@gdkar I think you may just have reinvented the gramophone record
I mean, I know y'all love your capitalism over there but the literal selling of ones own species to be eaten?
fucking hell
@mplouffe@scholar.social Omega sell a watch they loudly claim as "THE FIRST OMEGA IN SPACE"
Despite the fact that the first watch in space is most likely a Sturmanskie, the first watch worn on a spacewalk was a Strela, and the first swiss wristwatch in space was a Breitling
They do the same as the USA, "FIRST ON THE MOON SO WE WON!"
@mavica hey, gotta find something to put on all eight of my wrists 
Turns out Cmdr William Pogue wore a non-approved Seiko 6139 during Skylab 4 about 11 years before this and so that was the actual first automatic watch in space but nobody knew that at the time
While I'm being a total Sinn geek, did you know that the Sinn 141 S was one of the first automatic watches worn in space?
It was on the wrist of Reinhard Furrer during Spacelab D1, a similar watches were also worn on Mir and during Spacelab D2
He bought the watch privately and wanted to show that an automatic watch would still wind itself without the help of gravity
they're also getting rid of the 75x series which are classics
still, hopefully they'll be releasing some super interesting stuff to replace those, they're due to bring out two new watches in mid-february
@noelle kinda hoping it's more shaun of the dead than 28 days later
@Archadia @balrogboogie oh I know, but they're incredibly reticent about saying that, they always say "I need this for hunting" instead
So I'm trying to hit their ego until they admit that their toys are for shooting people-type things so that bit of their argument collapses
uspol, gun control
@balrogboogie my usual response is "if you need a semi-automatic rifle with a 30-round mag to take down one deer then you're obviously not very good at it"
@mavica the octopus says it's okay
Ooh, cool new watch if you're a Queen fan
Limited edition Seiko 5 "Red Special"
Dial inspired by Brian May's guitar, his signature on the display caseback
Edition of 9,000 and will cost around €560
https://www.seikowatches.com/us-en/news/20200123-64494105459
@Nine all the music will be midi
Hedgehog wrangler, cat feeder, octopus whomst love smol critters
"i never thought someone could be such a watch nerd and yet here you are" ~ @maple