BY TAHI MOORE
I'm in KL. A lot of people are wearing watches. Watches I think are hard because there are so many that think like it's a necessary thing that you kind of pretty up a bit. But the whole cell phone thing yeah you know.
Now, I think that watches are just like it's like you wear one for the look so now it wants to just look like a watch. If there is another layer of re-hiding the watch, it's too much it's too complex you have to just have the thing looking like you got the watch because it looks like a watch. It goes the other way too, it can be too basic like you just got a cheap watch because you need one. No they can never be too basic, nor too cheap looking like it's okay to do plastic becasue it looks just like an expensive watch you know with the gold bits and the flashy writing or whatever and that elegance of style or something you gotta get a cheap watch just simple like the person designing it goes can you see the time? Yeah okay, it's done that's it. Sometimes the cheap watches are really good too, but most of the time they're just like the expensive ones, they have way too much details, the time display just hides under all this crap on your wrist. If there's a useful function in having a watch it's that you can read the time in half a second instead of five seconds. You really want that time thing right tere without being too cluttered up.
But more people are wearing watches. The othodox thing to do is to get an old one with good design. I've been predicting that swatch watches will come back, I don't know. But they still do plain ones which are nice.
I'm looking for a good see through watch I really want a quartz crystal digital see through watch no details. Would that just look too much like a mac? Probably. Okay.
Styles: Railroad, which is about readability, but the official swiss ones have this blob on the end of the second hand.
Dive, I've seen a few people wear them well. Then there are all these watches with bezels and it's like having an altometer on your car.
Pilot watches usually have a triangle at the top, often with a couple of dots. It's all a bit whiffy, I'm sure there are lots of watches that work but the whole theme thing I mean it's not fancy dress here.
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Sunday, January 6, 2008
Watches
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My friend bought a fake rolex when we were in Hong Kong in 2004. It still runs, but doesn't roll though, which is where the real money is. So and so told me that so and so thought it was real, so there was a weird little rumble rolling around that my friend was secretly loaded. I guess sometimes theres really not that much to talk about. As no-one stays the same, and sometimes a watch no longer tells the time how you would want it to be told now, my friend decided to get a new watch. Its a swatch from Time Square, very simple, black plastic strap, and white face. There was a hell of a lot to choose from, but as it seems over here- not that much to really choose from. Diamantes, gold faceted bands 20's style, dangle beads and bobs, gangsta heavy that swings when you shake the quarters in your hand. I think if you are in your late 20's and buy a new swatch it might be pure nostalgia. My friend I'm sure had a great old time with his swatch in the 80's. I got one for my birthday. Glittery purple face, and strap. I lost it after a week, on the same day I lost my glasses and my Tasmanian devil wallet, so I think I'll just stick to the cell phone for now.
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