Doesn’t come with a cord to charge it every night. Why the face?

@boygenius1991 you suck

@DonberKon You know you can glance at a watch and see what time it is, and not have to pull out your phone, turn on the screen, and put it back in your pocket, right?

@regnowsin It’s impossible to be discreet about checking the time if you don’t wear a watch.

@boygenius1991 Great information thanks.
Side note, grown ups wear a watch

@boygenius1991 Really? Mine doesn’t.

/image princess phone

@regnowsin that’s exactly why my dad started wearing a watch again. Much handier to check the time right on your wrist than to dig a blocky phone out of your pocket, especially with dirty hands. Same reason they went from pocket watches to wristwatches in the first place!

@boygenius1991 Its more or less a fashion piece, solid buy for me (except the ones I like are out)

@clonetek no know how to read analog?

Reading an analog watch is faster; it involves interpreting just one large “symbol” (the two hands form one symbol).

Reading a digital watch takes longer because it requires interpreting three or four much smaller symbols; however, it does offer better precision.

Most of the time an intuitive, quick read of analog hands provides all of the detail I need. Analog watches FTW!

@mwarren Yes! I can’t stand digital time for many physical and psychological reasons. Analog is much faster for me to discern to a reasonable degree of accuracy.

@gyozilla nicely done.

@gcanyon

@gcanyon my record is 118 then I got 111 about two Saturdays ago I failed to click now I am back to less than 20 ugh.

@escapecar Thanks for the heads up. Considered buying this, but I would have been ticked. I hate over-sized watches.

@cshillaber this review is amazing!!! good words!!! so concise!!!

@thismyusername and so low-key and understated!!

@rv617 Only those above your pay grade.

@jetkins

@daveinwarsh

@nerderousrage quit tempting me.

@nerderousrage Any auto mechanical movement for this price is a steal.

@nerderousrage In! dumb-curvy-direction

@nerderousrage Is the Billet movement the same? I’m curious in case they come up again.

@mothmer It’s also severely lacking a drone/quadcopter functionality. Perhaps it’s a powerbank of some sort.

@lxlx Maybe it comes with a knife.

@mothmer bathtub

@Dizavid You click the “Buy” button and a new one will be delivered. And your VMP saves you shipping. How easy is that?

@Dizavid Hopefully tomorrow they’ll have a sale on clues. Be sure to buy several!

Maybe you should of checked the House of Marley website?
Watches - Limited Liability Two-Year Warranty against internal movement, hands, and watch dial
House of Marley sells its products with the intent that they are free of defects in manufacture and workmanship for a period of two years from the date of original purchase, except as noted below. House of Marley warrants that its products will be free of defects in material and workmanship under normal use and service. This warranty extends only to consumers and does not extend to Retailers.
To obtain warranty service on your House of Marley product, contact a consumer relations representative by telephone at 1-888-251-1076 for assistance. Please make sure to have the model number of the product available.

@bfalter The Billet and the Fluid are both automatics. The rest are quartz. Funny you should say it’s fancy because automatics were around way before quartz, but they are less accurate.

@TheCO2 Wearing a watch isn’t really about the utility of telling the time for the reason you just gave. However, there are still reasons to get a watch. It’s an accessory, like anything else you might wear on your wrist. If it’s an automatic, it can provide you with the wonder and amazement of having a mechanical masterpiece of precision engineering on your wrist.

@DonberKon You are just trying to get me to buy a watch; aren’t you? It almost worked.

@mike808 if not white hands, at least some “non-black” would be a good idea.
the Hitch & Transport are the only ones that you can actually glance at and tell what time it is.

@mike808 two words for you today… Woot.watch Happy now?

@jqubed Depends on the specific movement, but typically at this price range, an automatic will have a power reserve of 35-45 hours I’d say. That means that, if it’s fully wound, and you leave it sit until it quits, it will stop after 1.5-2 days, depending. As for getting it running again, several seconds (if it can also be hand wound). Maybe a minute or so additionally to set the time. I rotate through my watch collection and pick a different one every morning. Winding and setting is like a ritual.

BTW, it isn’t bad for the watch to start and stop a lot, it won’t harm the movement.

@harveydanger many quartz watches use solar panels in the dial to charge the battery

@growyoungagain Forgot an apostrophe! whoa oh oh!!

@PhotoJim Yeah’s, so what. Now go along and correct elsewhere.

@Yoda_Daenerys that’s the first time anyone has ever warned a woman about the white one being huge.

@75Blazer

@Yoda_Daenerys Oh, so it’s a McDonald’s watch?

@TheCO2 ummm, me thinks you bespeak a funny, be me no sure

@gak0090 An unwound watch is right twice a day.

@parker3 Yeah, ever try to explain “clockwise” to someone that is only familiar with digital timepieces…?

@chienfou We thought he would learn when we sent him to UC Boulder, that and how to read or write in cursive. I can hear it now “what is this thing without any ports? Where’s the HDMI”

Yeah, ever try to explain “clockwise” to someone that is only familiar with digital timepieces…?

@chienfou, the Earth’s rotation can be a reference too:

• Most people can figure out which way the Earth spins when they consider where the sun rises and sets
• From there, deduce how the shadow of a vertical stick/post moves around the stick
• Finally, assign names to those spin directions:
  • In the northern hemisphere, the shadow moves “clockwise” around the stick while the Earth rotates “counterclockwise” when viewed looking down at the north pole;
  • Southern hemisphere locations see the shadow move “counterclockwise” and the Earth spins “clockwise” when looking down at the south pole.

@mwarren …and at the equator?

@DennisG2014 Circuit breaker???

@chienfou Huh?

@DennisG2014 see this link

@DennisG2014 A Seiko? I have a SBBN007

@Mr_Chompers_ You can buy other automatics for <$200, sometimes less than $150, and they certainly can look better than these. Look up Seiko SKX007. Also check out brands like Citizen and Orient.

@DonberKon Thanks for the response, I actually have an SKX007 and quite a few other automatic watches.

I wouldn’t say the Marley’s were great looking automatics, but it would be nice to get a chance to actually buy one, you know? It’s not really helpful to us east coasters if our “opportunity” to purchase is completely sold out of some models. We’re not really getting a fair opportunity.

Plus who wants to wait around for midnight to find out what the new Meh is, then find out it’s horrible. Not a good use of time.

@darksiderising this is not an expensive watch, but I’d agree they’re overpriced for what you are getting. Except for maybe the autos, it depends which specific movement they use, but that’s a pretty good price for a mechanical.

Oh, wait, found it…

Ion plating uses concurrent or periodic bombardment of the substrate,
and deposits film by atomic-sized energetic particles. Bombardment
prior to deposition is used to sputter clean the substrate surface.

CRYSTAL CLEAR NOW.

@rprussell Bombardment of the substrate? Atomic energetic particles?

@username Jesus God, hardly anybody used Tritium or Radium anymore. They use compounds that are charged by sunlight in the daytime and glow in the dark at night. C3 Superluminova, for example, or BGW9, or Lumibrite.

@eeterrific Maybe you missed the fact that these watches are baby arm compatible?!?!

@eeterrific because its actually a knife.