Eyes on... your wrist!

[Pike]

I'm so done with watches and have been for a while. I actually had this conversation with a friend recently. His defense of the watch was how much faster it was for him to glance at his watch versus fishing his phone out of his pocket. A few mere seconds doesn't make for a very strong argument in my opinion. A better argument would be for the aesthetics.

In the end, a watch is a single purpose device. I have no room in my life for such a single purpose device. I care enough gadgets with me at all times, I don't need a watch that I have to take on and off for showers and be wary of snagging on things all the time. I'll gladly pull my phone out of my pocket if I need to see what time it is, and in a few extra seconds I can check the weather, my e-mail, FB, and a dozen other things

I wear a watch because I like having a delicate and brilliant piece of mechanical engineering on my wrist (or electrical engineering if I'm wearing a quartz watch-- I wear mechanical, though). It reminds me how ingenious humanity is.

[Parker]

Despite my love for watches I pretty much agree with yeargdribble.

My only defense for wearing one is that it looks good and carries with it a certain amount of class

I'm aware of how shallow and pointless this sounds

[Shiny]

I've worn a watch every day since third grade, but I'm not aroused by it or anything

well why not?

Oh you. xD

I usually keep my phone in my bag now, so it's easier to access a watch for checking time than it is my cellphone or laptop. However, I usually forget to put it on before leaving the house.

When speaking to my friend with a very nice gold rolex watch, he was telling me the watch made people interviewing him for jobs think he was more applicable. When I asked him how he said, he'd often meet people for job interviews during lunch hours at cafes and such. He'd order coffee and then pick up the cup, which in turn drew more attention to his wrist. The employers would peep his watch and were like, "Wow you have impressive taste" or "That's a cool watch" and it would direct the conversation about the watch instead of asking him questions about whether he was actually qualified for the job. When they eventually did get around to asking him, they were so dumbfounded by a friggin' watch and the air of sophistication it apparently gave off that they were already sold. My point is, if you're going to wear a watch swag it out in an interview. Get money.

[Kossage]

People don't wear watches? That's almost as unfortunate as people who don't know about floppy disks or cassette tapes having even existed (or then I'm just getting old ). But yep, definitely wearing a watch. The nice thing is that even when cell phones freeze in the cold over here, wrist watches still work just fine, so at the very least in winter it's kind of a necessity to have a watch if you spend more than 10 minutes outside.

[Bubba]

Jesus Christ we can all waffle about watches.

The fact that this thread is on page three makes me love this forum even more.

[Jiro]

The fact that you aren't using 50ppp is disgraceful

[Aydin]

I don't like wearing watches. Like OP said, cell phones are out and honestly, I like those better. :/

But I am wearing this! It's not a watch but it's awesome! >:3

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[Yeargdribble]

I wear a watch because I like having a delicate and brilliant piece of mechanical engineering on my wrist (or electrical engineering if I'm wearing a quartz watch-- I wear mechanical, though). It reminds me how ingenious humanity is.

I think I can achieve the same effect to a greater degree by having a computer in my pocket that weighs virtually nothing, can do things that super computers of 20 years ago couldn't, can play games, keep my schedule, let me contact people and has me constantly connected to this amazing human invention... the internet. All with no wires. I'm tethered to nothing. It's a piece of friggin' magic. I can appreciate a watch for what it is, but when it comes to a reminder of the amazing ingenuity of the human race, most of today's phones have them beat hands down.


@Shiny
I'm glad I don't work in an industry where my wasteful spending of potentially $1000s of dollars on a silly watch with a big name is going to make a huge difference in my life. It disgusts me that there are people out there who can afford to buy 5, 10, 30, 50 thousand dollar watches just to make an impression and make themselves even more stinking rich. It disgusts me more that there are people impressed by these pretentious displays of overspending on something absolutely silly. Buying a multi-thousand dollar Rolex watch is no different than spending thousands of dollars on rims for your stupid car. The only difference is in who finds it impressive.

I'm glad I'm doing work where my skills matter more than how blinged out I am.

[Pike]

I wear a watch because I like having a delicate and brilliant piece of mechanical engineering on my wrist (or electrical engineering if I'm wearing a quartz watch-- I wear mechanical, though). It reminds me how ingenious humanity is.

I think I can achieve the same effect to a greater degree by having a computer in my pocket that weighs virtually nothing, can do things that super computers of 20 years ago couldn't, can play games, keep my schedule, let me contact people and has me constantly connected to this amazing human invention... the internet. All with no wires. I'm tethered to nothing. It's a piece of friggin' magic. I can appreciate a watch for what it is, but when it comes to a reminder of the amazing ingenuity of the human race, most of today's phones have them beat hands down.

I don't find the inside of a phone to be as beautiful as the inside of a mechanical watch.

This is the most beautiful, divine piece of art I have ever seen in my life. (Scroll down.)

I also like how imperfect a watch is, how it's powered by my own movement and lives on my wrist as a sort of living creature, and how it can still be made entirely by (very, very skilled) hands and not by machines.

I like the simplicity of the physics and the balance wheel and how it works.

I like how you can watch the whole thing run. I like how I can sit and watch the balance wheel spin and the hairsping pulse like a living heart as it ticks away the seconds, six ticks per second. I like that I can rest my head on it or hold it up to my ear and hear that heartbeat.

It's not just about engineering and cleverness. It's about sculpture. It's about centuries of tradition and innovation and art. That's what I see in a watch.

And yes, I'm weird.

[NorthernChaosGod]

Pike, I'm definitely coming to you if I ever decide to get myself a nice watch.

[Pike]

[Jiro]

There is something about the innards of that watch that just mesmerises me.

[Hollycat]

girls shouldn't wear pocket watches

[blackmage_nuke]

stuff

Phones do that, just with invisible electrons. If you had a voltmeter to the chips of a phone you would see a dance more delicate and complex than any watch. If a watch is like a heart, the phone is like a brain performing a hundred things a second without even moving without you even being aware of it's presence

[Fuzakeru]

When I was younger I wore one but I couldn't stand to wear one now. I wear three thin plastic-y type wrist band things though. I take them off to shower but I've worn them for about a year straight. Dunno why though.