Last summer, I bought a Casio watch. This was my first Casio watch; so, forgive me if I tell you things that you already know. The watch has an hour and minute hand, the analog component, so they say; and it has a digital component, a small half-circle with the diameter across the round face from about the 4 to the 8, if the numbers were on the dial.
There are four recessed elongated buttons, two on the 3 side of the watch case and two on the 9 side of the watch. I can't read the tiny words on the gray dial part -- something like WR 5000 M near where the 9 is supposed to be and 12 YEAR BATTERY where the 3 is supposed to be. There is a teeny tiny word stamped just above the digital half moon component screen -- maybe TELEMUNDO 20, but I don't have a microscope strong enough to read it.
I did set this watch when I got it -- the three letter day of the week above the numerical month and date in black figures on the gray background of the digital display.
And the instructions came with the watch. I haven't seen it since I set the watch the day it was delivered. I do recall that it was not a novella, it was a Tolstoy-length novel in English and 47 other languages. But it wasn't really English, Cityspeak, maybe. Or just somebody in China trying to translate instructions into English and getting it as right as he or she could.
Be that as it may, I have no idea where the instruction novel could be. What does that mean?
It means that when Eastern Standard Time rolled around last fall going into winter, I had no idea how to change the time. There is no little knob to pull out and twist, just those stylish buttons that don't even show when looking at the watch face at a 90 degree angle. And I had no idea which buttons to push because I'm sure it was some clever combination, like the cheater codes in an old GameBoy game -- up-up-down-up-left-down or something like that.
I was getting tired of the clunky Breitling I usually wear. Before you get the wrong idea, it's not really a Breitling, but some server actually stopped by our table and said, "I love your Breitling watch." It's a Citizen.
I looked at the Casio, and the time was correct -- Daylight Savings Time, again. So, I'm wearing the Casio. I am afraid to do any deep diving, though, because I can't read how deep it's good for -- I don't need to get down to, say, 4000 meters and have the thing break on me. Might hurt and then I wouldn't be able to hold my breath when I cry out.
That would be bad. I think.
Posted by Bill at April 12, 2012 10:19 PM