little_tippler

It's been several years since I wore a watch. I'm not sure if that's normal. Almost everyone I know has them. I have them but they sit in a drawer in my house. They are pretty but I don't care for them much.

I'm pretty high strung, so the added pressure of a watch seemed to get on my nerves. One day I forgot my watch. I didn't miss it. Increasingly, I'd forget to wear one. Until I stopped entirely.

These days I don't wear one. Of course, I also have a mobile phone that I can look at to tell the time. Or my PC. Or someone else's watch.

I find that I check the time less and less though. Much of the time, I instinctively can say what time it probably is. I'm usually within 15 mins of the correct time.

Sometimes I'll forget to set my alarm in the morning but it's really only to make sure I don't forget. Most morning's I'll wake up a minute before it rings, or even earlier. I think because I don't wear a watch, my body has learned to tell the time somehow.

Last year during my masters I even forgot to wear a watch to an exam. For exams I'll usually take one with me.

But I really don't miss watches. I think if I wore a watch I'd be even more electric and speeded up than I already am.

Do you wear a watch? How do you feel about watches? Can you tell the time instinctively? What do watches do (or not do) for you?

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lostgirl

No, I don't wear a watch. I own them, but never wear them anymore. I don't think I ever have really worn a watch except the antique looking one I have, and then only as jewelry.

I am not good at telling time instinctively. I always think it's later then it is.

PonyPotato

I don't wear a watch. I dislike them. They are uncomfortable and somehow I always end up ripping paper I'm writing on or something.

I think they do dress up outfits occasionally, but I don't like having the ticking and the constant need to look at the time hanging out on my wrist. I hardly ever wear jewelry, even, so I tend to forget to take a watch off when I wash my hands.. essentially ruining it.

My favorite watch I ever owned was my first "real" watch - made of an old painted nickel. I still have it somewhere.

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Charlatan

I went for years without a watch... then my wife bought me one for my birthday. I have been wearing it since.

One thing I do though, is when I am on vacation... I take it off. I don't need to be anywhere and don't want to be troubled with TIME.

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skizziks

I always have a watch on. When I worked, I always had to know what time it was, time was an important factor. Now, even though I can come and go as I please and I don't need to know what time it is, I still wear it out of habit. I suspect I will not care what time it is in three weeks or so, and the watch will not be that important to me. I'll probably still wear it out of habit.

Cynthetiq

I wore them as a kid because I wasn't allowed to be late for dinner. Dinner was at a precise time and we all sat together to have dinner.

When my batteries ran out on the watch I was wearing I wore the watch because I felt weird without it. I took it off in Maui at Byrnison's wedding. I never wore a daily watch ever again. My parents gave me a dress watch for my wedding day. I only wear it when I dress up for occassions. Otherwise it is in the drawer. Otherwise, I'm using my cellphone or PC for the time.

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onesnowyowl

I don't wear a watch. I have a cell phone that tells me the time if I need to know it. Otherwise I rely on other methods.

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drag0nmanes

I haven't worn a watch in years. Between my cellphone and my diad I always know what time it is when I'm working. I have a pretty nice dress watch, but rarely dress up so I rarely wear it. I used to wear one all the time but kept on breaking them at work, so I decided to stop wearing them all together.

Bear Cub

Anything on my neck/wrist/etc drives me nuts. It took me months just to get used to wearing a ring. Don't need it in the office as I'm constantly in front of the computer, and don't need it out in the field because I have the cell phone. In fact, some of our jobs won't allow watches because of a shock hazard.

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sapiens

I don't wear a watch. My band broke about 4 years ago and I haven't had the will to send a letter to Denmark for a new one. I use my cell phone. I set an alarm every night (or my wife does), but I usually wake up about 5 minutes before it goes off.

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Baraka_Guru

I've never worn a wristwatch regularly. They usually made my skin irritated and sweaty. I hate the feeling of them. I don't wear any jewelry for that matter.

For a few years I wore a pocket watch. I love them. I would wear one today, except the only one I have right now is broken (the back won't stay on).

As for telling time, I'm constantly looking at the time, whether it's the computer clock, my cell phone, or parking meters as I walk by them on the sidewalk.

I don't always feel rushed; I just like to know what time it is or whether I'm on schedule. I don't like being late...for anything.

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Manic_Skafe

It's funny, I've got an absurdly priced timepiece that's so busy and gaudy that I can't even read the time with it. On occasion I'll sport a watch I got from my parents a few years ago but I'm just not a watch guy.

Even with it on, I'll sooner check the time with my cellphone.

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dlish

is it me or is everyone here a non watch wearer?

maybe ist just the non watch wearers posting?

up until 3 months ago i never used to wear a watch. took me 30 years to get me to wear a watch. i dislike jewellery. period.

but i bought one and i dont love it, but im not hating wearing one.


i remember cadre started a thread similar to this a few months back.

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Makedde

I always wear a watch. I set my alarm to wake in the morning, not because I will sleep in, but just 'in case'. I hate having to ask other people for the time when my watch is broken. I couldn't live without it. I always think the time is later than it is, so it's no good my not wearing one!

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nomcat

I don't regularly wear a watch.... got one as a gift years ago and wore it on and off... but haven't worn it for a few years now... I don't like to be constantly reminded of time ticking by. I wear a digital watch for about 6 weeks out of the year during harvest (winemaker - so always need to be timing things) and for running, but that's it.

ryfo

got a heartrate monitor that has a watch function. I only wear it when exercising, and then its on my heartrate function and not the time. Reason I dont wear it all the time, is that it gets sweaty and icky so its strictly part of my gym stuff

abaya

The only time that I am NOT wearing a watch is in the shower, and that's only because the watch is not waterproof. I wear it all the time, even to bed, because when I wake up in the middle of the night I need to know what time it is (it has glowing numbers/hands)--and we don't currently have an alarm clock with LED numbers that both ktsp and I can see. If we did, I *might* take off my watch at night, but we'll see when it happens. I like being able to know what time it is, anytime... even though I am often late for everything.

This is also the first watch of mine that I have really loved and wanted to wear all the time... my dad let me pick it out as a master's degree graduation present in 2005, and it was the first time that I got to pick my own watch instead of someone else giving me something I didn't like. There are two times that I have not worn it since then: when I went to Zambia and lived in the bush for 2 months, because I didn't want to have anything valuable on me at the time; and when I was working at the fish factory in Iceland for 3 months, where we were not allowed to wear jewelry in case it got caught in the machinery or fell off into the fish.

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little_tippler

oops...I should know better right? But I don't remember the thread and I did a search first...slap my wrist? heh.

Edit: here it is, it's not about the exact same thing:

Does the watch make the man?

I'm surprised by all the non-watch wearers!

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

jewels

I'll confess: I've been a wearer for many years. Sometimes I resent that I feel naked without it, but it's become such a habit, although time makes itself known in so many other places these days (computer, phone, TV). Maybe one day I'll quit.

At least I don't sleep with it on.

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abaya

Hey! Are you implying something about those who do, hmm???

I don't see why it's such a bad thing to wear a watch. I mean... who cares, really?

Personally, I really just love my watch, particularly because it was a gift from my dad, and it is the first nice watch (Swiss!) that I was asked to pick for myself, instead of being given some flashy thing that was not in my taste at all. Here is mine (sorry for the large pic, that is all they had)... the hands and hour dots glow in the dark as well.

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MexicanOnABike

of course I wear one. I have a job and I make plans. I don't want to be late for them! Plus, my watch is awesome. I have 2 of them. 1 casual and 1 formal. they're nice to look at! the people I know that don't wear watches are the ones that are late or forget shit. I don't want to be like that.

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ASU2003

Time is irrelevant. I have a watch that doesn't work right now, but I don't wear one 99% of the time. I live my life on my schedule.

Fotzlid

I stopped wearing a watch years ago. The ones with the metal bands never fit right and the leather straps kept falling apart from all the hand washing.
There are plenty of other clocks around where I don't miss wearing one at all.

Lucifer

I wear a watch, but not on my wrist. I keep it on my belt and have for years. I started years ago when I was sailing cause I was always catching it on lines and sails and ripping the band off, so one day I put it on my belt and have never looked back. Most people seem to think it's weird to wear it there, but I love it.

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Nisses

Laptop, VCR, various clocks, cellphone, PDA

I never need to take more than 2 steps to even see the time, why would I want to wear a watch anymore.

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LoganSnake

We've had a discussion about this some time ago. A lengthy one at that.

A watch is an accessory. Depending on who you ask, it can mean a difference between a good and excellent first impression. It is a status symbol. It's an icon of style. A watch is a piece of jewelry that is more than just a timepiece. I've worn a watch since I got my first digital red one at the age of 6. There was a brief pause for a year and a half where all the watches I've had were broken and I didn't have the money to buy one. However, I wear one everyday, even if I just run out of the house around the corner to buy chips.

My uncle hasn't taken his watch off in about 2 years. He sleeps, eats, showers with it. It becomes a part of you. In the end, different strokes. I think a watch is necessary.

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