Also - my phone can set multiple alarms, which none of the watches I had could do.
They might be able to have 1, if I could figure out how to work them.
I’m not young, but I don’t wear a watch. Don’t have a cellphone, either. But I know what time it is, it’s…daytime! Well, there ya go.
Replace the bios battery, you may find the whole computer starts running better.
I haven’t used a wristwatch since the 1980s.
I believe pocket watches were popularized by railroad conductors.
It was wristwatches that were considered effeminate. Men refused to wear them, until tennis players made them popular.
Wow, that’s actually attractive! I don’t wear a wristwatch partly because I hate the clunky ugly lumpy ‘masculine’ Rolex-style bands that so many have. Also, I hate the sweaty feel underneath it.
I’m 26. I wore a watch for years and years until one of the spring bars broke. Then I was using my cellphone as a clock. It was annoying to pull it out of my purse all the time, especially since, um, I hardly use it so occasionally it’d be dead. I finally bought a new watch. I’m not always wearing it, since it’s on my mousing hand, but it’s within grabbing distance.
I’m 23, and I prefer pocket watches (I adore pocket watches), but I often just use my cellphone because I’m afraid of losing my favorite pocket watch, which, because I waited a few years too long to finally get it, was a pain in the ass to procure and would be quite difficult (and expensive) to replace. I have a cheaper pocket watch I could use instead, but it came on a necklace chain and I just haven’t gotten around to getting it a different chain so I can attach it to my purse. This was a good reminder to do that, though, so thanks.
(Sometimes I feel as though my taste in clothing and accessories - which is pretty much entirely historical/vintage - must be the result of some sort of time warp.)
I have a sort of jewellery phobia…I can’t wear rings, watches, chain around my neck or anything without fiddling with it obssesively. How can I describe it…it is just that I am constantly aware that something is on me and it drives me nuts.
The odd thing is that I once worked at a jewellery store for almost two years! The owners never had to worry about me accidentally wearing something out of the store!
I have a pocket watch/stop watch for my speech classes, but otherwise, nothing - and I too use my cell phone when I want to know the time.
BTW, an example of well-meaning stupidity; years ago a friend bought me a watch for my birthday and said, “I noticed you have never worn a watch in all the years I have known you.”
(Gee - what should have been your first clue that I don’t want one?)
I thanked them, but told them the reasons I never wear one and let them have it back to re-gift, or return.
I believe I’ve found the major problem with not wearing digital watches, and I believe it can be rectified with just a bit of editing. Print and cut out the following passage:
*Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think [del]digital watches[/del] cellular phones are a pretty neat idea.
This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with [del]digital watches[/del] cellular phones.
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.
Sadly, however, before she could [del]get to a phone[/del] pull out her cellular phone to tell anyone about it, a terribly stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost forever.
This is not her story.*
and paste it inside your copy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. Since the whole bit about digital watches is a confusing anachronism anyway, pertaining only to LED watches that required the use of the off hand to operate, this both updates and clarifies the passage for modern audiences.
For my next trick, I’ll demonstrate that not only does God definitely exist but he wants you to send money to a certain post office box or he’ll ensure that the paparazzi never get compromising pictures of Miley Cyrus snorting cocaine in various states of undress.
Stranger
I love wearing a watch. I just am a bit lazy, and haven’t bought a new one since my last one broke. And no, I’m not a Young 'Un anymore. But it’s so much less effort to just look at your wrist than to dig into your pocket for a phone…
Joe
I own two very nice watches that I’d love to wear when circumstances dictate (one is fancier than the other).
But … the bloody batteries always die within six months or so. Who the heck keeps tiny little watch batteries around? Who wants to take an extra trip to the store to buy new ones and look like an idiot anyway because watches are so tricky to get open?
I keep planning to get new watch batteries but never get around to it.
I certainly didn’t plan it that way, but that way it is.
I’m sure I’ll get around to it sooner or later. [shrug]
This would be why I haven’t stopped wearing one.
I don’t like watches because the bands either pinch me or make me sweat and then get all gross. I don’t mind pulling out my phone to check the time, and I figure if someone asks me the time and is too busy to wait for me to pull it out, then too bad for them.
I’m 28.
I have one of these and have for years, but I don’t wear it that often. My cell phone has a clock and I tend to have it with me and keep it on. If I don’t have my cell phone I almost certainly have my iPod, even if it does keep horrible time (you wouldn’t think so, would you? But it never knows what time zone I’m in. I’ve only programmed it for two, sheesh.)
More, though, I have a car. I get to most places in my car. My car has a radio. The radio has a clock. If I am not in my car, chances are I am at a computer. My computer has a clock. If I am at home, there are clocks everywhere, including two (!) in my bedroom – one iPod player/clock radio and one regular alarm clock because the alarm sucks on the iPod player/clock radio, which I mostly use for an iPod charger/speakers.
If I am at work, I have the computer. If I am at home, probably I have the computer or I don’t care. If I am out, I mostly don’t care – on the weekends I rarely spend so much time in any one place that I don’t know what time it is when I leave, and it’s even less common that I care.
Add that to the fact that as much as I love looking at jewelry and looking pretty in jewelry I hate the act of wearing it and tend to go around naked, except for all my clothes and my glasses and something to hold up my hair because having big thick curly hair is pretty much never comfortable in Texas.
I love the watch, though, and it’s sitting on my desk. I will wear it if I’m going someplace I want to travel very lightly; say, someplace I’m bringing me and my wallet. It’s just uncommon enough for me to use that mostly I don’t bother to add yet another item that does only one thing that’s duplicated by two other things in my usual inventory.
I also love pocket watches, but I feel silly wearing one without a waistcoat and everything near me gets scratched up in seconds.
I recently tried the cell-phone-as-watch thing for a few weeks (when my watch died). It worked out OK, I guess, but digging into my pocket and flipping open my phone just to check the time got annoying. I bought a new watch.
I’m 37.
As Ninja said, there are clocks everywhere in the world. It’s just not that often that we need personal timepieces these days.
And while I don’t have a great sense of time, it’s good enough to usually know more or less what time it is. That sense is usually good enough to cover most situations.
Brad, how often do you find yourself checking your watch? And how often is it in a situation where there might be a clock nearby? And if it’s very often, is it your job that requires you to know the time by the minute throughout the day?
g You know that thing guys used to have about ankles on women? For me, it’s a well-turned wrist on a guy. Mmm-mmmmm!
However, I don’t wear a watch. I used to wear a Minnie Mouse watch as a wee lizardling, but stopped a long time ago because I didn’t like the feeling of the watch stuck to my wrist with sweat.
I do, however, wear a silver medalert bracelet on my right wrist. Now, this I can live with because it rotates freely, has good heft, and doesn’t feel wrong like having a rotating watch does. Besides, for that you’d have to rotate it back to look at the face every time. 
ETA: I’m going to be 30 this year.
I used to have a watch that would play “Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head” if you pressed a button. My dad used to sell watches at some flea market in Indiana. In hindsight I should have stolen a few.
The problem I have with watches is that the faces are usually too big and just look weird on my wrist. But I’m not a fan of the tiny ones either - I feel like I need a magnifying glass to read the numbers (or lack thereof - another pet peeve of mine). I’ll just stick with my cellphone, thanks.
Ooo, that reminds me. Another reason I don’t wear a watch is because I’m just a scoosh over a hundred pounds, and all the geeky cool watches are built for gorillas. Watches that fit me are usually studded with cubic zirconia or otherwise too girly for me. Dangit.
There was this awesome, awesome watch a few years ago… Except it really was only sized for a silverback gorilla, what with being a full centimeter thick to hold in all the workin’s, and so on.
I haven’t worn a watch for 7 years or so. I still have it (a cheap digital Timex) sitting around somewhere. I think it’s still going, because I can hear a random beep sometimes.
I also hardly ever carry a cellphone except when I’m on call.
There are clocks lots of places, plus a handy time display on this computer thingie I’m sitting at.