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12 February 2010

Watch this So I've bought two watches to replace the ones I had. A gold tone watch (which is just like the one I used to have), and a steel watch. I'm wearing the steel watch at the moment and keep sneaking admiring looks at it.

post by: Orange Swan at: 09:53 | 13 comments

Why yes, I do feel rather like a little on Christmas Day. Why do you ask?;-)

posted by Orange Swan 12 February | 09:54

I really like the cut-out details on the steel one! No wonder you can't stop looking at it.

posted by leesh 12 February | 09:57

And here is my watch. I love it, but once saw a really old lady with too much makeup wearing it and wondered about my taste levels.

posted by leesh 12 February | 09:58

I quite like that watch. In my several weeks of checking out jewelry/watch counters, I've found I was often drawn to the Fossil watches.

posted by Orange Swan 12 February | 10:01

"rather like a little kid on Christmas day".

posted by Orange Swan 12 February | 10:02

Those are both really pretty.

posted by JanetLand 12 February | 10:06

Orange Swan, I'm enjoying seeing what you are picking out to replace your stolen jewelry and am glad you are having fun doing it!

posted by Sil 12 February | 11:31

I certainly am enjoying it. Before the last robbery, I had enough jewelry that I wasn't letting myself buy new pieces very often. And now of course I get to buy whatever I can afford. I feel like a sparkly-things-loving toddler set loose. Yee haw!

posted by Orange Swan 12 February | 11:42

Nice! I just took delivery on this watch yesterday (be sure to scroll all the way down for the best pictures). Haven't had a decent watch in... well, ever, really. It has a nice heft to it that I really like. And I, too, keep sneaking admiring looks at it.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 12 February | 15:40

It just NOW occurred to me that cellphones are today's pocket watches.

A lot of people, including me, just take the phone out of pocket to see the time, just like in times of yore with pocket watches.

OK not the most insightful observation, even for me, but I had to share.

posted by danf 12 February | 16:18

Heh, danf, that's the reason I finally trained myself to take my cellphone everywhere.

posted by Ardiril 12 February | 16:29

That's a seriously cool pocket watch, IRFH.

I do know people who don't wear watches anymore, now that they have their cells. I don't have a cell phone, so watches it was.

posted by Orange Swan 12 February | 19:33

My watch is this cheapy little thing that I bought for like $20 ten years ago out of a discount bin at a watch repair place. It doesn't even have a clasp; the band links are stretchy. I've never had a problem with it (except getting the battery changed), and it's the only watch I've ever found that has fit my teensy tiny little bird wrist.

posted by unsurprising 12 February | 21:25

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