pointless poll of wristwatch wearers

In My Humble Opinion
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  1. Your gender: Male
  2. Your approximate age: 33.01
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Left-handed
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? My left hand
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top of my wrist.
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Above the knob.
  7. Analog or digital? Analog. Haven’t worn a digital watch since I was a very young teenager.
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Snap-closed metal.
  9. Do you sleep with it on? Hell no. That sounds enormously uncomfortable.
  10. Anything else you want to share? My current watch, a Fossil, is only a couple of months old. My wife and I bought each other wrist watches for our anniversary in April. My previous watch, also a Fossil, was a Christmas gift from my mother about 10 years ago.
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**1. Your gender
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Female

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2. Your approximate age
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3. Are you right-handed or left-handed?

Im a righty

4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on?

My left wrist

5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)?

Top

6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)?

Below
7. Analog or digital?

Analog

8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic?

Leather

9. Do you sleep with it on?

Usually not, I cant sleep wearing anything…
10. Anything else you want to share?

I usually wear a Hello Kitty watch. I got five different types of kitty watch for Christmas so I usually alternate every few days

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  1. Your gender (I assume wristwatch wearers are mostly men, but I see women wearing them now and again). Male
  2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind) 50’s
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Bats R, Throws R
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? L
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Above
  7. Analog or digital? Analog
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Snap-closed metal
  9. Do you sleep with it on? No
  10. Anything else you want to share?

I’ve always worn a watch; but 5 years ago, as an anniversary present, I received a watch. It’s expensive (the model James Bond prefers) and beautiful, the most luxurious thing I’ve ever owned, and I love it.

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  1. Your gender (I assume wristwatch wearers are mostly men, but I see women wearing them now and again). Female.
  2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind) To the decade? Rounding up or rounding down? I’m 25.
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Left-handed
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Left Hand
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top side
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Closer to my hand
  7. Analog or digital? Analog
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Snap-closed 14k gold (white and yellow) with stainless steel backing.
  9. Do you sleep with it on? No. I don’t wear it around the house. I am allergic to all metals except stainless steel and white gold which I can tolerate for short time spans, this means by around 5pm the band starts to irritate my skin–sometimes sooner. I wear it only when I go out.
  10. Anything else you want to share?
    I love my watch because it matches whatever jewelry I feel like wearing, I can dress it up or I can dress it down, and in professional settings it neatly covers my wrist tattoo. I tend to think of it more like a piece of jewelry because I can find the time practically anywhere.
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One of us! :smiley:

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  1. Your gender: F
  2. Your approximate age: Late 30’s
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? **Left **
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top - to add to NajaNivea’s point about wearing her watch on the palm side - my mother was a nurse and wore hers underneath as well, she said it made it easier to time pulses and such while holding the patient’s wrist (she also always wore a watch with a sweep hand for that very reason).
  6. Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Below
  7. Analog or digital? Analog
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Snap closed metal
  9. Do you sleep with it on? No. I used to always have it at my bedside until I got a cell phone which now doubles as my alarm clock.
  10. Anything else you want to share? My current watch is solar.
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  1. Male
  2. 39
  3. Right handed
  4. Left wrist
  5. Top of wrist
  6. Above the knob (closer to the elbow)
  7. Both, but I keep the digital display turned off except when setting another clock by my watch
  8. Stainless steel
  9. Jebus, no
  10. I have the Timex Ironman T56371, the watch from Stranger than Fiction
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  1. Male
  2. 44
  3. Right-handed
  4. Left wrist
  5. Top
  6. Above
  7. Analogue
  8. Snap-closed metal
  9. No
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1. Your gender (I assume wristwatch wearers are mostly men, but I see women wearing them now and again). Female.

2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind) 36 (you can’t make me round up to 40! :p).

3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right.

4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Left.

5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top.

6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Above.

7. Analog or digital? Analog. I tried a digital watch a couple of years ago and found that it was taking too long to tell the time because I was translating the numbers to analog in my mind!

8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Snap-closed metal.

9. Do you sleep with it on? No; I don’t sleep with any jewelry on.

10. Anything else you want to share? I’ve worn a watch every day for as long as I can remember, and have only ever bought Timex watches for myself – in fact, I just bought a new one yesterday at Target for $40 – but recently I’ve been thinking it might be time (no pun intended) to get a “good” watch. Something in the $200-300 range. I have a few saved to a private wishlist on Amazon, but haven’t found “the one” yet.

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  1. Your gender (I assume wristwatch wearers are mostly men, but I see women wearing them now and again). Male
  2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind) 39
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Rightie
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Leftie
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top o’ the wrist
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Below it
  7. Analog or digital? Analog
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Metal snap band
  9. Do you sleep with it on? Never
  10. Anything else you want to share? The enchiladas I had at a business lunch today sucked. I kept checking my watch to see if it was time to leave yet.
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  1. Male
  2. 47
  3. Right-handed
  4. Left wrist
  5. Top of my wrist
  6. Above
  7. It’s a dial watch (what we called them in the old days before “digital watches” came along)
  8. Fabric–it closes with velcro
  9. Nope.
  10. If I don’t wear it when I’m out, it just feels wrong. But I can spend all day in my house without wearing it and not even notice. Odd.
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  1. Your gender: Male
  2. Your approximate age: 45
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Left
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Above
  7. Analog or digital? Digital
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Snap-closed metal
  9. Do you sleep with it on? Not regularly now
  10. Anything else you want to share? My current watch (Casio W-760) I got dutyfree in 1986. It did 3 years of being worn fulltime while I was travelling, except for times I needed to use the alarm. Then for 10 years of farming, it got taken off for milkings, calvings, when working with electrical gear, and nightly for the alarm. Now I wear it when leaving the house, and take it off before my shower. This last because the seals are stuffed. The only function that works now is the time and date. All other functions come up with a garbled display, so I guess I’m up for a new watch when this battery goes flat. I want a tough, but not chunky watch, but all Casio seem to do are those bulky “G-Shock” ones.
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  1. Your gender: Female
  2. Your approximate age: 39
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Left
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Left
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Bottom
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Above
  7. Analog or digital? Analog
  8. What is the band made of – leather, just recently put on new band as a temp measure, previously was plasticky.
  9. Do you sleep with it on? Yes.
  10. Anything else you want to share? I didn’t wear a watch for probably ten years, I’m pretty accurate at ‘knowing’ the time, then in the last 2 or 3 years I was convinced to start wearing one again. My band broke the other week, and I was lost. I go through about one watch a year. Expecting a replacement for thi Fossil in a month or so.
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  1. Your gender (I assume wristwatch wearers are mostly men, but I see women wearing them now and again).
    Female.
  2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind)
    41
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
    Right-handed.
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on?
    Left.
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)?
    Top of my wrist.
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)?
    Above.
  7. Analog or digital?
    Analog. With second hand.
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic?
    A leather-ish substance. It might actually be leather.
  9. Do you sleep with it on?
    Nope.
  10. Anything else you want to share?
    My cat’s breath smells like cat food sometimes.
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  1. Your gender (I assume wristwatch wearers are mostly men, but I see women wearing them now and again.) Female
  2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind) 50
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on?** Left**
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top side.
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? below, or distal to the styloid process of the ulna.
  7. Analog or digital? Analog,
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Leather. I need a new one right now
  9. Do you sleep with it on? No
  10. Anything else you want to share? For work, I want a plain easy-to-see dial with a big red sweep second hand because I’m a nurse.
    My watch almost got me thrown out of the Ryman Auditorium one time. There was a very strict no-cellphone policy and the ushers where jumping all over people who even got their cellphones out. I had pushed the button to activate the Indiglo on my watch so I could check the time and the next thing I knew I had a furious little 70 year old usher shaking her finger in my face and threatening to throw me out. I’m sure she still thinks it was my cellphone.
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  1. Your gender Female
  2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind) Early 20s
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Left
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Above
  7. Analog or digital? Analog
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Leather
  9. Do you sleep with it on? No
  10. Anything else you want to share? I only wear it when I go out, because otherwise I’m either at the computer or somewhere else with a clock nearby. If I leave the house without it on, I feel lost and confused even if it isn’t important that I know what time it is.
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  1. Your gender: Male.
  2. Your approximate age: 51.
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Bi.
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Either one.
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top.
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Above.
  7. Analog or digital? Digital.
  8. What is the band made of? Fabric.
  9. Do you sleep with it on? Yes.
  10. Anything else you want to share? Craig T. Nelson was the voice of the monster in Flesh Gordon.
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  1. Your gender (I assume wristwatch wearers are mostly men, but I see women wearing them now and again).
    Male
  2. Your approximate age (to the decade, if you don’t mind)
    51
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
    Right
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on?
    Left
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)?
    Top
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)?
    Below
  7. Analog or digital?
    Analog, and not only that: I get watches with no numbers at all - just lines
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic?
    Snap-close
  9. Do you sleep with it on?
    No
  10. Anything else you want to share?
    My ex thought it was funny that I would put on my watch every time I went out for anything, even walking the dog or going to get a newspaper. If I leave the building, my watch is on.
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  1. Male
  2. 50
  3. Left-handed
  4. Left wrist
  5. Top of the wrist
  6. Above the knob
  7. Analog
  8. Leather
  9. Never
  10. I love watches, but historically have never been much for the bling, and have a pile of $10 Wal-Mart specials laying around the house. The most expensive one I ever bought for myself was a Seiko Automatic back in the mid-70’s, for all of about $125. With that said, however, I’m currently sporting a Breitling that’s about the size of a manhole cover and that cost more than my first two cars combined, but that was a gift.
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  1. Your gender: Female
  2. Your approximate age: 27
  3. Are you right-handed or left-handed? Right
  4. Which wrist do you wear your timepiece on? Right
  5. Is the face of the watch on the top of your wrist (back-of-the-hand side), or the bottom (palm-side)? Top
  6. You know that little knob on your wrist (the condyle, I think)? Does your watch rest “above” the knob (closer to your elbow) or below it (closer to your hand)? Below
  7. Analog or digital? I have one of each
  8. What is the band made of – stetchy metal, snap-closed metal, leather, fabric, plastic? Snap metal (analog) Plastic (digital)
  9. Do you sleep with it on? Most nights
  10. Anything else you want to share? **I didn’t know I wore my watch on the “wrong” wrist until college, when a prof. guessed I was left handed. **