Well I bought my Timex watch in 1994 for $9.00 and today I woke up and it no longer works. (It’s a digital one). After 15 years of much abuse, dropping it, putting it in hot water, cold water, salt water, etc etc, it bit the dust.
I have had three dress watches that have all come and gone but the cheap little Timex has always done me well
So my question is, how old is your everyday watch. I don’t mean like antique watches or expensive ones you only wear when you dress up.
I haven’t worn a watch in maybe 25 years. I don’t like the feel of them. What I do, then, is buy a stopwatch that also tells the time. They fit right into my cargo shorts, where I promptly wash them and destroy them.
So, two years.
I love watches; I’m a bit of a collector of sorts, so I have a bunch of 'em. I still have the watch (with Twist-o-Flex band!) my dad gave me when I was 10, and just picked up a new one last week.
I don’t own a working watch. The closest I come is my 8 year old pocket watch that the chain always detaches from so I can’t use it. The other 12 year old pocket watch went sprong when I changed the battery. It will never run again. The 5 year old Dayglow clip on watch had the buttons fall off in a year so you can’t set the time or bring up the time or make the watch function in any way. I can’t wear a watch on my wrist so I don’t bother with the fragile expensive pieces of time demarcation. I have better uses for my money.
I will have had my Citizen “Eco-drive” watch for 11 years in June. Typing that out it seems kind of odd that I have been wearing the same watch almost every day for 11 years.
Three years. Suunto X6HRM.
I can’t imagine not wearing a watch; I buy a new one immediately after the old one dies, as I must always have two (in case one dies). The current one is 5 years old and has outlasted several more expensive ones.
I gave up on watches years ago, and on the one occasion when I did look around for one in my jewelry box, not surprisingly they were all dead. :smack:
If I were to get one started again, it would be the hangs-off-a-beltloop one, which is maybe eight years old.
I do have a watch with no band that was Grandpa’s, and he died in the early 70s. It’s a old-style looking Bulova wind-up one.
I have only got one watch. I brought it about 2 years ago when the strap broke on my previous watch. I replaced with an identical one. Wanna see a picky? Lorus Gents Quartz Watch
The watch I am wearing is a $10 cheapie that I bought a couple of years ago.
I have discovered that the more expensive a watch is, the more likely I am to completely smash it to bits. It’s not the fact that better watches are more delicate. I completely smashed the glass and ripped the hands off of the most expensive watch I ever had (still not sure how - I don’t remember hitting it on anything). I started wearing cheapies after that and I don’t even have any scratches on this one.
I also discovered that when the watch band broke on my last cheapie that you can buy a new watch for 10 bucks, but if you try to buy a watch band it will cost you 8 to 12 bucks and if you want a new battery that’s at least 4 bucks, which I think is just silly. So, I bought a new watch instead of a watch band.
For dress up, I wear my father’s old watch, which is probably about 50 or 60 years old. It’s wind-up, so I never have to worry about batteries.
My father gave me a Seiko quartz when I graduated from grad school in 1988. It’s my only watch, and I wear it every day. I’ve replaced the crystal twice (that I remember), the engraved inscription on the back is almost illegible from wear, and the gold plate on the band is mostly gone. But I still get compliments on it.
I bought my Rolex GMT Master II iin 2001. It’s overdue for maintenance, but it’s running fine and keeping good time (for a non-quartz watch) so I’ll put it off a few more years.
Other watches in fine working order: Late-'70s Rolex Submariner non-date, three 1974 Seiko Bel-Matics (overhauled around 2002 or 2003 – one was my dad’s), a Hamilton Ventura from about 2003, a '60s Vulcain Cricket (dad’s), and a '50s Zodiac (dad’s).
I bought mine around 1985-86 I think. Twenty plus years anyway.
I’ve worn the same watch every day since I was 18. I’m 43 now.
I got it from my Dad, who got it from his Dad, who got it brand new as a wedding present from his wife on their wedding day in 1939. And it’s been an every day watch for all of us since we each got it.
It is a truly beautiful thing, even if you ignore the sentimental value within the family and seeing as I am not in the position to pass it on to my son when I die - for I have no son- so I will pass it onto my nephew, who has the same first name as his great grandfather, for whom the watch was bought in the first place. Nice.
If I live to 2039 and the watch is still ticking, I’ll give it to my nephew then. I’ll be 73, he’ll be 36 and the watch will be 100. How cool is that?
I have a very nice Swiss Xemex chronometer. It is automatic, so no battery, and have had it for 12 years. What you say about the Timex watches, however, is quite true. Ironically, these little El Cheapo quartz watches also keep more accurate time time the best of the mechanical ones.
I never have been able to find a really nice quartz dress watch, however. They all look like sports watches or just cheap ones. That is no way to impress a waiter.
I don’t wear watches, for some reason I always destroy them somehow. I think my body gives off electomagnetic signals that specifically destroy both wind up and digital watches.
I do have a nice wrist watch and pocket watch that I inherited from my father, but otherwise I tell time by looking at my Blackberry.
Yes, I am a dork.
The watch I wear now was a gift from my dad in 2000. It’s a very simple stainless steel ladies Rolex. It doesn’t need winding which is good as I am absent-minded about stuff like that. It’s pretty much dirt-proof and water-proof. I like it a lot.
Kenneth Cole Scuba Chronograph. Stainless steel w/navy background, stopwatch, waterproof. I can wear it with a suit, jog with it, and dive with it.
I got it about ten years ago.
My current everyday watch is about 2 years old now, I just had the battery replaced. It’s a Fossil, actually I saw it in a thread about having larger wrists and what would be a good watch and bought it shortly after.
I had lost it for a few months, but I found it again (thankfully). During that lull I had a cheapie 10 dollar watch that proceeded to give me an allergic reaction.
I can’t wait until I get my other watch fixed though, it’s in for repairs now… a 1950’s (I think) ladies Tudor watch.
Another watch destroyer here! The one that’s lasted me the longest was, of course, a cheap little Timex. It has a purple elastic band with pink flowers and a plastic face. I wore it for 2 years (roughly ages 18-19) but I got tired of seeing ten-year-olds with the same one, so I got a nicer one. I’m actually on my third or fourth watch since the Timex, which still runs perfectly. It lives in a drawer in my room and gets taken out for occasions when I don’t want to risk my nice one.