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 Posted: Thu Jul 24th, 2008 07:01 pm
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Joined: Wed Jul 2nd, 2008
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania USA
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 I guess I just wear them hard.  I am constantly active with my hands.  I am a working electrical engineer, not a autocad desktop engineer.  I work in and around a high RF (radio frequency) environment frequently and use the chrono function to measure individual process times and make comparisons.

My last Seiko was a titanium chrono.  Within less than a year the start/stop pusher had seized up (or in if you look at it that way).  Its so typical, I only get about a year out of my "daily" watch.  It may be the oils from my body are like epoxy.  I have had this problem for a long time.  I am rough with them. I also use a regular stopwatch , and a backwards counting timer. 

The watches I save for weekends are fine, but my daily wear watch is always a problem.  My last (quartz) purchase was an ESQ chrono, it has much larger pusher buttons, and the buttons actually have a much shorter actuation stroke and a larger diameter surface than the miniature ones used on your average Seiko.  So far the ESQ is 6 months old, and no problems.

I guess I just time a lot of things, probably more than  the average chrono user.   Maybe I'm just a chronograph freak!!!  I only have 3 watches that are not chronographs and they were all gifts. 

Thank you all for the very warm welcome.  In the next few weeks I'll try to get my Nikon out and start to take pictures of what I have.

Many thanks again!