Wristwatches

[SeerSGB]

My day to day watch:


Don't know the brand, it was a cheapo I bought a couple years back and it's served me well.

One my wife bought me last b-day as a present. To nice to wear, so I added it to the pocked watch drawer.

 

[Holdfast]

I'm thinking about adding an automatic Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra Co-Axial with a white face & brown leather strap as I kind of feel I need a watch with a brown strap sometimes and I like the contrast of the blue hands against the white dial.

Ah...good choice of a co-axial escapement.

What, I finally stumbled upon a watch with nice internals??

I have a tax refund due soon that might be blown on the co-axial.

Might see if I can find one second-hand/nearly-new though. If I was to go that route, would it hold most of its remaining value? Or put another way, what's the instant depreciation on new watches like this one after they're taken out of the box & worn for the first time?

I wore a pocket watch on my waistcoat today. It's a great little prop for using in boring meetings because no-one can miss your distaste at the slow progress.

You really need to get yourself a monocle as well if you truly want to convey scorn worthy of a bygone era. Nothing says "I'm halfway paying attention to your presentation" like a single eyepiece, especially if you only take it out of your pocket when the speaker is looking directly at you.

If I didn't need glasses, I'd SO go the monocle route.

 

[Nardpuncher]

this is my watch I got about a year and a half ago
it's both analog and digital

and this one I got for my 18th birthday, and the battery has since ran out twice, thus I got the above watch
https://dakota.webfeatsecurity.com/images/ProductImages/large/46863_a.jpg

I haven't been without a watch for about 15 years
I've had an original Timex Ironman Triathlon, a second gen Ironman Triathlon, the Dakota, and now my current Timex

I wear mine on my right wrist (I'm a lefty) with the face on top

That's Will Ferrell's watch from Stranger Than Fiction!

 

[Tim]

Might see if I can find one second-hand/nearly-new though. If I was to go that route, would it hold most of its remaining value? Or put another way, what's the instant depreciation on new watches like this one after they're taken out of the box & worn for the first time?

New watches really aren't my thing, but given that Omega and Rolex are generally overvalued, there is the risk of depreciation if you pay full retail price. I imagine that is exacerbated by the current financial crisis, which seems to be pushing down the vintage watch market. Finding a gently used watch would be the best bet here, though you should in general add $100 to the price for a cleaning if the service history is unknown.

 

[Tim]

OK quiz time.

Can anyone tell me who was the first person ever to own a wristwatch.

The answer to this question is somewhat dependent on how you define "wristwatch." Some of the first wristwatches--called trench watches--were pocketwatch conversions built for soldiers before or during WWI and these are probably the oldest watches worn on the wrist. Then there are various ladies' watches and subsequent pendant watch conversions.

Cartier designed a custom wristwatch for Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont in the early 1900s. Perhaps this is more in line with your quiz question?

 

[Miss Chicken]

Yes, the Santos-Dumont watch was the one I was looking for.

 

[Kestra]

I'm amazed at the number of people here that wear watches. My mother is the only person that does so in RL, and she's not consistent about it. Most of us just rely on cell phones for knowing the time.

 

[jgdst]

Ohh the checking the mobile thing upsets me Like people who pick up a newspaper and immediately turn to the back for the sports section

<encased RantBox 5000®> THAT'S NOT NEEEEEWWWWWSSSS!!!!111</rant>

I've been wearing a watch since I was about 4. Digital was very cool in the 80s. My current watch is a stainless steel analogue Seiko I got about 10 years ago, and despite only one tiny scuff on the scracthproof glass, it's holding up pretty well. On the times I've been without a watch, I've found my world completely collapses.

I can't readjust my weight for the missing couple of grammes of metal on my wrist, the world seems bigger, it becomes very dizzying not knowing what the time is. Kinda like when I lose my glasses, but somehow worse

Anyhoo, I just thought I'd chime in with my low value currency two pennies

 

[backstept]

Ohh the checking the mobile thing upsets me Like people who pick up a newspaper and immediately turn to the back for the sports section

<encased RantBox 5000®> THAT'S NOT NEEEEEWWWWWSSSS!!!!111</rant>

I've been wearing a watch since I was about 4. Digital was very cool in the 80s. My current watch is a stainless steel analogue Seiko I got about 10 years ago, and despite only one tiny scuff on the scracthproof glass, it's holding up pretty well. On the times I've been without a watch, I've found my world completely collapses.

I can't readjust my weight for the missing couple of grammes of metal on my wrist, the world seems bigger, it becomes very dizzying not knowing what the time is. Kinda like when I lose my glasses, but somehow worse

Anyhoo, I just thought I'd chime in with my low value currency two pennies

yeah I feel really weird with nothing on my wrist

 

[Holdfast]

Might see if I can find one second-hand/nearly-new though. If I was to go that route, would it hold most of its remaining value? Or put another way, what's the instant depreciation on new watches like this one after they're taken out of the box & worn for the first time?

New watches really aren't my thing, but given that Omega and Rolex are generally overvalued, there is the risk of depreciation if you pay full retail price. I imagine that is exacerbated by the current financial crisis, which seems to be pushing down the vintage watch market. Finding a gently used watch would be the best bet here, though you should in general add $100 to the price for a cleaning if the service history is unknown.

Thanks!

I can't readjust my weight for the missing couple of grammes of metal on my wrist, the world seems bigger, it becomes very dizzying not knowing what the time is. Kinda like when I lose my glasses, but somehow worse

yeah I feel really weird with nothing on my wrist

I only recently started wearing a pocket watch some days instead of a wristwatch and even doing, my left wrist feels weirdly naked for a little while at the start of the working day.

 

[Tim]

^ You're welcome!

I only recently started wearing a pocket watch some days instead of a wristwatch and even doing, my left wrist feels weirdly naked for a little while at the start of the working day.

Wear both! Problem solved.

This thread is really tempting me to impulse buy a vintage Rolex Precision for a good price. Mind you, "good" is still "high," so I'll probably come to my senses after I hide my credit cards for a few hours.

 

[Gaseous Anomaly]

I have a Casio G Shock that is my daily watch and a Citizen that I wear for dress occasions. I feel naked when I leave the house without my watch. I do carry my cell phone with me most of the time, but I rely on my watch the most.

 

[judge alba]

i've got a avia tec digital watch had to splash out £2.99 for it about three years ago and it's still going well

 

[Holdfast]

I only recently started wearing a pocket watch some days instead of a wristwatch and even doing, my left wrist feels weirdly naked for a little while at the start of the working day.

Wear both! Problem solved.

Dude. That's just TOO much affectation, even for me!

This thread is really tempting me to impulse buy a vintage Rolex Precision for a good price. Mind you, "good" is still "high," so I'll probably come to my senses after I hide my credit cards for a few hours.

The Rolex Air King Precision is one of the few Rolexes I like enough to consider getting. They're dressy but retain something slightly rugged about them too. Pretty cool.

 

[Tim]

I only recently started wearing a pocket watch some days instead of a wristwatch and even doing, my left wrist feels weirdly naked for a little while at the start of the working day.

Wear both! Problem solved.

Dude. That's just TOO much affectation, even for me!

Nah...it's fun. I've done it. Why wear one watch when you can wear two?

 

[Rincewiend]

I feel naked without my watch...
I've always had cheap watches, right now it's a Casio, about 6 or 7 years old...



Though i'm thinking about getting a new one...
I've replaced the bands on all the watches i've owned since i was 18 with a metal stretch one so i can slip it off and on again with ease...

 

[Jono]

I wear a wristwatch. I had the same Adidas digital sports watch until the start of this year when the strap broke (not sure how many I've gone through). Other a month later my dad gave me his old Seiko watch that he had owned since 1986 since he received a new watch. Then in November when I was oversees in a tropical climate after 2 1/2 weeks the watch managed to absorb the sweat off my wrist inside and four days later it stopped working. I got a replacement Seiko for Christmas. Not an expensive one, it was only $300. Half the time though I forget to wear it after a month of not having a watch.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

My favourite ever wristwatch was bought by my father in Colombo Airport, Sri Lanka, in 1994. It was one of the early Casio G-Shock watches (complete with a FIFA Worlkd Cup USA '94 logo on the strap ) and had a built-in sunrise/sunset calculator. At the time it was officially the Coolest Watch Ever™ but it was quite a heavy burden on my left wrist. Eventually, after about 5 years the wrist strap wore out, and unfortunately no-one could find a replacement strap.

 

[trekkiedane]

OK, hmmm, I won't read the previous posts before I post my own thoughts on the subject.

I hated learning how to tell time, and as I stated in a different thread I might even have learned how to read in order to cheat on how to learn to tell time.

Eventually I did learn how to tell time though -the analogue way- and I did get a wrist watch at some time in my early youth.

But I never understood why I had to be chained by the wrist to a machine telling me what I could learn from any ol' thing hanging on any ol' wall somewhere around.

There's no such thing as a school without clocks hanging all over the place (or, indeed, a bell telling you what time it is).

I've never had to catch a bus without knowing when to leave in order to catch it.

I've never been in any sort of transport that didn't have a read-out of the time (car, bus, train, ferry, plane…)

Looking to your right and to your left and perhaps a bit up in a public place will usually allow you to find an expression of time.

What's the idea of being tied to time if you are indeed able to find the time-of-day from somewhere in your immediate surrounding?

I don't like being tied to anything at all (unless it's in a sexual setting of course). I seriously HATE visiting people that have no clocks (where I have to wear a watch!).

Before cellphones I used to wear a pocket-watch in the condom-pocket of my jeans!

These days I rarely (but, when in Rome…) wear my Japanese movement, Chinese anything else, USA copyright, Mickey Mouse wrist watch unless I know I absolutely have to go somewhere where there's absolutely no other way of knowing a reasonable accurate time.
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I'm amazed at the number of people here that wear watches. My mother is the only person that does so in RL, and she's not consistent about it. Most of us just rely on cell phones for knowing the time.

I think it's b/c they think they look smart (or rich or whatever) wearing a piece of metal that in reality has no practical use, other than looking flashy. -No really: -I can't think of any practical reason to let yourself be chained to time these days! - I mean: our parents and grandparents made 'being on time' something important, something people of a certain (middle) class did important, but these days you display 'class' (being rich enough not to care what time it is) by not being chained to time (or indeed: a phone!!!)

 

[Aurian]

I have a wristwatch that I use everyday. It is a silver one, non digital and its showing signs of becoming "dull" in the finish because I use it too often.
No matter, it's an inexpensive watch that I can replace easily later on.
But for years I only used my cellphone. I got it when I finally got tired of not knowing the time during flights. Took me long enough to get it though lol.