I’ve worn watches since I was about 16 and was given my first one as a birthday present. I don’t look at it constantly, except when I know I have a series of appointments to keep during the day, and when I’m using public transport and need to know when the next bus/train is coming along.
Right-handed, and wear the watch on my left wrist.
Times when the battery dies, or the strap breaks, and there’s a delay of maybe a couple of days before I can get to the jewellers – I get twitchy without my watch. I also seem to have the electricity thing – it affected the wind-up watches I wore, making them go faster somehow, now and then. These days, the batteries seem to last a heck of a long time.
Oh, one more tidbit from the jewellery store - if you own a really nice, expensive watch and need a new battery installed, often the jewellery store will tell you "we don’t have that battery. You have to take it to the store where you bought it.|
That is a lie. They have stacks of batteries in the back room that would work.
Jewellery stores don’t like to install batteries in expensive watches…godforbid the face cracks or they screw up the back plate or whatever…the few bucks profit on the battery and installation isn’t worth the grief of having to send the damned thing to Switzerland to be repaired.
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As far as pocket watches are concerned, they’re nice cause most blue jeans you buy have fob pockets for them anyways (which I use currently to hold my zippo lighters, which also fit nicely in there). Sometimes they can just make for nice decoration to go with dressy attire. Plus, they’re just freaking cool, same reason people still wear analogue watches and listen to vinyl records.
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Speaking of pocket watches, I just bought a nifty Final Fantasy pocket watch that has a gold-colored design of a Chocobo on the cover
