Is the Watch a timepiece?

[Piggie]

Ok.

I think for me a "Timepiece" would be anything, and it could be made from rocks and wood, mechanical gears, cardboard, plastic, metal or computer chips.

If that devices main function, and ideally sole function is to tell the time.

Even an atomic clock I would call a timepiece just as much as a old grandfather clock as they are both devices created specifically for the sole purpose of telling the time.

The Apple watch is not such a device.

It is a computer, just a small one, that is general purpose, like an iPhone, and iPad, a iPod, a MacBook or an iMac.

All these devices, including the Apple watch are general purpose computing devices and any one of them can be programmed to display the time on it's screen.
But that's just something all these devices can do. It's not their prime or only function in the way I described above.

It's like calling a human a timepiece as you can stand there and point your arms like the hands on a watch. Just because you can stand there and move your hands like a watch, does not make you a Timepiece.

You are a general purpose device, and you doing that, would just be one of the many things you could do.

 

[McCool71]

But we all know really it's just a little wrist computer.

Totally I agree. Which is why I personally do not see the point at all to make it look like an oldfashioned traditional watch. Because it isn't.

 

[Mr. Buzzcut]

Consider that it can most likely barely keep time on its own. It will rely on NTP via iPhone to achieve the accuracy Apple touted. As such, it's not much of a timepiece to me.

 

[Runt888]

Ok.

I think for me a "Timepiece" would be anything, and it could be made from rocks and wood, mechanical gears, cardboard, plastic, metal or computer chips.

Sorry, I didn't know we were allowed to make up our own definitions. In that case, everyone is right!

 

[Piggie]

Sorry, I didn't know we were allowed to make up our own definitions. In that case, everyone is right!

I was mearly explaining that it does not matter what material a Clock or Watch is made out for it to be a timepiece.

A piece of equipment build for telling the time.

We have had clocks made from so many different materials from Wood, Metal, and stone. right up to plastics and computer chips.

They are devices designed and built for telling the time made from any material.

Taking a general purpose computing device and getting it to display the time does not make it a timepiece for me, any more that, as I said, you holding your hands at certain positions would make you a timepiece.

Both you and the "little computer" are both general purpose devices.

 

[Runt888]

I was mearly explaining that it does not matter what material a Clock or Watch is made out for it to be a timepiece.

A piece of equipment build for telling the time.

The Apple Watch is most definitely a "piece of equipment [built] for telling time." Apple spent a significant amount of time during the preview and a significant amount of space on the Apple Watch website discussing how well it tells time.

It just happens to do a lot more as well.

 

[Piggie]

The Apple Watch is most definitely a "piece of equipment [built] for telling time." Apple spent a significant amount of time during the preview and a significant amount of space on the Apple Watch website discussing how well it tells time.

It just happens to do a lot more as well.

Like my Car?
Or Microwave
Or Cooker
Or TV
Or Desktop Computer
Or DVD Player
Or Cable Box

All have had work put into them to make sure they can tell the time and display the time, and it just so happens they can do many other things also.

So many timepieces I must have around the house it seems

 

[SlCKB0Y]

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/timepiece


Yes, it's a timepiece.

If you think that definition covers the Apple Watch, it also covers my Microwave oven.

 

[BaldiMac]

Like my Car?
Or Microwave
Or Cooker
Or TV
Or Desktop Computer
Or DVD Player
Or Cable Box

All have had work put into them to make sure they can tell the time and display the time, and it just so happens they can do many other things also.

So many timepieces I must have around the house it seems

If you think that definition covers the Apple Watch, it also covers my Microwave oven.

All of those items contain timepieces. It's just not their primary function. When the Apple Watch is displaying a watch face, it is certainly a timepiece as well by the most well accepted definitions.

 

[ditzy]

I personally would argue that the Apple watch is a time piece, in the same way that I would argue that the iPhone is a phone. Both devices are able to do much more than their primary function, but both are what they essentially are.

 

[Runt888]

Like my Car?
Or Microwave
Or Cooker
Or TV
Or Desktop Computer
Or DVD Player
Or Cable Box

All have had work put into them to make sure they can tell the time and display the time, and it just so happens they can do many other things also.

So many timepieces I must have around the house it seems

If you think that definition covers the Apple Watch, it also covers my Microwave oven.

Yes, being that the definition of a timepiece is "an instrument that measures, registers, or records time" I would say that all of those devices are or contain timepieces.

All of those items contain timepieces. It's just not their primary function. When the Apple Watch is displaying a watch face, it is certainly a timepiece as well by the most well accepted definitions.

Exactly this.

 

[cmChimera]

Like my Car?
Or Microwave
Or Cooker
Or TV
Or Desktop Computer
Or DVD Player
Or Cable Box

All have had work put into them to make sure they can tell the time and display the time, and it just so happens they can do many other things also.

So many timepieces I must have around the house it seems

Yes. All of those devices are timepieces. You could say they include timepieces, and are not timepieces in themselves, but that's a pointless debate.

If you think that definition covers the Apple Watch, it also covers my Microwave oven.

That's because it does.


Timepiece is not a special word, gentlemen.

 

[Night Spring]

Timepiece is not a special word, gentlemen.

Not including the ladies in the room?

 

[Runt888]

Not including the ladies in the room?

Anecdotal evidence based solely on my wife suggests women don't know how to tell time

 

[cmChimera]

Not including the ladies in the room?

Whoops! Ladies and Gentlemen*

 

[Ulenspiegel]

I glass of water gives sound when you hit it. But it is not an instrument.

 

[Serban]

timepiece= An instrument, such as a clock or watch, that measures, registers, or records time.

so if it a watch or smartwatch doesn't matter because it is a timepiece
200 years ago a timepiece was only mechanical watch and clocks because there weren't in digital era. but now, we have a lot more to add

 

[Night Spring]

Anecdotal evidence based solely on my wife suggests women don't know how to tell time

I'll take your wife and raise you my dad and my first BF, neither of whom were able to tell time if their life depended on it!

 

[Runt888]

I glass of water gives sound when you hit it. But it is not an instrument.

http://youtu.be/DvkELEBMLV0

 

[Julien]

I glass of water gives sound when you hit it. But it is not an instrument.

Mozart composed several pieces of music for glass.

http://www.amazon.com/Harmonica-Mozart-Reichardt-Naumann-Rollig/dp/B00000E9K4

 

[inhalexhale1]

Ok, let me ask you this.

Is an iPhone a Timepiece/Watch?

Is an iPod Touch a Timepiece/Watch?

Is an iPod Nano a Timepiece/Watch?

If no, then why?

If you do say no, then you are saying any device, that can display the time, that is small enough to realistically fit on your wrist, and be held on by a strap IS a Timepiece/Watch?

The only real difference between an iPod, and iPod, an iPad and a Apple Watch is physical size.

I get what you're trying to say. A watch is a timepiece. The Apple Watch is a smart watch. Obviously it keeps track of the time, but its purpose is more diverse. I would say its not a timepiece in the traditional sense. I also don't view it as a fine watch or jewelry. Beyond looking like a cool sport watch, I don't think much of it.

 

[Ulenspiegel]

Mozart composed several pieces of music for glass.

http://www.amazon.com/Harmonica-Mozart-Reichardt-Naumann-Rollig/dp/B00000E9K4

Like many contemporary composers. Nevertheless it does not make a glass of water a musical instrument.

 

[Runt888]

I get it. If your Watch has wings, it would fly.
Like many contemporary composers. Nevertheless it does not make a glass of water a musical instrument.

Really?

A musical instrument is an instrument created or adapted to make musical sounds. In principle, any object that produces sound can be a musical instrument—it is through purpose that the object becomes a musical instrument.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical_instrument

 

[Ulenspiegel]

Really?

It is creditable that you have learned to use google.
Now comes the harder part.

I mentioned '"a glass of water". What is an instrument using glass is called Glass Harmonica. By the way Mozart composed for Glass Harmonica.

 

[Runt888]

It is creditable that you have learned to use google.
Now comes the harder part.

I mentioned '"a glass of water". What is an instrument using glass is called Glass Harmonica. By the way Mozart composed for Glass Harmonica.

So your argument is that a glass a water magically transforms into a Glass Harmonica as soon as it is tapped?