"Jay Maynard" wrote in message
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On 2008-05-13, Dudley Henriques wrote:
I seldom used or even needed a watch for navigation.

I hauled off and bought a Citizen Skyhawk AT.

I had a Casio that a friend of mine gave me. He got sick of me asking him
what time it was. I wore it for fifteen years before I accidentally went
swimming in Nantucket Sound with it on. The next day, I gave the rusty
remnants a burial at sea.

I went to Wal-Mart and picked up a $15 watch while I decided what watch to
buy. Eight years later, I decided on a Casio Waveceptor. Solar powered, and
automatically sets the time from the atomic clock in Ft Collins. Big
numbers, and will turn on the light if you rotate your wrist 90 degrees, so
you can turn it on with one hand.

Two years later, I'm back to the Wal-Mart $15 watch. The battery in the
Waveceptor won't hold a charge any more. I leave it in the window all
weekend (While I wear the $15 one) and it often makes it until the next
weekend before shutting down again.

Skin cancer runs in my family, so I avoid the sun. That may be a large part
of the problem.