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.
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.
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.
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.
You must have HUGE wrists.
- 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.
Pickup up a new watch yesterday, now I’m up to around 10.
Watdja get?
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.
- 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,…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Yes, I mean 42mm.
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.
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.
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.
43 - I own 7-8 watches and wear one daily. My Omega Speedmaster is my daily wear watch. The rest are currently collecting dust.
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.