How they Con the Dense

I'm sorry for the terrible pun. This is the story of the fourth watch of my life. I always have been a Timex guy, so this is also a Timex.

My second watch was purchased in mid 2000s. It was special. It was called the Timex Data Link, and you had a USB cable that could grab all your contacts and everything from your computer in just a minute. It did context calendar appointments and anything else that you had saved in Outlook.

My first one was even more amazing than that. It had an eye on the front, which looks kind of like a smartphone camera now, and it could read your screen while the screen flashed barcodes to do the data transfer.

I would have never changed watches, except that the world changed over to flat screen TVs, which were not CRT and could not do the barcode transfer.

Since then I had a Timex smartwatch which seemed to be doing something hazardous and then this one which is just as normal of a watch as you could possibly want.

Well, it would be hard to fake or make a knock off of a Timex data link or a Timex smart watch. It is not hard to make a knock off of a regular dial type watch, pictured above, and that's what I think I got this last time.

The watch keeps time alright and it is shock resistant and water resistant up until the last week or two. The problem is that the battery doesn't last very long, only four months or so and the last time I had the battery changed, the gasket or something failed. Now it's got condensation. Hence, the pun about how they con dence people like me.

I should have been looking for possible knock-off products because where I live they're all over the place. Oh well, live andlearn.