{"id":24296,"date":"2022-10-18T01:03:33","date_gmt":"2022-10-18T05:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=24296"},"modified":"2022-10-17T01:38:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T05:38:35","slug":"time-gentlemen-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/time-gentlemen-please\/","title":{"rendered":"time gentlemen please"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_24297\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Surprising-New-Leica-x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24297\" class=\"size-full wp-image-24297\" src=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Surprising-New-Leica-x-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-24297\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ad for the new Leica Watch line<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. \u00a0For decades companies would rebadge fancy watches for sales staff and other folk, As a youth, I bought a Bulova <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accutronwatch.com\/\">Accutron<\/a> which is a mechanism driven by a tuning fork in turn driven by a transistor. Companies like Amanda rebadged the Accutron which was the first electronic watch. Decades later, Apple created an electronic watch and the software to run it as another line of income.<\/p>\n<p>Recently George Dunbar sent me a copy of an ad for a <a href=\"https:\/\/leica-camera.com\/en-NZ\/World-of-Leica\/Leica-Watch\">Leica Watch<\/a>. Rather than compete with Apple and its all electronic watch, Leica chose to create a mechanical watch with some unique features. Leica is known for its high quality and introduction to the era of the minicam. Leica won its spurs for both lenses and mechanical precision.<\/p>\n<p>George writes, &#8220;This full-page appears in the Oct. 16 issue of the New York Times Fashion Magazine.&#8221;. Take a look.<\/p>\n<p>NB. This post title is from a British TV comedy series of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Time_Gentlemen_Please\">same name<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. \u00a0For decades companies would rebadge fancy watches for sales staff and other folk, As a youth, I bought a Bulova Accutron which is a mechanism driven by a tuning fork in turn driven by a transistor. Companies like Amanda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/time-gentlemen-please\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[4204,284,4203,398,61,840],"class_list":["post-24296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-accutron","tag-apple","tag-bulova","tag-camera","tag-leica","tag-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24300,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24296\/revisions\/24300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}