I feel validated!
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I say, @Boydesian!
I’m eyeing off a gold Seiko on Chrono24 for a birthday self-gift. It’s just the sort of thing I want, and affordable because of a small dent in the case adding character.
The problem is that its bracelet length is listed as 180 mm, whereas my wrist measures 7⅜" on the tape, which is over 187 mm. It isn’t going to fit, is it?
Maybe not, I don’t know if the watch itself is figured in to that figure, but the lug width is 18mm, which is a very easy-to-find size for a longer replacement strap.
My watch needed its movement replaced, which was frustrating as it was less than a year out of warranty; but the new one is keeping such good time that I’m delighted!
(I absolutely do not expect perfect time-keeping from an inexpensive mechanical movement, but I’ve had the new one for about a fortnight now, and I think in all that time it’s perhaps gained one minute? That’s about 4 seconds per day. If it maintains this degree of accuracy, I’ll be absolutely stoked, because the previous one was about an order of magnitude worse.)
If it doesn’t last I might have to consider something different, though, as the initial purchase was replaced under warranty when it too failed after a few months so, from my experience, reliability doesn’t seem great with this model. Fingers crossed that I just had bad luck, and the new one is solid.
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Maybe the old one got badly magnetised though (he says, after some reading). I wonder what kind of magnetic fields my laptop produces? I should probably read more about testing and demagnetising options, in case this shiny new movement starts being less reliable.
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We are surrounded by “secret” magnetic fields. My biggest problems are my phone case, and the clasps on my laptop case.
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There’s a jolly good sky view program for Android, but either you point it entirely manually or it assumes your phone’s compass can be trusted (you can’t lock it onto a known orientation and then use the gyro). My phone case has a magnetic clasp.
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Going to take Mom out on a glorious New England autumn day later, but for now, I’m just lounging about with an espresso and a Datejust. 
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Now I have two of them. The first one went slightly crazy: its alarm still goes at the correct time, but the hands are 40 minutes slow. Since it’s at least 15 years old, getting a new one seemed like the best course.
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Wow! It’s been awhile since I posted here! Today marks my 51st successful solar orbit. In honor of that significant date, I am wearing my Datejust. 
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I hope you celebrated that in a nice way! 
Happy birthday!
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Thank you, my friend! The boys at the office surprised me by cooking a roast ham dinner and presenting me with something called a “Strawberry Romanov Cake”. As you can see, it was not very popular! 
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I believe the roast ham dinner went over better than the cake 
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We “hoovered” everything up. That cake was amazing, BTW. 
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Oh, I misunderstood then 
I thought, “3 pieces left? Can’t be that good!” assuming everybody ate 1 piece.
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I don’t eat many sweets anymore (and now I can actually fit into normal clothes again), but I’d make an exception for any “Strawberry Romanov” cakes anyone feels like gifting to me! 
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The weather here in northern New England is getting warmer. Not by much, but the sleddin’ is noticeably poorer these days. So, that means I need to change the Speedy over to the bracelet again. One of the “Rites of Spring.”
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Outrageous!
/me riots.
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