Well, if I had one of those watches, you know, the ones that have all the numbers, dials, testosterone vials, lasers, and Star Trek communicators built in, I could tell you, to the nearest parsec.
So, in an effort to remedy this situation, I went to a retailer in
Adelaide, and had a gander at the Lumilux watches by Traser.
Well, I could fantasise about becoming a Navy Seal, Or a Commander, or maybe a Stealth Pilot. Whoa!!! Too many choices............
Anyway, settled on one of the 3000 series, with a khaki face, $385.00. Was getting REALLY interested, and then the faux-par of the week from the sales assistant....
"Yes Sir, they do have good customer service. We have had a couple of divers come back in with these watches, and they were a little fogged up on the inside, and we were able to simply change them over...."
Let's see, water resistant to 200 metres...... must be a damn good diver.
So, I feigned my sudden lack of interest with the excuse that I just have to pop outside and make a telephone call......... from work............. 4 kilometres away............
I have since had a look in some of the jewelers stores, wow, lots of nice watches.........
Which brings me to a question...........
They have this weapon watch there, like it's made out of titanium, and has some sort of crystal lens, and not even Jules Verne could get this bugger to leak at the centre of the earth. It has a compass, tells you the temperature, tells you your altitude, oh........ and tells you the time as
well.
How does a device, which is sealed really, really tight, against water, air, space dust, and god forbid us......... dishwashing water, manage to tell you the shift in altitude? Like, isn't there a thing which has to expand & contract according to your height on this great planet of ours?
I'm not going to buy this timepiece by the way, oh no....
well over the $1000.00 mark. I am going to work this morning, and I will cut a small stainless steel triangle, and mount it to my wrist with one of those big fat red elastic bands my postie keeps dropping at my door. Yep, Wolfie's gonna have a gnomon on his wrist.
So, next time you ask me the time, please make sure it's during daylight hours.......
Wolfie