I used my Chanukah money from my in-laws (thanks Grandma and Grandpa!) to buy a watch on eBay that I’ve been admiring for a couple of years. It’s a Citizen Eco-Drive — the Eco means it runs on light, thus saving .0000000000000000005 kilowatts per year for the children of Mother Earth — and I like it, except for the instructions. Often watch instructions fail because they’re too brief. These fail because, although they are full, they are incomprehensible. Here’s an example, under the subhead “O-Position Correction of Function Hand and Date Wheel”:

The whole thing is like that. Page after page.

We need a Watch Setting Wiki where our civilization can pitch in and, using our combined brainpower, create understandable instructions for setting our watches. [Technorati tags: watches eco-drive]

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