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Baptist Trainfan
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Originally posted by TonyK:
It's really much simpler than getting the mobile out of its belt holster!
Especially if (like me) you only have an unsmart mobile, which stays in my wallet (man-bag)until needed for a call. (I do use the alarm facility if I am away anywhere).
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Carex
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I always wear one (though discovered I had forgotten it this morning when I looked to check the maker's name.) I get the inexpensive ones - often Timex - that have a big analogue dial with digital displays for alarm, stop watch, other time zones, etc. The straps are of the buckle type, preferably a continuous loop so it doesn't fall off my wrist if one of the strap pins breaks. The crystal on my current one is rather scratched from wearing it while working in the garden - it is often cheaper to get a new watch than a new crystal.
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Jane R
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I prefer wearing a watch because I always know where my right arm is - which is more than I can say for my mobile phone. If it's switched to silent mode I can lose it for days.
I have to wear a watch when swimming, because I am too short-sighted to see the poolside clock without climbing out of the pool.
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balaam
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Originally posted by Spike:
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Originally posted by Cathscats:
I wear a watch, and it has to be analogue, not digital!
Do digital watches even still exist?
After years of analogue watch wearing I'm considering going back to digital. They are a lot smarter now than they were in the '70s.
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Arethosemyfeet
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Originally posted by Uncle Pete:
I had a timex with an expansion bracelet when I was a young man. I am on my 5th or sixth one now. At various times I have had a digital (Only bought one because I swept my 3rd Timex into the toilet ![[Eek!]](eek.gif) My sister gave me a nice watch about 8 years ago, and up until a few years ago I wore it in Canada when the strap disintegrated. Now I am back to Timex and will wear one until I die (Cost has risen from $15 to 75) Don't like clasps or buckles - they are too fiddly.
My last Timex was no more than GBP15. Do you buy really fancy versions?
I wear a watch every day, don't really use a mobile phone due to lousy reception and lack of need. The Time watches are great - robust leather strap, 10 year battery life. Means I don't need to think about it, it Just Works.
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Ariel
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Thanks to this thread, I've spent a couple of evenings scouring the net looking for a digital watch like the little Casio one I was given for my 18th birthday (fat chance) and which I was immensely proud of at the time, until the strap broke some years later and I lost it.
After just about giving up, I've now found one that's almost identical on eBay. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Rowen
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I wear a watch.
Big face, easy numbers, seconds hand... Makes timing my church services a breeze, as I can easily see how long or short something is.
When I bought my watch, the assistant in the shop said the brand was popular with nurses, teachers, and priests. I can see why.
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Huia
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The only times my watch is off is when I'm having a massage. It's an inexpensive Lorus analogue. I have difficulty telling the time with digital ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif)
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crunt
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My auntie bought me a Timex watch when I was 5 or 6 years old. I really loved strapping it on very tightly so I would leave red indents on my skin after I took it off.
Talking about the progress / regress things, we said the same about digital watches when they first appeared. Very clever, like, but where's the progress when you need to hands to tell the time? Many early digital watches had a button you needed to push to activate the display; some even came with special covers to protect the watch face that needed to be unclipped when you wanted to look at your watch. That was a fad that didn't last for very long.
I did buy a digital watch when I was a teenager, but only because the digital date display was in Welsh.
When I ran a business in my home city I had long given up on wearing a watch. I had a routine and I kind of knew by the light and the street activity what time it was, and if I was in town I knew where the clocks were if I needed to double check. When I went on holiday I took a watch with me, because new surroundings and new routines meant that I would have no idea of the time.
Have you ever done that thing where you see someone glance at their wrist watch, and then ask them the time? Many people have to look again before they can tell you.
I just use my phone now, or the clock on my computer, or the one in my car. I'm never far from a timepiece so I don't need to wear a watch.
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balaam
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That's humans for you, so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. (Douglas Adams).
How long will it be before the watches are smarter than the wearers?
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Smudgie
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I'd love to wear a watch. Sadly it took me the loss of several watches to realise that my demographic urticaria (basically an allergy to touch) was so irritated by them that I kept absent-mindedly taking them off and putting them in my pockets or down on any nearby surface.
I thought I'd cured the problem by buying a nurse's watch which I pinned to my clothes, which is great as long as you remember to remove them from your clothes when you stick them in the washing machine. (Actually, I think it was the tumble drier that dealt the death blow!)
All the clocks in my house tell different times which somehow seems really to annoy the people who don't know how much each clock is out by, so only my mobile and my laptop are entirely reliable. But like so many others, I really don't like having to have my mobile out so that I can keep an eye on the time - and as my mobile is penguin shaped, can be a bit embarrassing too!
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Gwai
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Now you all have me really missing my last watch. I find it's getting harder and harder to find cheap watches that are moderately reliable. I was one of the last people I knew with a watch tan, but finally gave up when I was too broke to keep paying 35 bucks on cheap crappy watches. The problem is definitely that watches are considered jewelry now.
But like others I have a dumbphone and I don't always even carry it with me, so a watch would be very very handy. May have to start looking again.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by balaam:
That's humans for you, so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. (Douglas Adams).
How long will it be before the watches are smarter than the wearers?
Oh, that has been true since the sundial.
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churchgeek
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This reminds me...those thieves who broke into our house last fall also stole my watch necklace. I forget about it because they also stole necklaces of sentimental value, and because the watch necklace was fairly new, and I hadn't worn it much.
I do wear a watch. My preference is for what I call a "granny watch," one of those really simple, small ones with the stretchy metal band and a face with hands. I like silver tone. Then again, I haven't gotten into the smart phone thing yet. In fact, last week I decided to be "good" and carry my cell phone. So what happened? It fell out of my pocket and I no longer have a cell phone. No danger of my watch slipping off my wrist, though! But I can't call anyone with it. Tradeoffs, I guess.
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HCH
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I have a little watch that dangles upside-down from a belt loop.
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marzipan
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I also have a citizen Eco drive, I've had it nine years. Recently it randomly kept stopping in the middle of the night, so I stopped to and left it on the windowsill for a week to charge the battery and now it's running fine again. Must have just been not getting enough daylight to charge the battery. (As its winter, I've been wearing a lot of long sleeved jumpers!
It felt very odd not having the watch on my wrist.
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Teilhard
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Originally posted by Banner Lady:
Do you still wear a watch? This story indicates that watchmakers could be in trouble, with decreasing sales globally, even though now you can have a watch with worldwide web interfaces.
I stopped wearing a watch when I began carrying a mobile phone. Simply could not see the need for both. But I am curious as to how widespread this is as a habit.
So, do you still regularly strap on a wristwatch, and why?
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I not only still keep and wear a watch … It is ONLY a "watch" … It has no GPS application, hourly stock market updates, internet access, altimeter, or ATM features … It's just a watch -- not "digital," either ...
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Amika
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I've worn one since I was a child and feel lost without it. I've only ever had the fairly cheap analogue ones.
I still don't get the attraction of a mobile phone as a replacement timepiece. I mean you've got to go to the effort of getting it out of wherever you've thrust it, and then, in my case, you've got to open it up. I wouldn't have the patience for all that. At least I always know where my wristwatch is and all that's required is a simple flick of the wrist.
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doubtingthomas
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Originally posted by balaam:
That's humans for you, so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. (Douglas Adams).
How long will it be before the watches are smarter than the wearers?
Mine ain't.
It's a digital watch from Adams's era - saved up for from my pocket money in the early 1980s...
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Belle Ringer
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My Dad's watch lasted 40 years. Mine die in 6 months. Of course, I don't pay as much as he did, but I think the old wind up has real virtue in batteries not dying in a few months!
I would wear one because of the lack of wall clocks and I don't carry a cell, but I have a drawerful of dead watches and got tired of buying them. Battery replacement fee is more than another watch. I tried replacing batteries myself (with tiny screwdriver and magnifying glass) but none of them worked.
My wall clocks last a couple years, then fall behind an hour or more per day; a new battery gets them going well for a few hours then they again quit keeping anything remotely related to real time.
I ask whoever has a computer or smartphone on "what time is it?"
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Teilhard
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
My Dad's watch lasted 40 years. Mine die in 6 months. Of course, I don't pay as much as he did, but I think the old wind up has real virtue in batteries not dying in a few months!
I would wear one because of the lack of wall clocks and I don't carry a cell, but I have a drawerful of dead watches and got tired of buying them. Battery replacement fee is more than another watch. I tried replacing batteries myself (with tiny screwdriver and magnifying glass) but none of them worked.
My wall clocks last a couple years, then fall behind an hour or more per day; a new battery gets them going well for a few hours then they again quit keeping anything remotely related to real time.
I ask whoever has a computer or smartphone on "what time is it?"
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Ondergard
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I have a Citizen Eco Drive watch - powered entirely by light (not even sunlight!) and accurate to within seconds a month. It also has a day/date indicator.
I have had it ten years, and it is the best watch I have ever had - so much so that I bought both my sons one for their wedding day present.
I do still have, though, for sentimental reasons, a Sekonda wind-up watch on a silver band which my wife bought me for the first Christmas after we got married thirty six years ago. It still goes, but is not very reliable.
I am left handed, and wear my watch on my right wriat - and I do that because my (rightie) dad put my first watch on my right wrist so that I would be able to check the time when doing exam without lifting pen from paper!
I love pocket watches. I would love one day to own a gold hunter or half hunter, but only for aesthetic reasons, and a love of jewellery.
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rufiki
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
Battery replacement fee is more than another watch.
Yikes! Is that common? I had my watch battery replaced today by a local jeweller for the princely sum of £5.
I am another who has been wearing a watch since my parents bought me a pink digital Casio for a birthday during primary school. My current one is a simple analogue Lorus. Also a birthday present from my parents, it has been going for over a decade now. It even survived being dropped on a concrete floor last summer (could've sworn the clasp was done up when I let go!) though it needed a new glass.
As for my mobile 'phone, I can locate it as easily as I can locate my keys. Which, when I am out and about, is very easy. When I am at home, it could be anywhere!
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balaam
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Originally posted by rufiki:
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
Battery replacement fee is more than another watch.
Yikes! Is that common? I had my watch battery replaced today by a local jeweller for the princely sum of £5.
That's about right for a normal watch, my diver's watch has battery replacement at £35 a pop.
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Boogie
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Originally posted by Belle Ringer:
I ask whoever has a computer or smartphone on "what time is it?"
My mobile phone has the time displayed anyway - whatever I'm doing with it, even when it's on 'lock' it shows the time.
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Smudgie
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The Smudgelet has a lovely analogue watch which his sister bought him and he wears with pride.
Got very confused when the clocks went forward last weekend, though - I think he expected the hands to whizz round independently at 1am.
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Welease Woderwick
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I didn't wear a watch for years after I got a mobile phone but then found a brilliantly simple and plain [and cheap] analogue watch online - black face, no numbers, two silver coloured hands - which I wore for a year or so until it died [it was very cheap] and now have a very plain and simple digital probably designed for kids but it suits me admirably.
No changing of hours over here, thank the powers, so no hassle about adjusting it twice a year or losing/gaining sleep.
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St Everild
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I love watches...the analogue kind. I don't feel properly dressed without one on my left wrist...
I have a Berens ceramic one, a Skagen one with a second hand and the date, but the date is always wrong because it is so small I can't see it even with specs, a Seiko one which belonged to my mum, a Titan gents one with a big clear face, and another one which I cannot remember the name of...I'm fortunate because I don't have any allergies.
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Penny S
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I always wear one. I have a cheap Sekonda man's watch (man's because I have large wrists) with a second hand. I have a second choice, cheap Sekonda man's watch that needs daily winding, I had that first, but lost it, thinking someone had removed it at the swimming pool, only to find it a year later between the lining and the outer layer of my handbag. Cheap watches because of my teaching and the risk of damage round school. Analogue because I don't just look to see what the time is, but to see how long it is until.... whatever. Without having to do sums.
I also have the tiny one I was given as a significant birthday present (can't remember whether it was 18 or 21), and my mother's good metal one, which my Dad gave me after she died. I only wear those for special.
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Sir Kevin
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I still wear a watch: I am a supply teacher and I don't trust school clocks. I can also wear my waterproof Timex when I go surfing!
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Lothlorien
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Originally posted by Smudgie:
The Smudgelet has a lovely analogue watch which his sister bought him and he wears with pride.
Got very confused when the clocks went forward last weekend, though - I think he expected the hands to whizz round independently at 1am.
When mobiles, tablets and computers change automatically, his was not an unreasonable assumption.
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Galloping Granny
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My first watch, gold with an expanding bracelet, cost £15, which can't have been easy on a student allowance (no student loans in the seventies).
Many years later I decided I should have a new one, similar style, which I bought with the taxman's refund (the 33% you get back when you declare your church/charitable donations).
Then one day I took it to be cleaned or regulated or something, and the watchmaker got burgled; my present watch, still gold on an expanding bracelet, came from his insurance payout.
I only take it off when I shower or go swimming. And every night I wonder:" Am I the only person in this city who *winds* their watch every night?"
I do have a tiny beautiful gold dress watch that was my mother-in-law's. I've only worn it once, I think.
When the grandkids came to stay I found a little old clock for 8-year-old, who is allowed to read after 7 am. Two days later, alas, it had stopped – I hadn't told him about winding.
The Grandad has a digital watch which he finds very hard to adjust, even with the booklet open. It's taken to beep-beeping every hour, with ten beeps at noon and midnight and more every few minutes – obviously a snooze alarm but he hasn't figured how to turn it off. I don't think he hears it as clearly as I do; it's a very tiny sound but I can hear it several rooms away, so it must be a frequency he's lost but I haven't.
Students in my teacher Dad's class reported that he'd often put his hand in his pocket and wind his pocket watch.
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