Bought a New Watch

I bought a new watch. It is my first "stainless steel" watch since my high school days. Guess I needed a change. It's a Casio and was only about $40 and includes a cool function where it automatically gets time updates so the time is always perfect.

But it didn't fit. I needed to remove a couple of links and the last thing I wanted to do was go and find a jeweler to do the work. But no where in the instructions was there any mention of how to remove links. After inspecting the watch it was clear that the links were designed to be removed by people like me. No problem. I went to the Casio web site to look for further instructions. Nope. Nothing there. No problem, I called the technical support number for watches. They answered the phone on the first ring and I'd barely finished getting my question out before the gentleman offered to send me a detailed e-mail with instructions. Great! Were these instructions posted on the web? Nope. As he was signing off he warned me that the e-mail might take 2 days to get to me. I protested but learned that it was beyond his control.

For those of you are still reading you are probably wondering when I'll get to the point. The point is that the Internet is a wonderful thing. I went to Ask.com and entered a simple question: How do I remove a link out of my Casio watch band? The first link sent me to some home spun web site with everything I needed to know. There were multiple pictures and detailed instructions. Not general instructions but exact instructions for the exact Casio model I purchased. I was stunned. You might want to check out his site for yourself.

Amazing. The Internet is a wonderful thing. What did we do before we had so much information at our fingertips?

October 21, 2003