Watches

[Dig Gil]

Err, this is my watch.

Not really I wish you could buy them commercially. My real watch is a cheap digital casio

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My watch is a small simple analogic Casio Quartz with cool features like a built-in calendar that needs to be re-corrected each 20/25 days month. It is water and slightly shock resistant as it has shown already. Another cool feature is that instead of stopping when batteries run low it will became exponentially inaccurate until the inaccuracy turns it unreliable or finally stops:speakcool:.

I need a new watch...
Does anyone remember when there were watches with built-in T.V. remotes?

 

[Andy44]

Used to wear a watch years ago. Now I just check the time on my Blackberry.

In other words, you've replaced your wristwatch, which once put the pocketwatch out of business, with a much fancier pocketwatch!

 

[Keatah]

Synchronar MKIV, V-tec Alpha, Citizen Eco-drive, cheap-casio from the 80's, Aki-Ross' Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within - Alien Lifeform detector - by Seiko.

But those are just for dress. Usually I just find a clock or check a cell-O-fone.

 

[Star Voyager]

Approximately what I have:

 

[TMac3000]

Approximately what I have:

Now that's the kind I like: simple and elegant!

 

[Star Voyager]

She sure is! I've had this one for 4 years and she's still going. As they say about Timexes: "It takes a licking to keep on ticking."

 

[RocketMan_Len]

I have two watches right now... both Timex.

One is a digital-compass watch I've had for three years now - the plastic band is broken, and I haven't found a local place that will repair/replace it.

The other is a heart-monitor watch that was given to me by my fitness instructor last month.

 

[tblaxland]

Further to my earlier post on this matter, my watch band broke some two months ago and my watch now resides in the glove box of my car. I haven't missed it yet, TBH.

 

[Star Voyager]

My watch broke a few times, but it was an easy fix. However, the secondary band snapped off. Luckily it didn't make much of a difference.

 

[TonyZ2525]

WATCHES!!!!....We don't need no stinkin' watches!
Seriously though, I really don't wear one.Too much chance of getting electrocuted reaching into machines or getting my arm caught and ripped off.I just use my cell phone.

 

[kneejo]

i stick with analog, so I don't need a compass to find north with an analog watch and the sun

 

[TMac3000]

i stick with analog, so I don't need a compass to find north with an analog watch and the sun

I just recently became an analog man myself, switching from my calculator-equipped Casio to a metal-banded analog of unknown brand. Analogs just look better

 

[insanity]

I've worn the same watch since I was 14 (almost a full decade now). It's analog, but looks nice. The sad thing is I'm as lanky at 23 as I was at 14, so I've only had the move the watch a few lengths over the years.

 

[Andy44]

When I was little I used to think analog = mechanical and digital = electronic.

But that's not the case, of course. I have an electronic Citizen which is analog, and there are (usually very expensive) mechanical watches which use number wheels like an old gas pump and are thus digital.

As I've become more fond of watches and cool machinery in general, I find I appreciate a good mechanical watch more than a quartz movement these days, even though my Citizen is easily the most accurate timekeeping device I own. I checked it against an atomic clock and it's one second fast in two weeks, which beats my cheaper quartz watches.

But auto-winding mechanicals are just little marvels, and the nicer ones rival quartz for accuracy.

Plus, if there's ever a nuclear war, at least my mechanical watches will still work! Your cell phone? Not so much.

 

[John_L]

My iPhone is my watch. As a matter of fact, I haven't worn a watch for years and years because I generally rely on my cell phone to tell me what time it is. There is one exception, I have a pocket watch that belonged to my grandfather that my mother gave me after he passed away. For some reason, wrist watches never worked when my grandfather wore them, why, no one knows, but, because of that he always carried a pocket watch. I bought a nice watch chain for it, and when I dress up in a suit and tie, I wear it, more for the fashion statement and the connection to my grandfather rather than to tell the time.