I'll be Andy Rooney: The Wretched Excess Christmas Gift of the Year:

[trof]

From the Brookstone catalogue:

Automatic Watch Winder


"Keep your self-winding watches precise with this automatic watch winder! Simply place your favorite automatic watches on the winder then walk away. Our dual watch winders automatically wind each watch independently for you at the same time!

Our watch winder winds your watch automatically--without over winding!
The built-in timer rotates watches through a choice of pre-programmed sequences so they won't over wind. Our watch winder features a built-in motor that automatically keeps your watches accurate and on-time. Choose clockwise, counterclockwise or bi-directional rotation."
$149.95

OK, first of all...I didn't know they even made self-winding watches any more. They were a pretty good idea. Just wearing one would keep the thing wound. Pretty easy.

If you weren't laid up in the ICU comatose, your watch would keep fairly accurate time.

Well now American ingenuity has come up with an invention that will keep that timepiece up to snuff even if you ARE laid up in the ICU comatose.

Maybe you put that in your do-not-resuscitate living will.
"In the event that I become comatose and unresponsive, I hereby designate my spouse to place my self-winding watch in my Brookstone Automatic Watch Winder until such time as I may recover or until it is passed on to my so designated heir."

That's the only reason I can see for the existence of such a gadget.
Surely it's not for functioning homo sapiens.
If your lifestyle is such that you don't move about enough to keep a self-winding watch wound...well you've got a LOT worse problems than your watch.

Anyway...Merry Christmas everyone...and keep moving.
Seriously.

[Suich]

1. If you hadn't posted the picture and the blurb,

I would have thought you were making that up, trof!

$149.95?????????

Good grief!

:hi:

[REP]

2. Some people have more than one watch

Mine are the wind-up kind, and I wouldn't pay $150 for one of these (they are available for less) I can understand why someone would have one.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. for me, it is those gawdawful Lexus commercials

gauche, darling.

[Bake]

9. Oh, but it's not a "Sale."

It's a "Winter Event."

:puke:

Bake

[Rhiannon12866]

4. Thanks! I watched "60 Minutes" tonight

And I realized that I was waiting for Andy Rooney at the end... :(

[trof]

13. Thank you.

[Duer 157099]

5. The part that I find interesting

is that it specifically won't overwind. This implies that it is possible to overwind a self-winding watch. I never knew that. I know that you can overwind a manual wind watch, but what would you have to do to overwind a selfwinding watch? Be a professional athlete that wears the watch during all play? Or what?

[freshwest]

6. Doubt that's American made. Some people make enough to gamble on gadgets. Good for China, 'though.

[Lasher]

7. Who wears a watch anymore?

I just look at my cell phone if I care what time it is. And that's not often.

[trof]

8. Yeah, I've noticed that.

My daughter and son-in-law don't wear watches.
They just glance at their ever-present i-phones.
:eyes:

[GoCubsGo]

10. Lots of us.

I would rather look down at my wrist than pull out the cell phone and turn it on to check the time. And, when I'm lucky enough to be working, I usually am in places where I don't want to pull out the cell phone.

[TuxedoKat]

11. I prefer

self-winding watches to battery operated. The batteries wear out after a year then you don't have the watch with you when you remember to get a new battery so you don't know what size to get. Then when you do finally get a new battery sometimes that battery is dead too. Now I have a solar-powered watch (Citizen eco-drive), works great. I wouldn't buy a self-winding machine for the self-winding watches though.

[trof]

14. I have a solar powered Pulsar. Love it.

My darlin' daughter got it for me several years ago.

[TuxedoKat]

15. Yes

aren't they great? I never bother with my battery powered watches anymore. I still like watches you can wind though, especially ones from the '60's for the style (big round faces) and I like the ticking too. :)

[gratuitous]

12. My sweetie got me a self-winding watch last Christmas

Verdict: Love it.

Would I buy one of those gadgets? Not with $150 of your money, let alone my money.