Wrist watches

[Coldicote]

There are many inexpensive wrist watches available these days. These are quite useful except that the wrist bands can be a problem - either they break after little use or they are too hard for comfort. Any ideas please about replacements or how to use the watch without a wrist-band?

[rockyracoon]

Attach the watch (if it's nice looking) to some kind of necklace andvwear it round your neck, or try to pin it on nurse style.

[ummmm]

What price range is inexpensive?

[Zacs-Master]

I bought a really nice one from Argos about a year ago. Looks like a Brietling from a distance. It was £40 (half price) and no problems with the strap.

[Prudie]

why not just get a good decent replacement strap of your choice if you like a watch enough?

[commoner]

Judging by the boxes full of "inexpensive" watches that can be found in charity shops and carboot markets priced at anything from 10p to 50p we are well into the throw away era of watches.....but almost any wach can be fitted with a new strap but by the time you get a strap and a battery it is more economical to get a new watch complete....I don't even use a watch now..my mobile phone tells me the time....hey now there's something you could do...attach the strapless watch to the back of your phone with a dab of epoxy..;-)

[Prudie]

I have worn the same watch daily for about 24 years, I've had a lot of new straps though.

[Eve]

I always buy cheaper watches and find they usually last me a good few years. My current one is from Next (got it reduced a lot in the New Year sales) and it doesn't have holes as such but like a weaved strap so the pin fits in through and can be changed and lasts longer than using a particular hole which gets battered. Mind you, I always take my watch, ring and bracelet off through the day at work due to arthritis swelling so although I don't use it all day it is taken on and off more often.

I find that the larger faces are more uncomfortable these days so try to go for a smaller one.

There seems to be a mini watch trend going on at the moment, they have them in Primark on chains and rings!

If you got one which has decent bits for a new strap to fit through either side you could always go for a nice leather plaited wrist band or similar (depending on what you like to wear I guess) to put through it.

I've seen a lot of ones (mainly very cheap ones) with this stretchy kind of stuff which just pulls for you to get it on too so no fastener.

[Coldicote]

Thanks for your ideas. I was thinking of prices around £10 - £12. They're useful but hardly worth the cost of a new wrist strap. I had one as a free gift when shopping for something else and, although the actual time piece is attractive, the strap is wide and hard and it's uncomfortable to wear.

[Tilly2]

Have you noticed that wearing wrist watches is a generational thing now. Very few teenagers wear them. None of my students every have a watch. If I forget to put mine on and ask them the time, they just get their phone out.

[boxtops]

I've got a nursing watch. Tilly, you're right - if you ask many people the time now, they dig out their mobile phones.

[tonyav]

Sorry, I only wear expensive watches.

[craft1948]

lol Tony so do I as I consider a watch to be jewellery. I've had my watch for about 15 years, and each year it's cleaned and checked over free of charge by the shop I bought it from.

[tonyav]

Glad you look after it crafty, a good watch can last a life time, if cared for properly imo.

[Answerprancer]

Don't bother with a 'manacle of wage-slavery' - just glance at your mobile or ask a passing stranger for the time.

[craft1948]

AP..............you speak to strangers!!

[tonyav]

WOT ^^^^^^

[Answerprancer]

LOL - banned in a few seconds.

[tonyav]

I think that a good watch like a good pair of shoes can say a lot about the person who is wearing them imo.

[craft1948]

Good grief I'm agreeing with tony again..............