FYI, Ryan, it looks like either your computer clock is set a couple days back or there is a serious selective delay in the Yahoo Groups email handler... I just did a little digging around with your criteria and came up empty-handed on the countdown timer feature (along with the rest). In fact, the only sweep analog kinetic watch I could find for sale online was this one (for $395): http://www.kenmarwatches.com/index.php?act=viewProd&productId=10796&ref=FR I know you know how to Google, and I only spent a couple minutes looking, but I figured I'd post what I found, just FYI. Regards, Jon Heese Ryan Wright wrote: > So, I've always had cheaper, digital watches and I want to buy a nice > analog watch. The biggest points of concern to me are that the watch > be kinetically powered and have a "sweeping" second hand. I don't like > the "tick, tick, tick" bit. > > I don't need a lot of features, but one thing I would like is a > "countdown timer". I'm not sure that exists in a good analog watch - > I'd like to be able to set the watch for x minutes and have it inform > me somehow when that time has elapsed. I could do without that and I'm > thinking I might have to, but I figured I'd throw it out there in case > such a beast exists. > > Any advice would be appreciated. > > -Ryan > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/DMCForum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:DMCForum-digest@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:DMCForum-fullfeatured@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: DMCForum-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/