watches are ace!
I got one of these from a very good friend - weighs a tonne but is really nice.
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Are Watches on the way out?
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Can't do without a watch in my line of work but have several ranging from G-Shock to Rolex.
Rolex is my everyday watch but for anything adventurous my Casio or Citizen Eco-Drive get the nod.
Occasionally try without but only works in my leisuretime.
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Rolex is my everyday watch
Lend us a tenner!
Watches are useful, but perhaps more of a fashion accessory/jewellery these days, considering how we have the time on our 'phones, computers, TV recorders, cookers, in cars, etc.
A nice watch is nice thing to have, mind.
Epicyclo, I raise you:
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I bought an omega (seamaster) about ten years ago (compensation pay out from an RTA). I wear it constantly, and love it to bits.
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You can't avoid the time. It's in your car, on every bit of electronic kit at home, on the side of buildings, on all sorts of displays, everywhere. Why anyone NEEDS a watch beats me.
There speaks a man who lives in a city. And has far too much electronic clutter around. The only thing which would tell me the time where I am apart from my watch (and the computer I'm typing on, which is often tucked away in sleep mode or off) is a big old-fashioned clock on the wall. In most rooms in my house it would be only my watch. Playing with my son outside the house or taking him down the park, the only alternative to a watch might be a sextant. Walking around town at lunchtime I'm struggling to think where I'd be able to see what time it was without going to a lot of trouble. If I'm running or biking up on the hills, the only available clock is somewhere I tend not to go on a lunchtime trip.Like others I don't carry a mobile phone all the time - in fact it's pretty rare that I do. I suppose if you put it like that I don't NEED a watch - I could carry some other gadget with me solely for a function it wasn't designed for and which it's not as good at as a watch. Alternatively I could be late for post-lunchtime meetings.
Watches are useful, but perhaps more of a fashion accessory/jewellery these days, considering how we have the time on our 'phones, computers, TV recorders, cookers, in cars, etc.
I don't tend to carry a cooker, TV recorder or car around with me.I've gone for a while without wearing a watch when I've had wrist injuries, but it always goes back on afterwards. FWIW my day-to-day watch is a £300 Suunto HRM!
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I've gone for a while without wearing a watch when I've had wrist injuries,
You get these quite often then?
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I haven't worn a watch for a while, I have got an Animal watch but the battery is dead. I didn't wear one for 15 years (ish) until I really had to have one (worked in a shop and needed to know the time to check who was late off their breaks etc).
I used to know the time, without looking at a clock, to within 5-10 minutes of the actual time, when I didn't have a watch. And i was never late for anything. It was quite impressive and I'd have no idea how I knew. Now there are more clocks around I can't do it as well, which is a bit odd.Posted 2 years ago # -
I haven't worn a watch for a few years now. Don't like the feeling of it on my wrist. I do like the look of a nice watch but hate wearing them. Oh and the straps start to collect sweat and get smelly really quickly with me
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FWIW my day-to-day watch is a £300 Suunto HRM!
Jeez, ruled by time, ruled by your heart rate....data overload, let it go man, liberate your wrist!
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G-Shock as always.
Mine gets a right kicking.
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Oh, I also ride with a chap who repairs and deals in expensive watches: Rolex, Cartier, real top end £70,000+++ watches.
I asked him once if he wore one himself. -
"Good god no!"
**takes off watch, bashes it on the table**
"Cheap Casio. Unbreakable!"I take it by that you're suggesting that as a watch repairer he has enough free spend to buy a 70k watch, but he chooses a cheap casio instead. Like a Ferrari mechanic drives a Fiesta because he chooses to.
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mine is away being repaired at the moment. I quite miss it.
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I have a g-shock that I wear for work and bike. It's been all around the world with me and never missed a beat, and a couple of weeks ago I lost it and I'm gutted
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The only time I don't wear a watch is when MTBing as the Edge 205 has a GPS clock and doesn't rattle on my wrist. It also tells you the sunset time which theoretically keeps me from being caught out in the back of beyond without lights, thought the reality is somewhat different...
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I'm never without a watch - just doesn't feels right...
I think I must own about a dozen at the moment, from a Parmigiani dress watch through to a hundred year old Hunter pocket watch...Posted 2 years ago # -
I'm never without a watch - just doesn't feels right...
Same here. I don't like removing whichever one I have on even to have a shower.KT1973. I have a g-shock in v.g.c I never wear (strap irritates me after a few hours) which you can have for £10 posted. Can't remember the model but it's solar powered and sets itself to the atomic clock (or something similar) if you happen to be in America !
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"This is your birthright. Five long years he hid this watch up his ass. " Quality!
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Got myself a nice automatic watch that winds itself so no dam battery to run out.
Ok it's one of those shake things, 14carrot gold plated bracelet strap and some kind of sailing/slide rule chrono thing. Quite bulky but I'm not little a mans watch but...
I'm just happy it has the date and time and will take a pounding for a while. I can't be bothered to read 20 pages of navigation instructions but finding north was handy.
Found a cheap M&S watch in a drawer, I use while riding or DIY car jobs etc and it needs 2 batteries for £6 online and I think I can buy a new watch for that!
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Woody - Member
I'm never without a watch - just doesn't feels right...
Same here. I don't like removing whichever one I have on even to have a shower.
KT1973. I have a g-shock in v.g.c I never wear (strap irritates me after a few hours) which you can have for £10 posted. Can't remember the model but it's solar powered and sets itself to the atomic clock (or something similar) if you happen to be in America !
PM sent
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Woody, I tried to mail you at the address on your profile but it bounced back. Could you email me at karl1doon at hotmail dot com
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