# Do you wear a watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 4, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590 "2003-10-04T20:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/61 "2003-10-06T22:14:06Z")
Yup. This is my watch: [http://www.omegawatches.com/omega/co\_watch?ID=1230&line=116&gen=G&sublineID=360](http://www.omegawatches.com/omega/co_watch?ID=1230&line=116&gen=G&sublineID=360) ---
**Author:** ![WILLASS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/54ee81/32.png) [@WILLASS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WILLASS)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/62 "2003-10-07T01:35:51Z")
(runs in panting) …sorry…i’m…late…I…lost …track…of…the…time. I wish I had a nice watch but I just never get round to buying one, also i’m so used to looking at my mobile that it probabley wouldn’t get used much. ---
**Author:** ![Intaglio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/71e660/32.png) [@Intaglio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intaglio)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/63 "2003-10-07T13:06:59Z")
I always wear a watch. I have 80-90 watches, I collect them. I have all kinds, cheap, expensive, battery powered, solar, self-wind - which is powered by my movement, which is different than my kinetic, and wind-up. Gold, Silver, various bands - leather, gold and silver metal. I just love watches. ---
**Author:** ![Andros\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@Andros\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andros_X)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/64 "2003-10-07T14:36:34Z")
I’ve had a number of watches throughout my youth. I started off with the little cheap ones when I was a kid. I had a Captain Planet water-powered watch at one point. Up until about two years ago, most of my watches were Wally World things that lasted (on average) six months. Now I have a Casio Illuminator, and I’ve had it for the past two years or so. Timer, stopwatch, dual time, and water resistant to 50m. A good value for the price I paid for it (~$18). ---
**Author:** ![Soup\_du\_jour](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Soup\_du\_jour](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soup_du_jour)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/65 "2003-10-07T15:40:07Z")
I wear a Goofy watch from Disneyland. The numbers on the face are backwards, and the think ticks counterclockwise. If you looked in a mirror, it would look “correct.” Everyone else thinks it’s strange. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Lux\_Interior](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a88e57/32.png) [@Lux\_Interior](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lux_Interior)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/66 "2003-10-07T17:03:42Z")
Watches? Did someone say watches? I LOVE watches! I collect them, I only have about eight, but I aspire to reach **Astro’s** level. One ov my faves has a “pi” symbol at the 12 oclock position, then it has “= 3.14159…” spiraling down the face. Got it at the Loo-vray when I was in Paris. Another I like I picked up in the supermarket in Brug, Switzerland. I kept seeing it advertised on billboards and had to have it. I got a Movado (that I have _always_ wanted) in St. Thomas for $150 less than most jewelry stores wanted. Unfortunately, it needed to be repaired and that wiped out what I had saved a couple years later. I prefer leather bands and chrome/silver bodies. Not a big gold or metal band fan. I only go without when at home or working out. I wear my Timex Expedition swimming, boating and kneeboarding. Cheapo watch with a velcro band. Oh, and for y’all that depend on others for the time - I always lie! 😉 😃 j/k ---
**Author:** ![BurglarGenie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb8c5e/32.png) [@BurglarGenie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BurglarGenie)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/67 "2003-10-07T17:45:24Z")
Not anymore, but I always have a time telling device with me. Got my first watch in grade school when I learned to tell time. Wore it (and successors) 24 hours a day, except for bathing and swimming. About 5 years ago my kids gave me a pocket watch and I switched to carrying it with me. About 2 1/2 years ago I started carrying a Palm with me. It has a clock that displays with the press of a single button so I no longer need the watch. ---
**Author:** ![vengence\_will\_be\_mine.maybe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/58956e/32.png) [@vengence\_will\_be\_mine.maybe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vengence_will_be_mine.maybe)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/68 "2003-10-07T22:36:11Z")
No I don’t wear a watch. Time doesn’t really matter that much to me. ``` Thanks. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Flamsterette\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/41988e/32.png) [@Flamsterette\_X](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flamsterette_X)\ **Post date:** [October 7, 2003, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/69 "2003-10-07T22:48:29Z")
I used to, until I got tired of the watch band leaving marks on my skin. Now I just keep my watch in a pocket or (more likely) my knapsack. (of course I keep a close eye on the knapsack at all times) My siblings think it’s weird, and ask why I just don’t wear it. Oh well. Time is relatively important to me… and I like to have an idea of the time when I go out, especially when I have to be somewhere around a certain time. F\_X ---
**Author:** ![snermy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d6d6ee/32.png) [@snermy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snermy)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/70 "2003-10-08T00:08:13Z")
almost never. I own a dressy little watch I’ve worn to interviews and the like where I need to know the time but don’t want to pull out my phone, which is how I usually tell time. Don’t like the way it feels to wear watches or most jewelry. ---
**Author:** ![fireman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@fireman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fireman)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/71 "2003-10-08T00:34:32Z")
I don’t wear a watch, or rather, I can’t wear a watch. Wristwatches have a tendancy to “die” on my arm. Over the years, I have owned several different brands of both cheap and expensive watches, analog and digital, and somewhere between 3 and 6 months, they just stop. No, I am not that ugly, nor do I break them in any way. They just quit. Despite new batteries, repairs, etc, most never run again. I now carry a pocket watch. It works. ---
**Author:** ![Omnipresent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@Omnipresent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omnipresent)\ **Post date:** [October 8, 2003, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/72 "2003-10-08T04:23:51Z")
I almost always wear a watch. But, first as a decoration, as jewelry, second as a time keeper. It’s the only jewelry I wear. No rings (not even wedding), no necklaces, no earings, no tatoos. So, it’s my only decorative vice. And, since it’s the only one, they’re pretty nice watches. Nothing that extravigant but, a couple hundred dollars a piece. I have a few. It just looks good peeking out from a nice crisp long sleeve white shirt. ---
**Author:** ![vl\_mungo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/bc8723/32.png) [@vl\_mungo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vl_mungo)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/73 "2003-10-09T03:08:38Z")
Results so far… **Yes** (always, mostly): 38 **No** (never, rarely, palm pilot, etc.): 19 **50/50** : 8 **Other** (pocket watch, lost, etc.): 6 ---
**Author:** ![Thylacine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thylacine/32/1143_2.png) [@Thylacine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thylacine)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2003, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/74 "2003-10-09T10:55:45Z")
I love my old fashioned wind up skeleton pocket watch on a chain. The only trouble is I learned to tell right and left by knowing my wristwatch was on my left. Now I get lost a lot but always know the time. ---
**Author:** ![LadySybil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c89c15/32.png) [@LadySybil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LadySybil)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/75 "2003-10-10T01:15:01Z")
Heh, I’ve owned a few watches in my short lifetime, and I’ve always been horribly scatterbrained as to where I put them.:smack:Lessee… I have had a Lion King watch, a Powerpuff Girls watch that I could not get to work for the life of me, a star-shaped pocketwatch (my mom commandeered that one), a gold pocketwatch that I have not found since I was 12 or so, a silver wristwatch that I still have somewhere, and my current, a silver analog watch with a wristband made of red and clear glass beads. Speaking of which, I need to go find the bugger…_walks away mumbling_ ---
**Author:** ![GilaB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8e7dd6/32.png) [@GilaB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GilaB)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/76 "2003-10-10T03:09:34Z")
Generally, if I get a watch, I’ll wear it until it breaks, or the battery dies, then I’ll go without one for a year or three. I adjust to the having/not having of one pretty quickly, only a week or so of checking an empty wrist or of forgetting to put it on in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![SlickRoenick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@SlickRoenick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlickRoenick)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/77 "2003-10-10T05:37:38Z")
Every single day. I only take it off to sleep or shower. I will wear it swimming though. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/78 "2003-10-10T06:28:46Z")
I used to wear a watch all the time. Digital. Since the band broke over a year ago, I now carry it in my pocket whenever I leave the house, since I am anal about being on time. I should at least get the band fixed or buy a new watch, but I am too lazy. ---
**Author:** ![Invisible\_Chimp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f05b48/32.png) [@Invisible\_Chimp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Invisible_Chimp)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/79 "2003-10-10T06:30:23Z")
Not only am I too lazy to fix the band, but I just realized after hitting “Submit” that I like that the band is broken, because now I have a de facto pocket watch. Pocket watches are somewhat cooler and more interesting than wristwatches. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [October 10, 2003, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590/80 "2003-10-10T12:33:51Z")
I wear a watch…from an assortment I have. I take it off when I get home. Often, when visiting family, I take it off when I eat. Some chick that dug me 12 years ago bought if for me (Tag Heuer). I always had nice watches. But damn, you’d think wearing a watch would give me some feeling for time! I can’t believe it’s 12 years! I’m on my second battery and band. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-watch/205590.md?page=5)