Are Wrist Watches Becoming Outdated ?

[mr craig]

Tissot prc200 for me !

 

Auto or Quartz?

[GLASGOWOODS]

I've got a Fitbit. I don't really like it, I prefer my Gshock.

 

Gshock sounds like summat with anal vibrating capabilities.

[mr craig]

Is the latter $16,999,995 better at telling the time ?

 

No, it will be worse at keeping time.

[AmberLeaf]

Gshock sounds like summat with anal vibrating capabilities.

 

You would say that.

[tinfoilhat]

Gshock sounds like summat with anal vibrating capabilities.

 

Only if you wear it like this guy.

 

And make it vibrate.

[Ontarian1981]

I'm up to 12 wrist watches after a purchasing a second one for this year.

I also own 3 pocket watches.

Wear either/or almost every day.

 

I too wear pocket watches, a habit I got from my grandfather. One he left me has a dent in it and he said that was from a bullet in WW1 in France. I went along with the story, like a good little boy. LOL

[ez8004]

I like the mechanical watches as the engineering that goes into them is almost like an art form. I only own two watches, a Seiko Kinetic Perpetual which is my casual watch and my Omega Speedmaster which was a special edition for the 2008 Olympics. These two are all I’ll ever need.

[Cyclone]

What watch do you use Cyclone, you are obviously in to your fitness.

 

Garmin 735XT, it's the 2nd garmin model I've had, I started with the basic model forerunner 10, upgraded after two years to this one.

For anyone who runs or cycles I'd recommend them.

 

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I have an Oakely watch which I wear sometimes for dressy occasions, bought for me when I gave my other half her engagement ring. Amusingly I can't remember the model name right now, similar to the timebomb.

[L00b]

Over the nearly 2-decades' worth of working to the clock throughout the day every day, I seem to have developed an 'internal' biological watch, to the extent that these days I seem to always know the approximate time closely enough (within 15 mins), without looking at a watch or phone or other clock.

 

It's manifested in more recent times by not wearing a wristwatch anymore, when until then I used to religiously don my 27 year-old ultra-thin Seiko (18th birthday present, on its 4th or 5th battery and 9th or 10th wristband by now) every morning, as my only bit of 'jewelry' besides my wedding ring.

 

I have that Seiko, and a limited edition Swatch cast aluminium job that looks straight out of Star Trek (same model type as that one, but slightly different colour combination, with a brushed alu body and black fabric/Velcro wriststrap; the display format is also different to the example pic and yes, one of its function is to give 'Internet Time' ).

 

That Swatch has needed a battery and I haven't worn it for years on end now, but it was a family present, so a keeper. It's as ungainly and uncomfortable to wear, as the Seiko is unnoticeable and comfortable (that one is about 2 or 3mm thick and basically weighs nowt).

 

I sometimes do lust after my Dad's Breitling though.

 

I don't think they're becoming "outdated" (in an aesthetic/personal sense, rather than a functional sense) because, old or new, many are very beautiful objects. But they may well be becoming redundant (in a functional sense this time), because there's so many more further other sources for telling the time (mobile phone, computer desktop and most other electronics including TVs, car clock, etc.). No-one is ever far from 'a' clock at any given time of the day, nowadays.

Edited November 6, 2017 by L00b

[davyboy]

totally off topic but I took my watch in for an adjustment.

Ready in half an hour I was told.

Went off to do some shopping.

You wouldn't believe the number of times I went to look at my missing watch to see if the half hour had passed:loopy: