Watches

[woodworkingboy]

Who buys watches? I sure don't, and never have understood the attraction. Some are beautifully made instruments, and I could see having them from a collectors point of view, but wearing them....? Even if I wore one, I'd forget to look at it.

I sure get a lot of spam about buying them

 

[brendonv]

Cell phones pretty much replaced the watch for me...

I do have a couple G-shock watches, when I remember I'll throw it on and keep the phone in the truck/out of harms way.

They aren't anything fancy though.

 

[Newfie]

I have an iron-man that I have had for a couple of years which replaced an iron-man that I had for 17 years. Technically I buy watches, just not that often. Mine are not pretty, just tough and functional.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I hate wearing a timepiece.

 

[SkwerI]

The last watch I bought was in high school. When I was in my early 20s I got a half decent looking dress watch as a gift. I never could wear one when working because the sweat and dirt would cause me to get blackheads under it, very uncomfortable. The dress watch sat in a box for several years and then broke when I took it out and overwound it. I cannot see myself ever buying another one.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

I miss my old Waltham Pocket watch, chain and fob. I only wear a watch when I am on vacation and dressed up etc. Can't work with one. And man if you get poison oak between you and the watch or band.. F UUUUUU G!

 

[woodworkingboy]

Watches are like cologne, I might wear both when going to the opera, but that's about it.

 

[Mr. Sir]

I wear one when I get dressed up in my "Sunday-go-to-meetin" clothes.

 

[woodworkingboy]

I wear one when I get dressed up in my "Sunday-go-to-meetin" clothes.

Is it because you don't want the meetin' to end too quickly.

 

[MasterBlaster]

The last time I "needed to wear a watch" was when I worked offshore, on a massive jack-up rig.

Oh yea, McDonalds, too.

 

[Mr. Sir]

Is it because you don't want the meetin' to end too quickly.

We sit in the front and if the sermon drags on too long, I just start looking at my watch every few minutes until the pastor notices.

(j/k)

 

[CurSedVoyce]

We sit in the front and if the sermon drags on too long, I just start looking at my watch every few minutes until the pastor notices.

I am gonna have to remember that one

 

[sawinredneck]

I love my watches! I only have two, both Seiko's one my wife bought me ten? years ago for an anniversary present that is my daily wear and one I bought a couple of years ago when it was getting fixed and the store was closing them out.
I'd be totally lost without a watch, just the way I am.

 

[woodworkingboy]

Could there be any connection between your not sleeping well, and wondering what time it is?

 

[sawinredneck]

Possibly, but it's usually my brain is trying to figure something out instead of sleeping. That and after a couple of hours the hands don't glow in the dark anymore! I wish Seiko used tritium on their watches, the only real improvment I can see.

 

[Al Smith]

I've got a few ,Sieco,Citizen one fake Rolex and several nice pocket watchs,one over 100 years old .I don't wear any unless I get dressed up with all those rings that make me look like a St. Louis pimp . If you can't dazzle them with brilliance,baffle them with bull chit .

 

[Stumper]

I wear a watch. I have worn a wrist watch on the inside of my left wrist for about 25 years. The inside of that wrist has very tender unbtanned skin due to the longterm protection. I have found that the best watches for arborist use are water resistant models that are completely infuriating to reset. If it is sufficiently annoying it will last for years as evidenced by my current Casio. BTW, I buy and wear analog watches even if they also have digital electronics. We are now raising a generation that can't even understand clockface directional instructions.

 

[Ryan]

As a union member I need to keep on top of all my breaktimes but a watch would get wrecked pretty quick. I taped a small dashboard clock on the inside of my hardhat instead. It requires me to remove my hardhat in the field to see the time and if I took a blow to the head it would drive the clock into my skull. Knowing is half the battle I suppose.

 

[Al Smith]

We are now raising a generation that can't even understand clockface directional instructions.

Now that may sound odd but my 32 year old daughter had never seen any thing but a digital watch face until she was 14 years old .

 

[Stumper]

Wow Al. I could adapt more readily but most kids just stare at you confusedly if you say 30 or 60 degrees left or right. At least a few do understand "check your six" even if they are clueless about the derivation.

 

[woodworkingboy]

They don't teach telling time in school anymore, with the big hand and the little hand? That was fun.

 

[Paul B]

I only wear a watch when going out st louis pimp style, as Al suggested, which isnt often. I have a ferrari logo clock on the wall in the kitchen, old school non digital. then we have the clock on the stove, the microwave, the computer, our cell phones, the TV, two bedside alarms and of course the clocks in the car and truck....

 

[MasterBlaster]

Watches are for people who need them.

 

[Paul B]

 

[CurSedVoyce]

Guessing 8:59.. But would that be AM or PM?

http://www.geekalerts.com/tokyoflash-hanko-led-watch/

Looks like they have complicated things since my Grandfather's 23 jewel Bulova
that I have around here somewhere:roll: