A man with one watch knows the time. A man with two watches knows the one on the
right isn’t right. So congratulations then
to Cotton Traders for the most stupid freebie ever – a watch that does not
work.
Now to be fair it is a lovely looking watch. A large face.
Roman numerals. A second dial in
the centre which performs no discernable function whatsoever … but it rather
falls down on the primary function of a timepiece …telling the time. So worse that being useless it is actually a
liability as it could make someone late for something. Fortunately as it had come straight from
Arthur Daley’s lock up in a broken box (I’m not saying it fell off the back of
a lorry but I suspect it had a bumpy journey) I took the precaution of
synchronising it with a timepiece that did work before I put it on. Otherwise I might have been late for
something important................
Unlike my grandmother I am not a collector of badly
functioning timepieces so do not know what to do with it. However, I feel in some way it is quite an
achievement for anyone to manufacture a watch (presumably) regulated by a quartz
crystal (well, it doesn't wind up?) that is ten times less accurate than a mechanical timepiece? Could it be as simple as it has been in the
back of a warehouse so long the battery has gone flat? I could take it to Timpsons to find out but
this would take time out of my day and it might be a speculative investment
that does not pay off.
I can’t return it for a refund because I never paid for it?
So what does one do with it?
I suppose I will have to give it as a present to someone I
don’t like or have no respect for … which is presumably how it came into Cotton
Trades possession in the first place… and then in to mine. Or perhaps I could give it to a church
jumble sale which is where my granny used to get most of her interesting but
not-properly-functioning timepieces from.
I often wonder if, when her time came, they returned there…
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