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rustred

rustred

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so i will ask how many wear a wrist watch and what kind old style or digital? i have been wearing one for over fifty years steady. its the actual watch with hands . cant stand digital and thats why kids cant tell time with the old watches. digital they just read the numbers.
 
I have a pretty good internal clock. Haven’t used a wrist watch since the ‘70s. I do however wear my grandfather’s pocket watch on special occasions.
 
Put on my first Timex at age 10, bought a self-winding Bouliva for about $150-$160 or so in 1959. (Took all my blue grass stripping money!) I wore it every day. Had to replace the bearing on the self winding weight twice & replaced several crystals over the years.
Had to put the Bouliva in a drawer in the mid-90's because the bearing for the weight was no longer available. It was supposed to have a lifetime warranty, but I've outlived the company, I guess. On my second Timex battery watch since then. Had a chance to buy a Rolex in about 1965, wished I would have bought it.
 
Working on high voltage systems. It was not safe to wear one.So I never did. Saw to many with burn marks on the wrist.
 
Never been able to wear a watch, or ring, or bracelet, and for sure nothing hanging around my neck!

Always in the way, getting hung up on something, or blistered from solvent caught up under it.

I did carry a pocket watch for a while, then started carrying a pager with the time feature, then a cell phone.

I know what you mean about young people not reading analog clocks. My youngest daughter, 20, can barely read a clock, has to stand there and count numbers on her fingers and figure it out.
 
I got my first wrist watch as a confirmation gift in 8th grade and have worn one ever since. The current one is a battery operated Timex. Almost cheaper to replace the whole watch when the battery finally dies. I'd be lost without it.
I still have the original watch and it still works, but I don't wear it anymore.
 
Mines just a cheap Timex but I like it.
Got to talking with an Amish guy once about why they don't wear a watch. They have their reason but he said he don't need one anyhow. When the sun comes up he milks the cows. When the sun is up there he goes in for dinner. When the sun is over there he milks the cows again and then goes to bed.
 
Got a nice watch as confirmation present from folks, mom mostly. Wore it a lot for a time.

But with farming I’m too rough and tumble, left handed my left arm is beating, banging, reaching, fishing around for stuff. A watch wouldn’t last, or be a danger to me.

Paul
 
When I wear one it is usually digital.

My wife was working as a copy editor at a newspaper in the 80s when digital watches became popular. She was shocked when two junior reporters asked her what clockwise and anticlockwise meant. This had only taken a few years before the terms became archaic along with half past, quarter till, etc.
 
The other terms that might still be around at least in the military. "Twelve o'clock high." "I have your six" "Bandit at 9 o'clock."
 
I have worn a wristwatch for 65 to 70 years. Mostly Timex while I was in the service but I bought a Hamilton while we were in HongKong in 61. Never wore it until after I got out. It quit eventually, digital for a while when TI started making them. Had a Citizen solar for a while and have had a Sieko for the last fifteen years or so.
 
Never got in the habit. Dangerous around electrical and rotating mechanical equipment which is where I spent most of my working life.

Now I'm retired and don't care what time it is!
 
Haven’t had a wristwatch since I got a cell phone. I had many wristwatches over the years. Always wore expansion bracelet, it seemed the buckle up leather band style always suffered broken buckles. And expansion style would pick up dirt and cow manure and sweat and stink so bad you could never get them clean. I don’t miss wristwatches
 

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Tells me when I have a message and can also make calls. Does everything the phone does.
 
Wear one all the time. Buy the cheapest one that I can as I will break it before wearing it out. I do not use a cell phone as I live in a dead zone so it is the only way to tell time for me.
 
Wear it every day, analog, Seiko. That and a 3 blade pocket knife are must haves. And, yes I have a cell phone.
 
I wear one most of the time. Don't wear it when doing electrical work or dirty messy work, but almost all other times. I like the Titanium case and band, very lightweight and wears very well. I am a bit funny about time even though I'm now retired. I had it hammered into me as a kid "never be late". Later in my military career when one second early or one second late might mean the end of your career (ICBM Launch officer) I had my watch set on Zulu time and checked my watch everyday for one second accuracy. I've grown to appreciate this style of Titanium Seiko. The new ones don't seem to have the same degree of finish as the older ones. I buy used ones off eBay and usually spend less than $20. Haven't had to buy another for 20 years.

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I don’t wear, one carried a pocket watch about 20 years before I started to carry a cell phone. Have to think of my grandma, she always wore a watch, It broke and she need another one and the cereal she ate at the time offered a plastic digital watch free inside the box, she was a small woman and it fit and she wore it for a year or two.
 
Not everyday, but I do have one I wear on occasion. Dad bought it for me one Christmas, oh 20 - 25 years ago. Its actually digital like, the hands are "digital". Batteries last forever. Only on the 3rd one in after all this time.
 
Used to be I couldn't wear a watch. I tried a Timex in high school and it died in just a few days. Took it back and exchanged it.....Same it died too. LED watches came out soon after that. They lasted for one to four months. Then the LCD's came out they would last four months. I tried keeping them in my pocket, might last a bit longer but not much. Finally I found one that had an all plastic case. It lasted forever. It was a Casio and about as cheap as they come. Now I'm older, I can wear a Casio with a metal back.

My father was the same but he could carry most any digital in his pocket.
 
Still have the one got for my high school graduation. I haven't worn it much since I got out of college. It's not safe with the work I do. I figured if I could slash my wrist just falling down with a stack of books under my arm, that farming would present too many opportunities to do worse.

For a long time I didn't really need to know the time, except sunrise, lunch, and sunset. The first and last are obvious, my stomach lets me know about the other. Carry a cell phone now, the only reason I really need to know time is to interact with other people that actually work to a schedule.
 
My Father in law purchased a Rolex at a PX. I have that, but have never wound it. I started with Timex, but welding and magnets seem to be their demise. I owned an Accutron tuning fork watch that didn't like humidity, and rusted internally and became worthless rather than $400. I went through several $45 digital, and analog watches until the one on my wrist right now. It is an Armitron Iron Man. I have worn it for 28 years. It has had the silver paint worn off of the body for 15 of those, and rounded on all corners. Neither it nor the band conduct electricity, and the dang thing is still waterproof at 2 or three feet depth. The last battery in it lasted 17 years! I would buy another, but no need, and the model is (like most things we find that we use for years) no longer made. Jim
 
Timex (with hands). I have worn a wrist watch since high school, 60 years. I have my phone in my pocket but it is so much easier to just flick my wrist.
I have 3 other wrist watches. One is my 25 year watch from work. I rarely, rarely ever wear it. Too heavy/bulky.
 
Looks exactly like mine! If I had the skill, I would like to have it to try & repair mine, but don't have the tools or the steady hand any more. It probably has the same problem.
 
I wear a Timex easy reader. I have worn a wristwatch since I was 10 years old, and feel naked without it.
 

I had 2 Divers watched I bought on Okinawa back in the early 80's, a Bulova and a Seiko. I loved the Seiko! Then I lost the outer ring wrestling with a nut job when I was still employed in LE. That was enough for me. I put them away and haven't worn one since. I hope to get them both refurbished one day, for memories sake if nothing else. These days a cell phone and my sense of time via internal clock suffice.
 
An old Timex with hands. I was changing a fuel filter 10 years ago and took it off, left it on the back of the tractor, it laid in the snow all winter and looks like it got drove over a couple of times, I found it when the snow thawed out still ticking. Replace the battery as needed. It ain't pretty but its a keeper
 
Always wore one until I retired, 11 years ago this week. Now I carry a cell phone most of the time, doesn't matter what time it is most of the time!
 
Seems like my hands are under water a lot, fishing, spraying, watering trees, washing vehicles. I wear a Seiko pepsi cola divers watch.
 
I wear a Timex with large hands, and a light that comes on when you push the winder stem. So I can see what time it is in the middle of the night. About 10 bucks wherever mediocre watches are sold. Have had the present one about 10 years- have replaced the leather band a few times, but they are lasting longer now that I'm retired and not doing much.

Had an uncle who was a millwright, and had to have a watch for his job. He magnetized them in a month or so. His boss finally bought a case of them and kept them under the counter- when Uncle needed a new one, just dropped the old on in the waste basket and grabbed the next one in the box. He could witch water, but his specialty was rubbing warts to make them go away- rubbed mine when I was about 10, and I haven't had any since.
 
Even what little time I carry the phone I still were the cheapest I can fine with hands and stretch band. Getting close to 77 now and not able to do much work.
 
The Amish seem to have a sourse for good pocket watches so no need for a wrist watch. I carried pocket watch for years untill I could no longer get them. I do now were a wrist watch and do not carry a phone, seldome even look at it. Only have for if road emergency.
 
The English and American versions of "Antiques Roadshow" have featured Rolex watches purchased in the 1960's at PX's and then never used. One of the owners still had the box and sales receipt. Those watches were worth a fortune!
 


I had quit wearing a watch a few years ago because it seemed redundant with my 'phone. After my heart incident last winter my wife got me an apple watch. I think that it is supposed to help monitor my heart. I know that I can take my own EKG with it and it makes her happy so I wear it. It tells me my heart rate anytime as well as the weather forecast and temperature. It can also serve as a compass, GPS, calendar, calculator, radio, audio book library, send and receive emails, telephone, walkie talkie, and I am sure a host of other things. It saves me wear on my pants pocket by saving me from pulling my 'phone out.
 
I have worn a watch since I was 9 or 10. I have had pocket watches too. I wear the Timex Expedition. I am hard on the leather bands. I have a nice 21 jewel Bulova that works well, but the band mounting wore out and could not be fixed.
 
Worn one all my life. Currently a digital one. I wear it as much for the date as the time. Constantly entering the date at work and would be lost without it. Phone would be slow and awkward to use. Have to have a twist-o-flex type band though. Only kind of band I can wear. On and off in a second and not sliding up and down my wrist.
 
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