[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!!!