Cocks on clocks (Part the Second)

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845

Hope the front looks better

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846

Lol

847

Looking at this actually makes my eye twitch, trying to work out whats going on.

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848

For those with gorilla arms , there are some chunky ā€¦Nubeo ā€¦watches on ideal world at the moment.

849

I bet a good many of the apparent features are non-functional window-dressing.

850

Bloody hell a Hamilton I actually like:

Although it is basically a Navitimer without the Chrono and the new swatch GMT movement in it.

This actually makes it more attractive than the 3 hand Navitimers Breitling does for a fraction of the price.

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851

ā€œSlide rule bezelā€ ā€¦ ā€œsophistication that will take you from the cockpit to the conference roomā€.

Wank.

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852

TBF, it really is a functional slide rule, but only @htm_1968 and @MGOwner are ancient enough to remember how those workā€¦

The rest is wank, obviously.

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853

Fuck you and your ageist accuracy.

I bet @octh and @Valvebloke still own slide rules though, being scientisty types.

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854

I think I was the last year to have to use a slide rule in O Level Maths.
There was a set of questions for slide rule only
Calculators were not allowed!

855

I canā€™t speak for Dave, but Iā€™ve still got mine somewhere. I canā€™t remember the last time I used it.

Electronic calculators were available by the time I left school and ISTR I had a programmable one at uni, and even had to write programs for it occasionally.

I have a mate who is hoping to come across a bargain one of these at a car-boot some day. I hadnā€™t realised that the thing might have saved its designerā€™s life when he was in Buchenwald.

VB

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856

Think Iā€™ve got one somewhere, but I went straight from log tables to early calculators

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857

There are some really old people on hereā€¦ :wink:

I went through secondary school in the 1980s. We only saw the slide rule briefly because Catholic Boyā€™s School reasons. I never owned one or actually got to use one, although I will own up to having used log tables.

858

Iā€™m so old I can do mental arithmetic. And joined up writing (not that anyone else can read it).

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859

Sec school for me was a grammar in the 60s. The official line there (from geriatric maths masters?) was that normal slide rules (3 s.f.) were insufficiently accurate.

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860

I think thatā€™s the same GMT used in the Mido.

861

If I canā€™t do it in my head then I open up MSExcel now. But if time was an issue then I could probably find my slide rule, wherever itā€™s got to, quicker than Win10 and XL would boot. And sometimes that matters

VB

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862

http://www.onthedash.com/watches/calculator/

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863

Less rules, more watches please.

864

:+1: