Gear!
Perhaps prompted in part by the plethora of posts by my sister about toys, featuring two about watches, I finally got around to making a certain purchase.
With a new sport comes an opportunity for new gear.
Mmmmm... gear....
Over the summer I did the PADI Open Water scuba certification, and thus I could mentally justify a shopping spree. Yesterday I bought a dive watch, ostensibly as a backup for dive computers: the Omega Seamaster 2254.50. Correction: according to the marketing literature, it's not a mere *watch* it's a chronometer. I do have a minor attachment to Omega, as they were the top-of-the-line equipment for timing in meets when I was swimming as a child. This one is more to my taste than its cousin, the current James Bond watch.
I think the dive watch feature of rotating bezel qualifies it as a toy. I wonder if it's a toy that will have an effect on the behaviour of salespeople? I suppose I'll find out.
8 Comments:
Oooooh!!!! Gear!!!! Shiny things!!!! Oooooh!!! As pictured? Black face?
Plus Omega is the premier watch supplier to *astronauts*!!
As pictured. Black face, black bezel.
Excellent choice! I'll look forward to seeing you wear it!
And yes, in some establishments it will result in a happier more attentive reaction from sales staff, especially when worn with casual clothes. Unless you pull it out of your front jeans pocket ... in which case (ho!) it may result in a more attentive reaction from security ...
Nicely done. Can't say enough good things about the Omega timepieces. I bought my husband a Speedmaster Moon Watch for his birthday this year. Outstanding stuff!
Wendy, Susanna: thanks.
High praise on selection from the crow section!
:-)
Crows, sharks... whatever. We like shiny things.
We like shiny things, we collect 'em -- and sometimes we collect 'em and give 'em away!
i have the same watch.
as your sister probably observed.
i've always been fond of it.
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