very cool watch, Jen! I love watches. In fourth grade, the only thing I wanted was a calculator watch, and I wore it through high school until it broke. The part where the band goes shredded open and it's unwearable now. But it's still in a box at my parents' home!
You should re-band (<-- that's a nice word) that sucker because good watches are like leprechans. Yes, leprechans. They're so wonderful, I'm not sure they're even real. Ha ha ha. I think that may be the stupidest thing i've ever said. I'm sticking to it. *publish*
Sporty, simple, to-the-point... it has your name all over it. Wait, your name is Armitron, right?
It SHOULD be!! I'm glad you noticed that because armitron makes it like a trillion times cooler.
it is so awesome when i see that i've commented on everyone's comment. super neat.
I remember being completely jealous of your favorite watch you got when you were 12 or 13. I remember staring at it and wondering how it would look on my wrist. It is still the coolest watch I have seen.
Ha ha! You would stare at it and picture it on your wrist?? That is the best thing i have ever heard. It truly was the coolest watch in the galaxy. I'm glad someone else has memories of it.
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