# Do you wear a wrist watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 15, 2019, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582 "2019-06-15T21:43:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Snake\_Plissken\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snake_Plissken_1)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/101 "2019-06-19T11:16:18Z")
I’m 64. Worn a watch since I got a Seiko as a high school graduation present. I’ve had all kinds, analog, digital. I have eight in my ‘collection’ now. I rotate through them periodically. Some are old like the Seiko,Breitling and Rolex, some are newer, like the Suunto and Apple 4. I think attraction to watches for me is that they are all intricate little machines, superbly designed and assembled. Wonders of human ingenuity, really. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/102 "2019-06-19T13:37:14Z")
I wore a wristwatch for many years, all the time except when I was on vacation. But I got out of the habit once I first got a cellphone, about four years ago now. The times when I can’t at least take a subtle peek at the clock on my phone are rare. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/103 "2019-06-19T15:15:54Z")
Pretty much all waking hours & even some of the sleeping ones, too. If I manage to go out w/o one in the morning I need to find a rubber band or something because my wrist just feels weird. I am not surgically attached to my phone & frequently don’t have it at my side, especially when running or in the house. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/104 "2019-06-19T20:21:15Z")
47, F, and I wear a watch every day. Have for as long as I can remember. There are pictures of me at 12-13 years old wearing a watch. Right now I own three that function. In order of acquisition: **A Citizen Eco-Drive** with Arabic numerals, a date window, and a small-ish (“women’s”) face. I bought it in Paris in September 2017: when I got it I could read the date in the window, but by a few months later (right about when I started to need reading glasses) I couldn’t anymore. It’s now my “casual” watch. **A Citizen Eco-Drive** with an Arabic “12” but markers for the other numbers, a date window, and a larger (“men’s”) face. I think it looks a little fancier than the other Citizen, and I can read the date in the window without cheaters, so this is the watch I wear most of the time (to work, etc.). I bought it in October 2018. **A 42" Samsung Galaxy Watch** , purchased in December 2018. I started wearing smartwatches in 2013 when I got a Pebble, and for a few years various Pebble models were all I wore. Since Pebble went out of business (while I was waiting for delivery of the newest model _sigh_), I’ve struggled to find a replacement that I really like. I’ve tried three smartwatches since then, with this one being the latest (and the second Samsung). Even at the smaller size it’s heavy and bulky on my wrist, plus there are only a handful of free analog faces that I like and I can’t get them to work properly half the time. I still wear it on weekends sometimes, especially if I have plans with friends (so I can set my phone to vibrate and put it away but not miss any messages or calls). But shortly after getting it I decided that I’d rather wear the newer Citizen to work on a daily basis, so most of the time now the Galaxy sits at home in its charger. I do sometimes miss getting wrist-top notifications, but I think I’m over the smartwatch thing until something like a Pebble is available again. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2019, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/105 "2019-06-19T23:28:03Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > A 42" Samsung Galaxy Watch\*\* You must have HUGE wrists. ---
**Author:** ![Saintly\_Loser](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saintly_loser/32/4045_2.png) [@Saintly\_Loser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saintly_Loser)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/106 "2019-06-20T02:43:50Z")
> [@saje](#): > > 57 and I feel lost without one despite having my phone on me. > > Mine is a cheapie Timex Indiglo (push button backlight). I have to have the Indiglo so that when I wake up in the wee hours I can check the time and decide whether to roll over and try to go back to sleep, or just get up and get some stuff done. A bedside clock doesn’t work in my world because I am so effing nearsighted that I can’t see it from where I’m lying. I can hold my watch 4 inches from my nose and check the time without making a big production of it. 1. I always wear a watch. A self-winding analog watch. For me, like you, it’s more useful than a bedside clock or cell phone. Without my glasses, I can’t read a clock. Or a cell phone. But I can hold my watch right up to one eye and figure out where the hands are. It helps that they glow sightly in the dark. ---
**Author:** ![neutro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@neutro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutro)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/107 "2019-06-20T02:45:30Z")
Pickup up a new watch yesterday, now I’m up to around 10. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/108 "2019-06-20T04:22:18Z")
Watdja get? ---
**Author:** ![Ashtura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ashtura/32/2963_2.png) [@Ashtura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ashtura)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/109 "2019-06-20T06:18:49Z")
47 here. I hadn’t worn a watch for decades until I got a smart watch a couple years back. It works as a standalone cell phone, monitors your heart, etc. 99% of the time it’s used to tell the time. I’ve used it as a phone a handful of times, granted I did not have another working phone at the time and it was quite useful. ---
**Author:** ![And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/and_his_buzzer_goes/32/377_2.png) [@And\_his\_buzzer\_goes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/And_his_buzzer_goes)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/110 "2019-06-20T06:57:43Z")
1. I stopped wearing a watch when I started my first “real” job, some 22y ago. There’s always a clock around when you need it: computer, phone, bicycle gps, billboard, church,… ---
**Author:** ![Biffster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biffster/32/339_2.png) [@Biffster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffster)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/111 "2019-06-20T07:01:25Z")
54, and I wear a watch religiously. Analog, nothing fancy. I just like being able to tell at a glance what time it is. Easier than checking my iPhone. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/112 "2019-06-20T12:21:59Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > No watches for me, early 40s. My sense of time is pretty good and I’m usually fairly accurate with knowing the approximate time of day, say within 15 minutes. Why are people looking at their watches in theaters or on airline flights, anyway? This. If you’re in/at a theater is your schedule so tight you _have_ to leave partway through the movie/performance for your next gig? Ditto for a flight. Glancing at a watch, getting up, and struggling with opening the door is going attract immediate attention from the flight crew. I wear a watch when I’m on a tight(ish) schedule and need to know the time with precision – for example at a Con or when I am on shift at Burning Man. My sense of time is good enough I don’t have to look at a watch out of curiosity for what the time is. A calibration every three hours or so (or after I take a nap :))is all I need and there’s always a clock around somewhere to do that. I am 69 and stopped wearing a watch sometime in my mid-thirties. > [@Sparky812](#): > > I used to wear one all the time but I kept breaking the straps or smashing the face while working. Now I can’t be bothered. That was a major factor; a watch on my wrist was exactly at doorknob height. I wore one on the inside of my wrist until I figured out I didn’t need the exact time all that often. > [@DummyGladHands](#): > > I’m left handed and when I was a kid, my mother struggled with my seeming inability to understand right from left. One day she put a watch on my left arm and said THAT IS YOUR LEFT! > Habit now I had a friend who would refer to left/right as watch-hand/no-watch-hand. I figured he was joking and now I wonder. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/113 "2019-06-20T12:49:03Z")
49, and have always worn a watch. Apart from anything else, I like it as an accessory, and always wear nice ones. My current one is a smart watch, but a special edition Hermes/Apple number with a double wraparound leather strap. It’s lovely… When that dies from obsolescence I’m thinking of investing in a pricey timepiece to see my out (my wife, for example, recently bought a pricey Chanel number). I’m surprised at those who say they don’t need to keep that on top of precise time - slightly jealous, perhaps. I need to know minute by minute - catching trains, back to back meetings. And whipping my phone out for the purpose is both annoying and inappropriate at times. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/114 "2019-06-20T14:07:44Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > > [@Misnomer](#): > > > > A 42" Samsung Galaxy Watch > > You must have HUGE wrists. :smack: Yes, I mean 42mm. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eenerms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/cdc98d/32.png) [@eenerms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eenerms)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/115 "2019-06-20T14:17:25Z")
I have three watches.only ware them when I’m traveling. I have a Jean D’eve( more like a piece of jewelry) a Tag Hauer, and Mickey Mouse Seiko. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/116 "2019-06-20T14:23:16Z")
I never wear one on a daily basis because my cell phone has a clock, a calendar, and pretty much everything else. I do have a gold Movado watch that is gorgeous and that I wear as a form of jewelry at formal affairs. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/117 "2019-06-20T18:38:08Z")
> [@Snake\_Plissken](#): > > I think attraction to watches for me is that they are all intricate little machines, superbly designed and assembled. Wonders of human ingenuity, really. I understand what you mean but, if level of human ingenuity is the basis, surely the modern mobile phone and network has a lot more wonders packed inside it. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/118 "2019-06-20T19:35:37Z")
> [@jnglmassiv](#): > > I understand what you mean but, if level of human ingenuity is the basis, surely the modern mobile phone and network has a lot more wonders packed inside it. I can’t speak for **Snake** , but I know my own mind on things like this. There’s a cut-off point for me beyond which something simply doesn’t register emotionally as man-made. I first discovered this at Giza, while looking at the pyramids. They are, quite simply, inhumanly scaled. The individual stones simply don’t register for me as something human beings could have fashioned or put in place, even though _intellectually_ I know they did both. _Emotionally_, for me, the pyramids at Giza are indistinguishable from works of nature. Spectacular, certainly, but not _moving_. On the other hand, the Sphinx is much more of a scale that I can appreciate as being the work of people, and as such, I found it infinitely more affecting. Similarly, I can appreciate all the ingenuity and engineering prowess that went into the decades of electronics development which resulted in my little Moto G5 plus. But if I had the kind of watch that I could see the gears inside of, I’d probably kill 10 or 15 minutes a day just staring at those little buggers turning away, in absolute awe. ---
**Author:** ![Scoobysnax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@Scoobysnax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scoobysnax)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/119 "2019-06-20T19:42:46Z")
43 - I own 7-8 watches and wear one daily. My Omega Speedmaster is my daily wear watch. The rest are currently collecting dust. ---
**Author:** ![neutro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/bc8723/32.png) [@neutro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutro)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582/120 "2019-06-20T20:39:27Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > Watdja get? Franck Muller Long Island Dual Second Retrograde in 18k gold. The dial really pops and the complication is cool. This one is about 15 years old I think. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-wear-a-wrist-watch/835582.md?page=7)