I haven't regularly worn a watch for about four years now; the battery went flat in my main watch over a year ago, and I haven't bothered replacing it yet. I use the computer (at home and work), wall clock, oven clock, town hall clock, or phone clock instead, and don't really miss it that much.
I own wrist watches, a watch on a chain necklace, and a watch that ticks! (The last inherited from a German relation - it's a jade and silver evening watch and is proper clockwork.)
I have two watches - a small wrist watch given to me by MIL because the aunt who left it to her had ridiculously small wrists like mine, and a small gold pocket watch on a gold link chain which is exactly the right length to bang the watch into any table I happen to sit at, which I was given for my BA graduation and (possibly as a result of too many tables) does not keep very good time. I wear the wrist watch most workdays when I remember to put it on in the morning, but I often forget because I never wore a watch until I got this one. (I used to joke that I knew where every clock visible from the street in Oxford was - parking metre, building society window, etc.)
Indeed, and if the time ever comes when I don't have to catch trains, give talks to people, etc. I will probably abandon watch wearing and return to my old ways. Though this watch is now an object of sentimental value, and the omnipresence of mobile phones does mean one often has a time-piece when out and about anyway.
The only time I take off my watch is when I'll be in close contact with quantities of water - bath/shower, washing up, swimming etc. It feels very odd without it on.
I don't currently wear a watch - I find that the eczema on my wrist makes it very annoying. I will wear a watch if I'm likely to go somewhere where I need a reasonably reliable indicator of time, and I'm not likely to be able to use my phone or computer (mind, my phone's clock does occasionally suffer from serious problems with its lifestyle). I have a watch/heart-rate monitor for use when exercising, my mother's mother's wrist watch, which used to be my standard watch for everyday wear, a waterproof watch for use when swimming (I can't see the wall clocks in a pool - too short-sighted), my father's mother's fairly posh wrist watch, and her watch on a chain, which was a present from when she left nursing, I believe. They do now all work, and I wear the posher ones from time to time when out.
I am thinking of getting one of those (where is a good place to find them, anyone?) because I loathe wearing anything on my wrists day to day, but as others have said, it can sometiems be necessary to have a reliable timekeeper about one's person (and not have one's phoen to hand).
My watch is currently in the shop having its battery replaced. I must remember to pick it up on Monday.
I wear it less and less now, being - more or less - a member of the great unwashed mob of unemployed I no longer have many places I have to get to at a particular time.
I wear a wristwatch at work (though I sometimes take it off) and when I am out and about. I take it off at home because it can make my arm ache to wear it all the time.
I have several watches with batteries that need replacing, as well as the one I wear day to day.
I also have a wind-up gold watch that belonged to my great-grandmother, she got it in the 1960s when my great-uncle retired from his second job at the Mansion House. (His first job was with the City of London Police, so he got his own gold watch when he retired from there.)
I am currently watchless for the first time since I was a kid because my remaining watch (a Gucci quartz model with red and green face and gold-plated case) needs a new battery and because of its water-resistance etc apparently needs to be sent away for a replacement. My next watch will be an automatic, not a quartz.
I also have a cheap 70s style LED display digital with a broken strap and a classic early 80s high-end Casio which no longer works and was my main watch from the age of ten to about a year or so ago.
I'm finally carrying my phone with me enough that I can use it instead of a watch (although it is much harder to read).
We have a clock in almost every room in the house and a watch gets in the way of doing many things with Ben so I often don't wear a watch at home any more.
My second watch is also a wireless ski pass, but ski gloves reduce the signal enough to be a hassle at times. I hope that my next ski jacket will have a suitable pocket for a conventional credit card-shaped wireless ski pass, at the right height, which could make the watch redundant.
...Actually, I'm pretty sure I have several more than 10. In fact ebay caused me to accidentally acquire another only yesterday, oops. But then I think of watches as like jewellery, or at least accessories, and so like to have several choices to go with different things.
I wear a watch whenever I'm out of the house, but not regularly when I'm in the house, which is the case often enough that I can't say I 'normally' wear a watch.
Okay, I've just done a mental count-up and make it 17, though I wouldn't swear there aren't any others lurking somewhere that I've forgotten about. They aren't all working at the moment, since all but one manual-wind are quartz, but I do intend to get new batteries to bring them back into the rotation at some point. And I did take four old ones to a charity shop recently at least!
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wellinghall) wrote2011-06-04 08:45 am
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I use the computer (at home and work), wall clock, oven clock, town hall clock, or phone clock instead, and don't really miss it that much.
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My work life is dependent on knowing what the time is so we can keep our breaks in order, and I'd be lost without a watch.
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I wear it less and less now, being - more or less - a member of the great unwashed mob of unemployed I no longer have many places I have to get to at a particular time.
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I don't wear a watch for lots of reasons.
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No : Time is an illusion,
Re: No : Time is an illusion,
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I also have a wind-up gold watch that belonged to my great-grandmother, she got it in the 1960s when my great-uncle retired from his second job at the Mansion House. (His first job was with the City of London Police, so he got his own gold watch when he retired from there.)
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I also have a cheap 70s style LED display digital with a broken strap and a classic early 80s high-end Casio which no longer works and was my main watch from the age of ten to about a year or so ago.
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We have a clock in almost every room in the house and a watch gets in the way of doing many things with Ben so I often don't wear a watch at home any more.
My second watch is also a wireless ski pass, but ski gloves reduce the signal enough to be a hassle at times. I hope that my next ski jacket will have a suitable pocket for a conventional credit card-shaped wireless ski pass, at the right height, which could make the watch redundant.
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I wear a watch whenever I'm out of the house, but not regularly when I'm in the house, which is the case often enough that I can't say I 'normally' wear a watch.
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