Works for me. 
I only care when you come into my yard and address me personally. Or get on my roof top.
My belief does not need your approval in any form at anytime. No one’s beliefs do.
True. But it’s equally true that I am free to heap scorn on them and encourage others to do so. That might not be your ideal of courteous discourse, but you don’t get to decide that either. We both make our positions clear and go on to the next thread.
And I’m going to be 64. I’m not climbing onto to your rooftop or anybody’s unless there is a nice convenient elevator. 
Have to also add hand rails in addition to the elevator for me.
See we did find a place where we could agree…
They have the same effect on computers?
Boy, have you come to the wrong place.
I guess this thread takes a licking and keeps on ticking. Unlike some watches (allegedly).
Regards.
Shodan
I’ve never understood that ad. I could lick my watch all day long and it wouldn’t make any difference.
that is how you keep your crystal clean.
I have come back here to confirm that my watchkiller status has been passed along.
My 30-year-old son got his first watch when he was about 8. It was a not-terribly-cheap watch with hands and it worked fine as long as he was not wearing it. The next two quit working fairly early. He is now wearing a Citizen. It is actually a women’s model but it’s been working for him for some years and is the only one that hasn’t done that thing of working fine as long as he’s not wearing it and losing time at a rate of about a minute a day when he is.
My 19-year-old has a Casio that I bought him about a year ago. When he’s wearing it, it goes fast. When he’s not wearing it, it keeps perfect time. (He lost all the other watches–there weren’t many. He’s of the generation who checks the time on his cell phone.)
Now you can say this is pure chance, but…this is a really scathing indictment of watchmaking if true. A really really high percentage of watches that do not work. Is this also everybody’s experience, or are we just exceptionally bad at choosing watches?
This is pure chance…
I have had this problem for decades. I took a very fine, brand new watch back to the jeweler to find out why it quit working after 2 months and I was told the battery wasn’t really dead but actually overcharged. What the hey?
After that, I tried a cheap watch but it quit working as well.
I have also tried using a pedometer, which hung from my belt loop. This died sometime within 8 hours. I checked it at the end of my day of work and the darn thing was dead.
I just quit wearing watches and gave up on pedometers altogether. I mean, why should I keep throwing my money away. I think it has something to do with, not a magnetic field, but a electromagnetic field.
Now of course I can use my cell phone which doesn’t seem to be affected.
I’ve got another weird issue to throw into the mix too which I believe has to do with static electricity. There are times when I touch my car door to close it that I receive a shock of electricity. Many times I see the zap of electricity go from me to the door. It doesn’t happen all the time. I think it’s usually during the fall and winter. I don’t understand why this happens but when it does start happening, I try to remember to use my sleeve to shut the door instead of my hand.
Continuing this 2009/2013/2014 thread.
I’m not so sure anymore, since I don’t think the protocol could be set up. It would be hard to place somebody under continuous observation for 3 months for example.
I located a 2005 thread on the subject at the Randi forum. This report was particularly interesting. The watchbreaker believed that most people unconsciously protect their watch in some way from shocks and the like. Those that don’t end up buying cheaper watches, then breaking them even faster: it’s a downward spiral.
Then you don’t know anything useful about electromagnetism, you’re just picking words out of a hat.
Yes. That’s static electricity. Considering it weird is a bit odd, as it’s a very well understood phenomenon. If it happens during fall and winter that’s most likely because that’s when you wear coats or jackets that generate static electricity when rubbing against the upholstery in your car.
It happens for the same reason that you can build up a charge by rubbing your shoes on a carpet, a balloon on your head or cloth on a plastic rod.
And the air is often drier when it is cold - which means the static-producing materials are drier and create charge more effectively.
This doesn’t sound like the sort of thing a high street jeweller would be equipped to determine.
I thought it was more about dry materials and dry air being worse at conducting the created charge back out of the body (or item).
Why do birds suddenly appear, ev’ry time you are near?
Confirmation bias.
I’m sad to say that I don’t have the patience to read every post in this article to check if this has been discussed before, but I’ve heard stories / seen pictures of rare people who can apparently conduct electricity with their bodies- they can hold a live wire in one hand and a light bulb in the other and the light bulb will turn on with no apparent damage to them personally. Another man allegedly cooked a fish he was holding via electrical current.
I’m not suggesting that everyone has this ability, but is it possible that if certain people had a similar, but much weaker property, a battery might actually drain slowly into the ground as they wear it? I’m not sure what sort of protection or insulation surrounds the battery and I don’t know what the resistance of the circuit is or whether the energy would find a better path of least resistance, so I don’t expect this to be the answer, but I thought I should bring it up.
What you’ve heard stories about and seen pictures of are tricks. People in general conduct electricity, though, so some of those tricks are just using the ordinary properties of the body to do something the audience doesn’t expect to be possible. Other tricks are just plain old trickery and cheating.
Yes, I think that’s the mechanism of it.
I want that on a T shirt.
So clearly most posters on this board believe people like me have lost their minds, or believe we believe we are something special out of a science fiction motion picture. HONESTLY I currently own 163 watches. 72 are very very nice, pricey watches (1200+), some are mid range and some are cheap. It doesnt matter. I wear one three or four times and it stops. I wear another and it does the same. I buy another and it does the same. I am a professional person and am careful with my accessories. I spend the so I am very careful no to damage in any way. I routinely take the watches in bulk to a jeweler where I spend several hundred dollars having the batteries changed out JUST SO I dont do it incorrectly myself, and THAT be the reason it screws up. But there have been times when the jeweler looks at me and says, sorry, it isn’t the battery. It’s something within the watch… that they cannot explain. Bulova is a fairly inexpensive watch. I can wear it til it falls off and it keeps time perfectly. A Patek or an Omega will give out in 8 wears. So, I am not sure why so many of you believe anyone whose watch won’t keep ticking for ten years is somehow inept when it comes to taking care of their valuables. There is a reason this happens. Maybe the same reason my sterling silver (I was going to say white gold, but it is softer and that will be most posters’ excuse) wears down extremely quickly even if I do not wear it terribly often. I was seeking a real reason for this and most of you blame the person wearing the watch for being clumsy or not knowing when they bang their arm into a door frame so hard that they don’t even notice (???). No answers here. Too bad ya can’t find a forum that takes anyone’s issues seriously. Everyone has to be sarcastic and blame the person. Thanks for not being different. At least I know to stop wasting my time trying to find answers in places like this.