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 Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 5:58 pm
My formidable collection of pocketwatches (okay, let's just be open and call it a fetish) usually stays in a happy little keepsake box on the shelf, but I've taken to wearing a particular favorite around my neck or belt loops of late.
Now, after two days of not donning the thing, the ticking sound remains gonk
Ah well - I shan't be worried until it morphs into voices, and even then that might prove highly entertaining.
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:01 pm
You think that's bad? Try spending a couple of months at the renaissance faire... you never stop hearing bagpipes.... never.
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2009 9:25 pm
Dixie Dellamorto You think that's bad? Try spending a couple of months at the renaissance faire... you never stop hearing bagpipes.... never. Bagpipes are the root of all chaos. I mourn for your sanity emo
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 7:10 am
.......... *twitches* Now I hear bagpipes!!! Bloody hell!!!! gonk
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 10:58 am
but I like bagpipes! gonk
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Posted: Sat Apr 25, 2009 3:34 pm
YAY BAGPIPES!
No, I know how you feel though...it's kinda like how I only like having the analog / traditional clocks around my house, so you always hear the ticking...even when you're not around them.
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Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2009 9:23 pm
I wish my pocketwatches worked....or I had enough money to get them fixed, or could fix them myself. >: I like the ticking of clocks..
And I can hear the bagpipes too now..
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Posted: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:45 am
I have two functional ones from 1918 that my boyfriend got me for christmas (oh yeah, he's the one 4laugh ) and then I have seven that I've collected over the years that do not work. And a set of bagpipes... which I don't play. I am such a packrat.
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Posted: Sat May 02, 2009 4:45 pm
A proper mechanical (winding) pocket watch doesn't tick loudly. Indeed the best quality mechanical watches do not tick at all, rather they make an ever so slight cranking/grinding sound that is virtually inaudible. Pendulum clocks and cheap quartz clocks/watches are notoriously loud tickers, though, and are what most people think of with the typical TICK TOCK TICK TOCK sound due to the back and forth motion of the pendulum rocking as the weights pull down and the escapement turns another clanky tooth loose, or as the quartz crystal's exact frequency periodically causes a gear to lurch one cog further. I find this sound horribly annoying and distracting in a quiet room and I actually will stop what I'm doing and stare off into space half-dazed until I realize I've been interrupted and attempt to consciously block out the sound. It's very hypnotic, like water dripping, which is equally negatively distracting for me. I happen to like the sound of bagpipes, though, so long as they aren't too loud. Some of those pipe notes are quite shrill.
The best pocket watches (and regular watches, and clocks, too), including some of the cheaper yet still properly designed models, have the sweeping second hand which operates on a larger number of smaller cogs in its gears -- which obviously means it is going to be in some way more expensive and delicate. I got a cheap $15 winding pocket watch on eBay and the only problem I have with it is that I must keep some other time-telling device around at all times in case I forget to wind it up. Luckily, it lasts about 48 hours on a full wind, and I usually remember to wind it before bed each night. I have to hold it right up to my ear to tell if it's making any noise at all.
Now that I think of it, I'm not sure if there are any quartz timepieces with sweeping second hands. I've surely never seen one myself, and I exclusively prefer winding mechanical watches. I highly doubt that there are any non-ticking pendulum clocks, unless there are some very, very expensive and delicate models from back in the days before quartz and digital clocks.
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Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 12:42 pm
BAGPIIIIIIPES!!!
You are not watching Braveheart in your head...MANUALLY.
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 12:31 pm
Xeigrich The best pocket watches (and regular watches, and clocks, too), including some of the cheaper yet still properly designed models, have the sweeping second hand which operates on a larger number of smaller cogs in its gears -- which obviously means it is going to be in some way more expensive and delicate. I got a cheap $15 winding pocket watch on eBay and the only problem I have with it is that I must keep some other time-telling device around at all times in case I forget to wind it up. Luckily, it lasts about 48 hours on a full wind, and I usually remember to wind it before bed each night. I have to hold it right up to my ear to tell if it's making any noise at all. That actually sounds great. In fact, if any odd occurrence happens where electricity becomes useless (say, an EMP) and all electrical devices are gone and all digital watches and clocks (and those with batteries) become useless, you will become the Timekeeper! ...I envy your possession of Time Incarnate. =_=
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Posted: Sat May 23, 2009 7:25 pm
 This is the pocket watch I got my fiance for his last birthday. I love how you can see the innards.
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Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 7:29 am
Interstella Burst This is the pocket watch I got my fiance for his last birthday. I love how you can see the innards. O_Q Where did you get that watch?
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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:34 pm
I have a double hunter pocket watch with a Celtic design on front. It's casing is chrome and pewter. It's also a wind-up of course, I wouldn't buy a battery powered one. I can see the inner workings of it from front or back and it looks rather lovely. It'a a fairly modern model though, I'm hoping to get an older one with the pendant attachment by the three like the older models. It does tick quite audibly but I like it like that. That way I know it hasn't stopped, I also find it quite nice in general.
I must say I'm very jealous of all of your extensive collections and antique pocket watches.
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Posted: Wed Jul 29, 2009 1:05 pm
Well, I only posses one pocket watch, which is quartz movement with a battery and has a steel body that I use regularly. Because it's near indestructible. Then I have a pendant watch that winds but I'm terrified of wearing because the casing is plastic. My biggest annoyance with both being they are terribly hard to read in the dark.
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