• March 25, 2016
  • Watch Gonzo
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Q.

Hey Gonzo!

I don’t happen to realize something – have you ever felt bored blabbering about watches? How can a man be so relentlessly addicted to machine units and moving parts? Are you a nerd? Are you autistic? And do you have ADHD too?

If you tick all of them “Yes”, I feel it’s time for you to move on. To pure quartz; it is also what I would recommend. There are better things than your old styled watches in this world; do some of them. I bet you won’t like your springs and wheels again. I collect pure digital quartz, the rare of the rarest pieces. Yes, even the calibre 7A28 analog. I hope you know it’s the first quartz chronograph. I’d rather like to hear something about it to test your mettle.

And oh, designing a circuitry with wheels is tougher than putting wheels and springs together. Compre?

A.

A few things you got to quickly get into your head before we move to the main topic.

  1. This is a watch related site, so if you are to treat your constipation with chalk-dust or an electric drill, go find them elsewhere.
  2. For that, dear Watson, you need brains.
  3. Yes; Never-Ending-Research-and-Development.
  4. Yes, as much as it’s required to maintain consistency.
  5. Yes again, only that much as required to fish out subjects of interests. Oh, that includes the watch.
  6. Testing my mettle? Heck, I don’t even need to.
  7. Lastly, this is where decent people mix. Please use decent language.

But I reward you with a small read. Despite your loutish letter, you brought up a good topic. I’m sure you found the recent supply of the SCED series we got; so your glee knows no bound. But you see, you must truly understand watches if you truly want to love these. It’s your ego talking, proud to acquire the first of its kind. As for these, they are how Seiko celebrates its 30th anniversary of the Giugiaro collaboration.

It’s not purely quartz. Neither are its reincarnations. It was truly alien for its times; like some fabulous fictional technology coming alive! Pure quartz can’t have stepper motors and analog features; it must be fully digital and devoid of any moving part. This turns me skeptical towards your watch collecting basics.

There is quite a bit of Italian car designer Giorgetto Giugiaro behind the watch and also notable as Ripley‘s timepiece of choice. Don’t pigeonhole it. It was radical for its times for reasons you can’t probably even guess! One is its all-metal jewelled movement but that’s a no-brainer. Getting one (or all, if you got money; which seems to be) will be a truly valuable addition in a collection, which I think, might not be as bad. Your ego doesn’t seem to let you pick up just anything lying on the floor.

And oh! Yes; I forgot humans learnt dexterity from the machines. Thanks for reminding.

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