Urrrggghh... biohazardous hockey pucks. Those are best enjoyed as I'm doing right now... from the other side of a computer screen.
mnem
*toddles off to ded*
Pray tell, because I'm actually curious, which part of the watch wearing life cycle is the most pressing biohazard?
Any band be it ring or watch is always a drag in hazard to anyone who plays with rotating mechanical devices, Metallic bands and Electrical are an obvious nono.
I'm well aware of these issues; watches and some work (kitchen, electrical, mechanical, medical) is an obvious no-no (and beekeeping, according to Tautech).
My reasoning is that I want something that is a detached-from-computing situational awareness device, and the analog-face watch is just enough of context for that. My wedding band is suspended from a piece of string around my neck except for formal dress occasions (when I'm wearing a tie or bowtie, basically)
Well... I really didn't expect to stir up such controversy with my random comment born mostly of bedtime exhaustion...
Okay... the hockey puck part of the comment was pretty obvious; this is my idea of a "civilized" timepiece. 35mm diameter, 9mm thick. My dress watch, a Misfit command, really is just plain
too big at 45mm diameter x 13mm thick. I'm ONLY comfortable wearing it out to dinner or meetings; as soon as I start doing stuff, I become acutely aware of its size & mass on my arm.
Really, the biggest thing I like aboot the Command, and the reason I put up with its conspicuous size is the fact it that it actually is a little timekeeping robot on my wrist; it is a smartwatch in that if you leave it connected via BTLE to your smartPwn it will automatically count your ergs and update the app, as well as vibrate to alert you of alarms and messages. But even standalone mode is different from the usual; the mini-dial constantly shows ergs for the day, and when you press the button the hands move to display Day/Date, then whatever alarms and timers you may have set. It literally is the anti-digital watch.When I worked as a mechanic, I bought women's IronMan watches and put them on a men's ballistic nylon band; a big watch bothered me that much. But the current trend towards obnoxiously large watches actually does approach the size of a regulation hockey puck at 76mm dia x 25mm thick. Even big names are on the big watches bandwagon. Oh, and fucking loud. Like having a Big Ben tick-tocking on your wrist; I can literally hear it across the PolyCom during a conference.
Seriously people,
are you thinking?
When I was growing up, the aspirational design cues for a men's watch were thin & quiet... you were not supposed to even know you were wearing the thing. A particularly well-noted example was a designer watch (Not sure if it was the LeJour or another one that was so very thin) popular when I was a kid which was machined out of a Walking Liberty silver dollar coin and 4 or 5mm thin. I had to go look it up to know what 4mm meant in 'murrican measures.
The biohazardous comment was sortof two-part; wristwatches collects gunge, and particularly noxious is the gunge that accumulates in the segments of a metal-banded watch. The bigger the watch, the more gunge. I
hate that part of wristwatch maintenance. Just ewwww.
And ironically, this kind of chain-link watchband is my most favorite, with the TPU band of the Shine a distant second.
But in all honestly, that comment was mostly directed at the
toxic orange anodized face on the one watch. I have a Panasonic Lumix (Think ToughCamera companion to a ToughBook) camera in that color; I literally had to take it off my desk and put it in the drawer because that
orange aluminum just constantly distracted me.
mnem
*idle thoughts of a idle dwagon*