[Closed] Are Watches on the way out?

my girlfriend is the same with watches she hates them - personally i like my watch on my arm lets me know what time it is without taking something out my pocket !

glancing at a watch is easier than getting a phone out. Watch-phone anyone ? You can pretend you're secret agent 🙂

love my watch... a big heavy flash Omega Seamaster that I got off my family for my 30th... didn't wear it for almost 2 years as I felt it was too 'big heavy & flash' but finally gave it a go, and now it's a part of me, feel 'undressed' without it on...

Don't know why but I got out of the habit of wearing a watch 5/6 years ago. Feels really odd when I put one on now!

infact - id sooner not have a phone than a watch !

Yeah I noticed fewer people wearing watches. I noticed this because there's been a lot more people asking me the time. D'oh!

i need a new watch as im lost wiithout one

i saw this one in the oakley shop and thought ill have that baby, till i found out the price. 🙁
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titanium and carbon fibre unecessary bling- the perfect mtbers watch

Couldn't be without my watch. I'd miss trains. Can happily be without my phone, though.

And the price was?

I hate getting my mobile out of my pocket or carrying it with me unless I am at work or riding.

I feel naked as well lol.

I have noticed prices coming down too and spoke to sales staff in the local mall who have to order in anything you want as sales are down-recession as well I guess.

(Well it was not that much Sherman! RRP £150 reduced to £70 nothing special but it was titanium and gold but I go through watches quick-wear while DIY or riding kills them or just a black leather strap watch for £48 so I am not overspending considering I'll break it within 2yrs!)

I actually bought a M&S watch for a £1 while riding and it lasted 3 yrs full of scratches but never late lol.

Watches FTW.

I frequently leave my phone at home, I have never really adopted the need to be in contact with the world 24 hours a day. But I do need a watch.

$2750 in the US dunno how much it would be here, never asked in the shop !

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2 grand over here ive just found it online

glad i didnt ask in the shop as my jaw hitting the flaw would have been quite embarassing

I feel like a saddo checking my phone all the time. I'd worry that people seeing me would think I was checking for messages that weren't there when I was really just checking the time. 🙂

I want to have another child (a boy) just so I can have an excuse to spend lots on a proper good watch to pass down as a heirloom.

I frequently leave my phone at home, I have never really adopted the need to be in contact with the world 24 hours a day. But I do need a watch.

Amen to that - unfortunately it's very difficult to escape being verbally assulted by scores of others conducting their loud, inane converstaions in trains, supermarkets etc etc...

the last watch I owned would've been around 1981 when I was 11 years old. Never seen the point in them.

Kev

watch sales amongst 'teh kidz' have dropped off in recent years - they do reckon it is down to them using their mobile phones.

Those of us born before mobile phones (and I don't include bliddy iphone users here) can get away without touching them all the time and prefer a watch. A watch is one of the only items of bling acceptable on a man!

i saw this one in the oakley shop and thought ill have that baby, till i found out the price

You did yourself a favour. Cheap tacky looking thing.

I wear a watch most of the time. Easier to check whilst on the bike, handy for when I go swimming (good for timing myself as well), and I don't always take my 'phone out with me like so many folk.

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.

I wore a watch from about the age of 5 until I got my first motorbike. It was too bulky to have a watch, gloves and a jacket all strapped round my wrist. Even then, when I was on holiday, I used to leave my watch at home and go without because I dislike being ruled by time. I've only worn a watch occasionally for running in about the last 15 years. It's simply pointless these days.

I love em big, expensive, overbuilt ones preferably.

I'm 39.

Like this

http://www.utswatches.com/

A nice meaty watch is a sign of having considerable Cohones...

I like to have a watch. If you're worried about looking flash, just get a basic one.

I'm not a fan of getting my phone out to check the time as a) it's impossible to do discreetly (and therefore you look rude) and b) once in a while a smackhead seems to spot my phone tries to engage me in conversation so as to liberate it from me.

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!"

🙂

Why anyone NEEDS a watch beats me.

Well, most of us need to be able to tell the time for various reasons. And my mobile has a stopwatch, but isn't waterproof. 🙁

Generally speaking these days - I don't care what time it is so don't bother with a watch & put the phone in the desk when not working.

There's a kitchen clock, a clock in the car & the one in the bottom right of the PC screen if I'm desperate to know what time it is

A nice meaty watch is a sign of having considerable Cohones...

No, it's a sign of wanting to give the impression that you have considerable cohones... 😀

Never use a watch. Damn uncomfortable annoying thing to wear, especially as Ispend all day on a computer and it rubs the desk under my wrist.

I wear a watch and I have inherited my fathers "what is the point in a bloody digital watch, tells you nothing!"
Well, ok, it doesn't tell you nothing exactly, but in just the same way an analogue speedo, temp guage, thermometer can tell you loads of quarter to, half full, too fast, stuff a watch with hands is great.

Digital watch, pointless.
Analogue watch, less pointless.

Looking to replace my ageing and [s]slightly[/s] very battered EcoDrive that I thought would last for ever, wasn't considering physical damage though...

What the hell are cohones?

Bollocks.

My watch tells me what time it is in New York, which is very handy, if I want to know what the time in New York is.

What the hell are cohones

some sort of shellfish wrapped in pasta - I believe

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.

I used to leave my watch at home and go without because I dislike being ruled by time

Amen to that 😆

I thought it was scallops wrapped in bacon?

Uplink - Very good.

It's true, they are like peas in tesco bag now you know my shame.

I've just gone back to wearing one after my gf bought me one of those Mondaine Swiss Railways watch for my 40th the other day. It already feels completely natural after not wearing one for over ten years!

I just wear mine so I can tell those that dont the time - seems to happen rather a lot... 😉

Spent about 6 months so far watchless since the last of my watch batteries ran out of juice, bloody annoying getting the phone out to timecheck and have trouble reading it outdoors. Must send the lot off to ASD asap.

peas in tesco bag

😆

Wear a 305 when I'm on my bike but other than that I haven't wore a watch for yonks....

The future is here
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not sure it'll catch on tbh

I like wearing watches and I'm under 30. only just! though 😥
I do take my watch off when at my desk though
I've got half a dozen for different stuff and styles none over £200 several only about £20-50

I should say I have a 1920s gold Waltham pocket watch. If you want smart, that pisses all over everything else. It was my Grandad's 21st birthday present, he died when I was a baby. It hadn't been worn for probably 40 years or more until I wore it to get married in. Will I ever wear it again? Damn straight I will!
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Peter - if you managed to preserve your dignity at your wedding behind a pocket watch, you're a smaller man than me!

Need a watch to remind me of my left and right!!!

[i]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.[/i]

Whilst this is undoubtedly true, it's still easier to look at your wrist... Besides, any day soon that beautiful girl is going to ask me the time, we'll laugh, have a coffee, talk, she'll find me amusing, and yet intriguing at the same time...yep, any day soon...

>I should say I have a 1920s gold Waltham pocket watch>

Yeah that looks like it would be really useful up the hill...

Yeah that looks like it would be really useful up the hill.

What the hell would you want with a watch up a hill?

I know - here was me thinking it was a mtb forum. I'll shut up now...

Watches! Pffrt! New fangled rubbish. I have a sextant.

(Pete - I also inherited a nice pocket watch, looks the biz worn with a 3 piece suit 🙂 )

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!"

Very true! One of my old uni lecturers went on an expedition to the Amazon, back when it was still a big deal. They were sponsored by anyone and everyone - two dozen pairs of M&S underpants, and about 4 fancy watches each. One by one all the precision made Swiss watches packed up. The only stuff still working were the (at the time) brand new japanese digital sports watches.

Lost a 25 year old Omega, which had been gift, just before Christmas when the strap must have broken. Didn't think I would get much back from the insurance company. Very pleasantly suprised that the insurance company has just given me a very large amount to spend at a jewellers (unfortunately its on one of those cards with credit on and not cash) so will be looking to buy an obscenely expensive bling watch in the next week or so.

However in the 3.5 months I have not had a watch to wear I haven't missed it at all, and seemed to have arrived at all appointments etc. on time.

I did buy a G-Shock for mountain-biking a few years ago, but can't wear that now as I somehow seem to have become allergic to the rubber / latex bit the strap tucks into in the last 18 months - so haven't been able to wear that either.

PeterPoddy - Member
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!"

my 15 year old casio g-shock is still going strong. only wear it for biking and boarding these days but it's basically never going to fail.

best thing about it is there's a setting where the light switches on automatically when you raise your arm - brilliant for night rides i tell ye!

Besides, any day soon that beautiful girl is going to ask me the time, we'll laugh, have a coffee, talk, she'll find me amusing, and yet intriguing at the same time...yep, any day soon...

you are bernard black ......

Besides, any day soon that beautiful girl is going to ask me the time, we'll laugh, have a coffee, talk, she'll find me amusing, and yet intriguing at the same time...yep, any day soon...

Be patient, nickc, be patient...

best thing about it is there's a setting where the light switches on automatically when you raise your arm

WANT IT NEED IT MUST HAVE IT

Give to me it please.

best thing about it is there's a setting where the light switches on automatically when you raise your arm

WANT IT NEED IT MUST HAVE IT

Give to me it please.

haha, can't. but if it makes it any easier i'd be envious too, if i didn't own it!

anyway, i don't think you'd want to have the 'what were once clear but are now a disturbing yellow colour after 15 years or sweat, blood and tears' straps fixed to your wrist!!

I should say I have a 1920s gold Waltham pocket watch

Beautiful.

I love watches. Especially mechanical ones. At the last count I had 6.

Spending a large amount of money on one is no more silly than spending a lot on a bike really.

My latest purchase was this:

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If only I could run my life without the time!

@PeterPoddy nice watch, I admired Marks pocket watch too.

Sod it I'm buying a new watch!

And I'm always being asked the time by others who use their mobile.

Are Watches on the way out?

I hope not, I work for a watch manufacture..

I wear my polar 725x HRM most days & my Animal “surfer against sewage” watch when I go out – I do need a watch for work to take pulses reading and for some of the cognitive tests I have to carry out which are timed – Can’t say I particularly miss it if I’ve not got it on – but I’m in my late 40s

Watches? Pah, if you need to know the time just ask a policeman...

I always wear a watch, feel strange if I forget to put it on.

Matt aged 29 3/4

',Heather Bash - Member
I frequently leave my phone at home, I have never really adopted the need to be in contact with the world 24 hours a day. But I do need a watch.

Amen to that - unfortunately it's very difficult to escape being verbally assulted by scores of others conducting their loud, inane converstaions in trains, supermarkets etc etc...'

+1 I sort of feel naked without a watch. Cheapo fashion & sports ones most of the time and a couple of nice ones for work and going out.

I can't see the point of using a phone rather than a watch, unless you're one of those unutterably tragic souls who feel the need to wander around with a bloody phone in their hand all the time. All that shows is that you're a miserable wretch who constantly needs to feel that you're in constant demand, or still think that the world's impressed by your adoption of such cutting edge technology. If, on the other hand, you're like me, and carry your phone in a trouser pocket, then the time it takes to fish the thing out, get it the right way round, wake it up so you can see the time, has surely got to take three or four times longer than just slightly raising your arm and taking a glance at a watch. Especially when you're riding a bike at the time. Unless you're wearing one of those ridiculous flashy watches with half a dozen supplementary dials and other crap that needs a thirty page instruction manual and half an hour staring at the damn thing trying to make out what the time is. If I'm wearing a big overcoat it makes it even more of a chore to get the phone out when all I need is to take a quick look at my wrist. Seems like just a way to make a really simple action extra complicated.

I never used to wear a watch (due to working with rotating machinery and chemicals), but I wear one now... Well, I've got a few, not hellish-expensive, but nice. And the G-Shock just keeps going... Soon as (If) it dies, I'll get another. That one should see me to the grave... 😀

i stopped wearing a watch years ago (pre mobile phone days) whilst on holiday in cornwall, decided i would get up when i wake up, eat when i was hungry etc. 1st night, got a bit peckish, decided to go into town for something to eat, trouble was it was 11 o'clock at night and everywhere was closing!

next day, caught the sun and the skin that had been living under my watch for the last 20 years swells up like a football!

great start but i persevered and haven't had a watch since.

aren't we all supposed to wearing our 'communicator' wrist bands very soon...phone / watch / browser all-in-one flexible screen....

Watches? Pah, if you need to know the time just ask a policeman...

And get nicked for wasting police time.. 🙁

I stopped wearing a watch years ago. Like PeterPoddy, I found it just too uncomfortable under glovers etc while biking. I relented temporarily with an altimeter watch until that gave way to a proper GPS. I can't say I ever really miss having one.

I want one of these. Hour hand and date, all I need

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watches are ace!

I got one of these from a very good friend - weighs a tonne but is really nice.

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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.

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.

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.

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'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!

I've gone for a while without wearing a watch when I've had wrist injuries,

You get these quite often then? 😉

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.

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 😆

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!

G-Shock as always.

Mine gets a right kicking.