Yesterday's quest for canine advice produced such a wonderful stream of comments that I'd like to ask yet another opinion from you, the finest reading audience the world has ever known.
This time, ladies watches.
You see, I have this wife--we'll call her Miss Reba. And she came home yesterday and showed me that her watch stem had been somehow forcefully removed from the case of her relatively nice Seiko.
She needs a new watch--the price to fix this one would be as much as it is to get a new one, but I don't want to get ANYthing as fragile anymore. Why the need for robustness?
Well, you see, my dear wife has a condition.
Several, actually, but the one that causes me to wince most often is her propensity to talk with her hands. [And in yet another fit of neologistism, I have dubbed this condition chiroglossia.] So she's always waving her hands around as she talks, and with great energy, and with the inevitable collision between her hands and anything nearby. Because not only does she have chiroglossia, she also is a very poor judge of spacial distance, and is contantly whacking things with her hands or stubbing her fingers on stuff.
Such is hard on watches.
I told her I was going to give her my plastic Timex sport watch I use while I'm working on the car or cutting grass, but I don't think she appreciated my thoughtful, giving nature or my desire for her to have a sturdy watch.
So, maybe you could help me with something and the children will be able to give it to her for Mother's Day.
It needs to be tough. It probably could be self-winding, but a battery movement would probably be better. It would be better if it had a second hand, but it's not required. It needs to have some sort of protection for the stem crown so it doesn't get hung on everything. I think it would be better if it had a linked metal bracelet, as a leather strap would be too susceptible to getting hooked on something and breaking. It needs to be real pretty, because she it. And cheap, because I am.
So there, what do you think?
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I wonder how well this watch would work for her?
Posted by: Stan at May 9, 2006 01:56 PMI basically have gone to the cheap watches at Wal-Mart. She gets to pick from an assortment of styles and can have several since they are mainly under $9. The women’s are more sports wear or casual than dress up to go to church.
Posted by: jim at May 9, 2006 02:00 PMDARN YOU, STAN! I don't know if she'd want it, but antique pocket watches make me turn to Jello. I would love to have that--that's just incredible, and I can't believe the price is that low. ::shakes fist:: FIE ON YOU, STAN! Now I've gotten distracted from my quest...
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 9, 2006 02:01 PMAnd yes, Jim, I think she probably needs an inexpensiver watch than what she had, simply because she is so very hard on them. Maybe if we get it from Target it won't feel quite so budget-minded.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 9, 2006 02:03 PMHow about a Fossil? I had a boyfriend in college who bought me one when I was 22 - it just died, nine years later. And lots of attractive styles to choose from. Prices are probably around $80. I'm not the most gentle person on watches, jewelry, fingernails, etc.
Posted by: megabeth at May 9, 2006 02:08 PMI know I like some of the mens Fossil watches, but I don't guess I've ever really paid attention to the ladies watches. Don't most of them have a leather band, though?
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 9, 2006 02:12 PMWell, Terry, I have to admit I don't know if you can pull off buying that watch for YOU and telling her you are buying it for HER. Can "playing possum" get you that far?
Posted by: Stan at May 9, 2006 02:20 PMIt didn't work when I bought her a pocketknife.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 9, 2006 02:31 PMI use cheap watches from Walgreen's or Freds, too.
I have lost about 4 nice ones, just falling off my wrist, and I won't have a one anymore.
Megabeth has a good idea on the Fossils, too.
Posted by: Janis at May 9, 2006 03:08 PMI have two Fossils, both of them are all metal. I also bought my sister a pretty Fossil with metal band for around $55 a few years ago.
Posted by: megabeth at May 9, 2006 03:10 PMHmm. Time to start shopping, I think.
Posted by: Terry Oglesby at May 9, 2006 03:19 PMCheap Target watches work for me. I don't actually break or lose them that often, but I seem to scratch the faces doing various stupid stuff.
Posted by: Jordana at May 9, 2006 09:28 PMThis looks good in all metal http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/pod/horizontal-pod.jsp;jsessionid=EIS3BPIPVJCFTTQSNOKCCNWOCJVZOIWE?_DARGS=/cabelas/en/common/catalog/pod-link.jsp_A&_DAV=MainCatcat20656&rid=&indexId=cat20672&navAction=push&navCount=11&parentType=index&parentId=cat20672&id=0031799 but then I'm not called the wrister for nothing. I destroy cheap watches in a minute given a chance.
Posted by: Tony von Krag at May 9, 2006 09:45 PMAll my watches have come from Wal-Mart or Avon. I can't remember the company, but I used to get the Disney watches with Goofy on them (they run counterclockwise). They always held up well; I wore the watches on my right arm; which is also the arm I use for everything. If it hadn't been for the fact that the leather bands frayed quickly, I'd still have one. Anyway, my point is, if you can figure out what the company is that makes them and find one with a metal wristband, you should be good to go.
Posted by: Leah at May 10, 2006 08:51 PM