>>Perhaps some of you who more experience with jewelry than I do. Are metric
measurements new, starting to displace the old ones (inches, carats mass,
carats as a percentage, etc.)? Or is it just a measurement-messy industry
where metric is used for some types of measurements?
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Far more mundane, but whenever I get a watchband for my Timex digital watch
the width is always in millimeters. It seems fairly routine, and this just
low-level Service Merchandise stuff.
Of course the lady looks at my 24h display with a bit of puzzlement. <g>
Nat
