![]() But the notification delivery system is so bad, it’s almost laughable. It shows step count, calories burned, the date, the amount of battery life remaining, and heart rate clearly with a press of the crown (the crown is a button and does not rotate). If the oblong-in-a-circular hole aspect wasn’t bad enough, the Oaxis Timepiece’s screen flip-flops between being vaguely helpful to absolutely useless. Overall, we’re fans of the Timepiece’s minimalist style. We like the crown’s texture, despite not actually needing to grip it, but do feel it’s a little too large for the slimline body. The build quality is great, it’s not heavy, and the domed glass provides depth and shape to the face. This aside, the Oaxis Timepiece is an unobtrusive, subtle watch that will suit almost all wrist sizes. It’s one of those, “once-you-see-it” problems’ and has continued to irritate us when looking at the Timepiece. Worse, the corners of the oblong screen are slightly cut off by the circular hole, making it all look haphazard and poorly thought out. But upon closer examination there is one aspect we don’t like - the OLED screen is set inside a circular cutout, but is itself oblong. A silicone strap holds the Timepiece on your wrist, and it’s very comfortable. ![]() It’s slim enough to slip under a shirt sleeve, and because it’s not a big, shouty thing, this is arguably where it belongs. Aside from the Oaxis logo in the 9pm position, there’s no other visual flair, so it’s not a watch for attracting attention. This attracted a lot of grime and smudges during our time with the watch, despite it not being a touchscreen. The hands are red, and inexplicably so is the 4pm marker on the face, which is covered by what we think is mineral glass. 500,000 first printing simultaneous Spanish, large print and audio editions author tour. The nation's supply of Kleenex is bound to deplete after this hits the bookstore shelves. Evans has a more ambitious tale to tell here than in The Christmas Box, and he generally carries it off with aplomb, though the dark events of the central story and an unabashedly sappy wedding-eve coda don't quite mesh. In revenge, the dead man's friends set a fatal fire at the Parkin house and steal the symbolic timepiece, which will come back to the Parkins only after an extraordinary act of kindness and forgiveness by MaryAnne. ![]() Events force Lawrence to kill another in self-defense fearing for his friend, David tells police that he fired the shot, and is exonerated. At the thematic center of the tale lies the timepiece, bequeathed by a wealthy widow to David's friend Lawrence Flake, a black man who repairs clocks. Fragments of David Parkin's diary, dated 1908-1918 and set in Salt Lake City, weave evocatively throughout the author's account of the Parkins' courtship, marriage and family tragedy. ![]() Here, Evans traces events some 80-odd years back to tell this family's story, but not before recalling the eve of his own daughter's wedding, in 1967, when he presents her with the wristwatch, given to him by MaryAnne. Readers of the former novel will recall how the author met aged widow MaryAnne Parkin and learned of her deceased husband, David, a successful businessman, and how their infant daughter, Andrea, died a tragic death. Like the titular treasure chest of Evans's bestselling The Christmas Box, the eponymous timepiece-""a beautiful rose-gold wristwatch""-of this heart-plucking prequel fairly vibrates with sentimentality.
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