who wears watches.. and why??

flanum · 20-03-2012 12:31AM #1

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 · 20-03-2012 12:32AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:32AM

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

partyatmygaff · 20-03-2012 12:33AM

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

arybvtcw0eolkf · 20-03-2012 12:33AM

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

saa · 20-03-2012 12:33AM

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

starbelgrade · 20-03-2012 12:34AM

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

Sky King · 20-03-2012 12:35AM

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! · 20-03-2012 12:35AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:36AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:37AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:38AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:40AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:41AM

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

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

xflyer · 20-03-2012 12:46AM

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.

20-03-2012 12:48AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:50AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:51AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:51AM

Anyone else find watches uncomfortable?

arybvtcw0eolkf · 20-03-2012 12:55AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:58AM

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 · 20-03-2012 12:59AM

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 · 20-03-2012 01:01AM

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 · 20-03-2012 01:06AM

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 · 20-03-2012 01:08AM

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

hondasam · 20-03-2012 01:08AM

Razleavy wrote: »

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

me either feels weird.

Giselle · 20-03-2012 01:09AM

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 · 20-03-2012 01:21AM

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

RichieC · 20-03-2012 01:22AM

I have a pocket watch that matches my monocle.

Overheal · 20-03-2012 01:24AM

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? · 20-03-2012 01:27AM

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

who wears watches.. and why??

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