In an age of cell phones and PC monitors everywhere we look, the time can be found quickly in most situations. Anyone still wearing a watch?

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Kolch - Crunching for the BOINC@Australia team since July 2004.
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No and No. Occasionally my grandfather's gold pocketwatch when we attend some formal function.

Ziggy

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I hate cell phones. I hate pagers. My career field often makes the latter unavoidable, but when I'm not on-call I wear a digital wristwatch.

Although i have the usual disturbing business stuff (mobile phone, PDA, etc.), i prefer to get the time from my trusty mechanical swiss wrist watch with self winding mechanism and from frontside visible balance wheel and transparent glass backside to admire the delicate clockwork.

Sometimes i like it the good old way... :)

I also prefer music through a real good tube amplifier of the 50's or 60's...
Grundig, McIntosh, Quad comes to mind...

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Aloha, Uli

Analog, at that.

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Timex Expedition, glow in the dark, backlit, analog. 29 bucks at walmart

A very thoughtful and tasteful gift from my wife, .... you bet I wear it...

(besides, .....I like it too.)

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I break them too often to wear them anymore. Even cheap watches add up when you go through 2 or 3 a month and after breaking my good expensive only use with a business suit watch, I said no more watches for me.

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I prefer a plastic bezel, nylon strap w/velcro. As little metal as possible, since I place my hands inside electrical cabinets. I worked with a trainee and the first day I told him if he wanted to wear a watch, he'd better get rid of the metal band. Within a week, he found out the hard way. The next day he had a plastic one. LOL I wasn't an employee of the company he worked for or I would have required it.

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I certainly wear a wrist watch of titanium with a leather strap with a titanium buckle! I had a plastic watch before but the strap broke and I couldn't get a plastic strap that fit! So I bought this one! Looks good, a man's wrist watch looks good on my wrist!

I don't bother to carry my cellphone with me, unless I'm in a situation where I might need to call someone or they would call me! I have an answering service people can record a message to, if I'm not around!

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"I'm trying to maintain a shred of dignity in this world." - Me

I wear a Citizen Hyper Aqualand. Little tough to bring a pager, cell phone or a PDA underwater and still have a functional device :)

My watch keeps track of my dive profile and can be downloaded to my laptop.

Bulova Accutron Astronaut, tuning fork watch, bought 1970, still keeps humming along.

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Wife gave me 2 watches a wrist watch (Apollo 11) and a rail road pocket watch. I use them when I get dressed up but other than that I use my cell phone

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Hi,
I have a collection of watches, most left to me by my Dad. I have an old Zodiac red LED watch(they did not last long) I have an assortment from Pulsar Spoon Watches, to my favorite a Jules Jurgensen white gold roman numeral retangular dial. My day to day watch is just like Tony's Timex Expedition...it can take the beating. (no commercial here)

Rocky

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My wrist watch tells me it's a hair past a freckle and time for another port!
apologies guy's and gal's

I have had Citizen's Seiko's and Swatches (remember them), the only one I won't use is one that my Dad gave me, it was made in 1951 10 years before I was born and still keeps perfect time but I can't read the make, he told me he got it while running contriband over the Swiss Alps as a kid of 15 and it was the only thing of any real value (personal) that he kept with him when he came to Australia.
I love my Dad and miss him so much.

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Since I am a mutant in the modern world with no significant portable electronics (no PDA, no cell phone, no laptop, no pager, no need for any of 'em.) I still wear an analog Timex wrist watch. I also have a pocket watch on a chain. Very cool.

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<blockquote>Since I am a mutant in the modern world with no significant portable electronics (no PDA, no cell phone, no laptop, no pager, no need for any of 'em.) I still wear an analog Timex wrist watch.</blockquote>

Ditto for me, except I don't even have a watch. :)

No wristwatch.
No pager.
No PDA.
No laptop.
No cell phone.
No problem.

:)

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> Ditto for me, except I don't even have a watch. :)


So the villain archaeologist in Raiders of the Lost Ark was right: "Archaeology is not an exact science. It does not deal in time schedules." :)

Since everyone is giving the model of their watches, mine is an old, beat up Timex Atlantis backlit LCD. I've had to change the battery once in over ten years (so it's about due).

When I was taking flying lessons, my mother gave me another watch with a built in analog flight computer (for those who've never seen, a manual flight computer is basically like a slide rule with wheels instead of slides, used for computing fuel usage, time to waypoint, etc). However, it's so heavy and bulky that it's practically unwearable.

I wear a nice, BIG watch: 1.25 inches across, black hands on a white face, picked up at a Dakota Watch kiosk. I got it when I was working third shift in a job where there wasn't a clock in view, and got used to being able to see the time without squinting. Focus can get tough at 3am! It's also handy when I'm working in a dark backstage for a show or concert, and noisy time pieces are not a good idea.

No pager or PDA, and the cell phone lives in a purse or pocket where it's not as convenient as a time piece. I own two other (working) watches that are for dress occasions. They look better, but are harder to read.

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Wow, 19 replies to a thread made because I was here and bored and the threads were quiet.

For my part though I have two wristwatches. One a Swatch beat watch, which keeps internet time (for what good that is), and also a more dressy watch which was a 21st present if I remember correctly. As can be told by the tone of my original post, I have little need or particular desire to wear either.

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Kolch - Crunching for the BOINC@Australia team since July 2004.
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