It’s not your clothes
music
favorite color
neighborhood
that tell the most about you, it’s your watch. I have to think it’s tongue-in-cheek but they do seem earnest about it in the commercial.
So on that premise, what does your watch say about you?
I own three watches, but never wear one!
the watch body, no strap, from a Bulova wind-up watch my Grandpa had. It’s a rectangular Deco-y type style. It has no strap because the one it had was an unfortunate flattened spring-type design that ripped the hair out of my arm. And I’m a woman; I can’t imagine how Grandpa put up with it
A nice big-face conservative classic design with a “leather” band. Battery dead.
A clips-onto-your-belt-loop hanging kind that you lift up and read it, so it’s kind of upside-down. Battery dead.
They all reside in my jewelry box and don’t get used.
I think I might be seeing some symbolism here. I too am not really ticking inside; I have very little energy and stay closed up inside the box of my apartment and my own head. I sometimes feel upside-down in relation to others and the world. I also have a big face.
My main watch is a Seiko, actually. It’s one I always wanted, a gold band, with a face-size that fits - not too big, not too small. It has lines instead of numbers, and little hash marks in between, as well as the day and the date. I love it.
It speaks to me of quiet elegance and reserved beauty. Two things that I’d very much like to be and occasionally even achieve.
The other one is a very pretty Asian-themed one, with a red band with Chinese characters and a white face. I can’t remember much more about it since I never wear it. The gold suits me better.
Timex Ironman Indiglo with rubber strap. Good for keeping splits while running, and cheap enough that when it breaks I can just buy a new one.
Goes with my nature as appreciating - and striving to attain - function and reliability. That and the fact that I’m a cheap ass Polack!
Also have a black faced Seiko with gold metal band for very occasional dress, and a couple of my dad’s old watches (wrist and pocket) that I never use them.
I find watches attractive, and every great once in a while I toy with the idea of buying a nice one. Especially attracted to vintage. Which is consistent with my valueing classic and “quality” items. But a watch just doesn’t mean enough to me.
I wear a very simple round Carriage watch from Target, costs about $15, when the battery dies, I throw it away and buy another one.
All that says about me is that I don’t really believe in spending more money than I have to… and that I like to know what time it is when I wake in the night.
I don’t even own a watch. I wonder what the fine folks at Seiko would have to say about that. “Pinko commie that doesn’t support capitalism”? “Too damn poor to buy one”? “Wrists too small and frail to support one”? “Insert other witty comments here”
I have a Pulsar, in silver and gold colors. It looks pretty nice. The receptionist at the dentist’s office commented on it this morning. What does it say about me? I dunno. Maybe that my wife has good taste in husband-type watches. (I got her the matching one for the following Xmas.)
I have a number of watches, I even bought a watch case a year ago. The thing is I only wear two. One is a Timex that was $20. I bought it when my last watch died and I needed one bad. I’ve had it since 99 and have replaced the battery and band a couple of times. I always wear it when I’m on the motorcycle and when I travel so I don’t look like I have lots of money.
My normal everyday watch is the one my wife gave me last year. It’s a Citizen Eco-Drive. I’ve always wanted a watch that I didn’t have to replace the battery in. My other watches include a Ford Mustang watch, Apollo watch, and one that my father gave me when I graduated from college. I have others but I don’t know what they are any more.
I never wear a watch, so using Seiko’s reasoning, apparantly I’m a nobody.
I do owe two though, the first is a Timex ironman that I bought for scuba diving and is forever set on Thailand time, so I guess that says I’m a sporty guy who’s out of step with his immediate world, a planner, lazy, and a dreamer who envisions warm, watery worlds. The last bit dovetalis nicely with my secret opinion that global warming could indeed be a good thing.
The second is a brand new gold Rolex from 1968, that I inherited. It’s one of those Eaton’s ( department store ) quarter century models with an expandable bracelet and it tells the world that I used to have a dad that worked for Eaton’s and I enjoy having all the hairs ripped out of my arm by expandable metal bracelets.
Swatch Irony Freezing Rain. Beautiful thing that after 5 years still gets comments from random people on the street (and it costs under $80). I am beginning to consider buying another one in case this dies and it is discontinued.
$20 silver watch from Sears, blue face. Guess I’m simple and cheap
If I could get straps for it, I’d probably still be wearing the Pop Swatch (bright pink) my aunt gave me for Christmas a few years back. Unfortunately, since it’s never been sold here finding straps is quite literally impossible, heck it was hard finding them even when we went to Switzerland a few years back.
One is a Fossil Blue I bought 7 years ago. Blue face. Don’t wear it unless I am wearing blue.
Another is a Fossil with black leather band, the kind where the watch face sits on top of the band. Watch face is white and silver. Wear it with tshirts and stuff.
Last one is an Anne Klein. Silver, white rectangular face with crystals or something on the edges of the face and the first four links. It’s my “nice” watch - looks more expensive than it was (about $80). It has become my most favored watch. But I am a klutz and it’s starting to look shitty because I bang it on everything. It’s the watch I get compliments on.
I love watches, just don’t have the money to buy them. Two of the above were Christmas gifts.
And I like a man with a nice watch - not expensive but one that just looks nice. Silver or thick leather band preferred. I hate digital watches.
I have two. My business/nice casual watch is a brushed aluminum, vagely Rolex-y watch from Nixon (they make surf stuff) with a pink face. My sport watch is a Timex Ironman with pink accents. So I guess my watches say I like pink…
I have to think it’s tongue-in-cheek but they do seem earnest about it in the commercial.
