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I can't wear watches -- the last one I tried worked alright ... for the first week, then the battery died. I replaced the battery and it died in another week. Left it on my desk for a few weeks and it worked fine, put it on again and in three days the battery was dead. Same happened with the one before that, plus it slowly ticked backwards for a few hours before dying. There has to be something oddly corrosive or conductive about my skin or sweat that kills them, or maybe I should go for a self-winding one.
When I need something extra for a formal occasion, I bust out my great-grandfather's pocket watch which is accurate to within a few seconds per week if I wind it regularly. As far as I can tell, it's a 1913 Lord Elgin series watch, worth around $200 these days but priceless to me with the monogram on the back and the history of it.
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