Time Pieces

i like watches. not the expensive ones, either. i collect the ones you can get with a cereal box top and a couple of bucks. i've got all kinds laying around. i wear them for awhile, then put them away.

hmmm...I wonder if I've got one still...if I can find it, I'll mail it to ya, Wolfsie!

Anybody interested in russian watches? See Berlin topic in Travel conference for starters. I love 'em!

doubt that I've ever seen one...I don't get out much...

Wer, you'd love them, too, I think. They are all mechanical, and there are some nice automatic ones (esp. military issue). Watches from 1st Moscower Watchmanufactors (?), now called Poljot (=Pilot, in honor of the soviet cosmonauts they supplied with time pieces), are probably the best. All tools to build them come from Switzerland, so things are quite well made (if you can live with e.g. plastic watch glass on some civilian models...). They also made the tools for many other russian watchmakers, like Wostok (=East?), who does these military and comemorial watches, both mechanical and automatic makes. They have logos on the thingus-platey with them numbers onnit (Whatchamacallit? Dunno.), like a tank, various jets, ships or submarine-outlines, etc. Others have logos from space program, like the Buran, the Mir station, or the russian coat-of-arms, the czarst eagle, etc. Not exactly elegant items, but not without a certain underground-li e appeal. And robust, too (if the work at all).

i like sundials

I can't share that feeling. I find them hard to set. ;={

ah... so you ARE a controlling type!

i have a sundial in my rose garden. it's never set right for the shadow to fall correctly. and it's nothing fancy either, looks like a flat patena bird feeder sitting on the stone walk and it has a frog on one side.

Maybe you can set it after changing batteries? Does the frog squirt water? If it stopped, that's a sure sign of weak batteries... (Stacey, do you say this because you are mad they forced this hosting thing on me? They didn't really ask me, neither did anybody tell me what to do now. Good part is, folks come running up and congratulate me. Hmh.)

I asked in my own special way, and you told me it was my move, so I did... if you don't want to, that's cool, I can undo it... (really don't want to though...I think you're a perfect host for music)

no, WER is right... you certainly shoulda been forced into that job!

(Wer, it's ok, and if I had any problems with that, I woulda told ya, mate. Anyway, let me just try this on Stacey, she's reacted kinda odd like "As soon as I let you guys otta sight, you start turning newbies into hosts. You'll run down the neighborhood...", etc. You know... No, really, it's great, just don't tell anybody I said so, ok?) *Whiny voice* Well, Stacey, you may be right, but still, I don't know what to do now, and feel so insecure about everything, what with peoples' expectations and all... *despaired look*

then you my dear, should be talking to the Great Pasquina, not me!

I did, it was, uh, STRANGE. But nice - at least as nice as the Poljot watch one of our photographers has - waterproof, steel casing, stop function. VERY nice, a proper chronograph.

I,too, love sundials. I have two of them, the standard one with the inclined gnomon in Bronze, and a most unique one housed in a pocket-watch-shaped enclosure which opens to reveal a tiny replica of Stonehenge with the center Altar stone as the Gnomon. It works!

A pocket Stonehenge! I can't believe this - scan it, post it!

really!! that sounds so cool. i like sundials too. have a tiny cheapo one but it has a frog on it and it's cute....

Will have to photograph it in action and get a scanner. This is really cute - guaranteed forever because there are no working parts; came with a really near owners manual...

So batteries will last, huh? ;=}

As long as the batteries in the Sun last, it should work just fine.