WATCH WITH TWO TIMINGS I was given a watch by my ex school. It comes with two timings ( see photo). I was wondering why you need two timings until I visited US recently. In fact you need to have three timings because of deference timing zone.Thanks to the watch designer who came up with this idea.
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The watches are like the present day cell phones adding more and more features so as to improve sales. At first we just have plain water-proofed watches, then dates added, diamond added and so on. If the watch industry stop innovating and adding more features, then people would still use their existing watches which could last for many years. Under fierce Japanese competition, the Swiss comes out a cheaper version of watches called Swatch which have so many colourful designs that the younger generation loves, using certain watches to match their attires. This resulted in people buying more than one watch which means that sales would increase making the watch industry very happy.
Many years back watches were either winding or automatic (self winding) type. Then come the battery version version which claims greater accuracy. After one big circle, the industry remakes the old automatic model by adding more features saying that this is a technical breakthrough. Hence customers have to pay for the increase in prices. Young buyers do not know that this is just old wine in new bottle and paying hefty prices for this so-called new generation of watches with fancy names like kinetic and so forth. Actually there is nothing new about it.
Way back in the sixties, my uncle who was working in a hospital in Malaysia was longing to own an exclusive Omega watch which was then very popular. So he saved enough money to buy one model called Omega Constellation around thousand plus dollars from a shop (somewhere in North Bridge Road) with a gold chain worthed about $500/- which was quite a some at that time. But after buying the watch, he seldom wore it in Malaysia for fear of being robbed, what an irony.
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