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  • What watch for a 13 year old boy?
  • ibnchris
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    Calling all parents (or 13 year olds…) what watch would you get if you had about £30 to spend? Apparently he’d prefer digital. It’s for my nephew

    globalti
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    Kids nowadays can’t read analogue clocks apparently so it will have to be digital. I bet Argos have some smart ones; it’s where I buy plastic watches for cycling.

    precutduck
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    Take your pick of the casios I’d say. Plenty of choice on amazon.

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    weeksy
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    Boba Fett

    willard
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    I got my Nephew a Timex Ironman Triathlon. I’d had one for a few years by that point and it had proved really hard to kill, so thought it would be good for him to have.

    Easy to read face, lots of alarms and timers and stuff and a really nice light-up system.

    it was also less than your budget.

    Kryton57
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    Kids nowadays can’t read analogue clocks apparently

    Call me evil, but thats ampaerental responsibility.   I stopped at analogue watches/bedroom clocks and refused to go digital until they can tell the time fluently.

    cheekyboy
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    Call me evil, but thats ampaerental responsibility. I stopped at analogue watches/bedroom clocks and refused to go digital until they can tell the time fluently.

    Proper chap, well done BZ !

    Drac
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    Garmin but make sure he puts on the correct wrist or his exercise levels will be skewed.

    Call me evil, but thats ampaerental responsibility.   I stopped at analogue watches/bedroom clocks and refused to go digital until they can tell the time fluently.

    It’s still part of the curriculum Globalti is doing satire.

    Cougar
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    Exactly.

    Kids nowadays can’t read analogue clocks apparently so it will have to be digital.

    Perfect reason to get him an analogue watch, then.

    It’s still part of the curriculum Globalti is doing satire.

    I’ve come across this before in Escape Room discussions, it is seemingly really common that kids just don’t learn to read analogue clocks. I find this really bizarre, I mean, I get that we’re in a digital world and wholeheartedly embrace it, but it’s not like traditional clocks don’t exist any more.

    Rotary phones are another common blackspot in knowledge, but at least that’s pretty understandable these days.

    Drac
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    I’ve come across this before in Escape Room discussions, it is seemingly really common that kids just don’t learn to read analogue clocks. I find this really bizarre, I mean, I get that we’re in a digital world and wholeheartedly embrace it, but it’s not like traditional clocks don’t exist any more.

    I don’t get it as they’re taught it in primary school.

    Simon_Semtex
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    13 Year old boy?

    Anything less than an Apple Watch is “soooooo cringe!”

    Perhaps a voucher towards one would be appreciated. If you have your heart set on giving him a watch and don’t want to go down the voucher route….. check out the “Sinobi” Fast and Furious range. Might be a wee bit spendy but might do the trick.

    Speeder
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    Garmin but make sure he puts on the correct wrist or his exercise levels will be skewed.

    I see what you did there.

    It’s all exercise. ;o)

    Kryton57
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    It’s still part of the curriculum Globalti is doing satire.

    It is, so maths and English but homework never hurt supplement or re-inforce what they learn at school.   They both have analogue clocks in their bedrooms.

    Drac
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    You are awesome!

    We allowed both and  as if by magic they learnt to tell the time.

    mrsheen
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    Timex Expedition

    Cougar
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    I don’t get it as they’re taught it in primary school.

    Maybe they just forget? Who knows, I’ve heard it from multiple sources now though.

    igm
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    My 13 year old has a Creation Seiko 5 on a NATO strap

    paton
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    perchypanther
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    I must be a mega awesome parent. My kids can read analogue and digital clocks and can also tell time by listening to the chimes on the clock in the hall that’s bonged every 15 minutes of their entire lives.

    Cougar
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    the clock in the hall that’s bonged every 15 minutes of their entire lives.

    Does that not drive you crackers?

    Cougar
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    Oh… wait.

    perchypanther
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    Does that not drive you crackers?

    Actually it’s the opposite. It’s very soothing.

    It’s like the heartbeat of our house.

    thegreatape
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    Teenage boy? If you don’t get him some sort of of automatic winding ‘kinetic’ watch then that’s a massive waste of free energy.

    tthew
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    Heh, this brings back childhood memories. My mum and dad wouldn’t buy me a digital watch until I learned to read an analogue one, which of course I did really quickly. Still didn’t buy me a digital watch. 🤣 Cruel 70’s parenting.

    takisawa2
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    Up the budget & get him his first G shock.

    senorj
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    Sun dial – keep it real. 😉
    I was going to suggest a swatch , but crikey , they’re expensive these days….

    db
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    mogrim
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    Timex Ironman. And don’t get him an analogue watch, they’re a crap way to tell the time based on obsolete mechanical technology.

    Earl
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    A binary watch around £20 from eBay. More power of 2 but it makes them think.

    gauss1777
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    I think there are loads of great digital watches around that price. If you got a Rolex or an Apple Watch at that age, where have you got to go from there? So, I’d resist upping the budget and getting say a gshock tempting as that may be.
    Casio would be my first thought, they make great, reliable watches – the one dB links to being a good example. Is there not also a similar model but square in shape, which a lot of people like? I remember having a Casio that you could use to change the channel on the tv, that was great fun, especially at work turning the tv off at meetings : )
    I’ve never bought anything off Aliexpress, but they have loads of wacky looking watches, dirt cheap that might fit in with another interest of his – not sure how reliable they would be though.
    Ps a colleague at work has stopped wearing his gshock to work, to wear an honor5 activity band which has a digital display – they’re on budget.

    tjmoore
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    BillOddie
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    A Casio of somesort, they do some that are “not quite g-shocks” that ae cheap and robust.

    My 10 year old has requested a G-Shock for Christmas.  If you go that route look at the smaller varants as some of them are bloody massive.  My lad has picked a 5610 with tough solar which is a good choice for kid sized wrists, you can pick them up for about 75 quid.

    johndoh
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    Kids nowadays can’t read analogue clocks apparently so it will have to be digital.

    You don’t have children do you?

    gauss1777
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    My lad has picked a 5610 with tough solar which is a good choice for kid sized wrists, you can pick them up for about 75 quid.

    I have that watch it is fantastic (although I’d like the alarm to be a touch louder). The main problem for me with that watch is that it is so good, you could easily have it as your only watch for a very long time.

    st
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    Analogue all the way. It’s how I was encouraged to learn the time and applies to my kids now.

    Scapegoat
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    Garmin but make sure he puts on the correct wrist or his exercise levels will be skewed.

    Not just kids. I got a fitbit style watch just after I started working from home and by the Friday I’d done 25km on Pornhub

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