http://www.zoliad.com/2006/12/02/watches/ ...Say What? Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:23:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.zoliad.com/2006/12/02/watches/comment-page-1/#comment-15 » Collectible Watches Article Announcements Publicity Services Sat, 02 Dec 2006 05:47:54 +0000 http://www.zoliad.com/2006/12/02/watches/#comment-15 [...] Wristwatches are often treated as jewelry or as collectible works of art rather than as timepieces. This has created several different markets for wristwatches, ranging from very inexpensive but accurate watches intended for no other purpose than telling the correct time, to extremely expensive watches that serve mainly as personal adornment or as examples of high achievement in miniaturization and precision mechanical engineering, without any pretense at being accurate for telling the time. Still another market is that of “geek watches”—watches that not only tell the time, but incorporate computers, satellite navigation, complications of various orders, and many other features that may be quite removed from the basic concept of timekeeping. [...] [...] Wristwatches are often treated as jewelry or as collectible works of art rather than as timepieces. This has created several different markets for wristwatches, ranging from very inexpensive but accurate watches intended for no other purpose than telling the correct time, to extremely expensive watches that serve mainly as personal adornment or as examples of high achievement in miniaturization and precision mechanical engineering, without any pretense at being accurate for telling the time. Still another market is that of “geek watches”—watches that not only tell the time, but incorporate computers, satellite navigation, complications of various orders, and many other features that may be quite removed from the basic concept of timekeeping. [...]

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