Do You Wear a Watch?

[Racoon]

Malcolm X once said that a man who doesn't wear a watch does not understand the value of time.

 

Do you wear a watch?

and do you wear it on the opposite arm of your dominant hand?

and what kind of watch(s) do you wear?

 

You know what to do...

[wine]

I never liked watches... Give me hemp rope and the sun.

[anglepose]

I dont wear a watch mainly becuase its just another thing to ; lose, break, annoy me.

Any way usaly there is a clock and if not then i just use my own sense of time.

[Tormod]

I wear it on my right arm.

[Buffy]

You didn't have the answer for me. I wear watches almost exclusively as a fashion accessory. Several of my favorites (antiques/family heirlooms) simply do not work (right twice a day). Whenever I'm in New York, I usually buy some Gucci, Fendi or other knock offs on the street, but they don't keep time very well. That doesn't really matter because they usually at least lose no more than 5 mins per day. When they stop, you just throw them away because they're dirt cheap (remember to haggle!).

 

I'm right handed and I do wear them on my left, but usually wear bracelets on the right to balance it out, especially with short/no-sleeve tops.

 

Boys always wear watches, and if gentlemanly, will be happy to tell you what time it is: "Oh my watch stopped, do you know what time it is?" (This takes care of the Malcolm X quote: at least you're *trying* to keep time for yourself, its just that the technology let you down)

 

I usually look at my cell phone if I really need to find out what time it is though!

 

Atomically synchronized,

Buffy

[C1ay]

No option for me either. I've always been a pocket watch person. I've had this one for nearly 20 years now...

[Monomer]

I used to wear a watch because I hated not knowing what the time was and I never did learn to determine the time from the position of the sun. But then my watch broke one day so I started to check the time on my mobile phone, and I've continued to do so for the last five years. I'd probably wear my watch if I got it fixed.

[Turtle]

Currently wearing an electric wrist-watch with hands and digital display. (wear it on left arm)Went for months with it on the nightstand & only recently took to wearing it as I have started walking for exercise. Like C1ay, I carried a pocket-watch for years. Best watch I ever had was a Seiko divers watch when I was doing some SCUBA; it went the way of all good things. (the diving & the watch. )

 

At the tone....

Turtle

[Killean]

Like C1ay I prefer the use of a pocket watch.

 

 

I received this as a present for my 21st birthday. I wear it on occasion when I leave my place, and sometimes forget to wind it up again. No battery's for me.

[CraigD]

I used to wear a watch, the kind with an easy to trigger and read stop-watch function. This contributed to me nearly killing myself on several occasions.

 

For about a decade, I commuted to my urban, then suburban Washington DC area job by bicycle. This gave we a warm, fuzzy, (some might even say smug) environmentally friendly inner feeling, a minor cough due to “environmentally-induced asthma”, and a no-additional-time-required daily exercise program. Since they became practically available in the 1970s, I’d always worn what those days were called “chronometer watches”, and these days “sport watches” – in other words, a stop-watch timer. Due to a quirk of my personality, I almost always timed my commute, and was content only if, at least every month or so, I beat my best time.

 

Because my physical strength and skill was fairly constant, the only means of achieving these improvements was taking increasing risks, transformed me from a sensible bicycle commuter (OK, had I'd been one of those, I’d have been immune to such a transformation) into a reckless daredevil. “Reckless”, however, did not equal “wreck-less” – my quest for speed in the thick of urban rush-hour traffic resulted in the predictable occasional “intimate encounter of a vehicular kind”, with the usual wear and tear on body, bicycle, and, more rarely, the other vehicle.

 

Finally, after I got expecailly badly launched, winding up with a broken collar bone and a crick in my neck vertebrae that lasted for years, my wife twisted my arm (literally - which, on someone with a recently broken collar bone, is very effective) until I swore off bicycling.

 

I switched to commuting on foot, but, with a daily round trip of about 15 miles, after about 6 months, began to feel simply worn down. Also, no matter how I pushed, running couldn’t match the speed of bicycling, or even mass transit, cutting into my free time. So I became a bus commuter (except for days I get behind and resort to car commuting, or telecommute).

 

With no daily athletic event at which to time myself, my usual watch seemed just to mock me. My palm pilot migrated from my backpack to my pocket, providing all the time-of-day info I needed. I found my last watch a sunny window place (it’s a solar self-charger), where the only attention it gets is an occasional dusting.

 

Having judged me an older, wiser man, my wife’s released me from my promise to give up bicycle commuting (in part, I suspect, because she misses the tone of my former body – a mile a day of restrained jogging to and from bus stops in biz cloths and a couple of trips to the gym/pool a week don’t produce the same results), so for over a year, I’ve been flirting with the idea of rejoining the bike commuter ranks – this time as a sensible non-maniac who pushed only uphill, not downhill or on the level. To avoid temptation, though, I think I’ll leave my watch in its sunny window place.

[Racoon]

I don't know how to edit a poll, but after I already submitted it, I remembered that this crowd might be into pocketwatches.

I hear they are gaining back some popularity.

 

If watch wearing is an "accessory" then that would fall under Bling.

 

My observation which is about 90-95% accurate is that people will wear their watch on non-dominant hand. Theres a few ambidextrous people who don't fit the mold. ;)

[Mercedes Benzene]

I always wear a watch.... except at night.

Most of the time, I wear a Roberto Cavalli watch on my left wrist. I look at it habitually, even if I don't need to know the time.

Otherwise, I wear a cheap Timex-type watch that I use for timing runs and splits at practice/meets. One thing about being a runner is that you ALWAYS have a watch on. I don't know one runner at my school who doesn't continuously wear one.

At my school, unless you're a runner, people generally don't wear watches. I think most people just use wall-clocks or their cell phones.

[Tormod]

I don't wear my running watch. I have a Polar SX625 and it's pretty darn big...

[Buffy]

If watch wearing is an "accessory" then that would fall under Bling.

That's how I voted, but I would have also checked "cell phone"...

 

Brrrring,

Buffy

[Southtown]

No because my job doesn't allow watches, rings, necklaces past the chin, baggy clothes, etc.

[Mercedes Benzene]

No because my job doesn't allow watches, rings, necklaces past the chin, baggy clothes, etc.

 

Just curious, why is that? I've never heard of a "no watches" policy.

[InfiniteNow]

Corrections or guard work, perhaps strong magnets?