Who Like or Hates Wristwatches?

Who Like or Hates Wristwatches?

  • Love Them

    Votes: 188 80.0%

  • Hate Them

    Votes: 47 20.0%
  • Total voters
    235
  • Poll closed .
I used to wear them. 10 years ago, I realized there were multiple watches everywhere I went, including my cell-phone, so I stopped using a wrist watch. Love/hate ? No, more like indifferent.
 
I like watches, but think of them as tools. I have an aesthetic demand for a tool I wear every day, all day, but function is first.

I have many watches, but only ever wear one. Well, my automatic Hamilton is in for service after 8 years of flawless performance. So I'm not wearing a Fossil diver, and am remembering how handy the outer bezel is for simple timing, like cooking or developing film. It's just the battery won't last, and at $10 a year for batteries, I'm not finding better accuracy is worth much when it is set 5 minutes fast. The difference in the length of a second on my quartz vs. automatic is not significant for what I use it for.

I prefer mechanical or automatic watches, as the original quartz battery lasts perhaps 5 years and then every replacement lasts maybe a year for me. Much prefer spending the same amount of money once or twice per decade to buying a new watch every 5-6 years. Oh, and mechanical/automatic watches have gears inside running off a spring, which makes them inherently cool.
 
I couldnt answer the poll b/c I love them and hate them.
Love to look at them, and appreciate them like the beautiful balance b/w art and science, kind of like appreciating a Leica.
So I have an an old Omega Seamaster that I wear occasionally. But otherwise, the less stuff I have to carry around (even on my wrist) the better.
As stated, the time is so ubiquitous now with cell phones, etc, i certainly dont NEED a watch.
So where is the Leica watch-camera with f1.4 lens?
 
I dont' wear one. My dad worked for a watch company too. I did own a nice black times watch that I liked alot because it was really simple. I used to put black tape over the logo.
 
Love (mostly) mechanical ones, but I don't wear it during summer time, because I don't like that blank wrist ring who missed the sun.
 
Love'em. 60's-70's vintage mechanical "working man's" watches /only/... No items of conspicuous consumption. Timexes, Carravelles... wear one every day.
 
Not only the "precision instrument" quality and the looks, but like the race car drivers using analog gauges, I can tell time with little movement of hand, head, eye, etc. just by noting the position of the hands in my peripheral vision. Besides, why the hell would I stop to get my reading glasses to read the time on a freakin Crackberry or such?

Taking out a phone or other device is much more effort and even reading doesn't quite give you the information you need such as it is 10:07 (position indicated in your vision) and you know you have to be somewhere when both hands are straight up. No calculation needed, just simply elegant.:p
 
On the subject of pocket watches, who wears a waistcoat nowadays? I gave away my last two 3-piece suits in 1987, and though I suppose I could carry one of my pocket watches in the watch pocket of my Levi 501s, the pocket is occupied with a spare battery for my M9. Besides, the wrist watch is more convenient. I sometimes regret not wearing waistcoats, though: I also have a pocket barometer, which was the perfect partner to my early 20th century pocket watch (a 21st birthday present) in the 70s and early 80s, but now it lives on the dressing table.

Cheers,

R.
 
taskoni said:
I love watches. I wear mine all the time. I also have 11-12 bracelets and 9 necklaces I wear all the time as well (the lot keep growing after my several trips to Africa, India etc.).
I am hippie :D
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Yeah, me too. I love the jewelry aspect! Part of a gentleman's (and hippie's) proper attire for the day IMO.:p
 
I voted for hate though that isn't true. I just don't wear them often enough to justify saying I like them. Dad gave me another one last weekend. Now I have three I'll to get around to wearing.

I'd probably say I like them if I wasn't so rough on them, which explains why I don't wear them often.
 
Ok, porn time, my 1970 Seiko; Tmax400 (old), Rodinal 1+50:

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Why does the above happen sometimes?????
 
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I like wristwatches, but only analog displays, have had one or another since I was nine. I'll wear one most of the time, except when I'm working on the computer, or doing some kinds of mechanical work

The Citizen Skyhawk Eco-Drive I've got now replaced a Seiko Kinetic that I'd had for about 10 years, when I got back to flying aircraft. The calculator dial (sort of an E6B without the slide) is actually useful for pre-flight planning and navigation checks in flight. It runs on light (charging a capacitor to drive the mechanism), which is pretty slick. I reset the time annually, and it's never been more than 20 seconds off the WWV signal. Not fancy, just gets the job done very well.

I've got a couple pocket watches, but almost never use them. Most because they're cheap and inaccurate, one because it's a 1902 Waltham in excellent shape, given to me by my late father-in-law.
 
I know a guy who thinks they are disgusting. It's not the watch so much as the band he finds repulsive. It's odd. It must be a psychological issue, or he just wants to appear odd.
 
Sadly, the phone on my belt doesn't replace the watch on my wrist. The off-hand wrist is just the best place for my time-piece.

I also tried battery watches and found that my automatic Seiko has outlasted them all including a G-Force. Watches are interesting to me, but I don't intend to buy many in my lifetime.

Sadly, my precious watch has been looked askance at and when it is, I find the watch is measuring other quantities besides time.
 
Used to wear. Collected stainless steel automatics because everyone had a Rolex or a gold watch. Was always, always about the mechanical movement and that a human being put it together. Once I got a cell phone though I stopped wearing a watch and never looked back. Sometimes miss watching the second hand and listening to the movement. The autistic side of me..
 
Have worn wristwatches all my life and feel naked without one on. Not jewellery as far as I'm concerned. Have had a Tissot with a sapphire crystal face for about 8 years now and there is not a mark on the glass. And its been hiking hundreds of times. Would never buy another watch without the sapphire crystal glass. (An M9 included.)
 
I like watches and feel lost if i forget to wear one. One thing I hate is the veritable millions of "swiss" watch brands now. Talk about market oversaturation.
 
I do have a small collection of watches. Stopped wearing the nice ones in favor of a cheapie I picked up for traveling. Reason? Their batteries died pretty close to one another, don't know why.

But I'll get back to wearing them, same as I got back to writing with my fountain pens. :)

(I guess that's a question for another poll... ;) )
 
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