Anyone else who doesn’t wear a watch?

During the warmer months, I usually take off my watch at home and put my watch on a table because my watch sticks to my skin.
Also, while I sleep or shower, I don’t wear a watch.
Otherwise, I almost always wear my watch. :+1:

I almost always wore a watch, but had a break in it for a couple years after the crown stem broke in my old timex expedition and I wasn’t able to find a replacement.

Nowadays I wear a vostok (cheap russian dive watch) that I modded last year with a fully lumed dial and bezel, suppose I like things that shine in the dark, though this time green is desirable. :smile:

It isn’t super accurate but it is usually close enough, most of the time.

I never really wore a watch because everyone knows the only good watches were digital and had a calculator but those weren’t cool so you couldn’t wear those. You had to pick out something that looked cool and it was a whole fashion thing. Felt silly. Hard enough picking out a shirt that I can pull off I’m not gonna get into watches now too.

But then smart watches came out and you can wear a digital watch now. Plus they track your heartbeat and stress levels and stuff which is mostly useless but once you have it you don’t want to get rid of it.

It has come in handy before. “So-and-so says youre not putting enough effort into ‘xyz’ part of your job”. “Uhh actually this heart rate data indicates that I am and based on this stress report I’m gonna need a vacation”
Management loves it when you pull heart rate data on them.

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Quit wearing one for years. Being an electrican and playing in live panels it really isn’t helpful having extra metal bits hanging off your arms or fingers. Also done a ton of mechanic work on the side back when. Having to take it off to fit my arm in spots was annoying.

Since being on disablity I have started wearing a fitbit sense in the last year. I’ll say I can take it or leave it. It is handy keeping up with how much I walk daily but I still find it’s in the way when I need to reach in something.

Between my job and hobbies I’m almost always looking at a screen which has the time on it anyway. If i was going to carry a watch though, I’d leave my phone at home and carry a pocket watch.

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Nope , stopped wearing one a long time ago …
Starting to think I might want one , something light weight …
But … The ones I like , are not cheap . + Do I want to invest in a watch ?
When my car has GPS ( time also ) , puter has a clock , and I am surrounded by clocks at home ?
I’m all clocked out as is …

Perrelet Turbine

I’m big on simple, this watch is one of my favourites, though it was given to a relative (long story):

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I have a few pieces of jewelry which include a timepiece. A couple are even bracelets, so I guess that could count as a watch. But I don’t remember the last time I actually wound one up or put a battery in… if I wear it, it’s just a decoration and doesn’t need to tell time.

Now that I’m thinking about it though, I remember I have some nice pocket watches. I think I’ll wind one up and use it for a while.

… not that I really need to know what time it is. But still.

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Hahaha that’s funny. A sweeping second hand is waaaay less satisfying than a ticking one, IMO, and I absolutely love a small gadget like this that has a such an amount of information. Yes, the face is busy, but that’s a plus for me.

exactly
if ticking watches cost more to make, THEY would be ‘the prestige’ ones.

there’s nothing better about either one really, and i like ticking

(and the extra 1000000% precision of quartz. and not having to set the time and wind up a watch that sits for a week.)

I think you’re exactly right.

Here’s my citizen blue Angels, a bit different from yours.

yeah those are fun too

and the older versions of nighthawk

I wear a casio that has a timer function that I use daily when making coffee (steep time in French press) so I don’t need to go looking for my phone. It’s always set to ~3min15sec so I can account for time to reach the press (if I change rooms) or brew time (some darker roasts need less brew time). The microwave timer works too, but I often move around and miss the single beeeeeep, only to realize 30min later that I forgot my coffee in the kitchen.

I also use the chronometer a lot to time stuff out too, I just like collecting data… even when I don’t end up writing it down.

Theres also a time zone mode so I can easily refer to UTC “world” time. Its a chunky watch but it’s great.

Has an amber backlight too which is just awesome, and has high water-resistance.

I own one which was a gift, but I haven’t really worn it other than trying it out. I have had a few moments of considering a smartwatch, but the price is still too high to justify it to me. Maybe one day.

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I have always worked around electronics. So no necklaces, no watches no rings.

When I was in Jr. High through High school I was working part time in a metal shop. So see above.

I never got in the habit and back in the stone ages I managed to just kinda know what time it was most of the time. I have never wanted to have one or wear one. I tried to a few times but it has never stuck.

I use to wear a watch, then quit when I got my first smartphone IPhone 3GS. Got the 4, 5, 6, SE ,7, 8, SE then the 13mini I have now. Somewhere about the time that first gen SE was ready for an upgrade my sanity was ready for a downgrade. So back went on the watch and the phones got used less and less. Amazingly a lot of my worries and trouble seemed to go away with it. Getting off of all Social Media probably accounted for most of it.

I now like being able to purposely leave my phone behind. Nothing really going on on it that I need to be advised of immediately.

I hear lots of screaming that everyone needs one but the world still keep going without them. I am perfectly fine checking out my watch to see when I will get home. Then I can have time for everyone to call me with what I’m sure will be important info.

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I am always wearing a watch.
Watches are like flashlights… you can’t have too many.
I have over 50 watches and over 50 flashlights.
My watches make flashlights look like low budget items, LOL.
Today’s watch…

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Probably it’s better to open your photo on full screen and then you click on the right arrow, and it gives you some opinions, then click on the "copy urlc button !

The “album” feature is nice when you have upload multiple photos at once , and then you copy the link of the album, through the three dots on your upper right corner !

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Thanks Tartara … I edited the above post with great results! Much appreciated!

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