Hi Ron;
For personal use I still like good old speech but can't find a talking 
watch I like.  Don't know why someone decided we have to have the chime 
prior to the time.  Actually I had what I thought was the perfect watch. 
  You could open the face and read a braille watch or push a button and 
hear the time.  Problem is when the battery dies I take it to get 
changed and my comment is "its shot, cheap Chinese movement".  My wife 
and I have gone through two of them and they are good for about a year 
which isn't nearly long enough.
I liked the radio shack and blind mice sells something that works 
exactly like the radio shack but its a bit on the cheap looking side. 
Only advantage is that for $20 I can toss it in 18 months when the 
battery dies.
Tried the atomic watch and wonder if anyone knows how to adjust the 
hands.  The atomic clock set the speech but the hands said something 
totally different.  Didn't really make a difference I suppose but people 
kept saying you know your watch is way off.

richard

On 2/16/2012 7:53 PM, Ron Miller wrote:
> I've never had one of those friction catches wear out on my watches either.
> they get slightly easier to engage/disengage but haven't broken.
>
> Regarding the Tissot SilenT: I have had one for the last 6 years, or so and
> really love it a lot. I hear that some dealers still have a few, going for a
> premium price, but can't remember who has them.
>
> Ron Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Pat Byrne
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 12:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: No speech on my watch!!! Was: RE: off topic
>
> I have several Braille watches and never have I had a catch wear out.  I
> believe that the latch piece in the lid works against something in the
> bottom portion of the case causing the latch effect.
> Pat, K9JAUAt 10:39 PM 2/11/2012, you wrote:
>> That is a valid consideration, but one disadvantage to today's Braille
>> watches is that you have to pry the lid open to read them which
>> eventually causes the catch to wear out which makes it useless even if
>> the watch itself is still good.  They used to make them where you could
>> push the button in to open and close them so that this wouldn't happen,
>> or at least not as quickly.  I don't think they make any Braille
>> watches that you don't have to pry open any more.
>> Harvey
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ron Miller"<[log in to unmask]>
>> To:<[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2012 11:22 PM
>> Subject: No speech on my watch!!! Was: RE: off topic
>>
>>
>>> Okay, I don't chime in much here, but feel kind of strongly about this.
>>>
>>> I really, really, really prefer using a tactile watch in any kind of
>>> a business or social setting. It's quiet, announces nothing and lets
>>> me discretely check the time. With the exception of clocks in my own
>>> home, where I and my family can decide what's disruptive and what is
>>> not, and when speech will occur, I'm bugged if the clock bongs,
>>> dings, doings, barks, crows or makes some other sound when I'm in a
>>> setting where it is disruptive.
>>>
>>> Okay, pet peeve, whine over.
>>>
>>> 73 all
>>>
>>> Ron Miller
>>> N6MSAClearwater, Fl. USA
>>> SKYPE: arjay1
>
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