Hi, Linda,
Wow, that's so neat you like your new talking watch. I hope you'll have
it for a long time.
Rosie
On 8/20/2016 10:25 AM, Linda Gehres wrote:
This past week, I bought a new watch from the Lighthouse for the Blind in San
Francisco. Since the only atomic watch they had came with a leather band, I
asked about watches which are called the one-button watch. A lot of care was
put into making this watch accessible. The company, Time Optics, got a brand of
watch which was very good from the start, and they were made to order for this
company. The watch has a very good stretch band on it, unlike so many other
talking watches where you feel you have to replace the band because the band
which would come on with the original watch felt so chinsy. The watch only says
the time shown, it doesn't say "The time is such-and-such" That's a very
welcome change. Perhaps if I were choosing the watch from a blindness-related
web site like LS&S in Chicago, I could probably order a male voiced watch, but
the watch the Lighthouse happened to have on hand has a female voice. This
watch has a feature I've never seen before on a talking watch. The watch is
covered with a plastic laminant around the entire watch except for the bottom
where the batteries are. This watch seems to have a battery compartment which
is much more user-friendly for jewelers so that the batteries can be replaced
easily. On so many of the talking watches we've bought, the battery compartment
is sautered within the watch and it's just really difficult for them to change
batteries. Ironically, there's a store in Alameda which carries talking
watches, of course for a huge mark-up. If time, transportation and parking
exist in the future, I might show this watch to the jeweler who sold me a
talking watch early in the year. I ran into something with this large-faced
Avala watch, so the fact that it doesn't work now isn't any fault of Avala's.
That company also uses a very nice band. That company makes atomic watches, and
this one-buttoned watch is not an atomic watch, the only thing I'd change if I
could. The Lighhouse staff sent this watch via U. P. S. to me, so of course I
had to pay for shipping. In my current circumstances, that's the only way I can
go. The watch was at my door before 9:00 A. M. yesterday.
Linda G.
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