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?
In general, I basically don’t care to wear accessories: hats, glasses (sun or otherwise), jewelry, headphones/buds.
I would if I could. My employer will not allow me to wear one on the production floor - too much moving machinery around. If I can’t wear it 24/7 then it’s more trouble than it’s worth.
This. I’m 61
Plus I don’t like pulling out a phone in a meeting or at dinner - a quick glance at the wrist is much more discreet
Like Jnglmassiv, “My sense of time is pretty good and I’m usually fairly accurate with knowing the approximate time of day, say within 15 minutes.” This is close enough for most of my life.
I do not wear a watch, but my tool box at work does. It is the only place that I need to know the time that accurately. The tool box’s watch was a gift from a friend’s tool box. It was gifted to me when the friend quit, I gifted it to my tool box.
If I wear a watch, it usually fails completely fairly soon. One died within four hours of purchase. Yes, I got a replacement & then a refund, but it was a pain.
This system works well for me.
43, wear a watch to work and sometimes other places. Need it at work— I can’t remove my phone from my pocket when students are present and not all classrooms have clocks. (Work in a correctional school.)
Yeah, I work out my wrist a lot. I’m surprised I can wear a watch!
My Seiko Orange Monster needs a new band, the rubber one did not age well 
but the watch itself is fine
Currently I wear an Apple Watch Series 4, mainly for the health monitoring apps as I’m trying to get back into shape
A couple of years ago, finding that keeping weight off is no longer the automatic function of a reasonably active life, I started wearing a Fitbit as a tracker/nag device. Upgraded to an Apple Watch for the deeper feature set (maps while hiking, speed and turn directions while biking) and the fact that it means I can leave my phone behind when I exercise but still have my music and can make calls.
Casio G-Shock with a solar charging face.
I teach and need to look at how much time is left in class. The clocks in the various classrooms are all over the place for location and accuracy.
Yup. I’m not tethered to my phone, and I also wouldn’t want to be pulling it out in the classroom or my practice to check the time.
I’m OK either way, but generally I wear my analog, light-powered Citizen Eco-Drive, which is several years old now. Comes the apocalypse, I’ll still know what time it is. It is a chronograph, but the stopwatch is stupidly designed so I don’t use it much; among the three sub-dials is one that has a 24-hour hand, although it is off by 12 hours. Also it’s kind of heavy, due (I assume) to the stuff inside that turns light into energy. For special occasions I have a Movado that I also like (but it needs a new battery).
I just looked at the currently available lineup of Eco-Drive watches, and none of them looks like mine. I’m sure mine, a gift, was not a high-end model when it was new. I see some of those are over $700, and mine looks pretty basic compared to those.
I’ve got a cheapie, no-name watch that I bought at WalMart for $12 some years back. It’s analog, with reasonably large numbers and good contrast so I don’t have to stare at it to figure our the time. I really like the band, too - large metal links and not too tight, not too loose. I think I’ve replaced the battery 4 times. The crystal is scratched, but I’ve not been able to find a similar watch, so until this one dies, it’s my go-to.
A few years ago, my husband bought me a pretty, rather pricey watch, but with its oblong face, dits instead of numbers, and very little contrast between the background, the dits, and the hands, I’d have to keep shifting my wrist to catch the light just right, and even then, it was sometimes hard to tell the time. I returned it after 2 days. At my age, practical means more than pretty.
I have worn one since I was a kid. I have never bought myself an expensive watch but I now wear the old Omega De Ville that my father left me. I often leave my phone behind when I go out but I would never go out without my watch.
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.
I wear my watch whenever I leave the house. It’s useful, and it looks good on me.
A Casio Ediface my wife bought me for my birthday.
I have not worn one in 2-3 years, but, coincidentally, I thought I might start wearing it again the day before I saw this thread.
I’ve worn an Ironman for the past 20 years or so. When the band broke I decided I could probably do without it. I generally hate having any sort of accessory attached to my body, but I do miss the just-glance-at-your-wrist capability of wearing a watch.
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41, male. Used to wear one pre-cell phone.
Recently, like this month, I decided to start wearing a watch again. I like things that are made of wood so I Googled “wood watch” and of course the first hundred or so hits were all for very nice $400 wood watches. Then I went on amazon and bought this one for 30 bucks.
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