Watches

[Duke87 1,070]

I first started wearing a watch regularly in eighth grade. It was a really nifty watch, actually. Had the Yankees' season schedule programmed in, and would play "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" whenever a Yankee game was supposed to start (the branding was "Game Time". I think they still make them...). Problem was, each season, you'd have to order a replacement for the guts of the thing in order for that to work again. And it was a total pain in the ass to get the back off and replace it. After doing it once, it wasn't attempted again, and come the spring of 10th grade, I had a new watch that had replaced it anyway. That one lasted until the summer after my freshman year of college, when it fell off in the midst of a nasty moshpit and got trampled (along with my glasses!). The "replacement" for that was some cheap piece of crap from Burger King that my sister had but never used. The summer after my junior year, it broke. I then went watchless for a few months until the following November when, at my cousin's birthday party, my uncle (who works for NBC) doled out a few freebies that he'd gotten from advertisers to people. I ended up with the free watch, which I'm still using:

So, anyways, I'm assuming most of us have some sort of portable timepiece. Show us yours!

[Easy Bakes 253]

I used to have a very niceTimex  divers watch, very fancy that i got for high school graduation. went thru several batterys and bands over the years till around 1994. Working in the cramped spaces inside copy machines and printers

the watch was pretty much in the way, takeing it off every time i worked on a machine got to be a pain since i would sometimes forget it at a site so  just eventualy  stoped wearing it.

Im sure right now its in a box someplace in need of a battery.

but who needs watches anyway anymore?  theres a clock on this PC, Clockes on the stove, microwave, TV, VCR,DVR, my Alarm clock,  2 phones,  in the car,clocks almost every were you go.

Sorta looked like this only mine was all black

 

[astronelson 339]

Watches? Yeah, I think I have a few somewhere...

Yep, I have five. Seven if you widen the definiton to "small, portable timepieces".

Most of them work, a couple need new batteries (middle left and right), a few (top right, bottom left and right) have broken watchstraps. Some of them keep better time than others...

My favourite is the one in the middle. It was my grandfather's. The small text on the watchface says "New South Wales Government Railways". Pity it doesn't keep such good time anymore - the hour and minute hands stop at random times, while the second hand keeps going. I'll have to get it checked sometime.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

The idiot girl at Wal-Mart lost the grounding strap when changing my battery the other day, so mine is in the shop waiting for a new part. It is a Seiko quartz, all gold with stainless band that I have had since the 1980's. It's main feature is that it doesn't have any, not even a second hard. I'll update this, when I get it back.

[PhilsCafe 8]

When I was in elementary, it was hip to have a flik flak (a swatch for kids) very early on. I never had one however, so I never really got used to read the time on a clock-face. That's why my first watch was a Tissot Two-Timer, which had both, digital display and needles. I kept that one for all of high-school, had to replace it a couple of times though. And when it broke for like the 4th time, I bought a Swatch Irony. I now have it for about 5 years, and it only has the needles and a mechanical date display, which you have to change manually everytime a month has less than 31 days

Flik Flak (I never had one of those)

Tissot Two-Timer (at one point, I had the exact same model)

Swatch Irony Stainless Steel (mine has a leather wristlet and the needles look a bit different)

[SounderBruce 173]

My Timex 1440 Sports watch:

The original:

 

[Duke87 1,070]

And of course, no sooner do I make this thread than my watch decides to die. Now I need a new one...

[Boggy1 45]

I just have a simple digital watch.

All I use it for is to tell the time; therefore it doesn't need to be anything special.

Cost me around £30.

It's lasted me around four years now, of constant use. Never had a problem; never even had to change the battery.

Incidentally, I wear watches on the bottom of my wrist, so that the face is pointed from the underside. Makes telling the time easier, I find.

EDIT:

However, my boyfriend did give me this lovely thing for our one year six month anniversary:

Plus, a few really ancient pocket watches left me in the Will of my grandfather.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Originally posted by: N_O_Body

The idiot girl at Wal-Mart lost the grounding strap when changing my battery the other day, so mine is in the shop waiting for a new part. It is a Seiko quartz, all gold with stainless band that I have had since the 1980's. It's main feature is that it doesn't have any, not even a second hard. I'll update this, when I get it back.quote>

Sadly, I have now been without a working watch for over a month. The jeweller called the other day to say he got the grounding strap but the watch is not working. He has now sent it in to his watchmaker for analysis and an estimate to repair my thirty-year-old timepiece. Stay tuned to the saga of my wrist watch.

[hamsterTK 93]

that's sad

I don't wear a watch because I tend to lose them. Instead I just pull my phone from my pocket.

[Meg 368]

I stopped wearing one too.  I just use my cell phone.

My nephew, however, has a variety of watches.   The oddest being a binary watch.

When he is wearing that one, he is often asked what the heck it is.

[Barbarossa 51]

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  Edited September 8, 2012 by Barbarossa  

[hym 358]

Meg, your nephew has good taste in watches.

If money were no object, I would probably buy this for a watch.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: hym

Meg, your nephew has good taste in watches.

If money were no object, I would probably buy this for a watch.

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money no object for A Casio?

If i recall in Planes, Trains and Automobiles it wont get you a room.

[hym 358]

Originally posted by: Easy Bakes

money no object for A Casio?

If i recall in Planes, Trains and Automobiles it wont get you a room.quote>

That Casio is also $200.00.

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: hym

That Casio is also $200.00.quote>

$200.00 for a cheap digital watch?  What a rip-off.  I bought my wife an Invicta, with blue mother-of-pearl inlay, saphire crystal and 1/3 karat of diamonds for $259.00 as her 19th wedding anniversay gift.  Oh, and it's water resistant up to 100M.

[Muck308 55]

I stopped wearing a wrist watch when I was about 15. I never really cared for having anything strapped to my wrist. I had a Dakota pocket watch I became rather fond of. I carried it from about the ages of 16 to 22. I failed to replace the battery and haven't had a watch since. I'll inevitably get myself a decent watch sometime in the future, but I haven't decided if it will on my wrist or on a chain.

[Barbarossa 51]

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  Edited September 8, 2012 by Barbarossa  

[Z77 3]

Never liked watches nor worn them. Ive always thought they were bulky, ugly pieces of equipment.