Here resided all the junk, the objets d'crap of his years in this room: buttons, paper clips, lozenge tins, cassette tapes, rolling papers, a tiny airport brandy bottle, the watchband from his uncle's Seiko, guitar picks and toothpicks and a photograph of his mother leaning on the birch tree in the yard.
As a result, if you bought into a record-pressing plant, watchband factory, or a board-game café when those markets were facing serious technological disruption a decade ago, you've likely seen your investment grow significantly.
Another customer bought special deodorant ($17) to apply to the sweaty skin beneath his watchband, suffering from a condition that he diagnosed as "funky wrist".
Valuable!" "You're not supposed to wear that when you do massages, are you?" Beth took him by the hand and turned his wrist over and squeezed the watchband, plucking open its fastener, slipping it off.
Josh grew increasingly befuddled, as Robbins continued to make the coin vanish and reappear — on his shoulder, in his pocket, under his watchband.
There were not, and it appeared that Rohan, who wore a khaki-colored corduroy suit with moderately wide wales, a red corduroy hat, and a corduroy watchband, had not even considered the essential question "What is the drink that most resembles corduroy?" A woman, thinking of smoke and the color brown, asked for whiskey.
Among Textron's acquisitions over the next four decades were outdoor power equipment maker Homelite; Camcar, a maker of fastening systems; engine castings manufacturer CWC; golf cart manufacturer E-Z-GO; Speidel, a maker of watchbands; Sheaffer Pen; staple- and nail-gun maker Bostitch; Gorham silver company; and the conglomerates Avco Corporation and Ex-Cell-O Ex-Cell-O Ex-Cell-O Corporation
Textron came to oversee the manufacture of a wide range of products, such as watchbands, chain saws, helicopters, radar antennas, snowmobiles, electronic equipment, and roller bearings.
(Today, it's used mostly in things like suitcases, tool belts, and tough-guy watchbands).
His father spent ten years making watchbands at sweatshop wages and was no better off than before.
When it was clear that he would never be promoted, he quit and started his own business, making leather watchbands at home.
