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Do you wear a wrist watch?
Quick&Dead
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Seems fewer and fewer people wear a wrist watch anymore....male or female.
Most just look at their so-called "smart phone"
I like a wrist watch and have three of them, all day/date style
A cheap $40 Timex when doing mechanical and other work and 2 very nice Seiko watches.
Most just look at their so-called "smart phone"
I like a wrist watch and have three of them, all day/date style
A cheap $40 Timex when doing mechanical and other work and 2 very nice Seiko watches.
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I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
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Tried "pen" watches, broke them too.
Tried pocket watches.....yup... broke them as well, gave up.
I could probably wear one now, since I am retired, but since my car has a clock, I just go that way.
Don't feel comfortable wearing anything but clothes.
Even more comfortable without, but lets not go there.......
I post this mainly because of questions about old battery watches. Mine are all dead now and still have the old batteries inside. I have tried to open a couple of them but lack the proper tool or tools needed to unscrew the backs. I wonder if they would be worth the trouble and expense to take them to a jeweler?? Or after all this time if battery damage has made them junk?
Just because I no longer wear them, I hate to see nice things become inoperable. Same goes for old guns, tools, etc. I do find pleasure in making these things come to working life, even if I don't really need or use them.
all my dress watches got stolen in the latest burglary. Guess, Swiss Army, Fossil, and an Elvis watch.
No smart damn phone, either. But I find that our society is literally festooned with clocks. Cars, billboards, businesses, all trying to tell us to hurry, hurry, hurry or like the Mad Hatter, we'll be late.
Except that I can't be late - I have nowhere I have to be at any time except when I choose to be there.
+1 I can look at the sun and tell what time it is...or my stomach will tell me when it is time to eat.
My late brother used to like pocket watches. When we were going through his stuff after he passed away, we found the watch I gave him when I was maybe 14-15. It had been so long since he had it on him that I thought he had lost it. It was $30 in ~'85 or so. That was a lot for a farm kid to save at that age. It is worn now and a little beat up, but I might get it serviced.
Twenty years ago my girlfriend bought me a gold wristwatch that had the date on it, it was made of gold, beautiful Swiss made.
I always had a light circle around my wrist, where I got a sun tan around my wrist watch.
Then 8 years ago I got a job as an over the road truck driver. You have to have a cell phone with you at all times driving a truck.
The cell phone always has the correct time.
I started leaving the watch on the shelf in the truck. And one day I transferred to a new truck and I accidentally left the wrist watch behind, never saw it again. Haven't had a wrist watch since.
I have worn a wrist watch ever since. I worked for one police department that actually required officers to wear a wrist watch on duty.
I have usually chosen inexpensive watches from Timex or Casio, but I did find a very nice Seiko while walking on a beach in Hawaii. It was an automatic chronometer with stop watch function and it looked really cool. It didn't work well though, and eventually quit altogether.
A couple of years ago, Bass Pro had a sale on some of their watches, and I bought a Rolex lookalike for $10, but it was made of pot metal and began looking bad after a while.
So, I dug out an old Smith & Wesson watch and put in a new battery and used it for a time.
A few months ago, I splurged and bought another Seiko chronometer. I don't know how all the features work, but it looks cool. This one has a quartz movement, so it will probably last longer than my old one. I found it on a site called "Pass the Watch," and it was about half the price I had seen advertised elsewhere.
My wife is one that relies on her phone for a timepiece. I bought her a nice watch, and she wore it for a little while, and then it went into the jewelry box, along with a lot of other jewelry pieces I gave her. Low maintenance she is.
Weighs in at about 7 ounces. Perpetual Calendar with a 10 year battery, I've replace twice so far. The
Traded a Buck knife and $20.00 for it in almost new condition. The illumination is starting to fade.
"Swiss Army"...? Military issue?
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I seldom take my watch off.
I have had the same watch since 1981 and I have worn it every day since then its a Seiko Automatic Dive watch.
Like this but without the day function mine only shows the date and I don't even set it anymore because I cannot see it without reading glasses:
I have probably worn out 8-10 watch bands. I have had it rebuilt 2 times, once in the 90's and the last time 4 years ago.
When I showed up in Basic training I didn't have a watch and we weren't allowed one but In AIT the Drills told us we needed a watch. So we got to go to the PX on Sunday. I got my money from my locker and Bought the watch it was $62 I made about $200 a month at the time as an E-2. The Drill told me that was a nice watch and I told him I figured if I was going to need a watch I should get a good one. It has been on my wrist ever since then and is on it right now.
I got a Rolex GMT master for my 40th B-day. I wear it a few times a year just to keep it running but I always come back to the Seiko.
If I told you what its been through you wouldn't believe me and I would probably have to kill you and stick your head in a safe
I remember being so thrilled with my first luminous dial that I wore it to bed and was startled when I woke up with the eerie glow in dark adapted eyes.
A watch collector friend gave me a "resin" cased Marathon and it hooked me on light weight watches.
I am on my third Marathon, the original lost in house fire, the replacement failed under warranty, the third is doing fine.
I have a plastic Timex as backup.
The steel and gold are to wear to dinner, etc.
I have a Tag Heuer diver that I bought instead of a wedding ring for my first marriage, since I don't wear a ring.
Paid a lot for it but certainly less than the wife's wedding ring/engagement ring combo.
She's long gone but that watch has been lots of places with me. Twenty eight years, I guess. And another marriage.
A few years ago I semi-retired it and switched to a Luminox for work. Wore it many years till it died.
Then I bought another Tag on ebay kinda like my original and wear that most of the time now.