Brian J White wrote:
>
> At 11:55 2002-05-30 -0700, M R wrote:
> >Today I saw Speigel watch straps in CVS store
> >with the width quoted in millimeters. Unfortunately
> >they use 'MM' instead of 'mm'.
> >
> >Atleast I am happy that they used metric. The company
> >is US based, but the product is Made in China and
> >slowly metric only products are creeping into USA.
> >
> >Madan
>
> As far as I've ever seen, watch strap width has always been
> millimeters. No big win there.
That strap width is related to the pin length, which has been metric
for a very long time, apparently.
Jim
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