It’s time for a confession. There are a few things on this planet which
mesmerize me. They are, in no particular
order: flashlights, radios, wristwatches, and hand tools. In the eyes of my sainted wife, all that
stuff is just junk.
Of course, she’s wrong. She frantically calls my name when the power
goes out and she is need of a flashlight.
The same holds true with radios; she needs to know when a violent storm is
passing and we need to take cover, and I suddenly become pretty important.
Hand tools are regularly being
utilized to hang pot racks and assemble other great ideas she contrived for her
convenience.
But it is the lowly wristwatch
that I find most important.
Waking in the morning, taking
pills on a schedule, being at appointments, knowing when businesses are open,
and realizing when cocktail time has arrived, are just a few of the more
important uses for my wristwatches.
And just as with my flashlights,
radios, and hand tools, I have more than one wristwatch.
Through life I seemed to have
accumulated a slew of watches, including several pocket watches.
Most of my watches are high-end
(to me, anyway.) They are dressy and
stylish, some look vintage, and others are vintage. Most have that little date window, although
most don’t keep the dates accurately.
A few have extra dials in the
form of chronographs, stop watches, timers, elapsed times, and second
hands. One has an international time
feature; another has a limitless power cell that requires no battery or
winding.
One was a gift from my
brother-in-law, one a retirement gift from “My Only Friend,” one was from a
former colleague, another from my sainted wife.
And all are not only used, but also treasured.
But it has come time to retire my
most-used watch; it’s a cheap Casio watch with a canvass band and severely
scratched crystal. I wear this one most
often because it is my “work” watch and not as delicate as the other
aforementioned time pieces.
I mow lawns, dig ditches, lay
mulch, paint, change the oil, and repair my outdoor fountain with this
watch. I wear this one because it is
cheap and disposable.
It also accompanies me to the
hardware store and anywhere else I go where I don’t need to impress people with
quality wristwatches, but still need to tell the time.
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| The one in which I'm interested, Honey |
That Casio has served me well for
nearly a dozen years of sweat and toil.
But it is time to let it rest. So, the search has begun for a new one.
I began on the interweb. Shopping websites were searched by brand
name, and I found a few that could be the heir-apparent to this much desired
job.
Unfortunately, it is almost
impossible to find information ANYWHERE, including the Casio website, about the
watches waterproof virtue.
You’ll find notations about its
“water resistance,” but not water proofness.
Yeah, I just made that word up because it fits.
In any case, I’m not anticipating
a trip to the Mariana Trench, or really anything over a few feet
underwater. I did lose a cell phone in
the harbor once, and dove in to retrieve it, to no avail. But I digress.
In the unlikely event my sainted
wife reads this, please note:
So I am trying to find a Casio
wristwatch that is under $45, waterproof to 50 feet, without anything digital –
only analog, please – with a utilitarian band.
And shock resistant. Just in case
I get struck by lightning, that is.
