@clonetek@Targaryen
Q: Do you ship internationally?
A: Nope. But, apparently, many of you are using a freight forwarding service to order and ship out of the US, which seems to be working just fine. Here are a few that we don’t have anything to do with.
Good luck - I checked and none of the freight forwarding services ship up there.
Also:
I bought a watch made by these guys before off meh. It didn’t come with any extra band links, and it wouldn’t fit over my hand. Tried to contact them about maybe buying some extra, and never heard anything from them.
And whatever alloy this is looks horrific. I might have gone for one with plain stainless, but the only one that has any is ruined by the black middle. So cheap looking.
@therealjrn related to the integrated stopwatch (chronograph) and other functions. At 6 o’clock is the running seconds hand (central seconds hand is the chronograph seconds), at 9 is the stopwatch minute register, at 3 is a 24 hour indicator, and I’m not sure what is at 12. A chronograph 1/10th second register?
Having subdials is the norm for chronographs, or for any watch without a central seconds hand, like most pocket watches.
@DonberKon@therealjrn Thanks for the explanation. I’d mostly figgered it out, but I was puzzled over the second 0-60 dial. I hadn’t registered the fact that there was no central second hand.
@jandrese where? Literally none of the pics of the watch face say tackyometer. They say tachymeter which is a word. Which leads me to believe you think it should be spelled tachyometer. Which is incorrect.
JFC, that is a horrendous error. It’s common sense to double or even triple check spelling on a product. Fortunately, only grammar nazis and spelling fascists that start looking at it for longer than a few seconds will notice it.
@cinoclav@grimblegromble Maybe he was referring to “deployant” in the product description?
They had it as “deployant” earlier, which is actually correct, but now seem to have replaced it with “deployment,” which is incorrect.
@cinoclav@grimblegromble Yeah, I think you’re probably right. I just noticed the negative change on the front page and remembered this comment and thought maybe it had instigated it. I don’t know. Oh well.
@srlagarto Lifehack: Wear the watch “backwards” so the business part is touching the inside of your wrist. Then when someone asks you for the time, you spill your coffee on them.
The blurry, blobby printing on some of the watch faces is enough to put me off. If they can’t even cherry pick good examples for their PR shots, they’re not very good at this.
@RiotDemon Fair enough. Didn’t mean to pick on you. As I understand it, though, a complication is a watch feature over and above just giving the time, so on this one there is only one complication and that is the fact that it’s a chronograph. The subdials are part of that feature. (Well, on second thought the fact that it has a seperate subdial to mark where you are in the 24-hour cycle might be considered a separate complication.) Other complication examples would be having a perpetual calendar, or showing the time in more than one time zone, or showing the time in various cities around the world and so forth.
I got the gray dial with the stainless band with the black center links. It is a handsome watch and seems well designed in terms of features and legibility, especially at the low price point. The only negative so far (mine just arrived today) is that the butterfly clasp is a real pain to operate. Hoping that will improve as the watch gets broken in and also that the black coating will be scratch resistant. The clasp type with push button side releases is much, much better.
They do get easier to open with use, but quite firm tugs may be needed in the beginning. Also if you adjust the bracelet length, leave enough room to get your finger under it to help open the clasp.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Watch
Price Comparison
$89.99 at Amazon
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, July 13th - Thursday, July 16th
We don’t need no stinkin’ watches!
Did Elon tweet about these?
@clonetek Not that I’m aware but I should ask Dave if we can send these to space behind Starman.
@clonetek @Targaryen
Q: Do you ship internationally?
A: Nope. But, apparently, many of you are using a freight forwarding service to order and ship out of the US, which seems to be working just fine. Here are a few that we don’t have anything to do with.
Good luck - I checked and none of the freight forwarding services ship up there.
Also:
@Targaryen I was referencing the watch giveaway meme
I bought a watch made by these guys before off meh. It didn’t come with any extra band links, and it wouldn’t fit over my hand. Tried to contact them about maybe buying some extra, and never heard anything from them.
@InfidelCastro I know where you can get a good deal on a bunch of extra links for only $39
You can get very similar watches on AliExpress for between 3 to $5 free shipping
@mellowirishgent with estimated delivery of 11 weeks
@jmhsrv @mellowirishgent so faster than meh delivery?
@jmhsrv @mellowirishgent Yeah, and fake subdials.
“ATM water resistance” did NOT make me chuckle like a ten-year-old. How immature that would have been.
@mattpekarek ? ?
OK I googled A.T.M. and am now (sadly) better informed.
After my Olio I’ll never again buy a watch from meh. Don’t know if I will ever get over the sting of that debacle.
@Ebrake Amen brother, I’m still salty about it too
@Ebrake @robson same. Especially after I got a new phone and completely lost functionality.
Ah, Alloy, that’s my favorite non specific metal
@nolrak An alloy of plastic amd styrofoam?
And whatever alloy this is looks horrific. I might have gone for one with plain stainless, but the only one that has any is ruined by the black middle. So cheap looking.
Nothing says “I love you Dad” like a cheap watch!
Thanks for Father’s Day gift. My dad will love all the watch jokes, even though he doesn’t use a watch.
Question: How ugly can a wristwatch get?
Answer: Akribos Multifunction Chronograph Watch ugly.
Question: How much is such an ugly watch worth?
Answer: Akribos Multifunction Chronograph Watch ugly.
Question: How much should you be wlling to pay for such an ugly watch ?
Answer: Akr, … errr, … Akkr, … err, ack-ack-ack.
Meh, you have outdone yourselves, yet again!
What are all those extra dials for?
@therealjrn To impress other people.
@therealjrn related to the integrated stopwatch (chronograph) and other functions. At 6 o’clock is the running seconds hand (central seconds hand is the chronograph seconds), at 9 is the stopwatch minute register, at 3 is a 24 hour indicator, and I’m not sure what is at 12. A chronograph 1/10th second register?
Having subdials is the norm for chronographs, or for any watch without a central seconds hand, like most pocket watches.
@DonberKon @therealjrn Thanks for the explanation. I’d mostly figgered it out, but I was puzzled over the second 0-60 dial. I hadn’t registered the fact that there was no central second hand.
@DonberKon @therealjrn Oops, my mistake - there is one. I dunno why I wasn’t realizing that the stop watch needed two 0-60 dials.
Need more coffee.
“for 5 long years your dad wore this watch- until he died of dysentery”
…at least it doesn’t need a charger cable.
@alacrity That’s one of my most favorite movie scenes.
@therealjrn I was going to give the external use only warning again, then I remembered this…
@alacrity @therealjrn nothing like a good ass watch
@alacrity @therealjrn @unksol I believe these are only mediocre ass watches.
That’s not what she said
@nolrak An incomplete metric to American conversion?
Hey, what time is it?
Time for you to get a watch…maybe not this one though.
I can’t believe they misspelled “tackyometer” on the face.
@jandrese where? Literally none of the pics of the watch face say tackyometer. They say tachymeter which is a word. Which leads me to believe you think it should be spelled tachyometer. Which is incorrect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachymeter_(watch)
@jandrese @unksol how tacky
@jandrese I got the joke.
@unksol …too literal there…
JFC, that is a horrendous error. It’s common sense to double or even triple check spelling on a product. Fortunately, only grammar nazis and spelling fascists that start looking at it for longer than a few seconds will notice it.
@grimblegromble Huh? The only word visible is ‘Tachymeter’ which is spelled correctly.
@cinoclav @grimblegromble Maybe he was referring to “deployant” in the product description?
They had it as “deployant” earlier, which is actually correct, but now seem to have replaced it with “deployment,” which is incorrect.
@grimblegromble @Limewater Don’t know, he said ‘on a product’ so I assume he meant on the actual item not the description.
@cinoclav @grimblegromble Yeah, I think you’re probably right. I just noticed the negative change on the front page and remembered this comment and thought maybe it had instigated it. I don’t know. Oh well.
@cinoclav @Limewater Ignore my post, I stayed up way too late and don’t think well when I stay up that late. I thought it was spelled Tachyometer.
So we have to WATCH this for the next 20 and 1/2 hours. Set your stopwatches.
Where’s the speaker on it?
@akparker777 Sorry no speaker but
I like a good movement now and then.
Damn it. I spilled coffee all over my arm. At least it’s… not on my watch!
@srlagarto Lifehack: Wear the watch “backwards” so the business part is touching the inside of your wrist. Then when someone asks you for the time, you spill your coffee on them.
As mentioned previosly in another thread:
my favorite “dad” watch joke:
Child: Hey Dad, do you know what time it is?
Dad (looking at his watch) Yep…
If it can’t tell me who’s calling or that I’ve got a text message, give me my heart rate and tell me how many steps I’ve taken, I’m not interested.
@Fuzzalini Why is everybody so obsessed with how many steps they have taken? I find that way less interesting than what time it is.
Someone’s take on Akribos.
https://www.quora.com/Are-Akribos-watches-good-quality-watches
The blurry, blobby printing on some of the watch faces is enough to put me off. If they can’t even cherry pick good examples for their PR shots, they’re not very good at this.
Did you know all the little dials on the watch are called complications? I found this out just yesterday. How convenient.
@RiotDemon I did not know that.
@RiotDemon
and timely!
@RiotDemon Umm, it’s a chronograph. It’s supposed to have “all the little dials.” Without them it would not be a chronograph.
@DiscipleC I didn’t say it’s not a chronograph. I just said the individual components are called complications.
@RiotDemon Fair enough. Didn’t mean to pick on you. As I understand it, though, a complication is a watch feature over and above just giving the time, so on this one there is only one complication and that is the fact that it’s a chronograph. The subdials are part of that feature. (Well, on second thought the fact that it has a seperate subdial to mark where you are in the 24-hour cycle might be considered a separate complication.) Other complication examples would be having a perpetual calendar, or showing the time in more than one time zone, or showing the time in various cities around the world and so forth.
I got the gray dial with the stainless band with the black center links. It is a handsome watch and seems well designed in terms of features and legibility, especially at the low price point. The only negative so far (mine just arrived today) is that the butterfly clasp is a real pain to operate. Hoping that will improve as the watch gets broken in and also that the black coating will be scratch resistant. The clasp type with push button side releases is much, much better.
@DiscipleC I absolutely have no idea how to open mine. Any advice you could share?
@carnasaurusrex Here is a link to the YouTube video I found that gave me the answer.
https://tinyurl.com/y53vzmag
They do get easier to open with use, but quite firm tugs may be needed in the beginning. Also if you adjust the bracelet length, leave enough room to get your finger under it to help open the clasp.