My grandfather was a watchmaker and jeweler. He worked on mechanical watches ranging from the everyday to moderately high end. Despite this, he was as into gizmosity as you could possibly get.
He had a Casio Databank and would talk about how it was a calculator and could store phone numbers. The buttons on that thing were microscopic, and I can't imagine how it was actually worth the effort to program phone numbers into it or use it as a calculator. Nonetheless, he did. When the strap lugs broke, he fixed them with JB Weld. He usually had on two or three watches at any given time: his own, a customer's watch that he was testing after a repair, and that damned Casio, grey JB Weld and all.
I'm absolutely astonished that he didn't own one of these. It would have been right up his alley. If he was still alive, I'd call him and ask him about this. For that matter, I'd have loved to hear his take on the Apple Watch as well.
He had a Casio Databank and would talk about how it was a calculator and could store phone numbers. The buttons on that thing were microscopic, and I can't imagine how it was actually worth the effort to program phone numbers into it or use it as a calculator. Nonetheless, he did. When the strap lugs broke, he fixed them with JB Weld. He usually had on two or three watches at any given time: his own, a customer's watch that he was testing after a repair, and that damned Casio, grey JB Weld and all.
I'm absolutely astonished that he didn't own one of these. It would have been right up his alley. If he was still alive, I'd call him and ask him about this. For that matter, I'd have loved to hear his take on the Apple Watch as well.