Do you wear a watch?

whirlpool

I was just watching a video review of Android's latest smart watch (which you can watch here youtu.be/2z9uOm-Ydrk if you're so inclined) and all I could think was "Who the hell is going to want this?" I don't wear a watch. The day I finished my Junior Cert, I took off my watch and never put one on again. That was thirteen years ago. And then I started wondering how many people do even wear watches these days.

mynamewasgone!

I stopped wearing a watch years ago when working on a building site as a teenager. I found myself constantly checking the time and causing the day to drag. Got a lot more done and the day went faster once I got rid of it.

feargale

Yes. Why not? There's no town crier where I live.

c_man

I do, handier for telling the time from and will only run out of juice one every two years or so.

I can live without getting a text, but a man without the Time is bolloxed!

Mackas_view

I wear a watch every day. I feel naked without it.

Cantremember

Cough....waiting for iWatch..cough cough

Ihatecuddles

My arm feels weird without one. I own about 20 as well. I just love buying watches.

my mam once said its stupid because I only wear one at a time, so I wore 2 for months.

My husband never has and never will. He hates the feeling.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I wear a heart rate monitor into work (I cycle) a watch during the day and the HRM back home.

There ya go OP.

goz83

Tried several times (no pun intended), but just can't get comfortable with watches. My phone tells the time just fine.

Dravokivich

Wear a watch occasionally. Damn thing pinches at the hair on my wrist though.

MickeyShtyles

Used to, not anymore.
I work on a farm so I'm only asking for trouble if I wore one.

cloud493

Yeah. Think it looks nice, and it stops me being one of those who has to constantly pull their phone out to check the time.

DazMarz

I am lost unless I have a watch on. I just find it very handy. Plus the watch has a sentimental value to me; it's a limited edition watch, made by Chelsea Football Club, from 2010. The year Chelsea won their first League and FA Cup Double. So yeah...

efb

Used to religiously, and like religion I find it now obsolete in my life.

efb

I use boards to the time 00:59

Lapin

I stopped wearing a watch because I got sick of people asking me, "have you got the right time?"

I eventually got fed up replying with my fabulously witty smart arse default response, "No, I have this timepiece wrapped around my wrist because I like to regularly aquaint myself with the wrong fucking time".

So now I just don't bother wearing one and simply say "no."



Next question.

Mince Pie

I would if I could only find the fecking thing.

jjbrien

Used to wear one. Had to rub it a few times a day due to sweat on it. Now i just use my phone for the time.

As a kid i used to love the casio watches with all the diffrent buttons made me feel like james bond lol

Ihatecuddles

I remember being in Spain somewhere and getting a pink Baby G watch. I absolutely loved it.

I got a Swatch bracelet watch in Amsterdam but left it in a changing room. It was my favourite watch ever. Had loads of different coloured clear plastic balls on it, and everyone used to comment on how unique it was. Been searchung for it online for years. Emailed swatch as well but they didnt have a clue

biko

I have some dress watches I wear occasionally when I have to wear a suit but most of the time, no.

ToddyDoody

The poll most conclusively establishes that after hours is male dominated.

Adamantium

Casio F91-W, found on mountain trail in Bosnia in 40 degree heat in 2008, I don't how long it was there, but 6 years later the baby is still going.

The cheapest digital watch about 4 euro on amazon and practically indestructible, RAF and US marines have put through the worst of everything.

You all recognise it I say.

Design hasn't changed since 1991 and I love the utilitarian look of it. (Yes it looks cheap, but somehow hardy) Favourite watch of terrorists and Al Qaeda too. I've fairly small wrists too, so fits all ages, I hate the hair pulling of chain watches every 2 seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W

mikemac1

I wore mine on my right. I'm left handed and it just felt more normal that way.

Being young and immature in secondary school I listened to the lads who said if you wear on your right you are telling the world you are gay. I believe there is a similar story for guys with an earring.

Tried on my left and just didn't like it and ditched the watch.

I watch films and see the like of George Clooney advertising on billboards and I have concluded that everyone in Hollywood wears it on their left

CarrickMcJoe

Wear one on Sundays and special occasions.

240 Robert

I wear a watch for work, for report times, at scene, leaving etc. Despite all the gadgets, the system still requires us to write in all our times but after years of wearing a watch day n night, I recently started taking off the watch as soon as I get home, feels good not to be clock watching the whole time.

dulpit

I wear a watch most times, although I generally don't wear one at work, gets in the way while typing.

Also, where all the women at?

sebastianlieken

I wear a watch on my ankle - just to freak people out when they ask me the time.

mad muffin

I have 10 watches. One for every day of the week and twice on Sunday… plus an extra one for Bank Holidays.

TPD

Adamantium wrote: »

Casio F91-W, found on mountain trail in Bosnia in 40 degree heat in 2008, I don't how long it was there, but 6 years later the baby is still going.

The cheapest digital watch about 4 euro on amazon and practically indestructible, RAF and US marines have put through the worst of everything.

You all recognise it I say.

Design hasn't changed since 1991 and I love the utilitarian look of it. (Yes it looks cheap, but somehow hardy) Favourite watch of terrorists and Al Qaeda too. I've fairly small wrists too, so fits all ages, I hate the hair pulling of chain watches every 2 seconds.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W

I've one of those too, with a NATO style red and black striped strap.

martinedwards

I took of my wrist watch when I turned 45 and now use pocket watches.

it's what the 5th pocket in your jeans is FOR

my every day watch is a 1918 rolled gold Waltham, but for special occasions I have my great grandfathers gold 1888 Waltham

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=80424690

umop.episdn

Have worn a watch nearly every day over the last 30 years, can't imagine not having one

petes

Yep, lost without one.

Got a phone call from a jewellers last week, said they are moving and were going through some old stuff they had for repair. I left a watch in there in 2011. I put it on the long finger going back in to get it and then forgot about it.
Collected it last week too.

Wouldn't mind but I bout two watches since leaving it in!

Guffy

Battery died

_Kaiser_

Did when I was younger, then stopped about 6/7 years ago when my last one broke and I was using my phone to check the time anyway.

Got a new watch though last year and wear it every day since.

Looking to buy one of these next (as in within the next 6 months - maybe!):

http://www.watchshop.com/mens-citizen-chrono-perpetual-a-t-alarm-chronograph-radio-controlled-eco-drive-watch-at4004-52e-p99941071.html

or

http://www.watchshop.com/mens-citizen-chrono-perpetual-a-t-alarm-chronograph-radio-controlled-eco-drive-watch-at4106-52x-p99961595.html

Can't decide which though!

Karl Stein

Is this a wind up?

whirlpool

ToddyDoody wrote: »

The poll most conclusively establishes that after hours is male dominated.

dulpit wrote: »

Also, where all the women at?

Maybe the thread title just wasn't something most women were interested in.

Hande hoche!

Karl Stein wrote: »

Is this a wind up?

No, quartz.

Wibbs

mauzo! wrote: »

My arm feels weird without one. I own about 20 as well.

Just like me then. I've about the same number of them, mostly either pre 1945 or early quartz jobs from the 70's*. I love the design and technology involved from early wristwatches from world war 1 to the quartz tech race of the 70's.









*Can be great bargains to be had in the latter as collecting types still tend to look down on them, so you can get real quality from big names and in funky designs for a couple of hundred quid.

marie12

Woman here. I haven't worn one in years. I have one though, maybe I'll wear it today :-)

Dave!

No, I've had a few but never really wore one. I find them uncomfortable when doing... anything at all involving my hands!

I must admit though, it can be a pain taking your phone out of your pocket all the time. I may end up getting the Apple watch thing when ever it's out...

farmerjj

Wow very few women on this thread:eek:

Some Kind of Wizard

I have recently took to wearing Ansley Watches, the Rose Gold Sailor series. Nice, classic feel to it. Made in Ireland also, which is a positive!

orchidsrpretty

Have worn a watch mostly every day. Some days I forget. I don't really use a mobile phone so much easier for me to use a watch. I wore a fancy swatch watch for a few years until it broke and now I wear a ice watch. Not everyone's cup of tea, but I like it.

Can't stand anything on my wrists, no watches no bracelets. Same with rings can't wear those either. Probably from years of piano and cello and constantly taking them off
It's a shame though cos there's some really pretty watches out there. Maybe I'll get one and try get used to it

Arthur Beesley

I wear a watch when I leave the house, I take it off when I get home.

danwhite88

Start wearing a watch a few months back because got sick of the battery in my smartphone dying and not been able to tell the time in the evenings. Feels weird when not wearing one now.

KERSPLAT!

mad muffin wrote: »

I have 10 watches. One for every day of the week and twice on Sunday… plus an extra one for Bank Holidays.

That's 9. Maybe get one of those calculator watches

Peregrine

I'd feel weird if I don't wear one. I don't wear one inside the house though. I need a clock in every room in my house.

I've been wearing a watch since I was about 4. Though, the watches I wear now are a lot less colourful and luminiscent.

I Voted For Kodos

mikemac1 wrote: »

I wore mine on my right. I'm left handed and it just felt more normal that way.

Being young and immature in secondary school I listened to the lads who said if you wear on your right you are telling the world you are gay. I believe there is a similar story for guys with an earring.

Tried on my left and just didn't like it and ditched the watch.

I watch films and see the like of George Clooney advertising on billboards and I have concluded that everyone in Hollywood wears it on their left

I'm right handed and always wear my watches on my right hand, just feels natural. Have always been told you're supposed to wear a watch on your left hand though, no idea why. Heard the gay thing about an ear ring in the right ear back in school alright, never about watches.

kfallon

Hate the feel of a watch on me, longest I've ever wore one was for about 3 hours!

Don't wear any jewellery either or the same reason!

jimgoose

Yes, I wear a watch all the time except in bed. It is a rather elegant fourteen year old gold-plated Citizen, analogue with a quartz mechanism. It's too dumb to figure out that there are different numbers of days in the months, and there are far more accurate ways of telling the time these days, but I love the stupid thing anyway.