Watches ... Yes/No ? (now with poll)

[Kro]

Every day. Usually one of my fleet of Seiko automatic divers, but I mix it up.

While I have my share of Seiko autos, for the past year and change this has been my go-to - all of the Seiko design DNA with one of their fantastically engineered solar movements. While autos should either be serviced once every few years, or in the case of Seikos more likely require a movement swap every few decades... this thing should keep running for 20 years or so. At which point it'll need nothing more than a rechargeable battery replacement and be good for another 20! Oh, and it keeps pretty good time.

FWIW it's also the watch that you'll most likely see me wearing at less sketchy gigs.

For the less nice gigs when I want something less conspicuous, or when I want something lighter (usually my preference for the studio) I go with this other much loved classic option:

Yes I wear a watch. Yes I'm a huge watch nerd. Even designed and cased my own watch once just for fun.

 

[AboutSweetSue]

I wear one. Timing is everything, and I like to be timely. But, honestly, it’s just that I like to casually look at my watch on occasion when someone talks to me.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

A discussion at work yesterday seemed to indicate wearing a watch is a rarer thing. Of 59 people working on shift, only 7 of us were wearing a watch.
10 others said they do wear one but not at work, 3 more only wear one on very special occasions.
I found it interesting. It was all 45+ guys that were wearing a watch, most of the younger folk didn't even own one at all, which I found surprising, as I've always thought a watch one of those perfect gifts to mark important dates...21st birthday, graduation, etc.

I should say that the numbers were better for women in our dispatch department. 7 out of 8 of them wore one.

Curious how the numbers look elsewhere.

And for visual proof, here's my watch I wear about 97% of the time. A Casio, about 50euro. All the watch I need

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54 : Have not owned or worn a watch in more than a decade, cellphone is my alarm clock, and my watch.
Have thought seriously about getting a vintage pocket watch recently man those are cool.

 

[Kro]

And now people don’t wear them so much because they can just check their phones.... which are usually kept in their pockets.

History repeats itself.

 

[Diamond_Dave]

Ever since the sixth grade, when I got a digital watch that was set to exactly match the bells between classes. I wanted to know exactly how much time I had left to kill in whatever God forsaken subject I was being made to sit through...probably algebra...

 

[fdeck]

I wear a watch. I don't want to constantly have to take my phone out of my pocket, especially when I'm on my bike.

 

[ElectroVibe]

I remember my dad used to think it was strange as a kid when I wanted to set my watch to the correct time, close to the second. He would say, "But it's a quartz!"

He had been used to wearing mechanicals like Timex which were not as accurate in the past (with their pin lever movements used through the 1970s) so I guess he figured any quartz watch within a couple of minutes was close enough, compared to the pin-lever watches that could lose or gain minutes a day.

 

[mikeoso]

69, always wear a watch. Only time since age 13 I havent worn one was while in the Marines...if they wanted me to have one, they'd have issued it.

Nowadays I alternate between two Seiko automatic divers.

No, I dont dive, but I need durability and water resistance.

 

[Alkali Ike]

Prior to my current Apple Watch, I’d had Seikos almost exclusively my whole life. It started when my parents gave me a Seiko as a high school graduation gift. I loved it. You can’t go wrong with a Seiko.

 

[k31bassman]

62 here. Yep, I wear a watch almost always. I coach tennis, too. So I have a bit of a tan line. (Notice the little brown stripe where the holes in the watchband allow the sun through.)

 

[Munjibunga]

I spent 20 years on the air.
I was (as one Must be when that is how one makes a living) Obsessed with knowing the Correct times...as in ‘Navel Observatory Atomic Clock’ correct time.

I would set my watch to it at the station, and then check & reset, if necessary, every clock in the house...just about every week.

I don’t do like that no mo.

I set the clocks in my bedroom, bathroom and car five minutes fast.

 

[BurnOut]

Watches are cool, I'll look at them and think that's nice I should get one. The reality is I wouldn't wear it, so I don't purchase one. The Cell Phone is my watch now.
I do have a beautiful, real nice Bulova that was my grandfather's, self winding, high end model. I got it when he died in 77, needs a trip to the repair shop. Watch repair shops are few and far between anymore also.

 

[Jeff Scott]

My ORIS watches (stock photos).

 

[Chad Michael]

Tissot Veloci - t. Since I don't have tattoos or wear jewelry or fancy clothes... This is my fashion accessory when out and about, but not at work...

 

[Chad Michael]

Plus, it runs like a Swiss watch

 

[Oddly]

Only time since age 13 I havent worn one was while in the Marines...if they wanted me to have one, they'd have issued it.

Interesting.
I'd always assumed military personnel would be issued watches.
Seems like it'd be something you'd need.

 

[2saddleslab]

Watches are cool, I'll look at them and think that's nice I should get one. The reality is I wouldn't wear it, so I don't purchase one. The Cell Phone is my watch now.
I do have a beautiful, real nice Bulova that was my grandfather's, self winding, high end model. I got it when he died in 77, needs a trip to the repair shop. Watch repair shops are few and far between anymore also.

You have one of the best in your backyard, Cleves & Lonnemann, Bellevue, Ky. Ask for Charlie or his son Mike.

 

[the harp unstrung]

I set the clocks in my bedroom, bathroom and car five minutes fast.

My Bride sets the clock in her car Six minutes fast...& THAT DRIVES ME OUT OF MY MIND!! (but only for the last 30+ years)...

 

[GwenOnBass]

The day job, with which I ceased engagement, saw me sporting a watch as a necessary ITAM While a watch was never part of the dress code, it was a necessary tool from the moment my week began at 03:00 Mondays. Saw to it my watch was a nobby one too - a Movado, in fact. My "secondary" watch was a Gucci.

Retired the watches permanently as daily wear. The Gucci sometimes sees the light of day as a pendant on a bespoke lanyard of seraphinite beads.

This is what stays on my wrist where the watch was (much better than a watch!, mine's in sterling)

 

[Stempelloos]

I've worn watches off and on. With some jobs it's better to not wear anything at your wrist at all. And with other jobs it's better to have time at hand.

After the disappearance of an expensive Citizen quartz watch, I've only worn 'affordable' ones. There have been times I didn't use a watch at all.

These are my watches nowadays, one for work and one for running.
I don't like running around with earphones and a smartphone with an app that keeps track of everything, telling me what to do. I guess that's because I grew up without those and got used to do my training with a stopwatch.
The running watch is easier to read in the dark while running.

Funny side note is that my surname is the same as a former Swiss watchmakers brand name.
A cousin has one of their old pocket watches that bears our surname.