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Topic 25 of 69: Time Pieces

Sun, Mar 14, 1999 (10:06) | Wolf (wolf)
clocks, watches, pocketwatches, sun dials, to name a few.
21 responses total. 

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 1 of 21: Wolf  (wolf) * Sun, Mar 14, 1999 (16:12) * 1 lines
i like watches. not the expensive ones, either. i collect the ones you can get with a cereal box top and a couple of bucks. i've got all kinds laying around. i wear them for awhile, then put them away.

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 2 of 21: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Mar 15, 1999 (00:27) * 2 lines
hmmm...I wonder if I've got one still...if I can find it,
I'll mail it to ya, Wolfsie!

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 3 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Mon, Mar 15, 1999 (07:31) * 1 lines
Anybody interested in russian watches? See Berlin topic in Travel conference for starters. I love 'em!

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 4 of 21: wer  (KitchenManager) * Mon, Mar 15, 1999 (22:09) * 1 lines
doubt that I've ever seen one...I don't get out much...

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 5 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Tue, Mar 16, 1999 (06:42) * 4 lines
Wer, you'd love them, too, I think.
They are all mechanical, and there are some nice automatic ones (esp. military issue). Watches from 1st Moscower Watchmanufactors (?), now called Poljot (=Pilot, in honor of the soviet cosmonauts they supplied with time pieces), are probably the best. All tools to build them come from Switzerland, so things are quite well made (if you can live with e.g. plastic watch glass on some civilian models...).
They also made the tools for many other russian watchmakers, like Wostok (=East?), who does these military and comemorial watches, both mechanical and automatic makes. They have logos on the thingus-platey with them numbers onnit (Whatchamacallit? Dunno.), like a tank, various jets, ships or submarine-outlines, etc. Others have logos from space program, like the Buran, the Mir station, or the russian coat-of-arms, the czarst eagle, etc. Not exactly elegant items, but not without a certain underground-li
e appeal. And robust, too (if the work at all).

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 6 of 21: Stacey Vura  (stacey) * Wed, Apr  7, 1999 (11:22) * 1 lines
i like sundials

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 7 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Wed, Apr  7, 1999 (18:24) * 2 lines
I can't share that feeling. I find them hard to set.
;={

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 8 of 21: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Wed, Apr  7, 1999 (18:50) * 1 lines
ah... so you ARE a controlling type!

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 9 of 21: Wolf  (wolf) * Wed, Apr  7, 1999 (21:54) * 1 lines
i have a sundial in my rose garden. it's never set right for the shadow to fall correctly. and it's nothing fancy either, looks like a flat patena bird feeder sitting on the stone walk and it has a frog on one side. 

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 10 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Thu, Apr  8, 1999 (13:02) * 3 lines
Maybe you can set it after changing batteries? Does the frog squirt water? If it stopped, that's a sure sign of weak batteries...

(Stacey, do you say this because you are mad they forced this hosting thing on me? They didn't really ask me, neither did anybody tell me what to do now. Good part is, folks come running up and congratulate me. Hmh.)

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 11 of 21: wer  (KitchenManager) * Thu, Apr  8, 1999 (13:39) * 4 lines
I asked in my own special way,
and you told me it was my move, so I did...
if you don't want to, that's cool, I can undo it...
(really don't want to though...I think you're a perfect host for music)

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 12 of 21: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr  8, 1999 (13:48) * 1 lines
no, WER is right... you certainly shoulda been forced into that job!

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 13 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Thu, Apr  8, 1999 (14:15) * 3 lines
(Wer, it's ok, and if I had any problems with that, I woulda told ya, mate.
Anyway, let me just try this on Stacey, she's reacted kinda odd like "As soon as I let you guys otta sight, you start turning newbies into hosts. You'll run down the neighborhood...", etc. You know... No, really, it's great, just don't tell anybody I said so, ok?)
*Whiny voice* Well, Stacey, you may be right, but still, I don't know what to do now, and feel so insecure about everything, what with peoples' expectations and all... *despaired look*

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 14 of 21: Stacey Vura (stacey) * Thu, Apr  8, 1999 (14:54) * 1 lines
then you my dear, should be talking to the Great Pasquina, not me!

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 15 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Mon, Aug  9, 1999 (11:45) * 1 lines
I did, it was, uh, STRANGE. But nice - at least as nice as the Poljot watch one of our photographers has - waterproof, steel casing, stop function. VERY nice, a proper chronograph. 

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 16 of 21: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Mon, Aug  9, 1999 (23:08) * 1 lines
I,too, love sundials. I have two of them, the standard one with the inclined gnomon in Bronze, and a most unique one housed in a pocket-watch-shaped enclosure which opens to reveal a tiny replica of Stonehenge with the center Altar stone as the Gnomon. It works!

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 17 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Tue, Aug 10, 1999 (09:37) * 1 lines
A pocket Stonehenge! I can't believe this - scan it, post it!

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 18 of 21: Wolf  (wolf) * Tue, Aug 10, 1999 (10:07) * 1 lines
really!! that sounds so cool. i like sundials too. have a tiny cheapo one but it has a frog on it and it's cute....

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 19 of 21: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Tue, Aug 10, 1999 (14:27) * 1 lines
Will have to photograph it in action and get a scanner. This is really cute - guaranteed forever because there are no working parts; came with a really near owners manual...

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 20 of 21: Alexander Schuth  (aschuth) * Tue, Aug 10, 1999 (14:39) * 1 lines
So batteries will last, huh? ;=}

 Topic 25 of 69 [collecting]: Time Pieces
 Response 21 of 21: Marcia  (MarciaH) * Tue, Aug 10, 1999 (16:27) * 1 lines
As long as the batteries in the Sun last, it should work just fine.
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