Do you use the bezel on your watch?

CD Fleischer

CD Fleischer

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I have to admit I do, though I didn't when I used to dive (used a digital divers watch in a quarter inch suit and just used my dive computer when in a half inch suit with gauntlets).

I use it for timing just about anything. Sure, it only works if you remember to look at it, but if you don't have an alarm, it is the next best thing.

Just wondering if I was the only one...

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Clay Fleischer
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I do. I'll just spin the traser dot to the minute that I begin something and then check periodically. Only thing is its only good for 60 minute timings. Love that 3401!

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I use the bezel but dont always remember to look at it. I guess I use it because I Paid (for me) a premium for this watch and ... feel like I should get the most out of it ... but an alarm would be more functional. Dont get me wrong ... I love my watch .... looks great, expresses an advanced station in life ... but .. if I dumped looks and convention I would own a "G shock." I wore one for a couple of years in my early twenties .... joined the Army during Desert shield at 27 yrs old and wore it through basic and then some. I replaced it when I got home. Had a few scratches on the face but at the time you could buy a plastic guard thingy so it wasnt to bad. It was a yellow one and you could light the face and the batteries seemed to last forever. Excellent watch for the VERY few dollars it cost me. So yea I use the bezel but I dont know if its because its the best count down tool.

Ahhhhh ... I think to much !!


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I use it all the time Clay, when cooking. Just a habit now!

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I use mine when I did laundry in the dorms at MSU. I didn't want to wait downstairs, so I would start a load, then rotate the bezel so that when the minute hand hit the "triangle" (12 o'clock normally), my clothes were done. I found it easier to set it that one time, than to look at my watch and figure out how many minutes were left.
 
Okay, maybe this is a dopey question ... why don't watch makers hook the bezel into an alarm? Then you'd have a visual check as the time counted down, and an audible when time was over. I'm pretty sure I saw a Timex that had that feature, you set the alarm by turning the bezel, then pulling it out. It seems like the obvious idea to me, provided that kind of system can be made water-tight. If it can't, then use an extra button on the outside to set the alarm to the bezel.

Joe
 
Joe, the Timex you are thinking of is the iControl Turn and Pull (tm) system. I have one and it is quite nice. I paid $20 for it at Servicemerchandise.com and it had a cheap folded-link metal band that disintegrated when I tried to remove a link! Probably why it was so cheap, but the watch itself is pretty nice. There are two markers inside the bezel -- one for hours and one for minutes. You pull out a second crown (the normal crown is used for setting time and date and you push it in for the indiglo feature) -- once for a hourly alarm (i.e., just when the minute hand hits it it goes off), and twice for a 12 hour alarm (i.e., for both hands to next be in that position). I put a "The Band" on it and it was my watch to use when I didn't want to scuff or otherwise sully my nicer watch, but as I have had problems with heavier watches lately, I wear it alot. Sure it is not Luminox, Seiko, or Citizen, and it is a far cry from a Rolex or Omega, but it is a nice watch for the $50 and under range and better than several of the cheaper timexes. Mine is water resistant to 50 meters, which is good enough for anything I do these days.

It's a nice alternative to wearing a (ugh!) digital watch.
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Clay Fleischer
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I have a Chronosport UDT that I have worn for the last 13 years.

I use the bezel almost daily as a quick reference for countdown after contrast injections at the hospital.

I don't know what I'd do without it.
 
Yes, I use the rotating bezel on both my 3105 Luminox, and on my Citizen ProMaster, but I generally forget to look at it too...Damn "old-age"...
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(At least the ProMaster has a GREAT alarm!).

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Most of my watches have bezels and I rarely use them except occasionally while cooking. Like Dann and the other folks, I usually forget to check it again.

I REALLY like Joe's idea of a "beeping" bezel! I'll have to check out those Timex'. I've heard that the watch face flashes also. My problem though is that I can't hear those extreme high end beeps from most watches.
 
Use mine all the time when diving,in fact I find myself looking at more than my dive computer (habit). I also use it when flying on shorter trips under 60 min. I love my Citizen Aqualand but after several years of use the "black" has worn off the numbers of the bezel. It is also great for timing hard boiled eggs!!
 
I like to use the bezel for timing short stuff like cooking or laundry, but my Traser had such a stiff bezel it wasn't worth fighting it.

Then I read this thread and remembered how convenient it could be. so I hit it with a couple of tiny careful drops of White Lightning! Now it works fine, just like my knives.
 
Thinking about it I seem to use the bezel on my watch on a regular basis in a few different ways.

I use it to indicate a start time (e.g. when diving), or to indicate an end time (e.g. parking meter or speech), but also with the hour hand to indicate a future appointment.

I read somewhere about using the second had on a chronometer and aligning it with the moving second hand (at 9:00 on mine) to have a visual 30-second counter as the two hands split and rejoin.
 
I've been wearing a Timex I-Control for several months now and I love it. One advantage is you can see how long it's been since the alarm went off at a glance -- for instance, when I use my deep fryer i set it for ten minutes -- when the alarm rings (and it's a pleasant sounding chime, not one of those nasty buzzing things) the fryer is warmed up and I throw in the french fries -- then without resetting anything I can keep an eye on how long they've been cooking.

It's only water resistant to 50 meters rating, though, and not even that when the alarm is set, so it wouldn't work for a dive watch.

Another cool feature is the Indiglo light. It flashes when the alarm rings, so you know you're the one who's beeping and not the guy sitting next to you -- and it's bright enough to find a keyhole with.
 
USE MINE FOR PARKING METERS. NOW ALL THEY NEED TO DO IS MARRY THE
ROLEX SUB TO THE LUMINOX STEALTH AND YA WOULD HAVE THE PERFECT WATCH
FOR DAY OR NIGHT.
 
Hi,
I use my for timing polaroid development-I always forget if it's been past 1 minute or 2.

JB
 
Just like XRAYED said, I used to use my bezel everyday at the hospital (mostly for IVPs). But now I just use the chronometer on my Seiko.
 
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