Not always true. When I pull out my phone, it senses the change in (I think) what is in front of it, and displays the lock screen, which shows the time. Nothing to turn on, it’s just there. I pull it out and look at it.
Nothing to wind, always correct, automatically adjusts to DST and when I change time zones - my phone is a better watch than any watch I’ve ever owned.
I hear this more and more
Misfit vapor smart watch to keep track of my aqua exercise.
I swear to god, other people and their ‘exercise’ and ‘hobbies’ make no sense to me.
I wear a FitBit. I miss my regular watch though.
I wear a Rolex I got as a 21st birthday present some … mumble mumble … years ago. It is self-winding and keeps wonderful time. Who needs to know the time accurate to a second under normal day-to-day conditions. Maybe once a month I move it a minute ahead or back. I also have a cell phone most of the time, but it probably takes 5 times as long to get the time from it assuming my hands are empty.
i wear a cheapie wrist watch ($12 from WalMart) with big numbers so I can see the time easily. A battery lasts several years. When a new battery no longer keeps it going, I’ll find another cheapie. That way, when I inevitably scratch the crystal, I don’t care a whole lot.
I’m aware of, at least, one.
CMC fnord!
My Fitbit tells the time (when I’m actually wearing it), but I usually use my phone as my default timepiece.
I’m aware that most people have stopped wearing watches.
How do I know this?
Because, a couple of times a week, someone will notice that I’m wearing a wristwatch and ask me “What time is it?” Apparently that’s more convenient for them than fumbling in a pocket or purse for a phone.
Phone
I’m the nearly-official timekeeper at work, but I think that’s mostly because I will volunteer the time, down to the seconds, at the drop of a hat. Or a hint. Or an opportunity.
Even before cell phones became affordable, I hadn’t worn a wristwatch for decades because a band around my wrist just felt annoying. And besides, clocks are in most of the places you need them, like home, office, car. Even my bike computer has a clock. When I’m other places, I have a cell phone with me nowadays.
Digital watches count as “other”, right?
The clock in the system tray on my computer. I spend about 14 hours a day at the computer. When I’m not at a computer, I don’t care what time it is.
I wear a solar powered watch. It’s a handsome, stainless steel watch with a black face. Not showy, but nice, and high quality. I started wearing a watch when I was in the eighth grade. It felt like I was a step closer to adulthood when I got my first watch. I was someone who was responsible for being somewhere on time! Thirty two years later, I still feel like, as a grownup, I should wear a watch, even if I have a dozen other ways to see what time it is now.
Plus, at the end of the day, I hang the watch over the tail of my ceramic kangaroo. This reminds me of my dad. (Yeah, yeah, like the one in Pulp Fiction. My dad had a kangaroo caddy for as long as I could remember. I have a similar one now, and my brother has my dad’s.)
This.
I have a solar-powered electronic Casio, so I voted “wristwatch-quartz.” I teach college for a living. I need to know when the lecture period is coming to an end. I can’t be hauling a phone (or pocket watch for that matter) out of my pocket to see what time it is, but a quick glance at my wrist works perfectly.
Although I have pretty much stopped using the alarms and timer on the watch. I use my phone for those functions.
That’s really a thing? I had no idea. I thought Tarantino made that up. Way cool. Thanks for enlightening me. [Now I have to get one!] [I wonder if I can get my dad to “season” the watch for me for a few years?]
Same for me.
Yep! Google “kangaroo caddy” or “dresser kangaroo” or some such. I think they were most popular in the late 50s, early 60s. Mine, and my dad’s, look like this: https://i.pinimg.com/236x/71/7d/a6/717da688e893e7cf8f40ee90b7b0ceef--dresser-kangaroos.jpg
I always liked the sound of the coins dropping into the pouch when my dad emptied his pockets out when he got home.
I hang my wedding ring over the kangaroo’s right ear and put my wallet in the big opening on the kangaroo’s left side. 
