Omegaman’s, I assume?
Fascinating topic, this. I remember about a year ago, the Economist had picked up on this trend in one of their wireless industry surveys. You can see it more or less correlated here.
As for me, there are a few factors that complicate the matter. Yes, I’m 40 and I have a watch. But I like gadgets, particularly instrumentation, and my watch has built-in altimerter, barometer with 24h hr trend graph, and an electronic compass. It is solar powered, which means I don’t have to replace batteries for about 65 years. Another cool thing about it is that the band and housing are Titanium, which is remarkably bio-inert, not to mention way more scratch-proof than stainless steel. I also carry a cell-phone, but I find that access time is much longer, even if it has an external display that doesn’t require the opening of the clamshell.
I’m a bit OCD about time, though, and I like my timekeeping device to be within a few seconds of correct time. Cell phones really shine there, since they are constantly synchronized with a network time source. Those watches that pick up the US government atomic clock radio signal are really cool, but we don’t get that signal up here in Canada. So I have a freeware SNTP client on my PC that pulls the correct time off a server, and I reset my watch every 3 weeks or so, It tends to gain about 2 sec / week, so I set it for 2 seconds slow, and reset it when it’s 4 sec. fast. This is still way more accurate than my previous one, a Swiss Army model, that lost about half a minute a week. And it had a supposedly swiss moevement, too. Hah.
Those of you closer to 40, do you remember the huge fuss made about how QUARTZ watches were supposed to be so accurate when they were new? Timex was bragging about 1 sec/month accuracy. Now you can get quartz watches in gumball machines for $1, and fancy expensive ones are wonky by several seconds per month, if not minutes. Either watches have gone downhill since, or they were lying like a cheap rug back then.
Actually, I meant yours - you know, like your watch is a tool of the conspiracy 'cause you never take it off.
But yeah, his too.
I have several watches from Fossil to AP and a pocketwatch that belonged to my grandfather. I wear them often (well, except the pocket watch). I like wearing watches, though when I was younger, I always wore digital ones with rubber or nylon bands, which is not only juvenile, but after any kind of physical work at all where sweat is involved, it gets kinda funky under that band.
Now I only wear analog and they’re always either Stainless or Silver, gold is for pimps and mobsters, and always waterproof. As far as the cellphone, I often gauge the accuracy of the watch I’m wearing against the cell network time (most of the watches I have are automatics, so they can lose a few seconds if not worn for a while) as they usually get their time from Ft. Collins, which is another side benefit of the cellphone, free atomic clock.
On edit, what trupa said too. (odd, this post. I thought posted this when I was done writing it at 10 this morning. :eek: )
I feel the same way about watches, I could never wear mine long before mobile phones were in common use.
I’m 24 and I wear an actual pocket watch.