Watches

[Moonwalker]

I didn't wear a watch for about 10 years now and I feel fine with it or rather without it. My motto is that lucky and relaxed people don't need to know the time all the time. I also don't need to know the weather of tomorrow. It's one of the most useless informations for me if it's not a hurricane/dangerous strom. We have to deal with the weather anyway...

By the way, I also don't own a mobile phone :beach:

 

[willy88]

By the way, I also don't own a mobile phone :beach:

Luddite!

 

[StarLost]

Heh, heh, heh. It is amazing to see when you are the only one in a particular category.

Mine is a Polar RS200.

I suppose this might just qualify as Digital (LCD), but then consider that it is a heart monitor as well as connects online for other monitoring.

Oh, it does tell time, too.

 

[Cobalt]

I've got a TAG Heuer Formula 1 Chronograph. Nice little timepiece.

 

[Moonwalker]

Luddite!

Not really if you would know my PC hardware

I don't want to participate in 24h availability on almost any place. I have a phone at home but I don't need a phone on the toilet, bus and so on... I would turn it off all the time anyway

 

[James.Denholm]

Why all the questions about watches? I didn't steal nothin!

Swatch Irony. Band's only broken once, and it's a lovely little thing.

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

Never wore one. At least for not much longer than 5 mins in my younger days for the sake of trying it out. I just have this natural dislike for any objects of any kind on my body aside from clothing which is bad enough. And the thought of jewelry like rings makes me cringe.

 

[willy88]

Just recently bought a Timex Expedition. I'm not sure what the exact model is, but it's analog, and has an alarm, date and Indiglo.

Disregard that, here's the link to the model:

http://www.timex.ca/en/jcatalogca/Detail?item=753048019144

 

[John_L]

I no longer wear a watch, I did for many years, but it's a pretty moot point anymore with a cellphone. A few years ago, my mother gave me a pocket watch that belonged to my grandfather, but I only wear it on dress occasions, and for show, not really to tell time (again, I have the cell.). Oddly, I've been a big fan of clocks and watches in recent years due to Second Life. One day, for a programming challenge, I decided to try and script an analog clock. About 2 hrs later, I had my first clock (Orbiclock and JClock in Orbiter look identical to my first clock in SL). Two years later, I have over 40 clocks and 3 watches that I sell. I have mantle clocks, wall clocks, grandfather clocks, and a few digital clocks as well.

 

[Andy44]

When you can wear your cellphone on your wrist and glance at it without having to fish it out of your pocket, then maybe it'll replace a standard watch. And only if the phone looks like a watch and not something you fished out of a Dick Tracy costume getup. My cellphone requires me to push a button and activate the display before I can read the time anyway, so it's even less convenient. Since I often have to wear a shirt and tie (along with my sunglasses, as you can see) to work, a watch goes along just fine, and when you're in a meeting you can glance at it without showing everyone around you that you're getting bored.

 

[tblaxland]

...and when you're in a meeting you can glance at it without showing everyone around you that you're getting bored.

An alternative strategy involves showing everyone that you are looking at your watch! It all depends on the relative relationships in the meeting.

 

[Jarvitä]

Casio MDV-500 (Analog, battery). I've also got clocks in my car, cell phone and PDA, but turning your wrist still turns out to be the least effort intensive way of telling time unless I happen to be sitting behind my PC and not running a full-screen application.

 

[jedidia]

Untypically for a swiss, I don't wear a watch. I stoped wearing one when I started to play drums more seriously, because it is quite a hinderance.

 

[Andy44]

I know it's a necropost, but why start a new thread....

I recently picked up an automatic-winding watch made by...ready for this?

Timex!

For those who don't know, Timex makes only cheapos these days. Back 20 years or so ago, Timex made good, cheap watches, lately they are more cheap than good. So I was pretty surprised to see this.

It's a Chinese-made movement and if you set it down it winds out in about 36 hours or so, but you can manual-wind it as well. Doesn't keep super accurate time, but it's good enough for daily use and has a date function. A friend of mine who I always talk watches with calls it my "beater automatic".

This is what the back looks like:

 

[insane_alien]

analogue, because i lose the ability to read a digitial watch when inebriated(not sure how i can still read an analogue one though.)

lol at 'beater automatic'

 

[Moonwalker]

I do not have a watch. My grandpa often said that hours do not strike for a happy man (although he had lots of watches). I don't need to know the time when I'm underway. There are enough public clocks outhere anyway in case I need one.

PS: I also don't have a mobile phone. I never had one and I'm not going to own such an annoying toy. Why? Because my computer at home already is enough technology and daily annoying communication/information (-overload) capablilites (that's why I also don't have a TV, because it's just annoying). I also don't have and don't need a car. The world is fast, dirty and noisy (annoying) enough already.

 

[Artlav]

Digital, Casio Data Bank.
For one time i worn a mechanical analog Swiss watch i bought when i was in China, but those broke as soon as i had to walk in a rainstorm without an umbrella. They dried out and started working again eventually, but i keep them for dressy occasions.

One kind of watches i look for for quite a while already is analog with 24 hour scale. Because i'd really wanted to have an analog watch, but without need to cope with am/pm nonsense.
Maybe someone knows where to buy one with international shipping?

 

[ripley1]

I like watches and remember having many in the past.Now I wear analog chronograph.Always loved the moving parts. It was a gift for restoring a older Maserati.

 

[Andy44]

One kind of watches i look for for quite a while already is analog with 24 hour scale. Because i'd really wanted to have an analog watch, but without need to cope with am/pm nonsense.
Maybe someone knows where to buy one with international shipping?

The Timex automatic I mentioned above has a 24-hr dial on, it, Artlav, and a date function. It's not a bad watch for a Timex. Here's a link to look at it on Amazon (US):

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Timex-Automatic-Brown-Strap-T2D941/dp/B000SQM5E0/ref=pd_sim_dbs_watch_3"]Amazon.com: Timex Men's Automatic Brown Strap Watch #T2D941: Timex: Watches[/ame]

I don't know if Amazon ships to your home.

 

[Eagle]

Do you think the movement of the watch (not digital) would cause noticeable rotation in zero g?