Do you wear a wrist watch?

That’s true at least with the kids I coached(high school). Apparently watches are not cool to wear.

The odd thing is when asking the time, they still tap their wrist.

Yes, I like to war an analog watch. I have a half dozen or so that I cycle through.

Very recently my work has given me a fitbit that goes on the wrist, but does not have a watch on it. So I either wear it and a watch on one wrist (can’t wear something on my *other *wrist) or just wear the fitbit and look at it ten times a day before I realize it’s not my watch. Or wear the watch and keep the fitbit in my pocket. I think that’s the best option.

They are not all like that. I currently wear a cheap analog Casio that is solar powered. And on a shelf I have a slightly older digital Casio with a ten year battery. At least they claim it is ten years; I’ve had it for about five and not had to change it.

How accurate is it?

Always 4:20; make of that what you will.:cool:

Well, I was hoping for ‘It’s spot-on twice a day.’ :stuck_out_tongue:

Did you have to be so blunt?

The last time I wore a wrist watch was around '89 or so. After having several snazzy 80’s wrist watches I grew weary of having extraneous stuff on my person, and never looked back. In all those years between adopting a cell phone and doffing a watch, I got really good at estimating time, often down to the minute, to the amazement of my watch-wearing buddies. These days, when I need to tell time, there’s always a non-watch way, and I’m still almost always on time.

I wear a watch. I like an analogue face & second hand, with a digital inset for date/timer/alarm settings. But honestly 99.999999% of the time I’m just using the analogue face.

I started with watches that had to be wound every day, flirted with a pocket watch briefly in the late 60’s, moved on to a self-winding watch which seemed magical to me in that it wound itself via my arm movements, and made the transition to batteries reluctantly because it was a PITA to change 'em. Tried a solar-powered watch for a while, but it was less than optimal since I was spending so much time indoors.

I see what you did there, bud.

I’m afraid I’d be chronically late with a watch like that.

I’ve got a Misfit Shine which functions as a watch of sorts. It’s a little tricky to learn to tell time with it. It’s based on an analog dial, but the hour is a large dot and the minute is a blinking dot. So what I would see as five til 2 on a regular clock face is actually 2:53 to 2:57.

I wear this all the time since it’s waterproof and I also use it to monitor sleep.

Pebble Time. I really like it. Lots of watch faces to choose from, and it buzzes with new email, text messages, and Facebook notifications.

Same here. There’s a picture of me in a fancy long dress at my 8th grade graduation and I’m wearing a watch. :slight_smile: There is no shortage of clocks around me, but I also always wear a watch.

I’ve always preferred an analog display. About ten years ago I worked for a company that gave out watches as 5-year anniversary gifts: you picked what you wanted (up to a certain amount), and they ordered it. I got a fancy digital watch, but found that I was “translating” whenever I’d look at it: I would look at the numbers and have to picture the face of a clock in my head. It got annoying pretty quickly, so I sold the watch. Outside of that experience, I used to wear simple Timex watches…until a few years ago…

This is what I wear now. More specifically, a Pebble Time Round. I get a digital watch with an analog face. :slight_smile: And in addition to the features Son of a Rich mentions, the display is always on – IOW, it’s always a watch. A while back I read about Pebble in an issue of MIT Technology Review and immediately ordered one; that was three Pebbles ago. The company was recently acquired by Fitbit, and Pebbles are no longer sold/officially supported. I’d ordered one of the new Time Rounds via Kickstarter, and got that money refunded to me. My Pebble will continue to work for a while longer, but soon I will upgrade my cell phone to a Samsung and at that time I’ll switch to a Samsung Gear S2.

A few years ago, one of the paralegals in our small group of four found a legitimate place selling Movado watches for half their retail price. All four of us ended up buying one (solidarity, I guess?). It was the first (and still the only) “nice” watch I’d ever owned—prior to that, I’d primarily bought Fossil watches.

I thought it would drive me crazy to not have any sort of minute markings on the face, but for most purposes, it gives me enough information. And if I need to know more precisely than that, I can always look at my phone, or my Fitbit, or my computer clock, or…

The only thing I requested for my 7th birthday was a wrist watch and I have worn one unfailingly, daily ever since.

I presently wear a gold watch given to me by my grandmother when I graduated from college 40 years ago.

I won an Apple Watch at work, and I really like it. I don’t think it’s worth paying $300 for, but for the price (free!) I’m happy to have it.

I went on Amazon and picked up a bunch of watch guards and bands in different colors, so now I can coordinate them with my outfits.

I paid for mine, but won’t do that again. I prefer analogue watches, and although it has analogue watch faces, I can’t look at the time without gesticulating to activate the screen. Like I said upthread, though, I actually do like it for fitness.

I haven’t worn a wristwatch since high school. For a long while I wore pocket watches, and I still have quite a few of them, but there are clocks in my environment no matter where I am - work, home, car. I’ve sortof promised myself I wouldn’t wear one until I could afford Patek Philippe.

So my wrists will be bare forever.

No.

Yes. I wear a Casio A-851 Men’s digital watch. It was manufactured in 1983 and it still runs like a champ.

Here is what it looks like.