{"id":207,"date":"2009-07-22T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T09:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=207"},"modified":"2021-10-31T19:07:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-31T18:07:33","slug":"which-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=207","title":{"rendered":"Which watch?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have issues regarding watches.<\/p>\n<p>I will not be able to wear just about any wrist band as I have to be able to operate it using stump ot prosthesis. A heavy or large watch is not optimal as I tend to overuse my complete left arm anyway. And the watch should be reasonably water proof as the last thing I want to do is to take it off \/ put it on all the time. I do lots of sports and so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=205\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">luxury watches are not exactly what I will be buying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what works.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong> Wrist band<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not wearing the watch on my prosthetic arm. First of all it is in the way of the cable, secondly it swivels and turns and I cannot rotate the arm. Thirdly I am used to wearing a watch on my left wrist.<\/p>\n<p>Using a regular wrist band &#8211; and not a metal band with a special lock &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I can manipulate the band without problems<\/a>. But even tiny lock mechanisms can be handled well given proficient prosthetic setup:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gG8IXff4wSY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/gG8IXff4wSY&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zKNJ_DLC7dU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/zKNJ_DLC7dU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>More wristwatch band details here &#8211;&gt; [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/?p=194\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">link<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><strong>Buttons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am not operating many watch buttons as of now. But if they are big and chunky &#8211; as in that Casio Pathfinder &#8211; I am happy to take advantage of that option. Taking the watch off, setting it and putting it back on is the way to go.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Size, weight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The watch must not be too large as my left hand is also the dominant hand. And it must be light enough so I do not wear out my muscles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No watch<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wearing no watch is a great option.<\/p>\n<p>All sports centers, offices, computers, many public transport stops, my car, at home, my mobile phone that I have with me anyway &#8211; I can alway check the time without a watch. Most of these time pieces are very precise.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=swisswuff\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-size=\"large\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have issues regarding watches. I will not be able to wear just about any wrist band as I have to be able to operate it using stump ot prosthesis. A heavy or large watch is not optimal as I tend to overuse my complete left arm anyway. And the watch should be reasonably water&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12144,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,12,15,13,9,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-product_choice","category-tricks","category-tricks-one-handed","category-tricks-with-prosthesis","category-worldmods","category-wrist-watch","wpcat-66-id","wpcat-12-id","wpcat-15-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-9-id","wpcat-226-id"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-02 15:50:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12166,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/12166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swisswuff.ch\/tech\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}