Productive and useful watches

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I’m kind of in the camp of people who say, Why bother wearing a watch at all? My cell phone has the time on it, and I can probably look around me and figure out what time it is.

At the same time, I have to acknowledge how useful it is to measure time and use it to my advantage. For example, I occasionally grill cheeseburgers. I warm up the grill, put on the frozen patty, and put the bun in the toaster oven. Then I slice the cheese, drag out the condiments, and wait for the patty to cook through on one side. Then I flip, add the cheese, hit the toast button, and prepare to condimentize the burger.

My current watch is a Timex Triathlon 100m. It has an eight-stage interval timer. I time my burger grilling by the interval timer.

1. 10 minutes to warm up the grill
2. Patty on, and 7 minutes until the first side is cooked through.
3. Slice cheese, put bun in toaster oven, arrange condiments.
4. At the 7 minute mark, I either add a slice of hard cheese or give it a minute and then add American cheese (my wife… please). Hit the toast button on the toaster oven
5. At nine minutes, take the buns out, arrange, and remove burgers from the grill.
6. Apply condiments during a 2-minute rest
7. Serve
8. ??? profit

Perfect every time. That’s my 20 minute cheeseburger, with help from my handy watch and timers.

I simply do not care for expensive watches that don’t keep time as accurately as a digital or quartz, and that do not offer me the functionality that a digital with festoons of timers will.

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