Do you wear a watch?

[MakeDigitalLove]

No, I don't like wearing them.

 

[dpnice]

My watches are a necessity as I can't stand being late for an appointment; don't have a phone. They are also a fashion accessory when I dress up to go out.

 

[Yooper]

I don't. I quit wearing them when I was doing my Handyman thing, they'd get in the way, get damaged or broken.

I realized they've mostly become Jewelry when working in the Department Store. I tried one for a while but it still got in the way. A few jobs still require them or are extremely helpful, but I haven't gone back. Just one more thing to get in the way.

My phone is required in my current job and it works for me.

 

[Kahaih]

I don't. I quit wearing them when I was doing my Handyman thing, they'd get in the way, get damaged or broken.

I realized they've mostly become Jewelry when working in the Department Store. I tried one for a while but it still got in the way. A few jobs still require them or are extremely helpful, but I haven't gone back. Just one more thing to get in the way.

My phone is required in my current job and it works for me.

Most professional communications/transactions/records are done electronically, these days, where precise [Microsoft] time is well documented automatically, anyway.

 

[swerve]

All day every day.

 

[Kahaih]

My watches are a necessity as I can't stand being late for an appointment; don't have a phone. They are also a fashion accessory when I dress up to go out.

I'm not much for fashion, or accessorizing, but I have my gold pocket watches and fobs for that.

Never could tolerate a wristwatch. I do, sometimes, miss carrying my pocket watches, but with pocket phones it's just not necessary.

Also, I never have to bother with that pesky daylight saving/time change business, or wonder if my watch is 'ticking' and set correctly.

 

[Zeno Lorea]

My father had half a dozen very expensive watches which became mine when he died. My mother had even fancier stuff, but I have a sister, so she knew she was getting those at some point. But unlike my sister, I never wear a watch. Then again, I collect so many things that I don't use but just keep and cherish.

I had a watch as a schoolboy but I looked at it constantly. Having a phone well tucked away in my jacket or manbag helps me to maintain a touch of zen. I have a few cute inexpensive pocket watches that I can use when I leave my phone at home, but that is only at the beach, where the sun is my clock anyway.

 

[Kahaih]

^ Also, on a nude beach, a boner makes a delightful sundial.

 

[BillyT]

since i retired i don't really care much what time it is. I stopped wearing one.

Same here. Since retiring it went a drawer and that was two years ago. I just use my phone to check time.

 

[Hotrich]

I love wearing a watch. I have a phone, but, somehow, it's not the same. I love, when I need to check the time, having to lift my left wrist up a little, and then look at the watch. It's the right thing to do.

 

[Kahaih]

I love wearing a watch. I have a phone, but, somehow, it's not the same. I love, when I need to check the time, having to lift my left wrist up a little, and then look at the watch. It's the right thing to do.

Thanks to people like you, deaf people (and mimes) can still tap their wrist to ask for the time, or tell someone to 'hurry up'.

Keep up the good work.

 

[Essex Boy]

I'm not much for fashion, or accessorizing, but I have my gold pocket watches and fobs for that.

Never could tolerate a wristwatch. I do, sometimes, miss carrying my pocket watches, but with pocket phones it's just not necessary.

I knew there was someone else on here who preferred a pocket watch but I couldn't remember who it was.

I've always felt uncomfortable wearing a wrist watch so for my 18th birthday my mum bought me my first pocket watch. It lasted about 25 years. Then I got a quartz one which gradually fell apart, as modern quartz watches are designed to do. Earlier this year I was browsing for pocket watches on the web and I wasn't too impressed with either the goods or the prices--a Tissot quartz hunter in a lacquered brass case is about £190 ($250) and a mechanical open face model can cost £400 ($500+) or more--so on a whim I started looking at antique and vintage models. I knew nothing about watches really so I spent a few weeks swatting up and decided I liked American watches best.

In fact I'm now in love with them. I bought myself a wonderful Waltham, one of a series made in 1918 for the English market. The amazing thing is that the American makers didn't just make top-quality watches, they mass produced them. People assume that antique pocket watches must be rare and expensive but actually they are quite common and you can buy a very acceptable fully-functioning vintage watch for half what you'd pay for a modern one. These things are cheap! If watches of this quality could be made today they would cost a fortune. Waltham was the first watch factory in America and they gave a watch to every single Yankee soldier in the Civil War. They gave one to Honest Abe, too.

Here's mine.

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It's fully adjusted and keeps jolly near perfect time after 99 years. No kidding. During the course of a day it will gain about ten seconds, and if I store it pendant down (upside-down) overnight it loses slightly so it balances out. I find it very soothing to cradle it to my ear and just listen to it tick. After a while it becomes hypnotic, it's almost a liquid sound. You don't get that with a £5000 Rolex. It's a living thing with a beating heart. Here's the inside.

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The decorative pattern engraved on the nickel plates is called damaskeening and is unique to American watches. This one is relatively sober but some of them can be very elaborate. I like that it's hidden inside the back of the case, so the only time it's visible is when the watch is opened for servicing or if I want to show it off in Hot Topics.

 

[Kahaih]

^ I was a bit hesitant to mention pocket watches in this thread.

I remember we (I) derailed a thread about buying 501 blue jeans when I asked why they still have a watch pocket, and what people might use them for these days.

Your timepiece is wonderful – beautiful. Nice find.

 

[seven2go]

I can't "wear" a watch but I always carry one in a pants pocket.
One with hands.......no date business either........just the time.
I can't get an expansion band small enough for my wrist that I can get over my hand and my wrist breaks out from leather so.......

 

[Pierresro]

My partner and I have 52 watches The only one real valuable is a cartier tank wach given to when I was a Foreign Exchange Trader in New York. The rest range from 50 to 90$ 6 re Disney watches my partner worked there and every year they have a limited edition watch only for employees. 51 of the watches require batteries which can add up but what the heck!

 

[dpnice]

I can't "wear" a watch but I always carry one in a pants pocket.
One with hands.......no date business either........just the time.
I can't get an expansion band small enough for my wrist that I can get over my hand and my wrist breaks out from leather so.......

Leather wrist bands are not the only thing available, you can have cloth ones as well.

 

[Essex Boy]

Leather wrist bands are not the only thing available, you can have cloth ones as well.

And gay ones into the bargain.

 

[Essex Boy]

Watch porn!

More examples of damaskeening and some fancypants dials.

 

[gsdx]

^ Nice.

Here are some watches which make you think:

 

[luckynumbah7]

Used to, it was lovely. Not in an any aesthetic/sensation sense, but it talked! Then the band broke (and you can't replace 'em on the one I owned) so I carried it around in my pocket until the battery died. Now I've gone back to asking folks and finding the huge numbered clocks in center ity, of which there's not very many. I occasionally try to use my phone, but I've also managed to misread those numbers, clarity isn't something the phone provides with ease. Supposed to be talking to the tech guy about that.

Been meaning to get a new watch, I'd like one with speech but the bands on those are hideous and uncomfortable. They all feel like plastic, horrible in the summer. There's a few braille watches available, debating on those.