I’m saying that those circumstances are so rare and so easily dealt with with other methods that it’s not worth it to wear a superfluous single-purpose device.
What are you arguing here? The OP is asking non-watch wearers why we don’t wear watches. My answers detail why. It’s superfluous, it’s inconvenient, it’s unattractive, and it’s uncomfortable.
You said “there is no conceivable reason to want to know the time in a movie theatre”. I gave examples. That was it. I personally don’t care if you use a watch or not.
See, the thing is, to me it’s the phone that’s superfluous, the afterthought. I might take it with me, but I might not, if I don’t want to be disturbed.
Also, rather than being uncomfortable, when I’m not wearing a watch I’m constantly shaking my left arm because it feels like there’s something missing on it, which there is.
It’s really just a matter of what you’re used to.
see there are distinct differences here that are pertinent, in order of intrusiveness:
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[li] glancing at an incoming text without replying. perfectly acceptable. the way i use a phone, important messages are usually text’d to me as I won’t answer a call if i’m busy, but i’d usually spare a text a glance.[/li][li] glancing at your watch once. perfectly acceptable. [/li][li] reading and replying messages.[/li][li] answering a short call. [/li][li]* glancing at your watch several times. * why is this at the top of the list? because everything else could be read as a quirk, while this is an overt signal saying, “i really should be somewhere else right now.” [/li]
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No, I most certainly did not.
I asked, “Why are you checking the time when you’re watching a movie in a theater?” and then given the answers I showed why none of them demanded a wristwatch.
Ah, I see - thanks. We have differing views on the drawbacks of a wristwatch (you see many, I see very few), which seems to be the main driver behind our respective choices.
And that’s fine - nobody’s right or wrong here.
Mostly by invoking your “internal clock.” :rolleyes:
Look, I don’t care if you wear a watch or not. I really don’t. I don’t think less of anybody who doesn’t wear one. But you talk as if people who wear watches do it because they just can’t conceive of any other way to measure time. That’s not the point.
Of course a wristwatch isn’t “demanded.” Not a lot is, in this world, but I don’t say to you, “Gee, I can’t understand why you wear leather lace-up shoes to work when my velcro shoes provide the same amount of arch support, and I don’t understand why you need Microsoft Excel because I can just remember the numbers in my head and you don’t even need a job anyway because I run my own business from home…” and use that to justify how right I am that anybody who does things unlike me is crazy.
WE ARE NOT ALL YOU
I am. And so’s my wife.
You and your wife are both 40 year old men?
This is funny because it’s true. 
You’re right, you asked why, and didn’t say “there is no reason to know the time”. Yes, knowing time never demands the use of a wristwatch, but I don’t think anyone said that either.
Me too.
A watch is also more useful on airplanes and on vacation (esp. foreign countries) where my phone is not in use.
For a long stretch I did not wear a wristwatch because the battery had died. Now I have a watch that does not need batteries.
This thread is about a wristwatch-wearing guy wondering why non-wristwatch-wearing guys don’t wear wristwatches. You’re the one demanding that I explain myself and then you go on some bizarre tirade about you having to justify yourself.
WE ARE NOT ALL YOU. Jesus fucking Christ. Go stick your head in a bucket of cold water.
It’s not an odd comment when the main argument seems to be “I can get the time from my Blackberry, iPhone, PC or other sources”. We’ve established that one can get the time from other sources. So it’s not just about being able to tell time.
I’ve been going crazy since my watch died last week. I use my phone to synchronize timepieces once during the workday. Other than that, it is a pain to have to get it out all the time. It’s also confusing when I am working in a different time zone, because the phone changes, but I still need to work by my time. Oh, and my phone doesn’t have a 24-hr (military time) option. I really need a new watch.
That’s what you do, and yeah, it is bizarre. But what did I expect from someone who spouts something as patently stupid as characterizing all watch-wearing as “dick swinging?”
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I used to wear a watch. At some point, the battery died, and I never got around to replacing it. I think the watch is still in my dresser drawer or something. So I started using my phone instead.
If I had a working watch I’d wear it, but as of yet I haven’t found a pressing need for one. I’m told that at some point my dad will be giving me my great-uncle’s nice gold watch, which I think is pretty neat, but until then, unless somebody a) buys me a new watch or b) replaces the battery in my existing watch for me, I’ll just stick with my cell phone.
I don’t think this is a “trend” in the sense of “all the cool kids are doing it” but more like “what I have is plenty good, and I don’t have a reason to go out of my way to do something else”.
My wristwatch, itself, died only a couple of months after I’d replaced the battery. I’ve been without it for a couple of months and it’s driving me batty, so I’ll be replacing the watch soon. Given a choice between pulling my handheld out of its holster (or pocket), fingering the scrolling menu to get the “home” screen that has the time on it, not to mention finding a shady spot in which to do this outdoors–versus lifting up my left wrist and glancing down, I’ll take the latter every time.
I’ve always liked pocket watches, but that’s a habit I can no longer indulge since I’ve had mobile phones. I decided a mobile and a pocket watch was just too much stuff to carry.
I love my watch, a thing of beauty and hats i would ove to be able to wear a nice trilby to work.