Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

and yes, I know they're more properly called G10 straps but take that up with the rest of the watch nerd community

it's only after faffing about for 10 minutes fitting a bracelet with teeny tiny annoying spring bars that won't go in the fucking lug that you truly appreciate how easy and accommodating nato straps are

the existence of the blahaj shark has done far more to ingratiate ikea to me than any amount of advertising spend ever could

@mavica if you ever need more robot validation just remember this

no organic being could possibly remember that

@rhys@myasstodon.xyz "ah, so it's the same sort of racism as 'scientific' racism"

This is neat

https://www.stratonwc.com/collections/frontpage/products/straton-tourer

Two independent bezels, one count-up for timing stuff, one 12- or 24-hour bezel for time zones

$300 to $500 depending on variant, look like decent watches

@mavica just make very sure not to ever burn flac to CD

you don't lose any quality when you encode to flac so when you put it on a CD and it improves the quality then you end up with more quality than you started with and it breaks the universe

@rhys@myasstodon.xyz what if they're lovingly scrapbooking them so they can give you a birthday present of all your good toots in book form?

I mean, I know y'all love your capitalism over there but the literal selling of ones own species to be eaten?

fucking hell

wait, let me get this straight, for the past 104 years an anthropomorphic peanut with a top hat and a monocle has been selling fellow members of his species to the US populace for consumption

what the shit USA?

@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

:( Sinn just discontinued the T2

Real shame, there's nothing quite like it on the market anywhere, 41mm tonneau case, titanium so it's really light, sad to see it go out the collection

The T1's still there though, but that one's 45mm so just not the same