@certifiedperson *wagwagwagwags!!!*

@certifiedperson Couple days later, it is still beautiful and still makes me happy.

They have not gotten back to us on the wrong-watch thing, so I bet we're just not going to get the one we ordered. Meh. We also *cough* bought a cheap Casio that unlike this can take being banged on things, and it'll have a rotating bezel that can be used for timing, so.

@certifiedperson We also ordered a kit of adjustment tools so bracelet resizing isn't so much of a fucking pain, and we'll be able to change straps too!

This watch came with a pin pusher-outer in the box, but nothing to put the pins back IN with, and there's still one pin sticking a little out because we couldn't get it in all the way. The kit in the mail has a plastic band holder block and little tiny hammer that we can bop the pin in with. :3

@IceWolf Oh nice!! That'll be good to have. Surely it'll help with any repairs, too?

@IceWolf Oh sweet!

What's a bezel?

@certifiedperson Bezel = the outer ring around the dial! On this watch it's just the plain silver, but a lot of watches have a thicker bezel with labeling on it. When it's got that, and your watch is actually good, it'll rotate and provide some function (some cheap watches have a useless one that doesn't rotate! whee!).

see: the Casio we got

that outer ring with 0..15, 30, 45, etc.? You can turn it. Line up 0 (the triangle) with the minute hand to start, and then after some time's passed, read where the minute hand is on the bezel and that's how much time it's been. It's like a stopwatch. Or you can do it on the hour hand to time hours, of course.

It may be less accurate than a chronograph, but you also can't forget to turn it off! And you can set it in the past if you forgot to set it at first! And you can even set it in the future for a crude timer! (There are reversed countdown bezels for use as a timer, but they're weirdly rare. Which is a shame 'cause it'd be heckin' useful.)

@certifiedperson apparently I am INFODUMPING now haha :3

@certifiedperson Another kind of bezel is the tachymeter bezel, generally found on chronographs.

Fancy chronographs APPARENTLY tend to have the second hand be the /chronograph seconds/, normally stopped, and if you have a normal seconds hand it'll be in a subdial.

Anyway so let's say you have a repeating thing that happens. You start the stopwatch when it happens, stop when it happens again, and the bezel tells you how many times it happens per hour or whatever. Like (what it was apparently originally for) if you're driving down the road and do it on mile markers, you get miles per hour. But it's really a more general "things per hour".

@IceWolf I think we're only half processing this atm, it doesn't feel like the information is lodging itself in the brain, but that sounds neat!! Except for the part where I feel like I would hate having normal second hands in a subdial tbh.

@certifiedperson yeah it sounds vaguely awkward

this watch we got has a normal seconds hand though! the chronograph seconds is the bottom dial.

The top dial is subseconds, it takes 2 seconds to go around, which is why it's labeled 0 5 0 5 like that.

It would be so much more useful if that were a minute hand!! grr!!

@certifiedperson The one we actually /ordered/ had three dials and one was a minute hand. Woulda been so much more useful.

@certifiedperson also once we have a job I WANT this watch,,,

it's a chronograph AND it has that spinny bezel for when we don't need Full Fancy Stopwatch!

It looks to have proper chronograph second and minute dials. But then the third dial is just a 24-hour hand synced to the normal hour hand, so it's effectively just an AM/PM indicator, and like... WHY.

But also, /the colorsss./

[https://www.invictawatch.com/watches/detail/40924-pro-diver-men, ignore the ridiculous MSRP it's like 30 times the real price, they're playing pricing games ugh – it's /actually/ $100]

@IceWolf ooohh that's what those dials are!

@certifiedperson yeah!! :3

If you're buying cheap chinese watches on ebay you gotta be careful. A LOT of them just have chronograph dials and buttons for show that don't actually work. The listing text – gotta scroll down wayyy past everything to even see that – will generally say whether they work or not.

(Speaking of the buttons, the top one is start/stop and the bottom one is reset.)