will wearing a watch die out

I hate watches, last wore one seriously when I was about fourteen, not so as I could keep good time for school, rather how long for the lesson and school to finish. Got given watches over the years as presents, wore them for an hour or so, then stuck em in a cupboard never to be used again. Prefer my phone it's much better, besides I can see the time in the dark easily. I am over fifty now, and no way I am going to start wearing a watch now.
 
You hate watches? That's got to be the most unreasonable and odd 'hate' I've ever heard, lol!
 
jonbeeza said:
I am over fifty now, and no way I am going to start wearing a watch now.
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I'm nearly fifty and no way am I going to start using a mobile phone now.

I fail to see any logic in either of our statements!


Steve.
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Damn!

I am way over fifty and have several watches and mobile phones, what the hell am I supposed to do? :p
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Just say the Devil made you do it, that should cover it :D
 
Steve Smith said:
I'm nearly fifty and no way am I going to start using a mobile phone now.

I fail to see any logic in either of our statements!


Steve.
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Tigger.ufo said:
Damn!

I am way over fifty and have several watches and mobile phones, what the hell am I supposed to do? :p
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Never liked watches and I have never liked jewellery of any sort, feels too restrictive. Never been one for chains slung around my neck either, would not mind the restriction of a neck strap, with a nice fujifilm attached to it though. Yes I think I could bare that :)
 
Im 50+ and very rarely do I wear my watch (a cheap £12 one )

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Nor do I use my phone for looking up the time, I do check the time with my camera though. :)

I don't like jewellery , work has never allowed the wearing of a watch, so never got the bug.

I'm sure when the iWatch and its counterparts come out there be an upsurge in watch wearing, but not for checking the time.
 
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jonbeeza said:
Never been one for chains slung around my neck either
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I don't like any sort of jewellery. I only just tolerate wearing a wedding ring. However, it feels wrong if I forget to put my watch on.


Steve.
 
We have four big clocks in our house, they are on the walls of the Kitchen Bedroom Bathroom Living room, the missus has a small clock on her bedside. I have a clock on my laptop, I have a clock in my car, and as mentioned above there is also a clock on the camera. There is even some sort of clock on this forum, it says when a post was posted. So I know how long I have to sit on my sofa, I know how long I have spent in the kitchen, I know how long I have been soaking in the bath, and I know how long I have left to lie in.

Just glad I don't have a clock strapped to my body, but I do carry my phone everywhere, so always have the time on me :rolleyes:
 
Steve Smith said:
I don't like any sort of jewellery. I only just tolerate wearing a wedding ring. However, it feels wrong if I forget to put my watch on.


Steve.
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I do put my jewellery on if my missus insists, this is if we are ever going out and getting dressed up. Otherwise it's dressed down and comfy style every time.
 
It looks like there are those who do and those who don't and its bee like that for years I will always wear one current is a citizen eco
 
Just checked the time by watch (took a second, if that) and by phone (5 seconds). Like most, I have a clock in the car, on most walls in the house and assorted others around the place but almost always I'll look at my wrist rather than elsewhere (other than in the car, where it's safer to glance at one of the displays where the time's displayed.)
 
Nod said:
Just checked the time by watch (took a second, if that) and by phone (5 seconds). Like most, I have a clock in the car, on most walls in the house and assorted others around the place but almost always I'll look at my wrist rather than elsewhere (other than in the car, where it's safer to glance at one of the displays where the time's displayed.)
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What did you use to time yourself, your phone or your watch ? You should have used an independent stopwatch for accuracy :) . I suppose taking out a phone from a breast pocket to check the time, could be like a modern day equivalent to a watch on a chain.
 
Heartbeats. I should point out that the phone also needs 2 hands to open the case (easily and fast) while the watch just need a quick shot of the cuff.
 
I don't think wearing a watch is going to die out in the foreseeable future. Just about everyone I know - including my adult kids and their friends - wears one. Some of their watches are just utilitarian, and others are more in the genre of 'statements' about personal choice, quality, appearance and price etc.

It would never cross my mind to take a cellphone out of my pocket to check the time when I can just glance at my wrist. I prefer the analogue display anyway.
 
It would not occur to me to look at a mobile.
I have worn a watch every day for 69 years since I had my first one.
If I say I will be some where or meet some one at 4 pm. I will be there at that time. I will not wait to see if they are still coming at 4.05 I will be gone. Traffic is just an excuse for bad planning. (how many people miss trains).
 
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I also think there is a lot of the "look at me" with mobile phones and checking the time is another way to show people that there keeping up to date and hip and cool, young people clearly dont see value in a timepiece its a dead art to them, so be it, different strokes.

I makes me shudder how many people i now see whos mobile phone is literally permanently in there hands.
 
Terrywoodenpic said:
I will be there at that time. I will not wait to see if they are still coming at 4.05 I will be gone. Traffic is just an excuse for bad planning. (how many people miss trains).
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Seriously? You think someone can plan for a car accident to occur on route? Or should they allow an extra hour when meeting you? Blimey.
 
In an event like that, the latecomer could now use their mobile phone to contact Terry to apologise in which case I expect Terry would have a cuppa and wait (if practicable). I absolutely HATE being late for appointments and am generally early, often kicking my heels for a while or going for a coffee. Of course, I have the luxury of being able to set off in plenty of time without worrying about getting work finished.
When we were getting quotes in for double glazing a few years ago, one of the salesmen turned up 20 minutes late. His excuse was that he'd stopped for some lunch. He didn't even get his samples out and his office got a complaint call. Had he phones saying he was running behind schedule, even if he'd said it was because he needed to rab some lunch, no problem but simply turning up late is not acceptable in my book.
 
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Nod said:
. I absolutely HATE being late for appointments and am generally early, often kicking my heels for a while or going for a coffee.

. ...................His excuse was that he'd stopped for some lunch. He didn't even get his samples out and his office got a complaint call.......
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I absolutely concur on both points!

And yet with all these "time pieces" at our disposal,
it occurs to me there is a substantial percentage of people just don't care about being / meeting / someone / somewhere on time.
And a large percentage of those don't even bother to offer an apology.
 
I want to know why a lot of people look at their watch when considering something which the watch can't tell them.

e.g. there is a manager at work who will say something like "we can deliver that in ten days time" whilst looking at his watch. The watch, even if it shows the date, can have no possible bearing on the time it will take us to deliver something!


Steve.
 
I always wear a watch. Be it my posh Omega, or my middling Junghans, or my outdoorsy G-Shock. Or any of the others that are in between.

Few reasons:
  • Getting your phone out in a meeting or when in conversation at work will get you silently judged if the next words out of your mouth aren't "it's the customer, I've got to take this, carry on without me", whereas I can glance at my watch whilst taking notes
  • I'm not getting an expensive and fragile phone out of my pocket just to check the time when I'm knee deep in sea/up a mountain/etc - that's what G-Shocks are for
  • I like watches
  • I always wear a watch, but I don't always carry my phone about with me
  • Does your phone have a tide and moon gauge - front and centre - that you can always see without touching it? No, it does not. My GW7900 watch, on the other hand, does. And yes, I use the tide gauge to work out whether I'm walking the dogs up in the hills or down at the beach.
  • Phones are fragile (and I'd wager the majority of drop incidents occur when extracting it from a pocket), phones go flat, phones don't always keep good time (I had a Google Nexus One that would drift minutes per day, and I had to run a background app on it to sync the time with NTP; ate some of my data allowance, no good if there was no signal)
  • I like watches
 
pwhysall said:
I always wear a watch. Be it my posh Omega, or my middling Junghans, or my outdoorsy G-Shock. Or any of the others that are in between.

Few reasons:
  • Getting your phone out in a meeting or when in conversation at work will get you silently judged if the next words out of your mouth aren't "it's the customer, I've got to take this, carry on without me", whereas I can glance at my watch whilst taking notes
  • I'm not getting an expensive and fragile phone out of my pocket just to check the time when I'm knee deep in sea/up a mountain/etc - that's what G-Shocks are for
  • I like watches
  • I always wear a watch, but I don't always carry my phone about with me
  • Does your phone have a tide and moon gauge - front and centre - that you can always see without touching it? No, it does not. My GW7900 watch, on the other hand, does. And yes, I use the tide gauge to work out whether I'm walking the dogs up in the hills or down at the beach.
  • Phones are fragile (and I'd wager the majority of drop incidents occur when extracting it from a pocket), phones go flat, phones don't always keep good time (I had a Google Nexus One that would drift minutes per day, and I had to run a background app on it to sync the time with NTP; ate some of my data allowance, no good if there was no signal)
  • I like watches
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I also like watches what a great post !!!!
 
I'm 23 years old and I love having a watch. Before I had my most recent watch I did use my phone to check the time, but that's only because my previous watch died a death. When I have the money to spend I'll splash out on a shiny watch for special occasions :) Not only are watched good for telling the time, but you can feel good wearing once especially if it's an expensive one that looks flashy! :)
 
There is really no excuse for poor timekeeping. But then again, it's down to the savy of the individual concerned. If the meeting is important then you will be there on time. A lack of planning and preparation doesn't cut it with. Had that window salesman said that to me I would of shown him the front door from the outside ! Not only is that discourteous but to keep someone waiting while they had lunch is a really poor judgement. The second stupid thing to do was to admit it !
 
Tigger.ufo said:
Damn!

I am way over fifty and have several watches and mobile phones, what the hell am I supposed to do? :p
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Keep the watches, ditch the phones!


pwhysall said:
Getting your phone out in a meeting or when in conversation at work will get you silently judged if the next words out of your mouth aren't "it's the customer, I've got to take this, carry on without me
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I stopped worrying about being judged at work many years ago. If there is a meeting, it is expected that I will fall asleep at some point!



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Mine's in a case and on a lanyard round my neck. Having dropped one down the karzi, I need it on the string! It lives in my shirt pocket unless I'm wearing a suit. If in a suit, it's in an inside pocket.
 
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