[LINK] Re: The watch without batteries [was RE: incand lamps debate]

[Jeremy Malcolm]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 05:10 PM 23/02/2007, Karl Auer wrote:
>> Are you guys taking the mickey?
> 
> not at all. My dad had one that didn't take a battery and didn't need 
> winding. See post about Seikos. The downside was if you took one off for 
> a long time. The owner of the move-winding watch might like to comment.

I have a self-winding Rolex - and it's not even a real one, it's a 
knock-off that I bought for about A$40 on the beach at Phuket. 
Apparently there are grades of fake Rolexes - the cheap ones use 
batteries, and the "expensive" (ie. $40) ones are self-winding.  Yeah, 
it does run down if you don't wear it every day.  I'm not sure if the 
real thing lasts any longer.  (I'm not in the market for the real thing 
on my current wage.)

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