who wears watches.. and why??

flanum

me personally i couldnt handle wearing rings/bracelets/ or any of that stuff... but seriously, everybody in this day and age (most people) have a mobile phone in their pocket with the time on it.. and the time is feckin everywhere you look, we dont live in the 1800's anymore!.
A colleague is retiring soon and we were doing a collection and apparrently the collective opinion is buy him a watch or clock..!!! WTF?? the man is 65... im sure he has plenty of clocks in the house at this stage... but apart from that.... DO YOU WEAR A WATCH? and why? fashion or needing to know the time?

Stheno

Fashion, and as a reference point, I work in an area which means I don't always have my phone with me, I can regularly go 8-10 hours in work without my phone, and I often switch the feckin thing off at the weekends

Run_to_da_hills

I haven't worn a watch since i got my first mobile phone in 1995.

partyatmygaff

It's just handier.
I'll get my coat...

arybvtcw0eolkf

Keeps my left hand off my cock tbh, I'm always checking the time.

saa

To tell the time?
For fashion I flash that Casio, b itches looove Casio.

starbelgrade

You can't trust a man who doesn't wear a watch.

Sky King

I have a watch.

I don't wear it on my wrist though, i carry it in my pocket. It has a camera on it too and I can listen to music on it and call and text people with it. Class.

Hande hoche!

It's a respectable piece of jewellery for a gentleman. Also you can take it off, slip your fingers through the strap and use it to punch someone very hard.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Just habit by now, I tend to look a bit slow when I look at my arm for no reason when I've no watch on.

CreepingDeath

flanum wrote: »

A colleague is retiring soon and we were doing a collection and apparrently the collective opinion is buy him a watch or clock..!!!

Here's what ye can buy him... a Death Clock

af_thefragile

I do. Cuz its better to glance at your watch when you need to know the time than having to take out your iphone from your pocket which can be a bit awkward when you're sitting down and wearing tight-ish jeans and then its inconvenient.

Also I'ld like to own a nice expensive watch because it is pretty much the only discreet piece of jewellery which you can wear without showing off.

hondasam

I always wear a watch, people that don't and keep asking the time annoy me. I wear my watch on my right hand which some people think is weird.

delw

i wear one so i can try turn invisible like the "Gemini man"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWLDa5DnpQ

xflyer

So I can tell the time, I'm sorry why isn't this obvious? Sure I have a lovely phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 but that's in my pocket. A flick of the wrist and the time is clear.

I used to wear one up to about 3 or 4 years ago but not anymore. No need when I have my phone on me.

Irish Guitarist

I go for walks in the country. The time isn't "everywhere I look" there. I don't bring a mobile phone with me.

lecker Hendl

this is a seriously stupid thread. Why the hell do you think people wear watches? I can't go without wearing one. I feel naked when I don't have it.

Eathrin

Anyone else find watches uncomfortable?

arybvtcw0eolkf

xflyer wrote: »

So I can tell the time, I'm sorry why isn't this obvious? Sure I have a lovely phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 but that's in my pocket. A flick of the wrist and the time is clear.

Thats a cracking phone.

GreenWolfe

Phone batteries are crap imo. If the phone runs out of charge I don't want my ability to tell the time to go with it.

I'd feel too uncomfortable without one, personally. I prefer digital watches though.

Stercus Accidit

My watch has an alarm, tells the date, tells the time and unlike my phone never runs out of battery, its water proof, much easier to get at than the phone in my pocket and looks brilliant. I am less inclined to lose it as it is attached to me too. Have you ever had to ask someone the time because your plastic brick ran out of batteries? How embarrassing that must be!

Wibbs

af_thefragile wrote: »

I do. Cuz its better to glance at your watch when you need to know the time than having to take out your iphone from your pocket which can be a bit awkward when you're sitting down and wearing tight-ish jeans and then its inconvenient.

This

xflyer wrote: »

So I can tell the time, I'm sorry why isn't this obvious? Sure I have a lovely phone, Samsung Galaxy S2 but that's in my pocket. A flick of the wrist and the time is clear.

And this.

Convenience

flanum wrote:

we dont live in the 1800's anymore!.

Well for a start visible time was also "everywhere" in the 1800's(and before). Secondly(no pun) the wrist watch was a surprisingly late invention. For men anyway. The very late 1800's and it didn't really take hold until the first world war (and it wasn't until the 1930's where the wrist out produced the pocket). Again for convenience' sake. It takes too long to look at a pocket watch in the heat of battle. Or the heat of anything. We've now gone back to the slower to access pocket watch in the form of a phone. Like xflyer said a flick of the wrist and the time is clear. Producing in quite an old fashioned way the pocket/phone watch takes longer. Though the pocket watch was more elegant from a stylistic standpoint.

Then there is the jewelry aspect for men in particular. It's one of the few forms of same open to us. Then there's the interest when it comes to mechanical watches in the incredible precision and engineering involved with that collection of metals at the end of your arm. For a mechanical watch to be accurate to a minute a day requires the mechanism to be 99.999% consistent. Most quality mechanicals are accurate to seconds a day. Then there's the history. I often wear a wristwatch from 1916, the year of the rising and coming up on a century ago and as well as telling the time(pretty much to the second) it reminds me of that history. With care it will be running long after my smart phone and indeed me are in landfill.

Razleavy

hondasam wrote: »

I always wear a watch, people that don't and keep asking the time annoy me. I wear my watch on my right hand which some people think is weird.

Another righty!:D Have tried wearing one on my left wrist, but just can't do it.

admiralofthefleet

i use my phone, havent worn a watch in years as i get a reaction to metal on my skin

hondasam

Razleavy wrote: »

Another righty!:D Have tried wearing one on my left wrist, but just can't do it.

me either feels weird.

Giselle

I wear a vintage mens dual faced Omega on my right wrist. Its a classic and elegant piece and its larger size makes my hands look especially small and dainty (I am a laydee).

It is a practical, beautiful, and special piece that has enormous sentimental value to me.

Mobile phones may have the time, but they just don't have the style of a beautiful watch.*



*does not apply to Timex, Casio, or any brand sold in Argos.

cassel16

Much easier than whipping out your phone... also less chance of getting your phone knicked by an opportunist

RichieC

I have a pocket watch that matches my monocle.

Overheal

I actually know a guy at work who swears by a timepiece. It's a damn nice one, too. He could pass for a young professor moriarty from the new sherlock holmes movie.

Brian?

I wear 4 Rolexes because that's what Flava Flav does.

westendgirlie

When I put a watch on, the battery dies soon after. No idea why.

Brian?

westendgirlie wrote: »

When I put a watch on, the battery dies soon after. No idea why.

You have no soul.

Either that or the watch has been sitting in the shop for too long. I prefer the souless explanation though.

westendgirlie

Hmmmm explains a lot !

3ndahalfof6

not any more I use the sun and cloud speed

Senna

Could not live with out a watch on my wrist. People who have to take their phone out to tell the time annoy me.
The odd day i'm in a rush and forget to put my watch on after a shower are a PITA at work.

kincsem

flanum wrote: »

... but seriously, everybody in this day and age (most people) have a mobile phone in their pocket with the time on it..

But seriously, I don't have a phone, and I wear a watch.

opinion guy

Men were watches because they think its manly.

It isn't.

Taking a piece of nanoscale engineered 21st century silicon that's better than stuff the had on 1970's StarTrek is manly. FACT.


Oh..I'm reviving that fact thing.

billybudd

The question should be why are people so worried about what other people do or in this case wear.

cocoshovel

I prefer using watches to check the time. I hate using my phone and rarely do, its just a pain in the ass having to shove your hand in your pocket and whip out this block and click a few buttons. and watches have this certain style and class to them too.
(im 20)

the_syco

Used to wear one, until the strap broke, and I didn't get around to repairing it.

Reasons why a watch is good:

• No clock in the car, so handy to see what time it is without taking out the phone whilst driving.
• Handy to know you have a device that will tell the time and not run out of battery within 24 hours.
• Ability to check time during a meeting without making it look like you're checking for a text.
• Someone asks you the time, you can give it to them without showing them what phone you have.

Marcusm

flanum wrote: »

me personally i couldnt handle wearing rings/bracelets/ or any of that stuff... but seriously, everybody in this day and age (most people) have a mobile phone in their pocket with the time on it.. and the time is feckin everywhere you look, we dont live in the 1800's anymore!.
A colleague is retiring soon and we were doing a collection and apparrently the collective opinion is buy him a watch or clock..!!! WTF?? the man is 65... im sure he has plenty of clocks in the house at this stage... but apart from that.... DO YOU WEAR A WATCH? and why? fashion or needing to know the time?

You wouldn't have worn a watch in the 1800s, you'd have carried it in a pocket. Men's wristwatches are generally dated to early 1900s when Jean-Louis Carties designed one for his friend, the Brazilian aviator Santos-Dumont who needed to tell the time while flying.

Chuck Stone

Watches just make procrastination feel slower.

af_thefragile

opinion guy wrote: »

Men were watches because they think its manly.

It isn't.

Taking a piece of nanoscale engineered 21st century silicon that's better than stuff the had on 1970's StarTrek is manly. FACT.


Oh..I'm reviving that fact thing.

Mechanical engineering is always a lot more exciting and inspiring than silicon engineering. A 21st century piece of silicon might be able to connect you to the rest of the universe and entertain you with endless cat videos on youtube but it will not amaze you like a painstakingly precise and complex engineering that goes into creating some watch pieces. Its like a piece of incredible mechanical engineering that you can wear on your hand and its something that will last for generations rather than the latest smart phone which struggles to work properly after just a year!

Here's a good example of one such watch. Its not the most absurdly expensive and complex example, its just a good example of brilliant watch making.
http://www.blancpain.com/en/watch/00233-3634-55b

Paparazzo

Eathrin wrote: »

Anyone else find watches uncomfortable?

Hey Krusty, don't you hate pants?

WoollyRedHat

I wear a watch.. but the battery stopped working a long time ago..
I'm hip like that

LH Pathe

Wore one once n it gave me a rash. Who gives a **** what time it is.. even still, cm punk don't have one

charlemont

Had a lovely watch for years, It was expensive, Looked well and was great for hiding scars but my wrists got too big now so the watch has been lying in the press the last two and a half years.



I bought a crap watch last week and brought it back the next day as it was utter crap, It ran to its own feckin' time and was piss cheap looking, I'd rather use a bloody sun dial.

amybabes

I've been bought watches as presents over the years or occasionally i bought myself cheap blingy costume watches for going out.

But Christmas gone, I treated myself to this baby:
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=marc+jacobs+blade+watch+rose+gold&hl=en&safe=active&biw=1016&bih=265&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=VyKjX59mx1etTM:&imgrefurl=http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/marc-by-marc-jacobs-blade-crystal-index-watch/3204570%3Forigin%3Dcategory&docid=5_v7WuIWXVGi5M&imgurl=http://g-lvl3.nordstromimage.com/imagegallery/store/product/Large/3/_6490543.jpg&w=350&h=537&ei=pfJnT_TiGYbLsQLmj6mdCQ&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=250&vpy=-148&dur=828&hovh=278&hovw=181&tx=103&ty=211&sig=117341748952734804115&page=1&tbnh=95&tbnw=60&start=0&ndsp=20&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0

Don't know why - I just fancied a watch i think, I wear it purely as decoration - it's still in American time, and I live in Sydney. Just haven't been bothered to read the manuel on how to change all the different diall things.

Looks good though - i wear it most days!

Manic Moran

Primarily convenience and efficiency. A wristwatch will clearly, rapidly, and reliably tell me the current time more efficiently than any other device I am liable to have upon my person.

I'm middle of the road, though. I equally dislike multi function watches that do everything under the sun at ridiculous depths if this interferes with the most efficient time-telling function possible under the most probable conditions.

NTM

BostonB

flanum wrote: »

.... and the time is feckin everywhere you look, we dont live in the 1800's anymore!...

Funny on my 14k cycle to work, through Dublin City center, I do not remember passing a clock on public view anywhere on my route. I've been looking out for it, I've yet to pass/notice one.

I've also noticed the few places I do see the time. On the server, and hence my PC, my phone, the clock in clock, the TV channels EPG clock, the time isn't correct. Other places like the clock in the car, or other devices it drifts by a surprising amount for digital devices.

Its just quicker and easier to have it on a watch. Than dig out a phone from a pocket.