I have a couple of watches in a drawer…
Watch wearing for accordionists - choice of hand
- Thread starter vivdunstan
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I like to watch accordion videos.
JeffJetton
Prolific poster
Oh, and I also went out and bought a small, old LED alarm clock for a few bucks at a thrift shop. You know the kind--big red glowing numbers, faux woodgrain finish on the case, etc.
I keep it in my gig bag. It has occasionally come in handy for when I need to keep an eye on the time on a gig. Just plug it in and stick it somewhere off the side of the stage or at the foot of a monitor, etc.
Gotta be sure not to accidentally set the alarm though!
I keep it in my gig bag. It has occasionally come in handy for when I need to keep an eye on the time on a gig. Just plug it in and stick it somewhere off the side of the stage or at the foot of a monitor, etc.
Gotta be sure not to accidentally set the alarm though!
noelekal
The Home For Wayward Accordions
Just to help things along, because I collect old ratty watches and ratty accordions too, and to help me learn the ropes on how to post from both photobucket and the desktop, here are accordion with watch photos posted in the past on a watch forum.
1944 vintage Omega with a 1950s Scandalli
A 1928 Illinois Bunn Special
1944 vintage Omega with a 1950s Scandalli
A 1928 Illinois Bunn Special
davidplaysaccordion
Active member
There are clocks everywhere I go as well as on my phone so I e not work a watch for 30years or so. I probably could not even read one of those Apple Watches or similar without swapping to my reading glasses first so just easier not to bother.
forró
Member
Starting to wear watches less and less now, but if I am wearing one I'll just remove it when playing.
There is an old saying. " A man with one watch always knows the correct time !
A man with two watches is never quite sure. ????
A man with two watches is never quite sure. ????
When we met a few years ago, I noticed that you did this, but I also noted that you were left handed.
For me, when I wear my watch, it is on on my left wrist and just remove it when playing but for the most part, I wear no watch (though I admit to having a really nice collection of wrist watches!). I tried wearing it on the right hand, but this becomes an annoyance because I am right handed and in school writing with a watch on was a PITA for me. My time piece is my cell phone.
I thought that I had kept my left handed ness pretty quiet, but alas, I guess not. Actually wearing the watch on the right hand had nothing to do with being left handed. It was clearly a case of "accordionism" ! Ha !
JHG332
Newbie
I've been wearing jeans for decades now. The original use for the small fifth pocket was specifically for a pocket watch. Mine fits in there to this day (though I don't have a chain for it). I hope that this helps.
Siegmund
Well-known member
I wore jeans for the last time when I was about six and never will again
Interesting bit of history about the "change pocket" though.I did try clipping the chain to the outside of a pants pocket a few times, about a decade ago during a previous pocketwatch-wearing episode (that was before I played accordion - just a short time while I replaced a broken wristband.) Did not work for me: too hard to get it out and back into the pocket when sitting down, and a long lift to the extremity of the chain if I didn't have my glasses on. I am strictly a breast-pocket watch wearer.
To me it is fascinating that so many folk seem to have contracted the "White Rabbit Syndrome".
Do you really need to be reminded of the precise minute of every day in order to function?
OK, if your job and/or social circumstances require it; but at home, when engaging in a hobby/passtime/personal pursuit?
If your non-mandatory world is so busy that a few minutes here of there are critical, then the services of a good psychologist might be in order.
Do you really need to be reminded of the precise minute of every day in order to function?
OK, if your job and/or social circumstances require it; but at home, when engaging in a hobby/passtime/personal pursuit?
If your non-mandatory world is so busy that a few minutes here of there are critical, then the services of a good psychologist might be in order.
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
I just don't like missing the beginning of my TV episode!
I like to watch that Aussie program "Outback truckers"
A 'pure fiction' fan are you?
I like this quote. My field was Instrumentation & Controls. The big question was "how accurate is the data". We had instruments tested and calibrated (shipped with calibration sheets) to verify they were "within spec". What you never, ever want to do is retrieve data from two instruments (even if they are the same model, spec, etc.) -- rarely will they ever agree -- which one is right?
John M
You speak as a man with a lot of experience of time.....
noelekal
The Home For Wayward Accordions
I retired from a 41 year career in banking, during which time I became infected with the vintage watch hobby. I needed a watch all those years in the bank. The watch is much more convenient than being tethered to a cell phone. During a bank board meeting or other important meeting, a surreptitious glance at the wrist is less offensive than hauling out the cell phone. Easier too.
So, for me the watches are a habit and a hobby, as is the accordion. In retirement I like looking at them while not being required to care about the precise minute.
Absolutely 100% this. And it’s not just in business settings either. Before I became too ill I was a university academic. And discreetly looking at a watch to see the time was such a help, whether in an important one to one meeting, or even in a seminar.
Dingo40
Been here for ages!
I like to keep tabs on my weight.
I have two, decades old, mechanical bathroom scales (one each in two separate bathrooms) which give slightly different readings.
What is important is not the actual reading itself so much as the reading over time from the same scale: i.e. the relative gain or loss.
