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Old May 9th 14, 03:36 PM posted to rec.photo.digital
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Default New Leica T. Is this build-quality counter-productive in this day and age?

In article , James Silverton
wrote:

A Rolex watch or even a Seiko may look beautiful inside but it's really
an anachronism. My solar powered Casio, synchronized daily with Fort
Collins, keeps better time. I'm also not fond of beautiful watches that
are unreadable quickly and have unnecessary displays like the phases of
the moon. Why on earth would anyone want to have that information? Louis
Sullivan said "Form follows function" and a watch that does not obey
that is perverse, in my opinion.


Not much use to most of the world:

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...r-and-tough-so
lar-powered-watches-added-to-premier-g-shock-line-71161982.html
or http://tinyurl.com/nfvc97y
"Signal reception is possible within a radius of about 2,000 miles
from the Fort Collins transmitter."

There are other time signal transmitters; in Germany and Japan to my
knowledge and watches can be made to receive those signals too.


any cdma based cellular tower will suffice, since it requires
microsecond accuracy for it to function.