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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #275 on: 12 October, 2012, 10:59:23 am »
Nah, it's never too late to do scar jibbling, mine were 17yrs old when I was first recommended the silica sheet stuff.  It's expensive to buy initially but you use the same sheet for several months and it may well help with the sensitivity. I expect it'll flatten your scar which would be good as it looks quite lumpy in the pic.

I found the sensitivity in my latest scar from my late 2009 surgery did improve with the massaging and the electrical nerve nastiness is much better for it, but I do understand that nauseatingness.  Can be worth mentioning if you have any followup to see if they have any advice for you.

How's the use of the hand is that still affected?
I'll give the silicon a go, thanks for the tip.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #276 on: 12 October, 2012, 02:05:51 pm »
Wow, that was fast.

I ordered my new watch from www.watchshop.com yesterday at 1230hrs, it arrived (free delivery) today at 0945hrs!

It took a bit of fiddling to set up - the instruction manual is definitely required! But fortunately I'm a RTFM kinda guy.



It's cool! It is pretty large and in charge, but I was hoping for that as I thought my Timex was too small on my wrist.





http://www.watchshop.com/mens-casio-g-shock-g-rescue-alarm-chronograph-watch-g-7900-1er-p99932159.html

Each to their own.

The area given to displaying the actual time to total area of watch ratio is the smallest I've ever seen.

Interestingly, the photograph of the watch on my wrist makes it look far more pronounced than it does in Real Life, though I do agree with you, it's a small numbers:face ratio. They are however, clear and easy to read and for me, easier than my previous watch due to being a little smaller - for some reason small text doesn't suffer from being Dyslexically re-arranged as much.

I have also discovered that the stopwatches, yes, there are two, will count to 1000hrs each! Techno-overkill, I love it!

There are 4 alarms, of which I have two set up at the mo - 0700 (10mins to leave the house) and 2150 (10mins to feeding the cat), the countdown timer is set for 2mins (perfect cup of tea).

The buttons are easy to press, though you definitely need to press On Purpose.

Two major things this watch is missing:
1) The ability to change the date layout to PROPER BRITISH LAYOUT
2) That, unlike my last watch, you must cycle through all the functions to return to the time display. On my Timex, once you had reached whatever function you wanted to stop on, the next 'mode' press would return you to the time.

If you can give a watch 4 5 alarms, one of which is a snooze alarm, and let you control whether they go off every day, once a week, once a month, or on a specific day... surely you can arrange the date properly! Not to mention 2 stopwatches, one of which you can set to give you an automatic 5sec countdown to start!
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #277 on: 05 November, 2012, 02:54:12 pm »
If you haven't already been doing orthpod scar treatment trick number one, I recommend it.

Basically E45 (or equivalent), lots of it, at least once if not more times a day massaged in as firmly as you can stand it.  What happens is scar tissue can end up with this hypersensitivity and by massaging you break up the actual tissue so it heals better but also help the body learn to resolve pain signals from it.   

I did that to my not-so-huge scar (and all of my previous complex scars) and I've had physios and orthopod specialists asking me how I got it so good.  I started as soon as there was no broken skin. 

I also hear good things about the bio-oil (http://www.bio-oil.com/en/application/scars) or silica gel sheets (http://www.chemistdirect.co.uk/cica-care-silicone-gel-sheet-12cm-x-6cm_1_10991.html) which I've never managed to be organised enough to use but were recommended by wound-nurse woman who was 200% right on everything else she said to me.
4 weeks on, I can report positive feedback on the E45 massaging tip. Patient says "Thanks"  :thumbsup:
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #278 on: 16 January, 2013, 01:50:47 pm »
I’m one of those people who feels very odd and lost without a watch. My watch (a Kahuna one from Argos) needs its strap replacing (it's now unwearable) and three separate places have told me that it’s impossible unless I send it back to the manufacturer and I really cannot be doing with that and I'm not even sure they'd do it anyway.

A couple of Christmases ago my mum presented me with a watch that is a) white and b) covered in sparkly rhinestones. As I’m supposed to be cutting back on unnecessary spending at the moment, I feel the sensible thing to do would be to just start wearing that; it’s sat in its box ever since. But it *really* isn’t me and I’m not sure I can bring myself to…

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #279 on: 16 January, 2013, 02:00:40 pm »
I’m one of those people who feels very odd and lost without a watch. My watch (a Kahuna one from Argos) needs its strap replacing (it's now unwearable) and three separate places have told me that it’s impossible unless I send it back to the manufacturer

Must be a funny strap indeed if a jeweller can't replace it.  Not even with a different type of strap?  What model of Kahuna?  Got a photo?

You can find all lengths of strap pins on eBay, and you don't really need a special tool to remove and fit them.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #280 on: 16 January, 2013, 02:05:23 pm »
Kahuna's are usually like Animal watches, in that the straps are webbing with or without fabric/rubberised material sewn on.

Replacement straps should be easy to get, really they should.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #281 on: 16 January, 2013, 02:34:28 pm »
Will post a pic when I get home. Not sure what model it is; can’t find it online. I bought it about four years ago.

I don’t mind if it’s a different strap. It is currently a leather strap and it seems to be held on with four tiny screws in each corner on the back of the watch (sitting inside a little inset section), rather than the more traditional pins holding it on.

I tried an old-fashioned jewellers, a rough and ready cobbler type place, and Timpsons. They all said exactly the same thing. The cobbler place said the manufacturer had been ‘very cunning’!

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #282 on: 16 January, 2013, 03:02:55 pm »
Oh.  It doesn't sound like it's even worth posting a pic, let alone attempting a DIY strap replacement.  :(
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #283 on: 16 January, 2013, 03:11:31 pm »
Does it look something like this?

http://www.hollinsandhollinshead.com/product/KUS-0052L/KAHUNA+KUS-0052L+Fancy+Leather+Strap+Ladies+Watch+RRP%3A+%C2%A335.00

If so I can see where the problem is.

Email Kahuna would be my best advice: http://www.kahuna.co.uk/contact-us2/
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #284 on: 16 January, 2013, 03:30:51 pm »
Yes, my watch has the same arrangement as that one.

I’ll email them, thanks for that, but don’t hold out much hope considering it was around £30 originally.

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #285 on: 20 January, 2013, 09:45:55 pm »
when my mum has found it, I shall be getting my Grandfathers pocket watch, which he was given on his 21st, from what I remember it's nothing fancy just a plain full face watch and chain with a six pence attached, he was given for good luck when he was called up. pictures to follow,

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #286 on: 23 November, 2013, 05:38:12 pm »
Not that watches bother me much, beyond being present, legible and accurate: quartz for me. I upgraded to a solid steel Tissot, though, after my previous one ate the cuffs off an entire wardrobe of shirts. The base metal body of the watch, its steel backplate, and Honest Yeoman Sweat had formed a little battery, leaving the base metal corroded and abrasive. Suddenly it was obvious that a cheaper watch was a false economy...

Yeah I thought that too and bought a solid steel Tissot that (I thught) would last for years.  It did last for 5 and then stopped.  The servicing cost more than half the original cost of the watch and even then I had to send it back a second time for them to do proper job.  Don't ever tell them how much it originally cost as I reckon they ramp up the servicing price...   
Yes, well. Mine has done a bit better than that, in the end, making it to 13 years or so. The service was, I think, more pricey than the watch itself had been---though less than any current Tissot, what with the strong Swiss Franc---and it's died again six months later. Resurrection twice would be a triumph of hope over experience.

The replacement is another Tissot; this time a slightly grander model in titanium. I blame middle age. Close inspection of their website shows that the titanium version contains, inexplicably, a better quality of innards than the nominally equivalent steel or goldy-looking watches in the same range. So maybe this will last.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #287 on: 23 November, 2013, 06:39:04 pm »
Tissot are supposed to have a lifetime guarantee on even their cheapest models, which are about £99, but only if you get them officially serviced every 3 years. That the servicing costs nearly as much as a new watch would not surprise me.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #288 on: 24 November, 2013, 03:29:58 pm »
My 42 year old Omega Seamaster (18th birthday present) ground to a halt recently after getting soaked in the rain. The bill for fixing it was £239. I know I could get a whole bunch of better timekeepers for that amount of money but I still paid it. They did a good job though - I haven't altered it or had to wind it (an automatic) in the 5 weeks since I had it done.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #289 on: 24 November, 2013, 03:37:49 pm »
My 42 year old Omega Seamaster (18th birthday present) ground to a halt recently after getting soaked in the rain. The bill for fixing it was £239. I know I could get a whole bunch of better timekeepers for that amount of money but I still paid it. They did a good job though - I haven't altered it or had to wind it (an automatic) in the 5 weeks since I had it done.

I have one in a drawer for that very reason and of a very similar vintage.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #290 on: 24 November, 2013, 03:39:52 pm »
My 42 year old Omega Seamaster (18th birthday present) ground to a halt recently after getting soaked in the rain. The bill for fixing it was £239. I know I could get a whole bunch of better timekeepers for that amount of money but I still paid it. They did a good job though - I haven't altered it or had to wind it (an automatic) in the 5 weeks since I had it done.

I have one in a drawer for that very reason and of a very similar vintage.

Yup. My dad's and my brother's aren't, I'm afraid, going to get the same treatment.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #291 on: 24 November, 2013, 05:10:26 pm »
Isn't it a bit of a FAIL if a diver's watch doesn't like the rain?  ;)

Presumably this is due to O-rings becoming hardened and dried out.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #292 on: 25 November, 2013, 08:54:39 am »
Isn't it a bit of a FAIL if a diver's watch doesn't like the rain?  ;)

Presumably this is due to O-rings becoming hardened and dried out.

It was due to the glass being cracked.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #293 on: 29 November, 2013, 06:20:40 pm »
Most of my youth was spent in a haze and I really had no time for time, so never wore a watch. I had a phase when they became digital that I wore a watch for a while but then decided I really hate wearing things, clothes excepted. I don't wear my wedding ring. Spent all day twiddling it, drove me mad.

Hang on...........I'm still mad?

Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #294 on: 01 December, 2013, 12:56:12 pm »
I wish waist coats would come back into fashion so I could wear a pocket watch.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #295 on: 01 December, 2013, 01:11:22 pm »
Well Hairy I say start the fashion :)
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #296 on: 01 December, 2013, 01:38:39 pm »
I wear a waistcoat most days through the winter for work.  No pocket watch though.

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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #297 on: 10 December, 2013, 06:10:04 pm »
I often used to wear a waistcoat to work. This was several years ago mind. I've never owned a pocket watch though.
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Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #298 on: 21 December, 2013, 02:28:45 pm »
I got myself a cheap Timex a couple of months ago and finally got round to buying some leather work tools so made myself a new strap yesterday. Need a bit more practice on the stitching but it's a vast improvement on the cheap strap it came on. I'm quite chuffed with it for a first attempt.





Re: Wearing a watch
« Reply #299 on: 21 December, 2013, 02:32:50 pm »
That very good. I wish I could do that.
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