Full Circle - the rehabilitation of a watch.

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Out and about on Zakynthos.

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An observation. I trust my watches, but when I’m away with a different watch I will check it against the phone a couple of times a day and consider resetting if it’s more than an acceptable number of seconds out.

With these you have to check whether it’s aligned to a 5-minute marker approximately when it needs to be. I don’t think I’ve bothered for about three days. I just did so and it’s fine.

-ISH time is a different mindset. :D
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A morning walk in the olive groves

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And an afternoon at the office

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Eleven days in and still spot on as far as I can tell. I just wish the weather was as reliable. As far as time and watches are concerned a minimalist approach is so right on a trip like this.

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Hallelujah! First blue sky since Friday, and the weather gods appear to be lining up two beach days before we go home.
Small Greek hotels are wonderful when the weather is good, but on the proverbial wet weekend an indoor pool/sauna &c. would be useful!

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So how did it do? Or rather, what did it do?

It told me the time…ISH. Pretty well as it happens. I adjusted it for the time zone on leaving Gatwick on the 11th, and on leaving Zakynthos on the 25th. I checked it against my phone a few times and it was always pointing unerringly to the appropriate mark. It told me exactly what I needed to know - walk time, beer o’clock, breakfast, lunch and dinner time. Any other information would have been superfluous. It told me the date, which I didn’t particularly want to know by the middle of Week 2 as home time was creeping up on me.

It didn’t time anything like dives or boiled eggs, or how long the flight took, because that simply wasn’t necessary. Nor did it tell me what day of the week it was, which might have been useful a couple of times when you are so chilled out that you forget. And it didn’t tell me the time at home, but anyone with half a brain can subtract two. I didn’t need to know that anyway, except when adjusting for time zone.

Easy to live with? Very. The dial and single hand quickly become second nature, and I can usually guess the time to the nearest minute. Most of the time it was on the blue/orange hybrid, and the Cordovan went on for dinner when I remembered or could be bothered.

The thing about this watch I couldn’t cope with during the lockdowns was the lack of a seconds hand - I couldn’t see time passing. It’s the very thing that makes it so marvellous on this type of holiday when you don’t WANT to see time passing!

As you know, I’m a great advocate of the one-watch holiday, and the Meistersinger was the perfect companion for a chilled spring fortnight doing “fly & flop” on a Greek island. It delivered in spades.

I’m probably going back at the beginning of September and it may well get another trip. Or the Sealander might.

Or I might possibly have another watch by then… :wink:

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And now it can have a rest for a few weeks.


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Good to hear that this has finally found its place within your collection after its shaky start to your relationship. Sounds like you had a great holiday as well.
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@iain Thanks. I always have a great time there. It’s a simple family run Greek hotel 100 m from the beach. We had a really good group of people there and I found several who were happy to go out walking. The weather was probably the worst I’ve ever had on a Mediterranean holiday – lots of cloudy, thundery days with unusual amounts of rain. Last weekend, the sun set on Friday and did not deign to reappear until Tuesday. Fortunately, it was interspersed with the odd sunbathing day here and there.
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Great thread - I love reading about how people relate to their watches. And how those relationships change. I think you were pretty courageous to pick up this one after lockdown and give it another chance, and I’m glad the watch is back in the place you always saw it being. :D :thumbup:
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Glad you are home safely with your watch performing its intended purpose. Did you find any inspiration for writing while stuck indoors during the stormy weather?
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@watchaholic No, but I did plenty of reading.
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