[blparent] completely off topic
David Andrews
dandrews at visi.com
Wed Mar 23 08:02:25 UTC 2011
Veronica, Like you I am rough on watches, and have found that the
best solution is to bite the bullet and buy a Seikko. I think they
are between $150 and $180. I am on my second, and my first lasted
nearly 20 years, and was lost, not broken.
Dave
At 11:13 PM 3/19/2011, you wrote:
>I ordered one not too long ago from someone I know and it fell apart when I
>took it out of the box. I sent it back and did not reorder another. I
>want a good one, but not expensive. I am rough on my watches for some
>reason.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of PICKRELL, REBECCA M (TASC)
>Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 9:17 AM
>To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
>Subject: Re: [blparent] completely off topic
>
>Try Amazon.
>I say this because I've found the same products you'd get at ILA and Maxi
>Aids for a whole lot less by reputable vendors. Irronically, Maxi Aids and
>ILA will sometimes sell through Amazon for less then what you'd get by using
>their site directly.
>Make sure you can easily raise the watch crystal, I got a watch that was
>inexpensive and could not get my fingers into the thing you need to open the
>crystal. My husband could, but he didn't need that type of watch.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
>Behalf Of Veronica Smith
>Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 11:02 AM
>To: 'NFBnet Blind Parents Mailing List'
>Subject: [blparent] completely off topic
>
>Do you all know where to det a good Braille watch for less than $100. I
>checked out ILa and all of their braille watches are between $100 and $179.
>Thanks for the info and sorry for the off topic post.
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