The Watchmeister watches watches

Even the Watchmeister knows that owning a watch requires more than just changing a watch battery, or wiping off a damp crystal. With a little bit of care from you, your watch will live a long and happy life. This the Watchmeister knows because he takes care of over 400 watches in his collection, so he knows what of he speaks!

Most of the watches are electronic now days and don’t require near as much maintenance as the old mechanical watches did. With those, every few years they have to be opened up and serviced, so if you still have an old wind up, you still need to take it to a jeweler and have it cleaned and oiled. The one thing almost all watches share is a gasket, or an O ring. What these do is keep your watch as water resistant as the manufacturer made it to be. After a few years, you might want to take the watch to a jeweler and have them check the O rings for cracks or deterioration, it might need to be replaced unless you prefer a leaky watch that will short out and be no good to you. Although if that does happen, we ay Kenmar hope you will come to us for a new watch, but even we are not that greedy to wish you ill for failing to take care of your watch. We would be happy if you just came to us for extra watches.  Or for your gift watches. Those would be enough.

There are a few rules about watches. Don’t play with buttons under water,  replace cracked or scratched crystals immediately, the watch can get water inside it from either one of these.  Watch what the water depth that the watch is made for and don’t exceed it, that can force water into the watch and ruin it.  Even if your watch is water resistant, if you swim in salt water like the oceans, be sure to wash it off with fresh water when you get out, salt water is corrosive and can wreck the watch completely.  I am a little different when it comes to cleaning  an expansion band, I clean between each section with a q tip dipped in  a mild detergent mixed in water, Then rinse the soapy solution  off of the watch and dry completely. Also, always keep the self winders and the wind up watches wound up all the time, especially if they have day.date windows because those change based on the time, and if the time is off, the day and date won’t change. Also, try and keep the watches either in padded watch boxes that can be bought all over, or in it’s original box if it has one of those pillows to put it on.  For self winders, you can always get a winding machine that can hold one or two watches and keep them wound all the time.

A few final notes, don’t put an electronic watch on loudspeakers, or refrigerators because they generate powerful magnetic fields that can damage the chips. Also, keep chemicals away from the watch, solvents, detergents, perfumes and cosmetics as the chemicals can cause parts of the watch to deteriorate. Solvents can ruin rubber or resin bands. Also gaskets can be destroyed by solvents and some stronger detergents with bleach additives. Try to keep the watch clean, if you can’t box it,  buy a package of chamois cloths and wrap them. Chanois is soft enough to not damage the watch or scratch it.  If you have a watch with a leather band, check it periodically for cracks and excess wear. a leather strap can crack or split with no advance notice and you could lose the watch. If the leather band looks to worn, replace it. watches are to expensive to have it fall off for not buying a ten dollar band.

Okay kiddies, you now have the words of the Watchmeister on keeping your watches working right and looking good. Remember always, a watch is a piece of jewelry that also happens to tell time. It is an investment. Ladies watch bands if they are fancy and of precious metals, can be cleaned with tarn ex, but keep it away from the watch itself. And if you do need a new watch, or if yours is getting older and you want a second watch to reduce the wear and tear on the older one, rememner the place to go is www.KenmarWatches.com. You will never regret it.

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches!

You just sit down at the kitchen table for dinner. Since you normally don’t look at the seat cushion anyway, you didn’t today either. As soon as your behind hits the cushion, you hear a very loud crack! You jump up because it came from under you. There is your wristwatch totally crushed. The watch you had taken off a little earlier and set down on the kitchen table when you went to rinse your hands off at the kitchen sink. It had somehow managed to slide off the table and onto your chair where it is now a nice tiny pile of scrap parts, with a tiny battery in the middle of the pile.  Into the trash it goes, you sit back down to dinner figuring you will go to the mall after dinner to buy a new watch. It had just started a mild sleet storm when you got home from work earlier. You turned on the radio in the kitchen to hear what was going on. The first thing on the news, the sleet storm had downed power lines near you, the mall was in the area with no power and was closed, no estimate of time to restore power. Disgusted, you went into your den after dinner and flipped on the computer. You start surfing for watch sellers on line, as you get to each one, they all look the same. Then you get to one with a tag line, “nobody beats us,” this is interesting. You start to look at the site. You see a whole bunch of little boxes with the logo’s of all the different watch companies whose merchandise this seller carried. There were brands there that you had never heard of, and some had odd names.  You also see a blog from a guy calling himself the Watchmeister and he says that he watches watches, whatever that means. You read his article, it was about one of the brands carried by this company. Near the end of the article, your eyes get wider and you do a double take and re read that paragraph. “over 125 different brands and several thousand watches to choose from and you can make THEM an offer of how much you wanted to pay.” You had never seen that before, you look at the top paragraph again, nice blue color, Kenmar Watches, 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed. So you start looking at watches. There are so many here it is hard to decide. Then you happen to glance at the prices, the low prices. You decide right then to get new watches for the whole family, the weather outside is rotten so everyone is home. You walk to the door to your den and call the family down. Everyone races to your den because you sounded so excited! You bring the family into the den, you tell each of them to pick out two watches from the Kenmar site. After listening to oohs and aahs for almost an hour while the family picked out their two watches each, you finally pick out your two watches. You go to checkout, you figure eight watches will be a lot of money even for Kenmar. At the checkout, the total is much lower than you had imagined. You place the order and print everything up. The last thing you do before leaving the Kenmar site is add them to your favorites. After all, Christmas was only eleven months away! And you wanted to make absolutely sure that you remembered www.KenmarWatches.com! The prices were just right!

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

 The Watchmeister watches watches!

Have you ever taken the time to just look at the top segment of the Kenmar Watch web site? Well, I printed it up here, which I can legally do as I am affiliated with the company. Lets take the time to interpret what is written and shown on here. To start with is a photo of a watch and the name Kenmar Watches partly over the watch and under the name it says, “Nobody Beats Us”. What does that actually mean?  Well part of that is explained in the rest of what is called in the biz world, the header. It has a phone number and it says under that “Calls and offers welcome!” Do you know what that means? That is a major part of why no one can beat them. offers welcome. What that means, and you see the small squib next to every watch on the entire site. If you do not like the posted price for a particular watch, say you budgeted $70.00 for a watch and the one you want costs $80.00, you can offer the 70 and possibly get the watch for what you can afford. There are no other watch sellers anywhere on the net that give you that option, to tell the company what YOU want to pay instead of THEM telling you what you HAVE to pay. That alone is a great deal and one of the best reasons to shop at Kenmar, 100% Customer Satisfaction, in other words, if you are not happy, they are not happy. You get the watch, you just don’t like it, or for whatever reason, you need the money back for something else and will het a watch another time. Kenmar has a no hassle retutn policy. They will ask zero questions as to why you don’t want the watch, they just take it back and give you your money back, simple as that! Nobody beats us, you have just read about part of the reason that nobody beats them, the others are, over 125 different brands of watches IN STOCK in most cases, and this is literally thousands of watches for you to choose from. If you can not find at least one watch that you like at Kenmar, you will not find one anywhere! And Kenmar stands behind what they say, 100% customer satisfaction GUARANTEED! Wear the watch in 24 hours or less,  actually, that statement is an option I believe. To find out just how fast you can get the watch does involve a phone call to Kenmar. There may be an extra cost involved in an air shipment,  but they still need to pull, verify, double check, and pack the watch for shipping. They break in house records all the time with how fast a watch can be pulled and readied for shipment. Every order I personally have placed with Kenmar, I have had the next day, and I have purchased quite a few watches from Kenmar because the fact is, they have watches that no one else has. And I, as a watch collector, prefer unique watches over the day to day type. I want a watch that might someday be a collectors item. So, now you know what the header on the Kenmar Watches web site means. It means that you just can not do better than Kenmar when it comes to buying your next watch. They simply can not be beaten, not in selection, brands carried, price, service, delivery time, or anything else you can think of. So remember, the place is www.KenmarWatches.com. You will NEVER regret going there.

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

10. The owners Yugo is finally falling apart, he needs the money to buy a new car.

9.  The computer department wants real computers, they are tired of having to use abacus totals to check on things,

8.  The sales manager wants an intercom to the billing department, he complains that the strings are always breaking between the tin cans.

7.  The billing department wants a computer with a printer, says she is getting writers cramp from hand writing the invoices all day.

6.  Shipping department wants a new tape gun, says the one he is using now was thrown away by Custer at the Little big Horn.

5.  The sales department wants real desks with drawers, says there is no room on the little shelf under the seat for their jackets and lunches.

4.  The entire staff wants Broadband, tired of waiting half of the working day for dial up transactions to go through.

3.  Shipping people want roller blades to get around the warehouse with, feet are getting sweaty and stinky from walking around it all day.

2.  The billing department wants a credit card terminal, they are tired of sweaty ear syndrome from calling in for credit card approvals.

And the number 1 reason for shopping at www.KenmarWatches.com, They have the best prices, service, customer service, selection, largest number of brands carried, support after the sale, no hassle return policy, the make them an offer special, and the best of any other watch company on the entire internet. And what is also extremely important, is that the Watchmeister, who you should ALWAYS heed because he watches watches, reccommends Kenmar Watches over all other on line watch sellers. Remember the name, www.KenmarWatches.com! You will not be sorry you went there, the Watchmeister guarantees it.

The Watchmeister watches watches!

I have not written any blogs for a while, not because of a writer’s block or lack of time. But because I wanted to write something a bit out of the box so to speak. Oh, I can tell anecdotes about different things, or scenarios involving a hypothetical family that will actually bear a striking resemblance to a real family, Or I could describe one of the 125 different brands of watches that offer thousands of selections. And in point of fact, this little blog actually does involve all the brands and styles that we offer but not in a way you would expect. I met the gentleman who I work for here a few weeks ago, and he is a tad older than I am, but we did have an interesting discussion about a variety of things, although obviously most of the talk was about watches. I talked about watches because I collect them and I like some of the ways the watches look and work. He talked about how he started the business and how it grew from his basement to a warehouse full of watches. It was to say the least, an altogether enjoyable afternoon. My “boss” is a very nice gentleman in that he allows me to write essentially what I want to write, he does not edit my blogs, he reads them obviously, but there is no editorial or managerial editing at all.

Today, I want to talk about a combination of things. Mainly this, how does a person actually go about selecting a watch? The first step has to be determining how much do you want to spend? To most people, a watch is a watch is a watch! That is a totally wrong way to look at a watch. I have said more times than I can recall, a watch is not just a device that tells time, it is actually a piece of jewelry that also happens to tell time. A watch band can be virtually any metal, stainless steel, gold, silver, rubber, resin and even platinum, that alone would make a watch a strategic investment. But then you get into the timepiece segment of the watch as a whole. Many watches have precious stones on them, diamonds, rubies, emeralds, etc. this makes the timekeeping part of the watch a strategic investment. So when you combine the two, you could have a watch worth literally thousands of dollars. So when I have said that a watch is not just something that tells time, it is also a piece of in some cases fine jewelry and is also an investment. So when you are buying a watch, this is something that must be taken into consideration. I’m not telling you to take out a second mortgage on your home just to buy a several thousand dollar watch, definitely not! People have to buy what they can afford in a watch.

After you have determined what you can actually afford to spend on a watch, or several watches, then the fun starts. Shopping for the watch. This is where I like to shop on line. I am not in a department store waiting for the lone salesperson in the watch department to notice me standing there waiting for help. I am not walking in circles around the display cases looking at all the watches in there so bunched up that it is almost impossible to tell what the watch looks like or does. Then there is the overweight couple looking at the same watches you are, but together, they are so wide that they hide the entire display case, and they will usually look at thirty watches and walk away with nothing. Usually because the lone salesperson’s usual department is shoes! So she knows nothing about watches. So there you are, tired already from standing around for 90 minutes just to get waited on and you haven’t even seen a watch up close because as you move to a different display case, so do the overweight couple and you still can’t see a watch. Then there is the old standby, the jewelry store. In there, 99% of the watches are analog, they are all high end, and they are all expensive because they are all full retail, no discount, There you will have six salespeople tripping on each other trying to sell you a watch. An expensive watch that would keep you from being able to eat for six months. That is the place to turn and walk out of  quickly.

Now this is what anyone, male or female needs to remember, a watch should actually reflect at least a part of your personality. And it should also be able to serve several purposes at the same time, Some of the purposes are job related, some health related, some hobby related, some are style related, and many are all of these combined. So you need a watch or several watches in order to utilize them to the utmost of their capabilities. For example, if your job takes you between two different states in two different time zones, you will need a watch that shows the time in both zones, or cities. If you do more than just travel to two cities, but have a passport with so much ink on it that it is almost carbon paper, you will need a world time watch. These are really neat watches, at the push of a button, you can see the time in many cities around the world and in the United States. If you are required to take medicines at various times of the day, you might need a watch that features multiple alarm settings to remind you to take your medications. BUT, this type of watch can also be used by the business executive that sees clients all day, the watch alarms can go off say 15 minutes prior to an appointment, so that the executive can gather their materials for that particular client. It not only makes the executive look efficient, it helps them to stay that way. Then there are the runners that need a heart rate monitor watch, the scuba diver that needs a diving watch to show both depth and elapsed time on the oxygen bottle strapped to the back. All of these features and functions of a watch are also reflections of your personality. Were you to not have any of these requirements in your life, you could get by with maybe one or two watches to match the clothing you wear. Again, you pick the clothing that is comfortable on you, why not pick a watch or several watches, to go with your wardrobe and your lifestyle.  This my friends, is where you need to have options. This is where you need to decide what to get and still stay within a budget, or if needed, maybe go a tad over. This is where My favorite watch emporium comes in to the picture. At www.KenmarWatches.com, you will find every type of watch I have mentioned here. And they do something that no other watch dealer does. Say your budget would allow for one watch at say $80.00. But you see another one you like that is say, $50.00. You can go perhaps ten dollars over or at max, $20.00. You can make them an offer of $70.00 on the eighty dollar watch, and $40.00 on the fifty dollar watch, they may accept the offers, So you get two watches for $110.00 instead of one for $80.00, you did go over the budget by $30.00, but you did get what you wanted at a price that you could afford with a bit of stretching. No other watch company anywhere on line makes you that offer, to make them an offer for what you can afford. And with the number of brands and the volumes of styles, if you can’t find what you want and can afford at Kenmar, you won’t find it anywhere.

So there you have it. A way to select a watch to complement practically everything about you, including your wardrobe as well as your hobbies or job, You did not stand in line, or try to look through two obese people at the counter with the lone salesperson. Nor did you go to the jewelry store just to have six people trying to sell you a $3,000.00 watch that you don’t need, not to mention can’t afford. Oh, did I mention Kenmar’s return policy, if you don’t like the watch or watches when you get them, there is a zero hassle return policy. How can you possibly lose by shopping on line at Kenmar from the relaxed climate of your own home? The answer is, there is no way you can possibly lose by shopping at Kenmar from your computer desk, with the television blaring in the background, and a nice drink next to you while you browse through literally thousands of watches,  And you can also keep in mind that it is never to early to shop for the holidays, Christmas, Valentines Day, Mother’s day, birthdays, anniversaries, etc. Saving money when shopping is always a good thing. Shopping at www.KenmarWatches.com is also a VERY good thing. You will never regret shopping at Kenmar.

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches! 

Winter is not a lot of fun. At least not for the motorist with a dead battery who can’t get to work. Or the poor folks that rely on public transportation to get to work and have to stand in the freezing cold to wait for a bus or a train. Then for some, there is the back breaking job of shoveling, or snow blowing to do. Not all of winter is gangs of fun. Face it, this time of year Florida looks like a nice spot, or maybe Mexico, BUT, that old devil crops up like he always does. That is the devil that whispers in your ear that it is time to get out of the nice warm bed and get ready to go to work. That devil does tend to get annoying after a while, but he is right, no work is also no play because there is no money to play with. But there are some advantages to being indoors. You can finally watch all the movies you bought during the summer but never had a chance to watch. You can catch up on all the indoor chores that you put off to go to the pool, or the beach, or anywhere to get you out of the house on nice days. But, sooner or later, the day dawns, like a Saturday, the chores have been done, there is no snow to shovel, and you have finished watching all the movies. The only bad thing is that outside, with the wind chill it feels like 20 below zero. So you know you are stuck in the house but what can you do? Both you and your significant other are crawling the walls trying to think of or find something to do. Well, with all the pacing that you and your sig. other have done, you raised a nice lump in the rug you had covering the center of a hardwood floor. The next thing you know, you are on the floor, very sore, after tripping on the lump in the carpet, you went flying, luckily, nothing broke in you, no ribs, or fingers or toes. Then you feel it, something on your wrist is catching on your shirt. You wonder what it could be, you unbutton the cuff and there it is, your ten year old watch smashed and cracked, the leather band is torn, the crystal is in pieces with most of them missing, and the watch has no hands on it. That watch has had it, but you did get ten years out of it so it really paid for itself by it’s longevity. So you decide, now you and the spouse have something to do on this super cold day. You and she are going to shop for watches on line. She looks at her ratty watch that is as old as yours was and is in need of replacement. Valentines day is due and watches are a great gift for Valentines day.  So you go and fire up the computer, log onto your isp, and start to search watches. Most all the sites you look at are boring, no pizzazz to them. They say that they specialize in this watch or that watch, and absolutely none of them appeal to you or your spouse. Finally, after about a half hour of searching the net for a watch dealer that catches your eye, you come to the Kenmar watch ad on line. Right away you are impressed, especially when you see that they can not be beat by anyone for price, value, and most of all, variety. You scroll down and watch all the watch brands that they carry popping up on your monitor, one after another and it seems like it isn’t going to stop, but fimally it does. You see that they carry over 125 different watch brands, which translates into literally thousands of watches to look at. Then you notice a box next to one watch, then you see that it is actually next to all of the watches, it says “make us an offer”. You KNOW you had NEVER seen that on ANY selling site before. You start to browse the brands whose names you know from years of them being out there. Bulova, Wittnauer, Casio, Citizen, Accutron, Pulsar, all these brands and each watch better than the next! You look at your spouse and say “honey, what do you say that we look for a few watches for each of us, at these prices we can afford at least three or four each”. She agrees, so after an hour of looking at over 200 watches, each of you had picked out four watches. You go to checkout, you do a double take at the total price, it is lower than you had thought it would be, and they even gave you a rate on shipping for multiple items, and the site itself advised insuring the order so you would not be out any money if the watches somehow get lost in transit. You are floored. Eight watches for just a bit more than what you had paid for two watches ten years ago. You immediately add Kenmar to your favorites list. Then you grab the birthday calendar from the hook in the kitchen and mark it to check Kenmar a few days prior to all the birthdays. You notice that Kenmar offers watch forums to ask questions about watches in a group format. And they also offer an expert called the Watchmeister that can answer your individual questions when you need help. Then you see that there are a ton of blogs from the Watchmeister discussing reasons to buy more than one watch, how watches are an investment, and there are also a few squibs about specific watch brands. So, now you know where to go, www.KenmarWatches.com. If they don’t carry it, you don’t want it. Visit the Kenmar site on line and check them out. And when you place your order, tell them the watchmeister sent you. Kenmar, you won’t regret visiting it!

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches!

Ladies and Gentlemen, congratulations I believe are in order. You have successfully completed three months on one of those fancy diet programs that advertise all the time, especially in the middle of your favorite television show, and even though it drove you crazy, you decided to try it! And for moral support, your significant other joined you in the program.  Both of you lost 50 pounds each! Went down several clothing sizes and now nothing fits! All the old clothes are going to charity now because happily, you got to small for them and since you both prefer to wear clothing that you don’t swim in, it is time for a trip to the mall and a few thousand dollars worth of two new complete wardrobes! Both of you have your highest limit credit cards in your wallets. The balances had been paid in full in preparation for this day which you both knew was coming. The trunk of the car is completely empty, as is the back seat. The car has a full tank of gas, the mall opens at 9 AM, it takes 15 minutes from your house to the mall, you decide to allow an extra 5 minutes for traffic. At exactly twenty minutes to nine AM, you start the car and off you go. Traffic was moderate so you pull up to the mall at 8:58 AM, you park, walk to the doors arriving there at the stroke of 9 just as the doors open. Watches are synchronized and you both agree to meet at the car at 5 PM. Off you go in two different directions, he to the mens shop, she to the ladies. For the next eight hours, both of you are trying on clothes, suits for him, skirts and dresses for her. Then there are blouses, shirts, slacks, undergarments for two, ties for him, scarves for her, new kerchiefs for him to match the suits.  At precisely five PM, you both meet at the car, starved, exhausted, and about seven thousand dollars poorer for the day. All the items that needed alterations would be shipped to the house in a few days. You decide to stop for dinner en route home. You go into a nice restaurant and order dinner, he looks at his watch, then looks again at it bewildered, the watch is all the way down to his wrist. He looks at his significant other and shows her, she looks at her watch and sees the same thing, her watch is down to her wrist as well. It seems that with all the weight they had lost, it wasn’t just the clothing that no longer fit, it was also the watches. You both push them up, they both slide back down again. Both of you discretely remove the watches, she takes them both and deposits them in her purse. After a nice, leisurely dinner to regain some of your strength after a full day of shopping. You both get back in the car and head home. Arriving home, all the bags are carried in and put in the bedroom to be put away a little later on.  He scratches his head with a puzzled look on his face, she looks at him and knows he is trying to remember something. Suddenly, the puzzled look is gone and replaced with a big grin, his finger goes up in the air as he remembers what he wanted to do. It seems that for Christmas, he had gone to a fantastic web site on line to shop. He looks at his sig. other and speaks to her. “Honey, we both lost a lot of weight over the past three months, so much so that besides our clothes not fitting us anymore, neither do our watches! Both of our arms have shrunk to the point that the watches won’t stay up anymore. We both need new watches to go with all of our new outfits.” She replies,” I agree, but where do we get them?” “Do you remember for Christmas, we got my uncle Joe a new watch?” She says,” I do remember, it was a beautiful men’s watch and if I remember right, the place you bought it from on line let you make an offer for that watch because our gift budget was almost gone, do you remember where you got it from on line?” ” I sure do honey, and with the place I got that watch from, I remember that they carry over 125 different brands of watches, more than anyone else, they also have several thousand watches to choose from and you can alsomake offers on any of them as well!” “What is the name of the site?”  “The site is www.KenmarWatches.com, and with their price and selection of name brand watches, the possibilities are virtually endless so we can both get several watches each to go with all of our new clothes, and we won’t have to be embarrased when we go out and our watches are sliding down to our wrists!” She races him to the computer, logs on, turns to him and asks, “what was that name again honey?”  “go to www.KenmarWatches.com, I have a feeling that we will not be sorry we did!”

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches!

In most of my previous blogs here, I have stated that a watch is actually a piece of jewelry that also happens to tell time. Actually, a watch is much more than that. With the technology that exists today, there are watches that can do things unheard of even 20 years ago! You can own a watch that will save your life!  There us also a watch out there that allows you to pick up the majority of special squibs from MSN depending on your location. With those watches, you can pick up the important things like sports scores, the stock market, news headlines, election results, entertainment news but even more important than all that, you can pick up traffic alerts as to where the accidents are on the highways so that you know where to avoid driving. It will also pick up emergency weather bulletins, storms on the way, etc. Then there are pulse rate watch monitors for runners. Compass guide watches for hikers, hunters and campers. There is even a special watch for hunters that can calculate ballistics and how to fire a weapon and hopefully not miss! A small personal aside here, there is absolutely nothing wrong with hunters and hunting, provided that they are not hunting just for sport, a hunter that shoots and kills an animal had better pick it up to take home to be skinned, cut up and cooked. Fresh meat is good. Anyway back to what a watch is. There are watches with single alarm settings and on up to five or six! Those are great for appointments or medications to remind you when to take them.  And there are so many others, for me to go into them, I would be typing all night and you would be reading all night, so suffice it to say that there are all kinds of watches available for purchase. Now, the jewelry aspect of a watch. or the bling as it were. I must admit, that it is primarily the ladies watches that represent the best of the investment into watches, they tend to lean more towards the jeweled end. So when I say that a watch is also investment, that is what I mean. Ladies watches that are heavily jeweled, or mens that can also be jeweled, but far less than a ladies watch.For some reason, men do not seem to go much for the mega bling multi jeweled watches, men prefer the more subdued. Another part of a ladies watch that can bring the investment to a higher plane is the band. Men’s watches if the bands are not leather, rubber, resin, or any non metallic material usually have bands made of stainless steel, while a ladies band can be made of sterling silver, white gold, or even in some rare cases, platinum. Those are the watches that are an investment in a piece of jewelry that just happens to also tell time. Finally, one other thing can make both mens and womens watches worth the tag of investment, and that is the movement. Many watches made today are still like the watches of old, they are made with jeweled movements for better accuracy. So, when the time comes for you to acquire a watch, remember that you are still making an investment.  So you will do what I do and go to the on line site that carries in stock and ready to ship, some of the finest examples of the watchmakers art, even though a lot of it is done by machine now.  And where you are going also offers some of the most competitive prices in the entire industry.And they also offer you the opportunity to make them an offer, and if the price is reasonable, you might just get the watch at the price you want.  And the place, www.kenmarwatches.com. When you call there, tell them that the Watchmeister sent you.

Heed the watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches! (but a few got away)

As you all know, the Watchmeister not only watches watches, he also watches them with the purpose of purchasing them to add to the collection. When I am not the Watchmeister, and I am just myself at home with my pets and my watch collection, which I am constantly adding to and re arranging to accomodate the new arrivals. I did invite a few of my very close friends over last week for lunch and so they could see a few of my more unique arrivals, including another pair from my favorite web site. After the oohs and aahs were done with, we went down to my kitchen for lunch. I had made a huge pot of my specialty, chili, which gets rave reviews throughout my friends and family members. As it was a bit nippy outside, after lunch I decided to start a nice fire going in my fireplace. I went out to my garage to bring in some firewood and one of my friends had left the living room where we had just been sitting and chatting. I got the fire going and it started getting nice and warm and cozy in my living room which was just what I had wanted. Just then, my friend returned to the living room from upstairs where she had been, she advised me that she went up to powder her nose, thats the way a lady describes visiting the lavatory. Rarely do they get crude about it as men do, but that is not a topic for this blog that anyone can read. A few hours later, after my guests had left, I retired upstairs to my bedroom. And knowing how I set up my bedroom, I could see that things were slightly out of place, including the watch boxes of 20 watches each that I keep on a five shelf unit in my bedroom. There was one empty spot where a watch had been wrapped around the leather covered foam pad. I immediately called my friend and confronted her, and not only did she admit to taking the watch, she said she couldn’t resist it and she apologized but she was keeping the watch.  Later that evening, when I was browsing my favorite on line watch store, I came across five unique watches that I intend to add to my collection. And since my store has such low prices, not only am I replacing the one watch, but I am also buying four more! So when the day comes when you need to buy a gift for someone, or you decide you want to start your own watch collection. You can make an investment for yourself and the gift recipient by buying a piece of jewelry that just happens to tell time. And since jewelry always increases in value, you have nothing to lose. So for your collection, or your gifts, take advantage of the low prices at www.KenmarWatches.com. I do, and so should you, you will not regret it.

Heed the watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches!    

You have seen displays in stores. You have seen more pink and red hearts all over every retail shop. You have seen the boxes of heart shaped candy on the shelves. You have seen thousands of red and pink roses coming to the florist shops. The spectre of yet another over commercialized holiday is beginning to hang over every one and every thing. There is supposed to be romance in the air, but all there is in these times is the smell of green dollars. And the dollar signs in the eyes of retail company owners everywhere! Especially in the store owners whose enterprises failed miserably at Christnas. But with yet another holiday that involves imports again, what perils will await the public now? Toxic red dye on the heart shaped boxes? Flowers with poisonous types of insect repellant on them which cause the recipient to break out in hives? We all know that there will be perils, as long as we keep importing everything under the sun from countries with totally rotten quality control.  But it is still just a bit to far away to be worried, yet! But worry we will and be concerned, but that is the public feeling that way, the cheapo CEO’s who do all the importing don’t worry, don’t care, and are not even concerned that people get sick and or die from their goods, they just see the fat bottom line. BUT, enough of being morbid and scaring everyone to death. What we all know is coming is Valentines Day, or Saint Valentines day if you prefer. The one day of the year where love is supposed to be in bloom, and everyone is getting one thing or another for their significant others. Let’s go through the list shall we? Flowers, usually roses, prices doubled or trebled for the holiday, wilted and dead in a week. Candy, devoured either by your office friends or your kids and you are lucky if you got one piece out of the pound or two pound box. Then the weight adds on and you get mad at yourself for binging if you were lucky enough to get the entire box to yourself. There is the alternative, which is sugar free candy, it tastes great and you can’t tell that it is sugar free, the drawback is the additional time spent in the throneroom library for two days. Clothes, great idea, get the wrong size, or a made to self destruct import, or something that is just plain ugly! And even if you are lucky enough to pick out the one perfect item for each other, it is out of style in a week.

All of you are probably aware of this by now but for those that do not know, every year it gets more and more difficult to pick out a gift for someone. Every single gift giving holiday, and there are plenty of them, on the day after, there is a line of people in every store returning or exchanging for a myriad of reasons, size, color, duplicate item, just don’t like, to ugly to be seen wearing in public, etc. Now we get to the good part, no morbid talk, no problem reminding, just the good part.  There is still one gift that rarely get’s returned, is as beautiful as diamond jewelry because it can have diamonds in it. You can choose from thousands of styles from hundreds of companies, you know what I am talking about, watches! One of the few creations that do not usually go out of style. The technology aspect of them has changed over the years from daily winding to ten year or more batteries. There are heart shaped watches with diamonds in them, there are gold and silver watches, there are brands and styles and types that you had most likely never seen before. For every gift giving holiday, there are literally thousands of gifts that can be given between couples, or to be pc, significant others, husbands and wives, children to parents and vice versa., But of those thousands of gifts, most of them do not show love as a watch does. And since a watch is actually a piece of jewelry that just happens to tell time, it will also appreciate in value over time. So to all of you I say this. When the time comes to show your love for each other, no matter who is giving or exchanging gifts, nothing says I love you more than a gift of time. How can I state this? Easily, time passes, and as it passes, you can watch it pass on a beautiful piece of jewelry that tells time and was given to you by a loved one with the inferred meaning that every time you look at the time, you think of them. So when you want to show and express eternal love, go to your computer, go to www.KenmarWatches.com, and pick out a piece of love. You will not be sorry you did!

Heed the Watchmeister for he watches watches! 

Apparently people are now reading the wisdom words of the Watchmeister and now wish to pick my brain, there is much to pick but i am saying that of my intelligence, not that I have a fat head! Although I have also been told that as well. But, I digress, so on to the questions!

Question 1 is from a JK in Marietta Ga. who asks, what is the difference between a chronograph and a regular watch?

Well JK, the differences are many. A regular watch can be either analog, digital, or ana-digi, a combination. A normal watch of the analog variety has just a sweep second hand, an hour and a minute hand. No fancy features, they can have either a leather or stainless steel band. A straight digital, will usually have just the setting buttons and will use a liquid crystal display or asn LED display to show you either the time, the date, or both together. Digital watches are available in far to many styles for me to list here. An ana-digi combination will have the same types and numbers of hands as a straight analog, the same type of buttons to change between the displays and can also come in a ton of different styles and watchbands. A digital watch has buttons to change the time and date displays, an analog usually has a little button on the side called a stem to set it, same usually on an ana-digi combination watch. Some of the fancier analog watches also come either with the date, or day date that you can change by pulling out the stem to different set points. OK, that covers the regular watch. A chronograph is an entirely different kettle of fish so to speak. Chrono’s also come in analog, digital or ana-digi models, but  other than that, the chrono has so many functions and buttons and displays that you almost need to be a rocket scientist to figure it out. Chronographs have in them, stopwatch functions, countdown timers, some have first second third and fouth place time locks on them, the analogs do all this with a whole bunch of buttons, stems and watch faces, the ana-digi’s just change the name and type of face that they happen to be showing. Other features that can be in any of the watches are alarms, back lights to light up the watch face and a few have one little oddity on them. A compass on the watch band. OK JK, if you need anything clarified, send me another e mail please.

Question 2 is from a KF of Sacramento California who wants to know why anyone would want a type of watch that she has seen advertised, a digital watch with five alarm settings. She said you only get up once in the AM, why so many alarms?

Well KF, there is more to an alarm than just to wake you up in the morning. There are some people who actually need more than five alarms for their personal schedules. Setting an alarm can be a reminder to take medicine, to make a phone call, to get ready for an appointment, to leave for a trip, if you are an older person who naps during the day, you may use it to wake you from a nap. You may be cooking indoors in the kitchen but you are outdoors on a deck or a patio, you may use an alarm on your watch as a reminder to go asnd check on what is cooking! And then there is still sometimes to wake you up in the morning before work or school. So you see, there are a lot of uses for multiple alarms on a watch. Again, KF, if you need anything clarified e mail me again and I will be happy to help you.

The next question is from a MC in Scottsdale, Arizone, or hot city as some call it. MC has a simple question but a stumper for him. He has a watch that he just bought but the instructions don’t tell him what the letters EL stand for next to o9ne of the buttons.

MC, EL is short for electro luminescence. There are now two types of liquid crystal backlights for digital watches. One where the entire face lights up and that is usually a tiny LED behind a lightly tinted face that allows light to pass through it so it can be read at night. EL watches are actually kind of cool, when you press the EL button, ONLY the numbers on the face light up, and sometimes even in different colors. I luckily enough, have watches in both types of illumination systems as well as a third! I happen to have a digital watch that tells everything in three different colors. MC, you have more q’s or need clarification, e mail me again please.

The last question of the day comes from a BC in Denver Colorado, they want to know which is better, a leather or a stainless steel band? BC, I hate to tell you this, but even the magnicicent Meister can not answer that question because neither one is actually any better than the other. The only way I can answer you is by saying this. The band you have on the watch you are wearing is determined by what you are planning on doing with the watch on! For example, you would absolutely not want to say, go out and play tackle football in a dress watch with a leather band, because more than likely, you will not only end up with the band ripped to shreds, but you may also crack the “crystal” the glass cover over the watch face. For tackle football, you might want to be wearing a Casio Mudman model digital watch that is actually made for extremely rough treatment and I believe that it usually comes with a rubber watch band that can take a lot of punishment without the delicacy of a leather band. Also, instead of just one large crystal on the Mudman, which is a very nice watch also by the way, I have a few of them. They have recessed and protected small compartmental faces. The time is in one segment of the face and the date is in another. Basically, BC, that is why the Watchmeister always says to own many more than just one watch. You do not have to go crazy and try to get up to a collection of 500 watches as I am doing, just be sensible in your watch purchases. Get say, three nice dressy analog watches, get one black and one brown leather band, to work with the dress clothes you are obviously wearing to go out someplace fancy, match the watch band to the outfit. Then get a few digitals. Again, be sensible, maybe get a few with black rubber bands and a fancier digital with a stainless steel band.

As I state time and time again, a watch is actually a piece of jewelry that just happens to also tell time. And since jewelry is usually an investment that goes up in value, not down, you never lose. Remember, if clothes do make the man, the accessories he uses show just what kind of man he is! OK MC, I hope I answered you to yo9ur satisfaction. In fact, I want to bring that up here as long as I have your attention at the moment. We at Kenmar guarantee in writing on our web site 100% customer satisfactuion guaranteed. Well people, the Watchmeister can also make that same guarantee. IF I answer your question, and you are not sure of what I mean when I say something, or anything, E MAIL ME BACK as many times as you need to until you are 100% satisfied with the answers to your questions. My e mail is Watchmeister@kenmarwatches.com. Now a major point here, if you happen to e mail me with a question and I appear not to be answering you, please don’t call Kenmar and scream that you asked a question and are being ignored by the watchmeister. I am in a funny position here, I guarantee your satisfaction AND I also have to guarantee the accuracy of my answers. What that means is that I am not and I will not ignore any questioners, but if you ask something that even the watchmeister does not know, rather than try to lie or make up a story to tell you, I will research your questions so that I can answer them 100% honestly. At Kenmar Watches, all of us represent the entire company, none of us want to ever give our customers less than 100%. After all, you are the customer, we depend on you to keep coming back to us for all your timepiece needs, so you can also depend on us to give you the best customer service no matter if you buy five watches or fifty, or even just one. You can always count on Kenmar. Remember, www.KenmarWatches.com.

Remember, Heed the watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister received a few questions at his e mail box and has decided to answer them here! Question 1 was from a J. K. in Las Vegas, or as I like to call it Lost Wages Nevada, J. K. asked what the advantage was to buying more than one watch at a time? Well, J, I know I covered that in a previous blog but I will be happy to cover it again for you. You would never have only one shirt, or one pair of pants in your wardrobe. Generally, you try to keep enough of a  variety of clothing in your wardrobe to cover a variety of situations. Formal occasions, suit and tie, business casual, vacation, or just loafing at home. Well, the same idea goes for watches. You need enough to cover you in that same variety of situations. A nice leather band analog watch goes great with a suit and tie. A rubber digital waterproof is great for a day at the beach. And you may need both a brown and a black leather band analog watch to go with different color suits. Remember J. K., when you buy a watch, you are not only buying a device that tells time, you are also investing in a piece of jewelry, and that will appreciate in value over time.

I have another question from an A. S. in Sacramento California, they want to know what the purpose of a “bling” watch is. That is a good question, let me see if I can come up with a good answer! Watches are generally one of three forms, analog, digital and ana-digi, a combination of both. Straight analog is usually just normal watch hands and a sweep second hand. Digital is usually just a plain old liquid crystal display. Bling just means that the watch could be inset with precious stones, many of the very flashy and very expensive analog ladies watches can have several carats worth of diamond chips inlaid around the crystal, or watch face. This is extremely flashy, usually very expensive if real diamonds are used and not paste or fake diamonds, the flashiness gives that watch it’s bling!

The last question that I will answer for today, there will be more as the Watchmeister is growing in popularity. This one is from an L. L. in Oak Park, Illinois who asks, what is the advantage of an ana-digi combination over a straight analog or a straight digital? That’s an easy one. A combination makes it easy to tell the time with a fast glance at the hands in daylight, but hands on a watch, even the so called luminous ones, are sometimes difficult to see at night. Therefore, by adding a digital capability where you just press a button on the watch and the digital face lights up, you can see the time easier at night than with plain analog or plain digital. There are some digitals without a back light on the digital face, I would be careful when buying one like that unless you only plan on using it in the daytime when the digital numbers can be read.

OK, I hope that answers your questions satisfactorally, not only do we guarantee 100% satisfaction on our watches, we also guarantee your satisfaction on your questions.  And remember, Heed the watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches!

Well, Christmas is essentially done for 2007, with the exception of all of the exchanges that will be made for size, color, just think it is ugly, defective, etc. Then there are humongous bags of trash to take out, mostly wrapping paper that as is normal, kids don’t take time to carefully open the seams, they just rip and fling. Then the parents walk around picking up the flung wrapping paper, box material, twist ties that it seems everyone uses to tie things down with now, and all the rest of the mountains of half biodegradable trash and half recyclable. And after all that, it is usually the parents that get hit with this, rarely if ever the kids, post Christmas letdown. You see, it is usually the children that get mountains of presents from the parents, and depending on the age of the child, Santa. Rarely if ever do the parents ever get gifts for Christmas. But they do get to see all the goodies that their children got either from them, from grandparents, older siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins, whoever, and the parents wind up with big bags of trash that they get to take out on garbage day. This is supposed to be a fun holiday? How can the parents look at it as a fun holiday when they have nothing to show for it besides trash and credit card bills? There is absolutely no reason that parents should be left out of the joy of the Christmas season with no gifts for themselves. The right way to do things is have the father buy for the mother, and the mother for the father, it is just that simple. The gifts that they trade do not have to be expensive, they do not have to be candy or flowers, both don’t last. Christmas gifts should be something that will last, and at the same time, it could, and I would imagine should, also be a gift reflecting the love between the parents. Clothing is good, but that is not a good Christmas gift because styles change so fast now days that the clothing is out of style in a week. The best gift is usually jewelry, but not just any jewelry. It should be something that is constantly looked at so each parent thinks of the other when they look at it. There is one, and only one, type of gift that fills this bill, a timepiece. But not just any old timepiece will do here. It has to be a timepiece from www.KenmarWatches.com. I say this because no one but Kenmar will give you over 125 brands to choose from, they have the lowest prices guaranteed in writing on their web site. And Kenmar will go out of their way to make you, the customer happy. That is another item guaranteed in writing on their site, 100% customer satisfaction guaranteed. Where else will you find a company that gives you all this? And all of the promises they make are guaranteed in writing on the home page of the web site. There is simply no way you can do better than Kenmar to help you get past the infamous Post Christmas Letdown. Getting a gift is always a great feeling, even if it is something you might have helped in picking out for yourself, it is still fun and excitement. So when you feel that Post Christmas letdown starting to act up, don’t walk, run to your computer, fire it up. log on to the web, and go to www.KenmarWatches.com, you will never be sorry you did.

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches! 

Well, with Christmas behind us and the next commercialized gift day ahead of us, which is Valentines day, there won’t be a lot of gifts purchased either in stores or on line. In fact, within a week, you will start to see all the Christmas stuff marked down to half price and put onto Clearance tables, you will see all the stock that didn’t sell well before Christmas also marked down to clearance prices, and you will start to see Valentines day displays popping up all over. Earlier, I mentioned “commercialized” holidays, and that is exactly what I mean, commercialized. Have you ever noticed that there are always certain holidays through the year where all the stores get pumped up with special signage, and special television commercials touting the bargains to be had for this or that holiday at their store. I truly believe that many of the jewelry stores that couldn’t sell out of their oversized Christmas orders take that same merchandise, after all, who will remember one particular stores ads among the thousands that we are all bombarded with prior to every holiday. But they take “leftovers” change the pricing, the photographs for the ads, and push them as gifts now for Valentines Day. Why not? Is there any reason not to fool the public by trying to sell the same ugly merchandise that they could not sell for Christmas and use different photographs to sell it for Valentines day? The average shopper is to dumb to look at just how ugly some items are, all they see is the price. I don’t say dumb to insult the average shopper, it is just that retailers have had so many years to perfect the tricks they use to pull the wool over the shoppers heads that the average shopper just won’t catch on. At least, they have not so far, but I am not the average shopper, I am the Watchmeister, and I do watch watches among many other things, and I am not easy to fool. Especially as I was in retail in my past and have seen the tricks being set up and used.  So now I have a question for you, why wait till a commercial holiday to buy a significant other a gift just because you want to. No birthday, mother’s or father’s day, no Valentines Day, no Chanukkah or Christmas, none of the holidays that have become so commercial that all of the religious, love, and social significance have been removed from them in honor of the almighty dollar, which seems to me to be the only higher entity that most businessmen believe in. And they believe in it to such a degree that they don’t care if their increase of their bottom lines kill people, especially children in the process. I’m talking about these absolutely brain dead corporate CEO’s that in my personal opinion, should be hung by their greedy necks until they are dead for trusting the Chinese to make damned near everything sold in America today. Yes, I will admit to being a China basher, not the Chinese people as a whole, because it is not their fault. I blame the Chinese government for not bothering to encourage their businessmen to learn true capitalism because doing that would ipso facto admit that there are very serious flaws in Communism, and this the government can never admit. Americans need to wise up, we need to look at where things are made before we buy them. Don’t buy Chinese made goods, pure and simple. What happens if you purchase an electric appliance made in China and since the UL doesn’t operate in China to inspect the goods, that appliance can catch fire and burn you and your family up in your own home. Anyway, I am digressing way off of my intended remarks, but this entire China thing is just a burr under my watchband and gets very annoying to me. I will tell you of a place, where yes, some items are made in China, but due to the nature of the product, it is not designed to hurt anyone, or kill anyone, it is merely designed to look beautiful on any person’s wrist. I am speaking naturally, of a watch, but not JUST any watch, but one that was purchased at WWW.KenmarWatches.Com. You see, by getting a beautiful piece of Jewelry that also just happens to be a device to tell time, you are not just buying a gift, you are making an investment. Jewelry does nothing but increase in value, it never decreases. And, instead of you being stuck buying some retailers holiday leftovers at an alledged clearance price, you can go to the Kenmar site and buy your waych from a business that will never be beaten by a price, they guarantee it in writing on the site. You don’t get any better proof than that.  So don’t wait till a holiday to buy a loved one a gift, anytime is gift time, and where better to get the gift than www.KenmarWatches.com. You can never go wrong with a gift of love from Kenmar.

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches!

The Watchmeister watches watches

Well folks, this coming weekend is the last shopping weekend before Christmas. This is the last weekend when all the last minute shoppers will be flooding the malls and shopping centers that are long since picked over. Most of you will be lucky if you can find a dozen golf balls, or tennis balls, or even ping pong balls. But unless you are into any of those sports, they won’t do you a lot of good. So you race from one store to another, one mall to another, looking and looking for something decent for all the people on your lists. Easy to say, difficult to do if I do say so myself.  Yup, besides having to look for gifts you may or may not find, you also need to get all the goodies for the holiday dinner. So this weekend and the beginning of this week for that matter, everyone is going to be busier than a one armed wallpaper hanger. It is interesting to note, that unfortunately there are two places to go to, can’t get gifts at the grocery store and you can’t get groceries at the mall. You might get lucky and find a grocery store near the mall, and hopefully not need to drive all over town to get what you need. And the worst part is that if you have kids, it barely gives you time to find something for them, wrap it, and still be able to hide it before they see you.  Then you still have to allow time for the cleaning of the house and the cooking of the Christmas dinner before the guests you invited over for the holiday get there. The best thing to do so close to the holiday, is use today, Friday, December 21, 2007, to go on line, go to www.KenmarWatches.com, and buy the gifts and request delivery next day air so you have it on Monday, the 24th. Send the kids out to the movies and that will buy you the time to wrap the gifts and get them under the tree. Holiday seasons are difficult at best, there are only so many hours in a day, and people still need to sleep. Money goes fast, between the gifts and the food, that’s why Kenmar is such a great place to shop. If you don’t like the price of an item, you can make an offer and you might get lucky if it is a reasonable offer. Don’t expect a $200.00 watch for $10.00, but a reasonable offer might be accepted. Saving money any time is good, saving it at the holiday season is great! With over 125 different brands, and several thousand watches to pick from, and not having to go to the mall to get it, is fantastic! Things just don’t get any better this time of year. So like I have been saying for months now, and that is when you want to shop, and want to save money and better yet, not just buy a gift, but  actually make an investment. After all, a watch is not just a device that tells time, it is also a piece of jewelry. Watches can be plain or fancy, they can have precious stones on them, even diamonds, they can be made of gold or silver. Over time, watch will do nothing but increase in value. And a unique watch with only a limited number made, can be a collectors item. So folks, your Watchmeister says to do your gift shopping by making a call, and at the same time, avoid the mall. Go to www.KenmarWatches.com, Their assortment of watches are really the bomb!

Heed the Watchmeister, he watches watches.