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Curious watch.
Not that it has anything to do with firearms other than it resides on my reloading bench. I have a Pulsar watch which has a solar cell for the face. My Wife gave it to me in 1989. It still runs, keeps good time, and I've never changed the battery. I'm amazed.
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That is amazing given that electronics and solar technology was comparatively crude in those days. I'm sure it wasn't designed to last 29 years.
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I ditched my watch after my first cell phone.
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Nothing but pocket watches through high school, wrist watches from college until I retired in 2006. Last year I did break down and buy a Timex that caught my fancy. Wear it on trips so I can see the time without taking my eyes off of the road.
I prefer to get winding watches but they are hard to find. My Mickey Mouse windup still keeps on ticking however.
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I have 2 watches that I use on a regular basis.
There's the Seiko Automatic I recieved as a Christmas present a coupla years ago.
And my Garmin GPS watch that goes with me when we're out on the mountains trails.
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Originally Posted by joe44va
Not that it has anything to do with firearms other than it resides on my reloading bench. I have a Pulsar watch which has a solar cell for the face. My Wife gave it to me in 1989. It still runs, keeps good time, and I've never changed the battery. I'm amazed.
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When I was 15 or 16 I went to Washington, D.C. to do the government tour. That would have been the summer of 1971 or 1972. In the Smithsonian was a display with a Pulsar digital quartz watch with a red LED display. Pulsar made a giant leap forward in timekeeping. I'm not familiar with their solar model from the late 1980s, but I'm sure it was cutting edge. Wear it with pride.
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06-14-2018, 10:23 PM
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I've been wearing a watch every day since I got my very first one close to 50 years ago. I feel naked without it, can't even go to sleep without it on.
I would love to have one like your Pulsar that has lasted you so long. I'm pretty hard on them so I buy Timex watches - because getting 4 or 5 years out of a $50 watch is a good value IMO.
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06-14-2018, 10:57 PM
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I have a Cleveland Indians watch made by Bulova that I bought in 1994, the MLB strike year. After many battery changes I am still wearing it every day and just about every where. I wish I could find another one. I want no doubt left as to what baseball team I root for.
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