[Closed] Are Watches on the way out?

[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.

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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. 😉

mine is away being repaired at the moment. I quite miss it.

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

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...

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...

I'm never without a watch - just doesn't feels right...

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 !

"This is your birthright. Five long years he hid this watch up his ass. " Quality!

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!

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 !

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