Do You Wear A Watch ?

[Theland]

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?

[Zacs-Master]

Wow, Chris. That’s ‘yacht’ money!

Tora, I had a mate at school who had that Seiko. I was v jealous.

[fcc]

Yes,my favourite is a Michel Herbelin which i bought in the 70's.

[emmie]

my tissot is now about 600 quid to buy, i rarely wear it, not a patch on Chris's watches of course,

[diddlydo]

I stopped wearing a watch on a daily basis when I retired from teaching. I now only wear it if I have a bus/train/plane to catch. I never use my phone to tell the time!

[barry1010]

No

[gingejbee]

Always...I have a collection of 70+ watches, all going. Some are older technology, many light-powered (Seiko Solar, Citizen Eco-Drive) and radio-controlled. Yes, I'm OTT where watches are concerned!

[margarettom]

At home I tell the time with ordinary clocks, which I have in various rooms in the house. I do not have a clock on my cooker or fridge. The telly is off a lot of the time and so is my iPad. Do not carry a mobile phone round the house with me. When I’m out, I always wear a wrist watch to keep track of time for appointments, buses etc.

[ToraToraTora]

ZM the model seiko in my link was actually worn on Skylab in the 70s. My Judo master had one and he'd tell us that regularly! That made me want one!

[Buenchico]

I'd like to be able to tell you all that I'm actually wearing a genuine Patek Pilippe watch right now. The reality though is just a little more down to earth:
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/2837491

;-)

[teacake44]

I wear a Rolex watch. :0)))))

[MallyJ]

I wear a watch because I often don't have my phone with me or any other device of the electronic kind and my cooker is never with me. It is simplest and easiest to look at my wrist to see the time on my watch. Do fridges have clocks on them? Good grief. My watch is much more portable. I do have to say I find it amazing that people would expect me to carry a phone all the time........why would I?!!

[Zacs-Master]

Ginge, we sound alike in that respect, I’m a watchaholic. I’ve nowhere near 70 and only about 6 of mine are ‘decent’ ones.

[Zacs-Master]

Tora, my mates mum and dad must have had some wedge! It was when I was in 3rd form at high school so 78ish.

[ToraToraTora]

we had a kid like that in mid 70s he had a pocket calculator, cost about £200 at the time! PMSL he was still kin useless though! I could do most calcs quicker with log tables!

[ToraToraTora]

TC finally something we have in common!

[gingejbee]

ZM...pride of place goes to an original 60s Bulova Accutron (the tuning-fork watch that hums) worth several hundred pounds now.

[MWG14]

Yes, always.

[jno]

my cooker, fridge and TV don't tell the time and even if they did, they're heavy to carry around.

[woofgang]

" I do have to say I find it amazing that people would expect me to carry a phone all the time........why would I?!!"

I don't carry my phone around the house all the time but I live alone and so do my sisters. If we get stuck somewhere out of the house, or even in the house, in the attic or while "extreme" gardening, no one will miss us, no one will come to see what has happened. My phone is my safety device and that's why I carry it with me for a good deal of the time and always when I am doing something risky or am out of the house.

[Ken4155]

My watch sits on my wrist, my phone is in my pocket. Guess which is quicker to see the time with?