Do you wear a watch?

French Toast · 25-02-2021 7:51pm

Yep, I have been wearing a Fitbit for the past 2 years or so.

Before that, I wore classic digital Casios like this one. Loved everything about them - simple, affordable, functional, understated. Lovely little machines.

theteal · 25-02-2021 7:55pm

I've actually stopped in the last few because the baby has managed to scratch himself off it a couple of times. I don't feel right leaving the house without it tbh. Needs a service though which I've been procrastinating on. . . .

ancapailldorcha · 25-02-2021 7:57pm

Absolutely. Love watches and always have. I only wear analogue watches as I love their appearance and craftmanship. You just don't get the same with a digital screen even though that's a much more accurate option. I think an old school watch looks a lot better than whatever wrist-mounted iNonsense Apple are flogging these days.

nj27 · 25-02-2021 7:58pm

I tend to wear a watch. I've spend north of 30,000 euro on watches, so it would be a shame if I didn't wear them occasionally. I am now on the hunt for a two tone stainless steel and gold Rolex Daytona ref number 16523, which will probably be worn very rarely. It's a disease.

o1s1n · 25-02-2021 8:00pm

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

I think an old school watch looks a lot better than whatever wrist-mounted iNonsense Apple are flogging these days.

Apple watches always catch my eye when I see people wearing them simply because they're so bland looking. They really look out of place on a wrist imo, just don't sit right.

Rodney Bathgate · 25-02-2021 8:00pm

I never leave home without my keys, watch, wallet, spectacles, testicles and phone.

freshpopcorn · 25-02-2021 8:01pm

I got into wearing one last year again and plan on buying another one or two.
However I rarely check the time on it.

ancapailldorcha · 25-02-2021 8:04pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Apple watches always catch my eye when I see people wearing them simply because they're so bland looking. They really look out of place on a wrist imo, just don't sit right.

It's just a black square. Stylistically, I don't see the point. The remote control for your phone thing just suggests that Apple is out of ideas at this point.

saabsaab · 25-02-2021 8:11pm

Rodney Bathgate wrote: »

I never leave home without my keys, watch, wallet, spectacles, testicles and phone.

Same here, bar one..

km991148 · 25-02-2021 8:15pm

PhilOssophy wrote: »

We know what makes you tick so.......

Hands up, I'm out

25-02-2021 8:15pm

Haven't worn one since me communion.

I have the time on me phone and the sun in the sky.

25-02-2021 8:16pm

A watch and a wedding ring, the only pieces of jewellery any man should ever wear.

Filmer Paradise · 25-02-2021 8:19pm

Yep. A fairly expensive swiss automatic.

Not one of the major brands like a Rolex or anything.

Nice & discreet.

Capt'n Midnight · 25-02-2021 8:24pm

Omar Devone Little wrote: »

I’ve only gotten into watches since the first lockdown. Since then I’ve bought and sold 4 watches.

Second hand watches ?

No seriously be careful. I once bought a watch that didn't have an hour hand.

Bastard sold it to me at noon.

Schindlers Pissed · 25-02-2021 8:36pm

I always liked wearing a watch, I've worn a Citizen Eco Drive chronograph for years, a two tone silver/gold watch....very nice. But then when Apple released the Apple Watch I got my cousin to order it in the US and ship it (she's in New Jersey). I went for the stainless steel watch with the stainless steel band, cost me $1100 at the time but I'm on a newer watch now and the stainless steel band still looks very smart....it was pricey but hey, we work hard enough don't we!!

25-02-2021 8:44pm

peasant wrote: »

I only have and wear "dumb" watches

and there are about another 30 or so

I may have a problem

Nice

L1011 · 25-02-2021 8:46pm

I did until last year. If I can't be bothered shaving every day for the tiny number of people I may meet in work I'm not going to bother with a watch

The two I usually wore were Pulsars, both need new batteries now and I don't have the grippy-thing to open the back; and one needs a new clasp-style-thing that connects the segmented strap to the actual watch so neither would be any use until jewelers reopen.

Keep intending get one with an old style flight computer built in, Seiko probably, just for the hell of it.

jammiedodgers · 25-02-2021 8:50pm

Getting fairly ticked off with all the puns. :mad:

km991148 · 25-02-2021 8:59pm

jammiedodgers wrote: »

Getting fairly ticked off with all the puns. :mad:

I'm sorry, I'll try and a-band-on it from now. :-(

Greyfox · 25-02-2021 9:00pm

Na, lockdown makes watches pointless, i have 2 watches and I keep forgetting to put them on

km991148 · 25-02-2021 9:01pm

Wore a watch for years, I still have a couple but lying in drawers. Would actually like to get a decent one, but never seem to bother.

Wear a sports watch now and again for tracking, but only if going for a run or something specific, can't be arsed tracking every move.

25-02-2021 9:04pm

jammiedodgers wrote: »

Getting fairly ticked off with all the puns. :mad:

That’s a jewel of a pun.

I have to hand it to you.

Do you have a second one?

Put another smile on my face.

I laughed so loudly I had to clasp my mouth shut.

I’m gearing up for another one.

Do you make them up yourself or cog them from the internet?

You’re the crown prince of watch humour.

It’s crystal clear.

Wibbs · 25-02-2021 9:05pm

In my experience anyway guys not wearing watches isn't that much of a recent thing. When I was a teenager in the 80's very few of my friends wore a watch. I can even remember a couple saying they couldn't be bothered wearing one and there was nothing particularly fashionable to them in that age group. Though the Swatch watches had caught on a bit with those who were decked out in Benetton.

You'd see the occasional Casio calculator watch but it was mostly dads and older guys.

I was always into them. My dad was into watches so I kinda got that from him. Plus I could never get the hang of reading digital watches which were all the rage. Oh I can read them, but it takes longer and the time doesn't quite register for me compared to an analogue watch. So I used to look in junk shops, and the like and a mate's family was in the auction game so general auctions too. All for pocketmoney too. Well it was way before "old watch" became "vintage collectible".

So old wind up watches could be had for 20 quid and the like, even some well known brands in the game today. I once got a shoebox full of them for 40 quid. Mostly tat, but some Rotary, Tudor and Omega in the mix. If I had a time machine and a thousand old quids I'd come back a millionaire

I kept collecting them since, but have really dialled back in the last few years as the prices went nuts.

Other than a couple of family heirlooms, the one I would have the longest is this one I got the early nineties and am wearing today. A so called "Trench watch" all the way from 1916 and an example of the early wristwatches for men(previously they had been consider too "feminine" but the needs of mechanised war changed that, because pocket watches were too cumbersome).

Still a great timekeeper over a century later.

Funny how we've gone from the pocket to the wrist and now back again to the pocket with phones. Now men's watches have become far more about jewellery than the function they once had(though they always had the hint of jewellery. The vast majority of old watches came in gold or gold plate). We take it for granted time and accurate time is all around us so...

tommyombomb · 25-02-2021 9:06pm

Have a nice seiko that i wanted with over 10yrs.finally located one two years ago that was new so quite rare. Now that i have it i dont wear it as covid and also dont want to damage it. Might be worth something decent in years to come