mattcantstandthestupiddatewindow

[mattcantwin]

Every friggin' hour the minute hand moves through the date window and I don't know what time it is.


You think I would have realized this bothers me with the 3 previous Rolex watches I owned.


Old dog, new tricks, I guess, and I went ahead and gave the GMT a shot.

Love the watch, not the cyclops.



I just did something about it via a trade with David for a NIB Submariner, plastic on, card dated August 2014.


This goes against my desire to never add a no-date again, but I'm thinking this watch may be worth breaking a rule.

[CGSshorty]

[mattcantwin]

...and now I won't know the date either.

[hoppyjr]

.....or you could have done it Wu-style and had the cyclops removed....

[Terpits]

GLWTS!

Or congrats?

[matt.wu]

Congrats, Matt! I didn't even have a chance to reply to your email. It's still a draft! Hahaha

[belligero]

Every friggin' hour the minute hand moves through the date window and I don't know what time it is. [...]

Ah yes, I can relate all too well.

After getting my first GMT, I tried checking the time around a quarter past the hour. It was unsettling, to say the least. I had become accustomed to the reassuring parallel lines of the big hand from previous glances at the watch, but this time, something had changed. Two-thirds of it still appeared to be present in its usual form, but the end was… strangely different.

At first I thought it might have been merely due to the effects of the previous night’s debauchery, but after I’d rubbed my eyes and blinked a few times, the anomaly was still there! This was not good.

Feelings of confusion and disorientation began to take hold. For all I knew, the previously-linear passage of the minutes may have become random or stopped entirely. Separated from any reliable time reference, I began to question the nature of objective reality itself. “Does anything truly exist, or is this all merely a dream within a dream!?”

Without being able to clearly see the last third of the big hand of the watch, there was no way of knowing.


Or was there…?


Attempting to regain control of the situation, I told myself: “Get a grip, man!”

I had to find a way out of this existential crisis. The clue could even be in the anomaly itself. Perhaps it contained the answer, but perhaps its reality-distorting powers would be too strong to ever allow escape. There was only one way to find out.

Just as I dared to look closer, the big hand began to re-emerge from whatever space-time distortion had possessed it. The lower edge seemed to be whole again, and at seventeen minutes past the hour, it was as if nothing had happened. How long had this temporal disruption lasted? Impossible to say, but it could have been three and a half minutes.

Controlled research using an impartial observer with an atomic time reference — and isolated from the GMT’s dark energy by an impermeable lead shield — has revealed a breakthrough discovery about this temporal distortion.

Incredibly, once the hand enters the anomaly, it appears that the linear passage of time continues! Even more amazingly, it’s possible to deduce the present minute by observing the strange shapes within the time-distortion field. My research has revealed the following:

• If the big hand is in the upper part of the bubble-shaped anomaly, it’s about fourteen minutes past the hour.
• When in the middle, it's about fifteen minutes past.
• When it’s near the bottom of the distortion zone, approximately sixteen minutes have gone by since the present hour began.

Hope this helps!

[2canChew]

Always prefer no date..... Also like the thread title more letters than the damn alphabet!

[dukerules]

Good choice.

[Billwilson]

Or, like the rest of us, check our phones for the time :-)

[jimyritz]

Had to read the e-mail a few times but now I get it...

You sold the GMT and pick up the No Date

Congrats, love mine...

[PGERRITY]

That's why I went to the SubC and sold my GMT. Drove me nuts.

[1954Selmer]

Gib Stargnoc! Yojne

[mattcantwin]

Every friggin' hour the minute hand moves through the date window and I don't know what time it is. [...]

Ah yes, I can relate all too well.

After getting my first GMT, I tried checking the time around a quarter past the hour. It was unsettling, to say the least. I had become accustomed to the reassuring parallel lines of the big hand from previous glances at the watch, but this time, something had changed. Two-thirds of it still appeared to be present in its usual form, but the end was… strangely different.

At first I thought it might have been merely due to the effects of the previous night’s debauchery, but after I’d rubbed my eyes and blinked a few times, the anomaly was still there! This was not good.

Feelings of confusion and disorientation began to take hold. For all I knew, the previously-linear passage of the minutes may have become random or stopped entirely. Separated from any reliable time reference, I began to question the nature of objective reality itself. “Does anything truly exist, or is this all merely a dream within a dream!?”

Without being able to clearly see the last third of the big hand of the watch, there was no way of knowing.


Or was there…?


Attempting to regain control of the situation, I told myself: “Get a grip, man!”

I had to find a way out of this existential crisis. The clue could even be in the anomaly itself. Perhaps it contained the answer, but perhaps its reality-distorting powers would be too strong to ever allow escape. There was only one way to find out.

Just as I dared to look closer, the big hand began to re-emerge from whatever space-time distortion had possessed it. The lower edge seemed to be whole again, and at seventeen minutes past the hour, it was as if nothing had happened. How long had this temporal disruption lasted? Impossible to say, but it could have been three and a half minutes.

Controlled research using an impartial observer with an atomic time reference — and isolated from the GMT’s dark energy by an impermeable lead shield — has revealed a breakthrough discovery about this temporal distortion.

Incredibly, once the hand enters the anomaly, it appears that the linear passage of time continues! Even more amazingly, it’s possible to deduce the present minute by observing the strange shapes within the time-distortion field. My research has revealed the following:

• If the big hand is in the upper part of the bubble-shaped anomaly, it’s about fourteen minutes past the hour.
• When in the middle, it's about fifteen minutes past.
• When it’s near the bottom of the distortion zone, approximately sixteen minutes have gone by since the present hour began.

Hope this helps!

Excellent explanation and way to address the phenomenon.

[mattcantwin]

Congrats, Matt! I didn't even have a chance to reply to your email.

It's still a draft! Hahaha

Sorry I didn't wait, Matt, but David is cool and so is NIB.

[unixshrk]

Wait. Oh never mind.

[marchone]

I agree with you Matt. A date feature is superfluous for me. I usually know what day and date it is. Now someone will say I don't need a watch to tell the time either. My lifestyle needs say otherwise. Besides, I like watches.

[fastward]

#oldpeopleproblems

[Joeprez]

.....or you could have done it Wu-style and had the cyclops removed....

First thing I thought...

Congrats on the Sub, Matt!

[Joeprez]

Hahahha!

[JP Chestnut]

This goes against my desire to never add a no-date again, but I'm thinking this watch may be worth breaking a rule.

If Rolex only offered a watch that looks almost identical to this one, yet featured a date without magnification you'd be set!

[belligero]

Excellent explanation and way to address the phenomenon.

Just messin' with ya. The Submariner sans date (or with date, for that matter) is a fantastic watch; enjoy!

[belligero]

If Rolex only offered a watch that looks almost identical to this one, yet featured a date without magnification you'd be set!

Yes... if only such a watch existed...

[jeckyll]

If Rolex only offered a watch that looks almost identical to this one, yet featured a date without magnification you'd be set!

Yes... if only such a watch existed...

Too bad then, isn't it...

[moishlashen]

I bet you eat Papa John's pizza too