One more pocket watch owner. I love mine, even though it’s not exactly ‘top of the line’, it has an awsome looking chain, and it was a christmas present from the parental units, so it’s pretty special to me. Pocket watches are just classier than a wrist watch, more evocative of a certain time and style.
Plus, when i used to have a regular wrist watch, I’d be looking at it all the time. Every couple of minutes I’d be checking to see what time it was. It was rather annoying. It takes a little effort to pull out a pocket watch, so I’m much less obsessive about what time it is now (btw, it’s 10:24, if you were interested).
Wow! I thought I was the only one with nasty skin chemistry. I have the same problems as above. Any wristwatch or exposed metal in my glasses turns relatively quickly into a nasty green sludge. I’m forever cleaning this gunk out of the crevices of watches and the corners of my glasses.
I started keeping my wristwatch in my pocket a few years ago and haven’t worn it on my arm since.
As far as the glasses, I just got the plastic-coated wire frames. I don’t seem to affect plastic, just metal.
I carry a pocketwatch. It’s nothing fancy, it’s a cheap $6 watch I got at Walmart. I have a pocketwatch because I hate wearing a wristwatch, but like knowing the time. I used to wear a wristwatch, but got into the habit of taking it off and putting it down on my desk. Plus, people don’t ask me for the time as much anymore.
I must join with K-Web Catalyst in dissent. I find a wristwatch much more convenient than a pocketwatch. With tight jeans, a big thick disk of metal in my pocket is very uncomfortable. With loose khakis, a big thick disk of metal bouncing around in my pocket is very uncomfortable. With shorts, a big thick disk of metal will fall out.
And you have to take out a pocketwatch to read it; you can’t just turn your arm.
I’ll admit I can’t fathom metal watchbands, which pinch and are cold and can’t be adjusted very well (when I’ve run several miles in hot weather, my wrists expand).
I have a Timex with a leather band for my “nice” watch. My running watch is a Timex with a woven Nylon band.
I’ve never liked having a watch on my wrist. While I don’t own a traditional pocket watch, I do carry a Victorinox pocket knife that has a watch built into it.
Well, looks like I’m the only switch-hitter on this thread.
When I’m dressed up, I wear a pocketwatch. For special occasions, it’s a gold-filled Swiss Arnex that was a wedding present from my late wife. My everyday work pocketwatch is a Bill Blass model that was a Christmas gift from the 'rents. If I’m going casual I wear a wristwatch. Nothing fancy, just a Timex or Swiss Army analog with a plain face and date window.
The reason for my pickiness is that I have a long torso. To avoid looking like a stooge when I wear a shirt and tie I have to wear custom made shirts that cost $100 a pop. They’re great and I love them but wristwatch cases shred the cuffs like crazy. To keep from ruining my cuffs I use a pocketwatch and save the wristwatch for when I’m wearing short sleeves.
Besides, a pocketwatch chain looks cool hanging from a suit pocket.
I’m another switch-hitter. A pocket watch was only one of the dozens of affectations I enjoyed in my younger days.
I have a heavy silver machine from the 1880s, before brand allegiance…there is NO trademark or company name on the face! The (heavily-engraved) back opens up, so I can wind it with its little attached key, and inside it says only “Cylindre…Quatre Rubis.” On the inside of the case is a tiny engraved lily. I carry it on a platinum chain, more often in the right front pants pocket than in my vest.
My wristwatch is a huge heavy steel Soviet Army Tank watch, on a thick leather belt. I bought it in the late 1980s, when I realized there was no way to sneak a look at the time during a business meeting if you had a pocket watch.
I don’t do either, though it’s closer to the pocketwatch. I just pull my cell phone out of my pocket if I need to know the time, its always right there on the screen. Why pay for two pieces of equipment when I can have one?
I just got a pocket watch. Because i am always washing my hands, And I am in and out of gloves more frequently. Especially since I hate metal watchbands, and the feell of a wet watchband.
I can clip the watch inside my pocket, and go. I empty my pockets and the watch is safe im my purse. It is only a $10 Kmart model, but it works out better for me than a wrist watch,
I get rashes from wearing bracelets and watches, so I’m a pocket watch guy myself. I’m wearing a B.U.M. watch right now though that clips to my belt loop, it’s cheap and accurate. I’ve noticed (this might be a new thread) that the cheaper watches I buy tend to stay more accurate, I wonder howcome…
My husband won’t wear a wristwatch because he says the band irritates his skin. I secretly think it’s because he likes to be all debonair and pull out a pocketwatch when some sweet little thing asks him the time.
He’s got one of those watches on a caribeener that are so popular nowadays. I got him a moderately nice pocketwatch for his birthday a year ago, but it stopped working. This was after a $20 one from Walmart lasted four years. I have vowed to buy only cheapos from now on. The trouble is finding one that doesn’t have a train, a motorcycle, or a hunting scene on the cover. (He must have one with a cover, because he can’t be troubled to keep his change in the other pocket.)
I wear a pocket watch exclusively. Very convenient, since I wear Levi’s 501’s 80% of the time, and that is what the little pocket on the right side is for, after all.
Funny you should mention it. Acctually a little scary.
Because yesterday my birthday present finally arrived from my Mother (after two months of shipping problems) and she got me a pocket watch.
Because she knew (mothers know) that the only watch I ever liked carrying- or tolerated carrying, was the cheap gold pocket watch I used to keep in that little square pocket at the frount of my motercycle jacket- with the fob attatched to the zipper of the top pocket.
Umm…what do you mean they’re supposed to be worn with three piece suits?
What is more satisfiying than that little round weight in the palm of you’re hand? In that click as you release the catch? In that ticking, subtly louder when you’ve opened it, that so many watches perversly refused to do at all now?
My only problem is now I need a new motorcycle jacket.
Like drewcosten, I just use my mobile phone (which I keep in my pocket) as a watch.
The few times in my life that I’ve worn a wristwatch, I invariably found myself constantly staring at it and fiddling with it. It also felt awkward having something strapped onto my wrist. I don’t think pocketwatches are inherently better than wristwatches, but they’re what work for me.
I use a pocketwatch, mainly because when I tinker on my car (almost daily), I don’t have to worry about catching the watch on any protruding surfaces. My watch is an old railroad watch dating from the early '20s, which I finally had properly restored recently. I’d never switch back now.
No, you should always use a pocketwatch to confuse people!
“What’s that?”
“A pocketwatch!”
“Why do you call it a pocketwatch?”
“Because it is a watch that goes in a pocket”
“Doesn’t it get banged up with the other stuff you keep in there?”
“No, it goes in a special pocket, a watchpocket”
“So a pocketwatch is a watch that goes in a watchpocket?”
“Yes, exactly. Of course, that really makes it a watchpocketwatch.”
“A…watchpocketwatch?”
“Yes, a watch that goes into a watchpocket. Of course…”
“Of course what??”
“Well, the pocket ought to be a pocketwatchpocket, since you don’t put just ANY old watch into it, right?”
“Uh, um, so you put your watchpocketwatch into a pocketwatchpocket?”
“Of course, that makes this a pocketwatchpocketwatch…”
