Watches -- c/d?

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Are watches ever cool? I have a Russian submarine watch that I got in NYC. I like it but it loses time overnight, and I have to set it each morning. I feel that perhaps the moment has come in which to rely on the giant timepieces that often dominate the urban landscape. I also don't like having a sweaty wrist in the summer. euuccch.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I refuse to wear one. Everything starts when I arrive and that's how time is counted in my world.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Watches rule. Mine doesn't have a battery, but winds itself every time I move my wrist.

― hstencil, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:32 (twenty-three years ago)

(I just got the brand new super cool Diesel digital watch but I don't want to talk about it too much cuz then all of you ILXers will be wearing them tomorrow and THAT won't make me special!)

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

watches are so cool, I had a really small thin seiko one which was cool, but then a year or so ago my parents gave me a new one which is kind of bling, it's gold (not real gold but gold in colour anyway) with a brown leather strap and I like it alot.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:40 (twenty-three years ago)

I can't keep one. It must be something to do with the electromagnetic fields of my body or something, but I destroy watches as soon as I put them on. Shame, cause I do like them. I eventually got a beeper-sized thing which I carried in my pocket like a pocket watch, which lasted some time until it was supplanted by my mobile's built in clock.

Taking sides: analogue vs. digital watch faces?

I like the precision of digital (it is 14:51, what do you know?) but I love old school watches with the big numbers. I don't like analogue faces without numbers, they bother me. But the fonts on old school watches were very very nice.

― kate, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:46 (twenty-three years ago)

haven't worn a watch since i was young and as a result i have real good time awareness

― james (james), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I have to have digital. I don't know why, maybe like Kate says it's the precision, 14:51 is way better than 'oh just gone ten to'. I can tell the time on analogue watches (honest) but for some reason I prefer digital. It is bloody difficult finding a digital watch that is not ginormous and clunky and unsuited to girlie clothing let me tell you.

― Emma, Friday, 28 March 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a big fuck-off storm one that I use to inflict bodily harm on my friends and relatives

― j0e (j0e), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:50 (twenty-three years ago)

"The way your dad looked at it, this watch was your birthright. He'd be damned if any of the slopes were gonna get their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright. So he hid it in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this watch up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the watch. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give the watch to you."

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

casio . flat . black . digital

― gabriel (gabe), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:55 (twenty-three years ago)

digital watches are vulgar.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I've got a metal kenneth cole round job.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 28 March 2003 14:58 (twenty-three years ago)

like this here:
"img src=http://www.bluenile.com/assets/product_images/watch/ZB70801900_det.jpg">

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

oops.

http://www.bluenile.com/assets/product_images/watch/ZB70801900_det.jpg

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:02 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a Casio watch which I bought for £19 in September 1982. Still going strong. On its fourth battery & its ~ twelfth strap. All its contemporaries prolly joined a landfill graveyard long ago (speshly those Calculator & simon watches where the rubber keys fell out).

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:05 (twenty-three years ago)

This is my watch:

― hstencil, Friday, 28 March 2003 15:06 (twenty-three years ago)

so classic, obv. I could use the clock on my mobile and keep it switched on all the time but it's just NOT THE SAME.

― MarkH (MarkH), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Mobiles = The fob watches of the new millenium.

I haven't had a watch in ages, because I keep fiddling with them and then leaving them places.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I've always been annoyed by how watches feel on my wrist...too uncomfortable. I carried a nifty pocketwatch around for awhile, but it got crushed by a car door slamming and I've found no need to replace it.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Oscillations?

Sigh, hstencil, you even have a dronerock watch!

― kate, Friday, 28 March 2003 15:39 (twenty-three years ago)

IRONY, heh.

I don't know why, but even though I'm a rightie I have to wear a watch on my right hand or it feels weird. But then I do so much with my right hand that it feels weird there too. So I just stopped wearing mine. Also whenever you bulk-erase audiotape, it fucks with your watch something fierce and I got tired of that.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

digital watches are the best.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

Electronic evocations of sound reality. Choo know it!

(I had no idea what the name of the watch was until I googled for it a minute ago.)

― hstencil, Friday, 28 March 2003 15:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay digital.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 March 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

My watch tells the interweb time as well as the normal human being time but I don't know if it's telling the right interweb time as I have to check on the swatch site. It is now 15:59 or @708 interweb time. If I knew other people with the same watch we could arrange to meet up at interweb time and confound other people with our modern ways.

― Emma, Friday, 28 March 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

what is interweb time?

― hstencil, Friday, 28 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It is @721.

It is also something ridiculous made up by Swatch and runs from 000 to 999.

― Emma, Friday, 28 March 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Constantly being aware of what time it is = dud.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:20 (twenty-three years ago)

my next watch=http://www.fossil.com/images/products/standard/PH2002.jpg

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

definitely Chris...does anyone know how to get rid of the time on the bottom of my screen w/o getting rid of the task bar too?

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:22 (twenty-three years ago)

i think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

― mark p (Mark P), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Oops, the Windows boxes I use are on Win 98, and the clocks are never, ever accurate. And no, I don't mind.

― Chris P (Chris P), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.princetonwatches.com/images/watches/JR3000-51F.jpg
Not motion geared but solar powered fun. And more dials then I know what to do with.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.

Booked your dinner at Milliways yet?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

(Yay! I figured it out!)

― oops (Oops), Friday, 28 March 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

mine, or at least sorta:

http://www.seikousa.com/calendar/images/SMD008x.gif

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Watches rule. Mine doesn't have a battery, but winds itself every time I move my wrist.

OK where is Dan Perry when you need him?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 28 March 2003 17:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I may want this one
http://momastore.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10001&storeId=10001&productId=14256&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=10272&categoryId=10275&giftCat=null

― Mary (Mary), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:03 (twenty-three years ago)

i can't leave home w/out a watch on and i take it off as soon as i get back home. i have two: a silver swiss army dressy number and a wenger diving piece w/ black leather strap. they're my favourite and only accessory.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Saturday, 29 March 2003 11:01 (twenty-three years ago)

wow, I was amazed, last night, when some of my friends presented me with the watch I posted a picture of upthread for my birthday. it wasn't as a result of me posting a picture of it upthread either! thanks some of my friends!!!!!!!

― RJG (RJG), Sunday, 30 March 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

I think watches are inherently non-designish - I have yet to see a truly good-looking watch. The ones that try are way too self-conscious. I guess some Swatches are good in a silly sort of way.

I used to refuse to wear one, but then I got over it, though sometimes I still go without. After going through digital and leather strap phases, I now wear a $10 Canal Street knockoff of this (but without the black stuff around the face and the hands are thinner and silvery):

http://a1072.g.akamai.net/f/1072/2062/1d/gallery.rei.com/largeimages/662995.jpg

Everything starts when I arrive and that's how time is counted in my world

Ally may be on "Navajo time". To go the full distance, things would have to start 15-45 minutes after you arrive - you need some time to sit around and check out the scene before getting involved.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 30 March 2003 14:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Chris V, what was that little chunk of story you posted from?

I hate the wrist-sweat thing, and also how watches with metal bands pull your arm hair, and also I have enough fidget mechanisms as it is.

― miriam (serrano), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Watches are dud. I haven't worn one in three years. With any luck I will never have to wear one again.

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I really want one of these
http://www.ti.ch/DI/POL/Sito_Polcantonale/Servizi_stampa_e_SCC/oggetti_rubati/immagini/Foto_originali/ambassador59.jpg

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

there's no three o'clock.

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:47 (twenty-three years ago)

that's ok

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 31 March 2003 00:51 (twenty-three years ago)

It would be fun to have an appointment at 25 o'clock.

― felicity (felicity), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Great Dukes of Stratosphear tune!

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Man - for Valentine's Day one of my SO's gave me a cheap watch (I asked for a cheap one, so I don't worry about damaging it while gardening or hiking). Anyway, the box "talking point" on the box said that the darn wthing was "Now with Japan-mation!!" (Yes, two exclamation points.) So, um, what exactly IS "Japan-mation" and is it something that I want hanging-out on my wrist?

My non-live-in SO has another cheap watch - you can hear the ticking of the seconds hand from across the room - it's the noisiest damn thing! And my live-in SO has one of those big and bulky and geeky "engineer's wet dream" watches, that does all sorts of wonderous things, according to him - I just think it's ugly.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Monday, 31 March 2003 01:47 (twenty-three years ago)

one of your SOs lives-in?

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 31 March 2003 21:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I like this one:
http://store4.yimg.com/I/knifeart_1733_79131687

The design is perfect and then the ampersand on the flushable crown makes me want to steal one.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 31 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

We've got that fossil one posted up there by RJG. We bought it for our birthday pressssssssent and we loves it.

― tylero, Monday, 31 March 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

― RJG (RJG), Monday, 31 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

i had a watch once, i got it in montreal 6 years ago:

http://images.andale.com/f2/114/100/8592896/1047349875868_swatch3.jpg

it's appears to be a precursor to hstencil's watch... SHOCKAH!

warning h, the automatic-ness lost it's accuracy after a couple years and began running very fast. it sits in my utility drawer as a result, partly because i had quentin compson reverie wrt: watches/time in general.

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 31 March 2003 22:24 (twenty-three years ago)

when I was a kid, I had an amazing watch with a cartoon face on it, and the mouth/teeth were the time--they were those scrolling numbers that some old clock radios have. I think it was sears brand.. I've never seen anything like that since, and I think I probably dropped it in the pond or fed it to a goat or something when I was six, but now I'd like another one. anyone know where I can get one of these?

― miriam (serrano), Monday, 31 March 2003 22:40 (twenty-three years ago)

RJG - yep, one lives with me and the other I get on the weekends.

― I'm Passing Open Windows (Ms Laura), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 02:39 (twenty-three years ago)

weird.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 1 April 2003 02:52 (twenty-three years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008IO5Y.01-ANCDPWW77E3GG.MZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Scaredy Cat, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 03:23 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.casiowatchesusa.com/images/Databank/dbc15001.jpg

― Scaredy Cat, Tuesday, 1 April 2003 03:28 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

so I'm in my work-related subway station last night around 10, and there's a group of kids (mid-to-late teens?) running around, and one of them wants to know what time it is. still moving, opposite to them, i tell them. one of them shouts back, "I like your Rolex!"

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 April 2003 13:52 (twenty-three years ago)

Please tell me you weren't even wearing a Rolex and that is why this was so funny.

― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 19 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

see my post upthread for what i was wearing

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 19 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah, much better. I've always liked those Swiss Army watches.

Funny thing with me and watches is that I love them, but spending $70 - 100 is about all I can justify for a watch and yet the amount of watches I would like to buy amount to probably what I'd pay for one of the cheaper Rolexes (I guess). I can't lie to myself and say that I just need the funcitonality of the watch. In truth, I would be dozens of them if I could afford it.

The last watch is still working great 4 years later, no scratches, the battery hasn't even died yet and I want a new watch! I like them too much to just wear one until it dies.

― Scaredy Cat, Saturday, 19 April 2003 17:29 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.store.yahoo.com/timedesign/piewatch.html

― jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Saturday, 19 April 2003 17:34 (twenty-three years ago)

five months pass...

I tend to wear a watch. I need to know how much longer I have on my lunch breaks and I need to be able to clock watch when I'm out at properties! But anyway, I realize I'm kind of a neurotic, so lately I've been trying to go without wearing a watch on weekends. It's actually pretty relaxing not knowing what time it is.

― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 18:43 (twenty-two years ago)

The calculator watch Scaredy Cat posted upthread is the same one I have. I like to perform random tabulations when I'm bored.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 19:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I too would love a calculator watch, but only temporarily I suppose, because I love my regular watch and I love my graphing calculator, so to give up both to consolidate to one would be kinda hard for me to do.

I wear a pretty silver Timex watch with the Indiglo feature (which comes in handy when I'm watching a bad movie and want to know approximately how much longer I'll have to sit through it). It's got a simple, traditional face and hands. I like it a lot.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah, and because I could not live without a watch, watches are 100% classic.

― Legendary Nothingness (Dee the Lurker), Thursday, 2 October 2003 01:37 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

this is my watch:

http://image.www.rakuten.co.jp/shelter/img1013408942.jpeg

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Get a Mars watch!

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/spotlight/spirit/images/small_mars_watch_face_040108195954.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 11 January 2004 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

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