Re: CHAT: Visigoths (was: YADPT (D=Dutch))

Quoting Peter Bleackley <Peter.Bleackley@...>:

> Staving JS Bangs:
>
>
> >Perchance the cultural associations are helping this? As the older thing,
> >analog clocks have prestige. In America, at least, only analog watches can
> >be worn in any semi-formal setting, as digital watches are considered
> >insufferably tacky.
>
> Possibly also analogue watches are generally of better construction than
> digital? When I used to wear digitals, they usually fell to bits very
> quickly. Analogue ones tend to last me a fair bit longer.
While cheap digital clocks often are of laughable quality, there are good ones
available. They seem to be fairly popular among the "rich-and-sporty" subset
of young men (and easily costs 5x than my analog-digital watch, which works
perfectly after 5 years).

                                                           Andreas