My watch recharges on solar power, and synchronizes time via radio. The previous one died when it was hit by a bus, but it’s invulnerable to anything short of that.
I’m keeping it. I live in a concrete apartment with no signal. The cell has a somewhat short lifespan.
Still, a friend wrote a story on this topic.
I’m 25 and I have a dozen or so watches. (worked for Swatch and Oakley).
One is always on unless I’m in the shower or having sex or something. Hate looking at my phone for the time. Pocket— so… far… away.
I’m 27 and as the OP suspects, I do not wear a wristwatch.
With clocks built into nearly every electronic gadget these days (and especially cell phones) there’s not much need for a wristwatch.
I do like the way wristwatches look - perhaps when I’m older and wealthier I’ll indulge in a nice one.
For now though I’m constantly working in an environment that gets messy; I ruined one decent watch and never bought a new one.
I’m 24. I’ve almost never worn a watch, even before I carried a cell phone with me. They take getting used to, and. . .I’m not a patient person. Also, any watch I can afford runs off of a freaking battery. Which dies. Invariably. And then I have to get it replaced, which is a bitch. And I bang my wrist against stuff. And I fidget with things. And whenever I have a watch with an alarm, I forget how to turn it off, and then it beeps at 6:25 AM every morning for six years (because, if I don’t wear it, the battery doesn’t die).
My Blackberry is with me all the time anyway, and there’s really never been a situation where I’ve needed to know the time so quickly that the second I spend pulling it from my pocket is a problem.
I’m nearly 20 and I don’t wear a watch for a few reasons:
I even have a vaguely nice watch I bought at a garage sale, but it takes winding, so it’s reserved for very special occasions where, for once, my cell phone is not in my pocket.
I’m 20, and I don’t wear one. I used to, but then my watch broke and I didn’t like the one I got to replace it nearly as much, so I wore it much less frequently. I stopped altogether when I got a cell phone and simultaneously realized that I hardly ever saw anyone my age wearing a watch anymore (because they had cell phones and iPods that tell time). This was a few years ago.
I have to say, though, that I of all people probably should wear one. I am obsessed with knowing what time it is, and I hate having to dig around in my bag for my phone, which is always at the bottom :rolleyes: . But no, I’m too much of a conformist.
There is something really wrong with you people.
Exactly it does a mediocre job on all of those tasks. You also have the problem of when the battery is low, then all of a sudden you can’t call anyone have no music to listen to and wont even know the time. I too prefer separate devices and I always wear a watch.
Age 34 (if it matters).
CDMA or GSM? GSM handsets will work like you mentioned… CDMA handsets (which rely on the network for time synchronization, so get the time from it. No need to set/roll back DST on a CDMA handset! :))… not so much.
I wear a watch. I also carry a cellphone. Thing is, the situations when I most want to know the time – like when I’m running a meeting and need to figure out how rudely to cut the blatherer off so we can get through the agenda :rolleyes: – my phone is off (common courtesy, wouldn’tchaknowit?); so I need my watch in those cases. It’s also a lot more discreet looking at one’s watch almost surreptitiously than pulling your cell out of your pocket and sticking it in your own face.
ETA: I’m 24 but with 20 years experience… 
so take my POV FWIW.
30 years old here and I never ever ever wear a watch. Even though I’m a guy, I have really small wrists and I generally don’t like “stuff” on me so it just bugs me when I do. I fidget with it, play with it, all that stuff. It’s better to just not have it at all.
I use my cell as my “watch” like most of the others. Really, the only times it annoys me are when I’m on an airplane and don’t know how close we are to landing time and when I was in Europe. We just bought a travel alarm clock and carried that with us, though, so it worked out.
I wear a wrist watch, but I put it on my ankle, so drunks aren’t always asking me what time it is.
But mine is a CDMA. Okay, so I don’t get the time if I’m outside of the boundaries of the network (like if I took my phone to Europe or something) but being underground doesn’t affect my clock, even if I can’t get phone service. Like I get no service where I am right now (on campus) but the clock still works.
Hmmm… we don’t have a subway here, so I’m never off the network for a relatively short stretch, like 20-30 minutes.
I do know that if I’m in a no-service underground structure (Air Force HQ, OK?) for several hours with my (CDMA) phone off, and I turn it on while still underground, it will not tell the time.
I guess our experiences aren’t really contradictory, though.
As a data point, I almost never have my cel phone turned on, and I regularly wear pocket watches.
Most of the time, not having a watch on would not (and did not during my several-weeks-long “experiment”) make any difference. I work largely in front of a computer, and there’s a dashboard clock in my car. There are clocks visible from just about everywhere in my home.
I did find, though, that I missed the convenience of having the time available with a twist of the wrist and a downward glance just often enough to notice with irritation: when I’m eating dinner and I/we have an appointment to keep; when I’m outside for whatever reason and no clock is handy. I’m not in those situations a very large percentage of the time, but it happened often enough that I’d end up grumbling to myself about buying a stinkin’ watch soon while digging into my pocket for my phone.
I also noticed (in my watch’s absence) the extent to which I’d check today’s date whenever that came up - which many clocks do not show. Again, it didn’t happen very often, but just frequently enough to cause annoyance.
Watchless living was certainly not some kind of living hell for me, but having “seen how the other half lives,” I’ve happily returned to timepiece-on-the-wrist (it’s a cheap Casio).
I didn’t wear a watch until I became a teacher (gotta know how class is pacing itself) because I didn’t like the way I was always looking at it, always measuring, even when it really didn’t matter what time it was.
However, could the larger trend be because we are on our computers nearly constantly. I generally don’t type with stuff on my wrists, and I imagine it gets tiring taking your watch on and off all day.
I have many nice watches that I’ve both purchased and that heve been given to me. Rarely will I wear one, usually only if I am going out on the town or traveling out of state. Most of them are quite bulky save one or two, a Movado and a Sieko that is encased in a nugget bracelet. The more durable ones are Citizens, Casios, generaly cheaper and more specific use oriented. There was a time I took great pride in wearing a nice watch or even a large one, as I feel they are more of a manly statement. Given as I am getting a little older time has taken on a less important role in life in general, and as many have mentioned, there are things everywhere that have the time displayed on them. Everything happens in its own time, whether it is my awakening for work, retiring to bed and so on, niether of which require consulting a timepiece to signal me.
Dude! You’re actually friends with Eric Burns? Do you know how cool that makes you?
(and I was totally going to post that link, darnit)
I’m 35, and never take off my watch. It doesn’t matter how pale your wrist is, if nobody ever sees it! I’m right-handed and wear it on my right wrist. (That may have started when I was a kid and had trouble with left and right.) It syncs to an atomic clock every night, so I don’t have to set it for daylight savings time. It has alarms and timers and stuff, but I don’t use them–to me, it’s just a worry-free analog watch. The hands move only once every twenty seconds, which I assume extends the battery life.
I usually have my iPod and cell phone with me, but I don’t use them as clocks. Neither of them has the right time, and it’s inconvenient to dig one out of my pocket, especially when I’m sitting down.
Awesome username/post combination there 