IGG William Shatner designed watch with "Authentic Asteroid dust"

[wilfred]

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[Lightages]

Actually it isn't that hard to acquire asteroid material. I have a piece of Vesta, the Moon, Mars, and a 200g chunck of nickel iron meteorite that fell in Russia in 1948.

[Dongulus]

Reading the "10 Reasons This Watch is Special" makes me feel I'm reading a description out of a SkyMall catalog: LIMITED EDITION, ENGRAVED SIGNATURES, ASTEROID DUST!!!! These dumb gimmicks give me the impression of the sort of product that enables useless people to show off that they have too much money to spend.

I'm not really a watch guy. Functionally, my cell phone fills my time keeping needs. I can understand the desire for a decent watch as an aesthetically pleasing accessory, but for me it doesn't fit in with my daily casual attire and formal occasions are too seldom for me to consider having one.

[Kjelt]

Still curious how they got the asteroid dust. 

This year alone a rough thousands of kg's came down in Russia

[Maxlor]

That's the most unflattering portrait picture of Shatner I've ever seen.

And looking at the rest of the page, it gets worse. Gah, seriously? It makes the OCD aspect of my personality give me a headache.

Why do all watch advertisements have to focus on emo bs? I mean, a shaking hands pic? What does that have to do with anything!

I think wristwatches just suck. I hate my sleeve getting stuck on them. I hate the watch getting stuck when reaching into tight spaces. I hate my wrist getting sweaty beause of them. I dislike the weight that reduces my dexterity, even if only ever so slightly. I do like the effortless way of reading time however.

The ideal watch for me would be one that stays completely out of my way, not hindering me in any way whatsoever, but telling me the time with the slightest effort possible if I want to know it. After a decade without a wrist watch (having a phone is about as good as having a pocket watch... in fact, I believe it's the revival of the pocket watch) I decided to give wrist watches another go, because there are situations where they come in handy, like tests that ban use or mobile phones, or on flights where I can't be bothered to switch on the phone just to get the time (why bother using a phone on a plane, like any computer they're useless without internet.) So I searched for the lightest and least obtrusive watch I could find and ended up with a minimalist Skagen. It's black, under 6mm thick and features a steel wrist strap.

However even that I hardly ever wear, because it's uncomfortable. I want thinner, lighter watches that ideally I don't even notice. Maybe something that's part of the clothing I wear anyway, but without adding any weight, or if it does add weight, at least distributing it in a way that isn't immediately noticeable. Do you know of anything like that?

*sigh* I guess what I'm really after is some sort of neuronal computer interface as described in Tad William's Otherland series, then I could just overlay a time display into my optic nerves' signal when desired. Or even better, forego the senses entirely and just dump the information into my brain so I just know what the current time is.

Oh btw, asteroid's are nice, but what do they have to do with watches?

[AlfBaz]

...I hate my sleeve getting stuck on them. I hate the watch getting stuck when reaching into tight spaces. I hate my wrist getting sweaty beause of them. I dislike the weight that reduces my dexterity, even if only ever so slightly. I do like the effortless way of reading time however.

I see a Seinfeld episode in there somewhere

[Maxlor]

I mean watches, what's the big deal? 

[SeanB]

You want asteroid dust? Take a plastic bag and place a supermagnet in ot. Then hang in the downpipe and wait for a rain storm. The fluff sticking to the plastic bag is almost all micrometeorite dust that rains down.

[Stonent]

...I hate my sleeve getting stuck on them. I hate the watch getting stuck when reaching into tight spaces. I hate my wrist getting sweaty beause of them. I dislike the weight that reduces my dexterity, even if only ever so slightly. I do like the effortless way of reading time however.

I see a Seinfeld episode in there somewhere

I'm lounging, yet my pants are still perfectly pressed!

[SeanB]

Fob watches are making a comeback you know.........

Bigger dials, more space to fit the added electronics and battery and you just know it will be a conversation piece.

If you are against that just get a nurse's watch, which is pinned to your shirt like a medal. Just glance down to read the time. Nurses need to time 15 & 30 seconds to a good accuracy very often when doing BP and pulse. You do not always have the luxury of a technology above a stethoscope and spiganomometer in many cases, especially in emergencies.

[Maxlor]

Fob watches are making a comeback you know.........

I does seem that pocket watches have made a comeback in the form of mobile phones. Ever notice that for all of them, displaying the time is the most prominent function?

[Kjelt]

I was being a semantic pedant. Is it still asteroid dust if it falls to earth as a meteorite?

I am not an authority on this, but I would say that a 12000kg asteroid that hits the atmosphere and get's reduced to a 1000kg meteorite you scrape of the outer burned layers and you still are left with the exact same material as when it was floating in space. So except for the water/ice molecules and other contaminations on the outside that gets sterilized it probably remains the same atomic structure.
So the question is theoretically interesting, practically insignificant?