'The watch makes the man'

Would agree that the title is odd, it's manners that maketh man.

I've an unfortunate history with watches which has lead to me not wearing one now.

Aged 2 I buried my Dad's Omega on Curracloe beach.

Aged 21 I took off the Breitling Chronomat "knock off" my mum brought me back from New York when working behind a bar since I assumed the water proofing wouldn't be up to scratch on a knock off to deal with steam from glass washers. It disappeared from beside the till and a year or two later the identical "knock off" she'd bought for her god-son at the same time was identified as being genuine by a jeweller when he brought it into a family friend to get the battery changed.

I have a simple Victorinox wristwatch that was a birthday present from my mother but it stays in it's case at home. I rarely need a watch these days and after losing two watches that were worth four figures I'm not sure I can be trusted with one!

Deleted User wrote: »

The watch makes the man what? Was half the sentence clipped off by the forum software or something?

into a white walker pretty soon based on where the tv show seems to be going

donegaLroad wrote: »

I dont wear one.. if I dont have a phone, pc or a car clock to refer to, I am generally pretty accurate guessing the time by looking at the length of shadows and the position of the sun. I can also navigate without a map when Im driving going by the sun's position.

And when it's cloudy?

Speaking of watches, does anyone actually know what the bezel on a fancy man watch is supposed to do?

I used to just spin mine around instead of listening in economics class at school