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

[Adam Todd]

At 04:50 PM 23/02/2007, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>At 04:28 PM 23/02/2007, someone wrote:
>>>(As an aside, this morning I remarked to a colleague who was lamenting 
>>>that his watch battery had gone flat, that someone needs to invent a 
>>>watch that works without batteries.)
>
>I remember some sort of watch that required movement to keep the thing 
>running. Quartz maybe? There were no batteries and didn't need winding.

Yes there was a mechanical one.  I have one my grandfather gave me, you 
can't wind it and it doesn't use batteries, you just shake it from side to 
side.

But the one I was mentioning above is Digital :)  Has a range of cool 
features too - if you are into watches!  I find a mobile phone and a PDA 
does pretty much everything including both telling a different time!