Sorcha, I actually have TWO wind-up pocketwatches. One is an antique I picked up at the flea market for the low low price of $35 - it's about 100 years old, and runs like a dream. Mister bought me a nice Russian hand-painted watch one year, too.

Trouble is... I don't always wear pockets... maybe I will have to make me one that I can attach to pocketless garments. ;-)

When I got married my mother tried to convince me I needed an electric can opener. I told her the Ecko hand-crank can opener (which cost about $2 back then) was just fine. To this day I have never owned an electric can opener.