Your watch: what does it look like?

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Digital watches can be cool, can't they? I want them to be. I want sporty watches to be cool, to. Combine digital and sporty into a cool watch with awesome technical functions like telememo storage and countdown timer, moonphase, compass and shit and I would be happy.

But all the watches I see that do this don't look cool. They look cheap and shitty.

But there are too many watches out there for me to judge.

Can't a big-watch loving classical kind of guy get a cool watch with all that tech shit in a digital package and be proud?

― Digital Moonphase Chronograph w/30 data telememos, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

to=too

― Digital Moonphase Chronograph w/30 data telememos, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.eyecandyforthebrokenhearted.com/watch.jpg

Here's my cheap analog complete with cracked face. It tells the time, thats enough for me.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

EOS is a good brand, isn't it? In other words, I mean, "it's not cheap," right? Looks like a weirdo kind of thing. Don't you miss not having telemomo and moonphase functions? I know I do! ;(

― Digital Moonphase Chronograph w/30 data telememos, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

TIMEX WALMART DIGITAL WATER RESISTANT UNDERWATER SCUBA DIVING IRONMAN TRIATHLON MEGAWATCH INDIGLO WITH 8-LAP MEMORY

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

we had a watch thred. i still have the same watch since then.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

i don't wear a watch any more

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

i want to not wear a watch. i'm too addicted to knowing what time it is. makes classes miserable.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:44 (twenty years ago)

Examples of watches that do what I'd like my watch to do, but look ugly-ish:

http://store1.yimg.com/I/gormangift_1830_41400836

http://216.25.78.123/pics/casio/g23101v.jpg

― Digital Moonphase Chronograph w/30 data telememos, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:45 (twenty years ago)

I need a watch to scream "rock and/or roll" and these watches scream "unfashionable douche".

― Digital Moonphase Chronograph w/30 data telememos, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

EOS is a good brand, isn't it? In other words, I mean, "it's not cheap," right?

It was about A$30 which is about US$20. I'd call that pretty fucking cheap :)

― kate/papa november (papa november), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:48 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00020A8CS.01-A3141PJB45INW5._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

For cool digital watches, though, you probably want to go here. Inventory changes frequently, so if they don't have anything classical right now, check back in a month.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

I hope this works:

http://www.bruklin.com/new/skagen324lslb.jpg

The wrist band has some marks on it now, unfortunately. I'm really very rough on watches.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

my watch cost me $27 5 years ago thriftayyyy

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

I didn't read the first post (naturally).

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:50 (twenty years ago)

my watch cost me $27 5 years ago thriftayyyy

$275 is pretty expensive! Ha, ha, joke blah etc.

I want to create a watch that has all the holidays remindered for idiots, but to make it REALLY cool, I want stuff like Walpurgisnacht and Samhain in the memory! It'll be black with a big red pentagram face, of course. http://angelic.tk/images3/atkbaphomet.gif

I imagine I might actually break even. I might make a profit if I sell it through Danzig's website.

― Digital Moonphase Chronograph w/30 data telememos, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:56 (twenty years ago)

same thing as last thread. this is my watch:

http://www.swatch.com.tw/8-Collec/01fw/irony/Iroony%20Diaphane/images/watch08.gif

except i finally got a metal band.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 04:59 (twenty years ago)

Ooh, that's a nice one. I forgot about Swatch! They had that worldtime shit so they may have the technological crap I'm looking for. I also like how they did the 'skeleton' thing without making it look all old and shit the way most of those watches look.

― Digital Moonphase Chronograph w/30 data telememos, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:03 (twenty years ago)

that watch doesn't have a battery, it winds when you move with it.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:10 (twenty years ago)

This is what I want:
http://www.mauricelacroix.com/img/start_uhr.jpg

Please contribute now.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/shelter/img1013408942.jpeg

http://www.fitzsu.com/3424/5005.jpg

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

mine is very very low tech. you can hardly even see the numbers when the light is dim!

http://michaelgraves.com/grid/37354.735162037.Watch_Newark_83_2.jpg

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:29 (twenty years ago)

Reasons I don't wear a watch:

- Time is a stressor
- Watches are for hipsters
- You can ALWAYS tell the time by looking at someone else's watch

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:31 (twenty years ago)

I wear my watch on the right. Am I the only one who does this? Tell me I'm not a freak. Please. ;)

― stevie nixed (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:37 (twenty years ago)

I also am right-handed and wear my watch on my right wrist. Wearing it on my left wrist feels really unnatural.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Ditto.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minusworld/4900936/

― Drake Beardo (cprek), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I have an analogue watch from Next haha. And I wear it on my right wrist because I get skin irritation if I wear it on my left, don't know why.

I had a very annoying tutor last year who was always saying how much he hated mobile phones but how he HAD to have one so he could tell the time. I don't know if he knew about wrist watches.

― Archel (Archel), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I've got an analogue Jeep Divers Watch with a steel strap. I can't find a picture online, it looks like a watch.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

I have cheap watch from Fossil -- I'm too careless with my watches to buy a nice one. It is silver with a pink face.

― Leon the Fatboy (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 14:43 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.skywatches.com.sg/.../ images/CA-53W.jpg

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:29 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.skywatches.com.sg/.../images/CA-53W.jpg

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

nevermind. it's a damn calculator watch.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:30 (twenty years ago)

So, em, you all have just the one watch? Because I think I have seven. And my Bloke has at least four, possibly five. That's okay, right?

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

i have a bart simpson watch that i ate loads of cereal for. you know, send in x amount of proofs of purchase for yr free watch offer thing.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:03 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

I haven't worn a watch for eight or nine years. I tend to think this as some sort of protest against the rigidness and coercion of the Western capitalist time system. I'm not sure if this kinda silly though. Anyone else think the same way?

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:25 (twenty years ago)

I haven't worn one (except when traveling) for about 15 years, because I'm enough of a fascist asshole about being on time even without it.

― Truckdrivin' Buddha (Rock Hardy), Sunday, 7 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

my watch looks like my cell phone.

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Sunday, 7 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

tuomas, i used to think that too but then i got tired of bending my head sideways to sneak peeks at other peoples watches. i always need to know what time it is. my husband doesnt wear a watch but has a gazillion clocks around the house all set to the wrong time. i, on the other hand, only need a watch but it has to be set correctly to the second.

that said, this is my watch

http://shop.avon.com/avonshop/Assets/images/prod/prod_0259333_lg.gif

i bought it from avon.

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Sunday, 7 August 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

I want this watch
http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/packshot1.jpg

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:29 (twenty years ago)

i have a beautiful omega which used to belong to my uncle smeck (qv the "uncles" thread). i would love to wear it, but the little holes above and below the face, into which the bezel fits, have become so worn away with use that it falls off the strap all the time. having nearly lost it twice, i reluctantly decided not to wear it any more.

i've spoken to several jewellers, one of whom even sent it back to omega, but it's beyond repair, sadly.

i should post a picture but it's getting late and i can't be arsed taking one/uploading it :)

anyway: the upshot is that if i can't wear the watch i really want, i'm not going to wear one at all. my mobile phone tells me the time very well.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:38 (twenty years ago)

http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/images/br.jpg

http://www.lacotedesmontres.com/IMG/13295.jpg

(i don't own either. yet.)

― stet (stet), Sunday, 7 August 2005 20:59 (twenty years ago)

I want a Bell & Ross Space 3 so bad! (or a Sinn Lufthansa pilot watch). However I can't really justify the cost because my trusty Timex still gets compliments all day and basically looks the same as a Sinn chronograph.

― Spencer Chow at another location, Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:30 (twenty years ago)

I can't justify the cost at all, ever. But still.

― stet (stet), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:37 (twenty years ago)

http://www.nixonnow.com/prod_images/12324-ROTO_H.jpg

― cutty (mcutt), Sunday, 7 August 2005 21:56 (twenty years ago)

oh boy oh boy what timing!!!

today, on my 25th birthday, i got this all wrapped up:

http://store1.yimg.com/I/executiveengravables_1853_85208104

its like a bootleg of the swiss railways clock design. except its "official", the CEO of swiss railways assured me in a little booklet with it.

― ambrose (ambrose), Sunday, 7 August 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

http://www.diamondscz.com/images/goldtone-cu2.jpg

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Sunday, 7 August 2005 23:24 (twenty years ago)

Happy Birthday Ambrose

I don't have a watch.

That works.

― Alice Clark (alice), Monday, 8 August 2005 04:22 (twenty years ago)

http://www.princetonwatches.com/images/watches/24052.jpg

― anonymous celebrity (anonymous celebrity), Monday, 8 August 2005 04:51 (twenty years ago)

Reasons I don't wear a watch:
- Watches are for hipsters

??????

i just use my cell phone to tell me time. no watch

― phil-two (phil-two), Monday, 8 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

http://image.furima.rakuten.co.jp/image/item/11/17/23861117-1.jpg

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 8 August 2005 05:12 (twenty years ago)

I have the same watch as Ambrose, but without the day-of-the-month window.

― Forest Pines (ForestPines), Monday, 8 August 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

I have a lovely silver watch given to me for my 20th birthday by my best friend. The battery ran out about 2 months ago, and I haven't replaced it. I will eventually, though. But I've had nothing but good luck since it ran out and I stopped wearing it, so maybe I won't.

― edward o (edwardo), Monday, 8 August 2005 05:26 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.olive.cz/zho25186547-Casio+Easy+Touch+F+91

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

sorry, wrong link
I have this
http://www.olive.cz/katalog/23456/100706n1.jpg

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:18 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.jewelryhookup.com/25ygmp.jpg

Sort of looks like my watch. Boring, I know, but I run a jewellery shop, I can't be a hipster with a koolio digitwatch.

hahahahahahaha Sorry, no, I don't agree. I find it quite funny to be honest.

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

but i want this one:

http://207.142.131.37/fullsize/78677.jpg

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.timex.com/bin/image.tmx?image=753048121991

its got a compass hand - woo. much better than those shoes i wanted when i was a kid with one under the heel.

― stevieshaw, Monday, 8 August 2005 08:43 (twenty years ago)

Naus, is that goldplated? Or gold?

― nathalie sans denouement (stevie nixed), Monday, 8 August 2005 08:45 (twenty years ago)

Goldplated. I saw it once at a Rite-Aid for $30 and decided then that it would be my next watch. The whole idea of taking a cheapy digital watch and dressing it up with a tacky gold band seems so wrong, which makes it a winner in my book.

― naus (Robert T), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

ambrose, that watch is gorgeous!

― cozen (Cozen), Monday, 8 August 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

cutty, that watch looks like a 1970s den. i love it. do you have one?

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

yes! i think it looks more like a 1970's station wagon!

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

if its transport related, its mine.

you buy the clocks too.

― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:28 (twenty years ago)

Someone's selling a watch that I think is the same as mine on eBay.

Nice watch, shit picture.
http://i15.ebayimg.com/01/i/04/9f/b6/43_1_b.JPG

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

So what kind of watches do you people buy, anyway? Better still, log your entire wardrobe every day. List, list, list, people.

― Paper and Packaging (dymaxia), Monday, 8 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

this is for cutty:

http://photos2.flickr.com/3546011_4dd529b1f3_m.jpg

― sunny successor (he hates my guts, we had a fight) (katharine), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

My watch looks kind of like this, but the numbers are in a different font:
http://www.timex.com/bin/image.tmx?image=048148200012

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.handyworx.de/pix/handy/siemens-c65.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

I want this one:
http://www.sinn.de/onlineshopPRO/zoom-pics/144-GMT-Cargo.JPG

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:45 (twenty years ago)

http://www.digitaletc.com/images/Timt20441.jpg
more or less

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

http://manstouch.com/thumbs/wt0033d.jpg

― Paul Eater (eater), Tuesday, 16 August 2005 17:20 (twenty years ago)

hm. am looking for a kinetic watch that's just, you know, a watch. not a piece of jewellery or something for measuring the amount of dreams in clouds, just a watch. it's got to be waterproof (not water-resistant) or i will destroy it within about ten minutes. i can cope if it has, you know, the date or the moon or something on it, that won't send me batshit insane (we went looking for one on friday and they were all these flashy fucking monstrosities, HUGE and all gold and silver and the most fugly things i've seen in my life, i swear, anyway i went on a bit of a sweary rant without noticing the assistant hovering helpfully just inside the door. oops. i did go and apologise profusely immediately). just want something with the time and a simple non-metal non-leather strap... anyone seen one?

― emsk ( emsk), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

measuring the amount of dreams in clouds

you don't want it to do that? man, if my watch did that, i'd be miles away from giving a shit whether or not it actually told the time!

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Wednesday, 24 August 2005 18:03 (twenty years ago)

three weeks pass...

What do we all think of this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v243/Qryztufre/random/golden.gif

― Watchy watch watch, Thursday, 15 September 2005 01:43 (twenty years ago)

Er, I mean this:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00030FJ26.01-A9HZWI3IS9CYQ._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Watchy watch watch, Thursday, 15 September 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

http://akamai.backcountrystore.com.edgesuite.net/images/items/large/NIX0035/DRKBRW.jpg

As played with at the Glasgow FAP.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 15 September 2005 08:22 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.sometimeago.com/pictures/Rolex%20midhwjan%20multi.jpg

like that but silver and made by bucherer

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 15 September 2005 08:47 (twenty years ago)

that didn't work too well.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 15 September 2005 08:48 (twenty years ago)

I'm wearing my very plain but bought-for-me-in-Amsterdam-by-the-missus-so-very-special slimline Swatch today cos I decided to wear a long-sleeve shirt this morning and my cheap'n'chunky Decathlon digital and bulbous other Swatch don't fit inside the cuffs.

Here's the bulbous Swatch: (probably too big but I don't want to do an irreversible resize in Photobucket)

ihttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v426/Pernfors88/698d273f.jpg

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

This is mine, bought because the strap reminded me of vintage car upholstery:
http://shopimage.hanmail.net/m_productimages/A374/62/A374_SWATCH_0234_280.jpg

― sgs (sgs), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:17 (twenty years ago)

both my watches' batteries have run out

: /

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 15 September 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

get a wind-up.

― jeffrey (johnson), Thursday, 15 September 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

So, nobody likes that new Seiko black/chrome divers' watch I posted, heh?

― Watchy Watch Watch, Thursday, 15 September 2005 15:41 (twenty years ago)

It's pretty sweet, isnt' it?

― Watchy Watch Watch, Friday, 16 September 2005 01:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.a-watches.com.au/img/db0002.jpg
the band is broken at the moment

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Friday, 16 September 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.gearshack.co.uk/acatalog/info_304.html

these techtrail axis watches look quite cool, they've got all the usual functions plus a compass and an altimeter for moutaineers and although they may not measure the amount of dreams in clouds they do predict the weather six hours in advance with a built-in barometer and sensors and stuff. plus they're pretty small, not like a bulky block on your wrist. they're not kinetic though.

― angle of dateh (angle of dateh), Friday, 16 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

whoops...

http://www.gearshack.co.uk/acatalog/techtrail_axis_l.gif

― angle of dateh (angle of dateh), Friday, 16 September 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

http://www.fratellowatches.com/ezm1review/siezm1.jpg

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

dammit

http://www.fratellowatches.com/ezm1review/siezm1.jpg

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:11 (twenty years ago)

My watch looks like a cell phone.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 16 September 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.lacotedesmontres.com/IMG/13152.jpg

― dan (dan), Friday, 16 September 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

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