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Re: Mechanical Apple Watch from real e-waste Apple Watch

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Post by JohnBooty »

wazoox wrote: post #146
NavinF wrote: post #143

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> 10 minutes of daily drift is perfectly tolerable Heh I feel bad when I'm 10 min late to a call, but if I had your watch I'd be 20 min late!

I'd wind the watch and adjust it in the morning, and will be 2-5 minutes late in the evening. But at times I would adjust it during the day while watching time close to another, more reliable time source (like a public clock in a train station, for instance, or TV news in a shop window). After all it only takes a second to adjust: pull the crown, turn it a tiny bit, and push it back in :)

People are wincing at the idea of watch that is 5+ minutes off, but I typically intentionally set my watches roughly 5 minutes fast anyway. Helps me avoid being late for stuff. (I realize this makes no sense if you think about it too hard... shhhhhh)

If I need the precise time, I can pull out my phone or just ask another human who nearly because they will surely have a phone :)

(Note to non-watch enthusiasts: we are talking about the tolerances on very old watches; a modern $100 mechanical is usually accurate to within 5-10 seconds a day)

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Post by bookofjoe »

drivers99 wrote: post #148
ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #130

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I know Americans enjoy the lowest consumers electronics prices in the world but in Europe it's at least 20 Euros which is more than 20 USD and even at 20 euros it's difficult to find, with most shops asking for more than that.

I remember paying $7 for mine at Walmart. It was on clearance.

Cheap at twice the price.

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Post by stuff4ben »

This is actually a pretty nifty business idea. All of these unsupported watches just going to landfills could be recycled into analogue movements. I have a series 3 that Apple no longer supports just sitting around. I don't have the time or patience to do what the OP did, but I'd gladly pay $50 to not chuck it in the trash.

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Post by botverse »

JohnBooty wrote: post #56

I absolutely love this. I think a lot of techie types might not realize what an engineering marvel a mechanical watch movement is. I'm sure you all realize there are a lot of teeny tiny gears. But does the HN crowd realize there are 24 precious gems (lab-grown rubies and sapphires!!!!) inside the NH38 movement, serving as bearings and such? While the Apple Watch is in some ways orders of magnitude more advanced than…

Many maybe don’t, but also many of the techie types I know tinker with mechanical watches, bicycles, combustion engines, etc. And I think more than the average!

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Post by JohnBooty »

lvturner wrote: post #124
mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #118

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You might be interested in the Oura ring then. I can't recommend it, because I haven't tried it. But sounds like the kind of thing you're talking about.

I do exactly this. Very happy with the solution though I did get grandfathered in to their paid subscription (so I don’t pay it) Mechanical watches are a deep and expensive rabbit hole though.

They certainly can be a deep and expensive thing, lol

But it can also be very affordable! Can get a perfectly great mechanical for around $100!

(Although, now that Seiko has abandoned that price level and prices on everything have gone up in general, $150-$200 is perhaps a more realistic starting point. Still a lot of "new old stock" Seikos at that $100ish price though if you look...)

While I realize these dollar amounts are not affordable to everybody, I have noticed that many people who scoff at these prices happily spend hundreds or thousands per year on their hobbies and entertainment....

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Post by delecti »

ben_w wrote: post #93
KineticLensman wrote: post #55

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Longpress on iOS Safari gives you a menu that lets you open a link in the background, which is essentially open in a new tab. I use it all the time, e.g to work through the HN front page selecting some comment pages to read later

Ah! I wish I could say thanks, but when I tried it out just now, I realised that I have seen it many times — trouble is, it's labelled in my mind as "that annoying popup I keep triggering by accident, how do I disable it?" Still, have a metaphorical cookie: even though I don't like the thing, sharing knowledge kindly is always good :)

If nothing else, now you know what behavior was triggering the thing you don't like. Maybe now you can start to make it only happen deliberately, which might make it less annoying.

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Post by JohnBooty »

subhro wrote: post #73
JohnBooty wrote: post #56

I absolutely love this. I think a lot of techie types might not realize what an engineering marvel a mechanical watch movement is. I'm sure you all realize there are a lot of teeny tiny gears. But does the HN crowd realize there are 24 precious gems (lab-grown rubies and sapphires!!!!) inside the NH38 movement, serving as bearings and such? While the Apple Watch is in some ways orders of magnitude more advanced than…

I wear an automatic Tag Heuer. I have been asked by many people why I still wear a mechanical watch. My answer is, battery powered watches (including smart watches and quartz movements) might have a life, but a mechanical watch ticking incessantly has a soul.

Yeah. A mechanical watch is almost like a companion.

It only "lives" when you wear or wind it. It's only a few seconds of active "work" on your part per day but I find myself feeling kind of paternal toward them, or like I'm caring for a little mechanical pet buddy or something.

Quartz watches and computers in general are also miracles to me, as well!

But mechanical watches are their own special sort of miracle that I really appreciate.

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Post by JohnBooty »

mhandley wrote: post #138
jansan wrote: post #106

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I actually think that a digital watch with solar cell, multiband receiver and led backlight is a greater engineering marvel.

I really like my Casio LCW-M100TSE [1]. It's a (mostly) analog watch with a solar cell, radio receiver and led backlight. Keeps perfect time (radio sync), never needs charging, battery changing or winding, has a titanium case and titanium band so is incredible light but nearly indestructable, and looks good without being overly pretentious or a statement of wealth. And most importantly, doesn't interrupt me with noti…

Absolutely love that one. It is exactly my kind of watch... a sleeper gem. A true "if you know you know" watch.

Everybody else sees an affordable Casio. But those who know, know.

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Post by JohnBooty »

jansan wrote: post #106
JohnBooty wrote: post #56

I absolutely love this. I think a lot of techie types might not realize what an engineering marvel a mechanical watch movement is. I'm sure you all realize there are a lot of teeny tiny gears. But does the HN crowd realize there are 24 precious gems (lab-grown rubies and sapphires!!!!) inside the NH38 movement, serving as bearings and such? While the Apple Watch is in some ways orders of magnitude more advanced than…

I actually think that a digital watch with solar cell, multiband receiver and led backlight is a greater engineering marvel.

Yeah! I've got a few of those as well.

They are different kinds of marvels to me, and I deeply appreciate them! I'm a big G-Shock fan in particular.

I am (among many other things!) a computing enthusiast, a quartz watch enthusiast, and a mechanical watch enthusiast. I find that appreciating each one of those things enhances my appreciation for the others.

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Post by JohnBooty »

wjnc wrote: post #100
JohnBooty wrote: post #56

I absolutely love this. I think a lot of techie types might not realize what an engineering marvel a mechanical watch movement is. I'm sure you all realize there are a lot of teeny tiny gears. But does the HN crowd realize there are 24 precious gems (lab-grown rubies and sapphires!!!!) inside the NH38 movement, serving as bearings and such? While the Apple Watch is in some ways orders of magnitude more advanced than…

It is a tiny loss to my life that my mechanical watch lies in a cupboard while a Garmin brandishes my skin, but entertains my need for self-data. A measurement only ankle bracelet would be a perfect solution. Who cares about exact time when you have thousands of gears giving you a few seconds drift per day.

    A measurement only ankle bracelet would be a perfect solution
Has anybody ever tried that? Would it work, if you had a big enough strap to fit an ankle?
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