Can "they" hear me? Do "they" care?

appalichian hunter · Mar 5, 2023

Stopped wearing a watch when I retired, never liked them to start with. like was said sun coming up get ready for a target, stomach growling time to eat, sun went down time to go back to camp.

sealgaire · Mar 5, 2023

Two things:
1. Walking to a stand years ago I heard some movement in the brush. Stopped dead and a few minutes later two does appeared. One walked up to within 5 feet of me, at about 40 degrees off to the right. Stood there staring and sniffing. Moved my eyes to look directly at her, that was enough to make her bolt. Decided not to take an ass shot.
2. My youngest son once asked me, "Dad, why did they invent watches with hands when the ones with numbers (digital) are so much easier to read"?

mushka · Mar 5, 2023

I'm with TDM and Vintkova, what's a watch, don't wear one. Haven't worn a watch for over 50 years. Never knew animals were sensitive to their noise as I never wore one while hunting. I will admit to owning a flip phone. Won't get an I phone.

SDSmlf · Mar 5, 2023

Sundials are pretty quiet and traditional. Documented back to the stone age.

necchi · Mar 5, 2023

sealgaire said:
Moved my eyes to look directly at her, that was enough to make her bolt.

Yup, I've got a similar story,(a bow in my hands) only about 20'.
There was a cross breeze and she shifted up and down wind a few feet trying to whiff,, must have been all of 90 seconds. (a long time!)
I only lifted my eyes, but I made eye contact.
"Poof"! A Bounding exit,,
I've always cherished that moment,, only ones that know it happened was me and that doe

@Naphtali , don't you worry none about a tic-toc wrist watch. I'm pretty sure that doe heard my heart pounding and did pay any mind to it!

Erwan · Mar 5, 2023

Uncle Miltie said:
There is no more durable mechanical watch available at any price than a Rolex Oyster. And it's quiet. The tourbillon which was developed to counter the effect of gravity on a pocket watch that sits all day in a pocket is a useless complication on a wristwatch, and of course fragile as the wings of a dragonfly. Useless folly for me but some like them a lot.

Was just kidding with all that...
The Oyster Rolex is a very good watch and about the "Tourbillon" it's an old love story: professional deformation in a way...
Since I started my training as a watchmaker, I literally fell in love with Louis Abraham Bréguet's invention...
The "caroussels" and the "tourbillons", as well as the escapements with trigger (pivoted or not), and other complications are exercises of style more than anything else...
We often joke with these things: it's part of the job, so as dropping a joke is not always transferable: forget it...

Dale Allen Raby · Mar 5, 2023

I own a Seiko 5 variant, but seldom wear it. Everywhere I go, there are computers and clocks... except the woods and when I am in the woods, I don't care what time it is.

vintovka · Mar 5, 2023

My Patek Phillipe Nautilus is very quiet but clashes with my orange camo.

Uncle Miltie · Mar 5, 2023

Erwan said:
Was just kidding with all that...
The Oyster Rolex is a very good watch and about the "Tourbillon" it's an old love story: professional deformation in a way...
Since I started my training as a watchmaker, I literally fell in love with Louis Abraham Bréguet's invention...
The "caroussels" and the "tourbillons", as well as the escapements with trigger (pivoted or not), and other complications are exercises of style more than anything else...
We often joke with these things: it's part of the job, so as dropping a joke is not always transferable: forget it...

That's okay, at least you didn't suggest a power reserve on an automatic movement!

Robby · Mar 5, 2023

Peter Pan was alerted to the crocs' presence, so there is that.
Robby

Erwan · Mar 5, 2023

Uncle Miltie said:
That's okay, at least you didn't suggest a power reserve on an automatic movement!

With a pivoting or oscillating mass, fixed or sliding flange?

pacanis · Mar 5, 2023

I often wonder if my tinnitus is as loud to them as it is to me

But seriously, I just popped in to ask; Was your subject line in reference to Missing Words?

Louisk · Mar 5, 2023

I like my cheap Timex. It's way outlasted the last expensive watch I owned. It has an old fashioned dial which I find much quicker and easier to read than a digital readout. It's very quiet too but at my age I'm more worried about the loud ticking of passing time scaring me than any animal in my vicinity.

Colonial Boy · Mar 5, 2023

vintovka said:
Whats a watch??

It’s something they have in the Navy, they even have a Dog Watch.

pacanis · Mar 5, 2023

Go analog or go home.

Around 60 bucks on Amazon when I bought it. And it served me well, through 3-4 battery changes, for 15 or so years.

But then I got an iWatch...

Notice any similarities? Right down to the green band

I've always worn a watch. From the time I was a kid with my BSA watch. With I think was a Timex.

Scott_C · Mar 5, 2023

When hunting I use a cheap electronic stop watch that also shows time around my neck. Helpful after shooting a deer during archery season to track time before climbing down to follow up. Works so well I do the same with blackpowder hunting.

pacanis · Mar 5, 2023

pacanis said:
But seriously, I just popped in to ask; Was your subject line in reference to Missing Words?

Ackkk!
I meant Missing Persons!
It sucks to get old :doh:

Or one might say, what a drag it is getting old...

TraderVic · Mar 5, 2023

64Springer said:
Can't beat a 42 dollar woods watch.

They are loud but not THAT loud.

My exact watch.
Been wearing a Timex Expedition model for years.

64Springer · Mar 5, 2023

Do you guys know what thread this forum doesn't have?

Come on. Guess.

A watch picture thread.

Hmmm...

SDSmlf · Mar 5, 2023

64Springer said:
Do you guys know what thread this forum doesn't have?

Come on. Guess.

A watch picture thread.

Hmmm...

Or a ‘watch this’ thread.

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