Quartz Watches

[jjwoods]

I understand that there are people who cannot wear watches because something about the electromagnetics of their body causes the quartz to stop vibrating and the watch is junk. This supposedly happens within a couple weeks after they first start wearing the watch. Is there any truth to this?

-jj

[samclem]

This is a phenomenon that has been suggested even with mechanical(wind-up) watches thirty or more years ago. It is not true.

There are logical reasons that a watch may stop, and the stoppage may appear mysterious, but it has nothing to do with the persons "electro-magnetic field" or any such hokum.

One source of watch-stoppage years ago would be the wearer getting it near a kitchen cabinet(the kind that is held shut with a magnet). and the magnet causing the watch to become magnetized.

I will try to search for some sites which back up these naked assertions of mine. But I feel pretty confident that I am right.

[bughunter]

I suspect, as sam suggests a specific instance, that it's something about the occupations, personal habits and/or routines of these people that affects their watches, and not their bodies.

Or maybe it's their eelskin wallets.