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Do You Wear A Watch ?
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Given that you can tell the time from your phone, I pad, cooker, fridge and TV etc do you really need one, if so why?
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It fascinates me that Theland thinks that some of us take our cookers and fridges out with us. TTT takes a kettle but they're not inconvenient
16:11 Sat 16th Jan 2021
No, I have never liked to wear one, I needed to at work but often used to take it off and leave it on my desk. As soon as I stopped working, I stopped wearing one. I have got loads of different ones but they all sit unused. None of them are worth anything. I do like mechanical watches and clocks and if I was drop dead rich I'd buy a really nice mechanical watch.
I always wear a watch, even in bed. Indeed, on those occasions when I've 'bared all' on a naturist beach, I've often still kept my watch on.
For a lot of my life, knowing the exact time has been important to me. For example, during my teens I was into short wave listening, submitting reception reports to both commercial radio stations and radio amateurs from across the world; it was important that I recorded the times accurately. Also, during my third year at grammar school, I was the school bell ringer (no automation in those days!), who was required to press the button to ring the school bell at the start and end of every lesson. (I prided myself on never being more than a second or two wrong with my actions).
In later years, I've run a railway station, where even a few seconds delay in despatching a train at the right time was seen as being unacceptable. I've also worked on traffic surveys where, for example, I've been required to note down the exact[i times (to the nearest second) at which traffic lights have changed or railway crossing barriers have come down. So knowing the right time has always been very important to me. (My wristwatch is always either right to the nearest second or, if it's not, I'll know how exactly many seconds fast or slow it is). These days I simply find that it's a lot easier to glance at my wrist than it is, for example, to dig into my pocket for my mobile phone.
Further, while I'm definitely not 'into fashion' in general, I just love watches as a fashion statement. If I ever get a [i]really] big lottery win, I doubt that I'll buy a flashy car or an imposing mansion but I'll DEFINITELY buy a Patek Philippe Grand Complication watch, such as this little beauty https:/
For a lot of my life, knowing the exact time has been important to me. For example, during my teens I was into short wave listening, submitting reception reports to both commercial radio stations and radio amateurs from across the world; it was important that I recorded the times accurately. Also, during my third year at grammar school, I was the school bell ringer (no automation in those days!), who was required to press the button to ring the school bell at the start and end of every lesson. (I prided myself on never being more than a second or two wrong with my actions).
In later years, I've run a railway station, where even a few seconds delay in despatching a train at the right time was seen as being unacceptable. I've also worked on traffic surveys where, for example, I've been required to note down the exact[i times (to the nearest second) at which traffic lights have changed or railway crossing barriers have come down. So knowing the right time has always been very important to me. (My wristwatch is always either right to the nearest second or, if it's not, I'll know how exactly many seconds fast or slow it is). These days I simply find that it's a lot easier to glance at my wrist than it is, for example, to dig into my pocket for my mobile phone.
Further, while I'm definitely not 'into fashion' in general, I just love watches as a fashion statement. If I ever get a [i]really] big lottery win, I doubt that I'll buy a flashy car or an imposing mansion but I'll DEFINITELY buy a Patek Philippe Grand Complication watch, such as this little beauty https:/
>>> Holy cow, that Patek is eye wateringly expensive
Nah! It's a cheapie really, Zacs!
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Nah! It's a cheapie really, Zacs!
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in fact I have a bit of a collection. Mostly perpetual, can't stand those battery things, eg I bought one of these a few years ago:
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not what I wear every day.
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not what I wear every day.
>>> and certainly if I'm refereeing a football game
Yup! I knew that there was something else that I'd done that required good timekeeping! I'd keep a digital stopwatch in my pocket but also make a note of the times on my regular wristwatch in case I forgot to restart the stopwatch after an interruption in the game.
Yup! I knew that there was something else that I'd done that required good timekeeping! I'd keep a digital stopwatch in my pocket but also make a note of the times on my regular wristwatch in case I forgot to restart the stopwatch after an interruption in the game.
