POLL: Do you wear a wristwatch?

i would wear a watch but i've lost every watch i've ever had so no point really

I have several but i'm too lazy to get the batteries replaced when they run out so just use my phone.

Stopped wearing it after grad school; I work at home, don't have kids to pick up, rarely need trinkets to trade to natives. Were that not true, though, I'd stick with the watch instead of relying on my cellphone. I'm pro-wristwatch in theory, I just have no more reason to wear mine.

I've worn my cheapo Casio watch everyday for the last 3 years. I would never contemplate spending more than £15 on a watch.

Nah I stopped wearing it a couple of years ago because it doesn't match enough of my clothes

..so option 5

own one but it doesn't work, almost never wear one.

I have a Darth Vader watch and a beloved Timex waterproof digital sports watch. I got bummed out when Vader lost its stem and I got nail polish remover on the Timex face.

I wear a watch most of the time

My arm feels naked w/o it, so I only take it off for showers and bed.

and not sex

h8 how watches feel on my arm, h8 lookin at what time it is all the time, dont own any watches

h8 how watches feel on my arm,

yes to this too

Recently i have been wearing a pocket watch.

wearing something heavy on my arm that draws attention to the passing of time is not for me.

http://asycophantic.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/fat1.jpg

I like the idea of wearing a watch feels like a grown up distinguished sort of thing to do but practically never works for me

I'm old enough (56) that the wristwatch habit is deeply ingrained, similarly to my daily newspaper reading, and yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

On top of that, my job as a school bus driver is timed to the minute, but paradoxically we are neither given a clock on our bus, nor are we allowed to have a cell phone which is turned on. A watch is more or less the only solution.

My wrists are quite skinny are girlish, so 98% of men's watches are too big for me. When I find one that fits well, I cherish it as long as possible.

i don't own a watch. sometimes i see dudes who are very "put-together" and they have nice watches and for a second i think "i could do that" but then i regain my sanity.

fuck watches.

I have a G-Shock watch which was a birthday gift from several years ago, but I haven't worn it in years. My cell phone or laptop will tell me what time it is just fine.

This thread is making me sad. I <3 wristwatches.

i own several semi-nice watches that lay curled and dead in my jewelry box, not sure how to change their batteries myself or who to take them to otherwise.

my teenage sister wears a watch because she didn't have a cell phone until recently, and people legit gave her shit about it. including our own mom, because it was not a "feminine" watch.

any jewellers will change your batteries fwiw

http://img.shoppingnexus.com/products/skagen-watch-mens-black-leather-strap-859lslb.jpg

At the height of the beeper craze of the mid nineties I had friends who dismissed wristwatches. Now they just bought their first ones.

I've never worn a watch in my life, save for maybe a few days in middle school.

mentioned on other thread but i don't wear one because ones i like are too expensive to wear and because i have tiny girlish wrists and men's watches are generally too big for me. i don't mind the feel of a watch on my wrist though like others here do, which is unusual given that i have like a phobic aversion to the idea of wearing any other form of jewelry, would never put a ring on one of my fingers or wear a piercing.

Timex Camper Watch for me. I've had to replace it once or twice, but I once dropped a cymbal on it and it didn't die, so I'm loyal.

Yeah, I haven't ever worn jewelry or any other kind of accessories. I'm getting married (and therefore a ring) in a couple months, though, so we'll see how that goes.

haven't had a watch in a long time -- i haven't read the thread, but i'm sure a bunch of people have already said this: my cell phone is my "watch"

I want a nice watch

I wore a wristwatch from when I was eight to my late-twenties. One day, I just woke up and decided that I was tired of wrist sweat. Tired of having to know what time it was at all times. Tired of losing a watch and having to wait until the top of the hour to hear a faint "beep-beep" emit from some dark corner of my apartment.

I see watches all the time that are pretty and think for a second that maybe I'll go back to wearing one. But I'm pretty firm in my watch-free life now.

It's weird now how in my watch used to serve the same purpose as my iPhone does now – not in time-telling, but killing time. I can look at instapaper or something now in a waiting room, but there was a time when just playing around with the stopwatch or cycling through all the time zones on the little map ate up just as many minutes.

I didn't but then my parents bought me a really fucking nice one when I finished my MA and now I feel bad if I don't wear it.

My dad still wears those gold wristwatches with the bands that look like train tracks when you stretch them out.

How anyone with a centimeter's worth of arm hair can stand those things is beyond me.

I love watches but only the cool ones

i used to wear a watch all the time, but then its battery died and i was too lazy to get it fixed. sometimes i miss it, but i get along fine with my cell phone.

whaddaya do when the battery dies on that, eh lazybones?

I wear one of these:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13194733

I take it off when I'm eating, driving or playing the piano/organ. Don't know why, it just makes sense to me to do that.

I own a watch but it hurts my wrist if I wear it while typing, which is what I spend 95% of my waking life doing, mostly into things which also tell me the time. So I gave up on it and now just check the time on my phone if I'm not at a computer.

(also my last but one battery cost £2 and lasted 4 years, but that shop shut down and the last one cost £10 and lasted 10 months, and I can't be bothered with that)

any jewellers will change your batteries fwiw

Yeah but the small local branches here send it away to a bigger branch and make you wait 3 days for it to come back, which is kind of ridiculous for a 30-second job, but I guess there are tens of different sizes of watch battery and probably as many sizes of screw holding them in, and the small places don't want to stock all the batteries and screwdrivers

I don't think that casio would work for me ergonomically because I wear my watch on my right wrist. I'm right-handed and used to get a ridiculous amount of grief for that, back when people paid attention to me.

We had a family do last summer where the missus pointed out that all the males had their watches on their rights too. I still dont know if everyone was just fucking with me.

This thread is making me sad. I <3 wristwatches.

― Johnny Fever, Saturday, July 9, 2011

I was dating this girl in the mid-2000s who bought me a wristwatch, so I wore it for like a year. I don't know what happened to it. It felt really weird, but she was a little older than me and she was like "this is what grown-ups DO." Now I'm around the age she was at the time and I'm more certain that this was a very subjective observation on her part.

i wore a wristwatch pretty consistently through high school and college, probably until the point i finally got a cell phone and used that to tell time, at which point the watch felt redundant.

at some point a few years ago i got a very nice wristwatch as a gift and felt bad about almost never wearing it. then, i recently started temping, and decided that i'd start wearing the watch to work (since the temp agency alluded to issues with workers using phones while on the clock and i didn't want to look like i was texting or something when checking the time on my phone). but the first day i tried wearing the watch, i decided having it was unnecessary and i didn't really care about being able to tell the time, not looking at it made the day go by faster. also it was really uncomfortably loose on my wrist and i don't know how to remove links to make it fit better, so i doubt i'll wear it again anytime soon.

http://www.mikesdivestore.com/ProductImages/fullsize/ep6000-07h.jpg

Solar powered, proof to 300 m underwater, and I've taken it to 45 m a few dozen times. All the dive tables on the rubber wristband have worn off in the past 6 years and the crystal has a network of scratches. I sometimes (perhaps once every 3 months) take it off to scrub the hard water deposits and dead skin which acrete to the inside of the wristband.

Always have since I was maybe...ten? People using their phones to check the time is yet one more thing that annoys me.

never ever wear watches but i think i own a couple that were gifts

in college, before cell phones, i had a cheap open-faced pocketwatch that i took the chain off and attached 2 my key chain; it was p ridiculous

I go about two years on, two years off. Have been wearing a watch pretty regularly until the past couple of weeks. Maybe it got too hot?

I was talking to this guy at a bar recently and he was like "I like that you wear a watch" and I thought, that's all it takes to attract the opposite sex these days?

I also don't like it when people check the time on their phones, but that's just because I assume that they are checking to see if anyone more exciting than me is contacting them.

http://www.monkeyswag.co.uk/ekmps/shops/konoha/images/casio-futurist-watch-vibration-alarm-178-p.jpg
After years of wearing out cheapo £5 watches with rubber straps, I finally got one of these 10+ years ago. As well as lasting longer, metal straps are a lot more comfortable in summer.

havent since my calculator casio at school, but i often see beautiful old ones in shops that i resolve to one day buy should i ever have £ to burn

i guess solely focusing on aesthetics only proves the redundancy of their function though

I go about two years on, two years off

This, except I haven't worn one since '07 or so when the leather snapped. I'd probably start wearing one again tomorrow if gifted with one. (Have never ever bought one for myself.)

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xps to jaymc:

my husband was the same, and i told him he didn't have to wear a ring if he didn't want to. but then his brother told him that he better wear his fucking wedding ring or else. anyway, my pro tips are: make sure you choose the type of ring carefully (avoid anything to large/chunky/heavy) and just try to wear it a few hours a day at first, till you get used to it.

we bought a $3 copper ring as a 'practice run'/fill-in for the civil ceremony, and ytth is still wearing it.

or you could just get a ring tattooed on instead.

don't get a tattoo ring jeez

i had never worn one before and got a cheap steel one -- it took some getting used to and i played with it too much, but it was cool

i'm going on vacation at the end of the week - and since i won't have my phone on and with me i am going to have to go out and by some cheap-o watch.

so make that:
I don't own a watch 41
I never wear a watch, but I own one 28

(the watch will remain in my pocket, btw)

your fob pocket

you're a fob pocket

i guess ;_;

I wear one of these

http://www.grooveeffect.com/images/citizen-ana-digi-silver.jpg

mostly to feel futuristic

and to feel like a dick

tracy

i once wrote a freelance piece for a high-end watch magazine

when it came out it had glenn beck on the cover

that watch is rad, dayo
so bizarre that we live in a world where there are high-end watch magazines

i mean i get it, but i would rather read a magazine for watches of all kinds

No option for "I never wear only one"

Watched Half Nelson last night and noticed the dude was rocking a throwback casio calculator watch btw.

aw thanks robyn!

used to be everybody in NYC was wearing a calculator watch or one of these in gold

http://cdn1.iofferphoto.com/img/item/172/740/571/g_Xqeu.jpg

think everybody just wears their grandfathers bubbleback Rolex now tho

so bizarre that we live in a world where there are high-end watch magazines

v. true. check this out.

i mean i get it, but i would rather read a magazine for watches of all kinds

lol not saying much is it

i sometimes wear a watch. tbh, i really love having a watch. there are so many situations where it's better to cast a discreet glance at your watch than take your phone out and look like a boor. also, watches look great. a friend of mine wears a golden casio watch on special occasions and nothing says class like a cheap golden casio :D.
the only downside to watches is that in the summer, my wrist gets all sweaty and if i'm not careful i end up with horrible tan marks .

lol @ watch porn!
xp

i think a 'general' watch magazine could be somewhat interesting really! watching are pretty cool, their mechanisms, small machines for yr wrist, the tyranny of time

*watches
not watching, obv

their mechanisms, small machines for yr wrist, the tyranny of time

<3

xposts yeah somehow I apparently missed the whole casio resurgence, although recently this french fashionboy dude who interned in my office told me that all his friends wear them now, and french fashionboys wearing something now = nyc hipsters were wearing them a couple years ago seems to make sense.

i'm pretty into the idea of my magazine about watches. like, it would be similar to d eggers pirate shop in that it would be full of interesting and weird and ridiculous stuff + would be good for selling watches, but ultimately it's just a front for doing something real and important. like teaching kids how to wear watches.

would assist/subscribe

i even have a good idea for a story which i will not tell here

haha :)
it would be full of ephemeral short stories thinly veiled as watch-related editorial
xp
see!

i'm pretty into the idea of my magazine about watches. like, it would be similar to d eggers pirate shop in that it would be full of interesting and weird and ridiculous stuff + would be good for selling watches, but ultimately it's just a front for doing something real and important. like teaching kids how to wear watches.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, July 17, 2011 9:06 PM Bookmark

McSweeney's used to have a feature I actually really liked called "In Other Magazines" where they would summarize stuff from random special interest mags, trade journals, etc.

This thread saddens me.

My ex aka flatmate bought an actual Dick Tracey style watch cellphone thing at one point. He thought it would be cool to talk into his wrist, until he started using it, and every time he'd call anyone all we could hear from his end was broken up half-words and lots of wind noise. It was completely useless as a 'phone.

I like Plaza Watch magazine. Their watch porn is high end

http://hollig.blu.livefilestore.com/y1proPQJQGM7cuXWYoEGDoFAH1ez6QrCf96vMa7vuujf5sK1kNHnCFpjGIay4X8nhpsWH8eWWac5th7QtQOw_ODmZdiGemxS1nO/Plaza%20Watch%20Magazine.jpg
http://maxcdn.fooyoh.com/files/attach/images/3004/548/619/001/plaza-watch-magazine4.jpg
http://www.english-magazines.com/i2249190/Zoom/PLAZA-WATCH_N13.jpg

And this is the one I'm wearing now

http://home.watchprosite.com/img/watchprosite/home/81/scaled/home_image.1278481.jpg

but I'm very close to joining the big boys league and buying an omega seamaster

I find people who do not always wear a watch a bit weird. Some of them are parastitic on those of us who do wear watches, while others are people who are incapable of turning off their mobile phones.

i wore a watch for a while when i was in school, before mobile phones. always hated it - i hate the feeling of wearing accessories, can't imagine how much bracelets or necklaces would irritate me. i think i abandoned my watch before i got a mobile phone, but since then there just hasn't even been a need to own one

omg plaza watch!
and yr stowa watch!
i want an awesome watch now. i like wearing bracelets and used to always wear a watch until about 10 years ago. it's good to be reminded that there are super stylish awesome watches out there that are both jewellery AND time-keeping machine

Impossible-to-read watches from Tokyoflash Japan.

this poll's results are astonishing.

dayo, that is a sweet watch!

http://www.watch-heaven.com/photos/WVQ-550E-1AVER.jpg

gotta love the black-n-red foetus-esque colour scheme.

and its a waceceptor watch = kids have no way of getting more time on PS3/'net etc.

as phones have become bigger and more expensive, mine now takes too long to dig out of my pocket, open its protective jacket, press the button and wait for it to update the clock, and the idea of using a wristwatch began to seem more appealing again

so I found my old watch, bought it a new battery and a new strap, and felt p. stylin' for 2 weeks

before it jumped out of its new strap onto the pavement and stopped working. yeah, thanks for waiting until after I'd spent 28 quid on you; maybe a phone works ok after all.

am considering reviving my old wristwatch -- hate having to fish for my phone just to find out what the time is

Over the past decade, I've only taken off my wrist watch for a single week while awaiting a new rubber wristband. Showers, dog washing, painting, grimy car work, it never comes off. It requires no batteries, and has been down below 30 m of sea 100+ times, though I've no plans to test the 300 m rating. Mine has more scratches than this one:

http://www.wristwatcher.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Citizen-BN0000-04H.jpg

I love wristwatches but so many wristwatches are so ugly

I think I would collect Swatches if I had the money