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Or carry any kind of timepiece?

I've never been big on wristwatches, so I for a year or so I kept a little clock in my backpack, but last month or so I bought a Soviet pocket watch off Ebay. It runs on batteries too, must be from the late 80s.

Poll coming.

EDIT: I didn't check off that box so I can't make a poll.

No.

When I'm not wearing one, I get fidgety and irritable. I dont like not being able to tell the time at any point in the day.

I wear mine pretty much 24/7.

Nope, I have a habit of looking at it to much.

Watches are for boomers.

Yes, a digital watch from Wal-Mart. It was fairly cheap, but of very, very high quality. Timer, date, waterproof, and I've been using it for years. Wear it all the time. The thing is, I can't find another one like it anywhere. I know it's from a company called Aquatech, but it doesn't have a website, and Wal-Mart doesn't carry them anymore AFAIK. I also can't find one anywhere on the web. :(

Yeah, I wear a wristwatch pretty much all of the time.

Or carry any kind of timepiece?

I've never been big on wristwatches, so I for a year or so I kept a little clock in my backpack, but last month or so I bought a Soviet pocket watch off Ebay. It runs on batteries too, must be from the late 80s.

Poll coming.

EDIT: I didn't check off that box so I can't make a poll.

no, but since i have a cellphone i can easily look up the time, now i constantly have to worry about being late.

I used to wear a watch up until the summer when I lost it somewhere. Now I use my cellphone or ipod if I need to tell time.

Until about two weeks ago I wore a watch all the time; never took it off. Then the strap broke and I still haven't got it fixed. It's weird, i still make to look at my wrist all the time, and then remember I'm not wearing a watch...

I've never really been that big on wearing a watch because I never really need to, there are clocks everywhere you turn.

I'll let the clockstapo take of my timely worries.

I literally feel naked without my watch. It is just way too strange to not have one.

I hate watches.

I used to wear one all the time...

...I never wear one now. I don't see myself doing so anytime soon, either.

EDIT: I didn't check off that box so I can't make a poll.

Click "thread tools". :)

I wear my watch whenever I can, I hate leaving it behind. And I lose it all the time because I take it of when I'm sweaty.

No, I just use my cell phone since I hardly ever use that to actually call anyone.

No. I have a couple, but never wear them. I am a minimalist. ;)

Montreaux pocket watch. Got it off of eBay, never go anywhere without it.

Or carry any kind of timepiece?

I've never been big on wristwatches, so I for a year or so I kept a little clock in my backpack, but last month or so I bought a Soviet pocket watch off Ebay. It runs on batteries too, must be from the late 80s.


I can't feel at ease without a watch. Usually I carry an unexpensive wristwatch, but I also own a swiss clockwork wristwatch and a couple of pocket watches - just for showing off at parties.;)

Nope, I have a habit of looking at it to much.

Ditto.

I can't feel at ease without a watch. Usually I carry an unexpensive wristwatch, but I also own a swiss clockwork wristwatch and a couple of pocket watches - just for showing off at parties.;)

You must go to some crazy parties, dude! ;)

no watch, i find them uncomfortable. my phone has a clock on it.

I carry a wristwatch with the wristbands removed in my pocket..
I wish I could find a good digital pocketwatch somewhere..

I have a pocket, but luckily not a communist one.

You must go to some crazy parties, dude! ;)

Thanks, man!

Da. In Soviet Russia, watches look at YOU!

i used to wear a watch but in the last year or so i have less and less. now i never do and just use my phone

I have no watch and no cell phone

I despise all things that destroy my freedom *burns underwear*

It's broken and 200-ish miles away atm. :(
I'm thinking of getting a pocket-watch, though. :D

I hate watches and clocks. For the great majority of instances, they are symbols of the irrelevant, and the very idea that I should care about the time is something I can't help but be insulted by. A minute or 2 one way or the other...such a petty thing, and to be enslaved by it? No way...

The only time I'll actually wear one is to make sure I don't waste too much of my life at various boring family gatherings. They'd keep the dullness going for ages if I didn't say "bye," and being able to say "it's late" is the easiest way I've found to extricate myself from the life-leeching morass of boredom.

Other than that, looking out the window and taking an educated guess based on the sun (or moon)'s position is as close as I care to pay attention to time.

I used to wear a really nice analog one I got for my birthday, but I needed a more disposable one with a stopwatch for navigation, so its now a Casio £10 jobby. Retro chic!

I wear cheap watches but continually lose them. I put them down somewhere and forget so generally i rely on everyone else knowing the time.

nope!

carry one in my pocket when i go out to ride arround on the bus.
but that's about it.

used to carry it with me when i had places i had to get to on a certain schedule and all of that. no reason in hell and even less wish to any other time.

one of the worst things hoomans ever got togather and came up with.
second only to television and the automobile.

of course they needed it for the first trains before they came up with decent automatic signaling systems, and as part of how they used to figgure out where they were out on the open ocean, but it sure screwed up living in harmony with the earth we walk on, and that, is indeed proving to have been a major mistake.

=^^=
.../\...

I used to, but having learnt everyone's on subjective time & gathered sufficient statistical evidence to theorise that a watch simply don't make a difference, I decided not to bother anymore. So I don't.

Besides, I keep one in my pocket & there's one in my mobile. A wristwatch just seems like overkill.

I am surprised no-one has mentioned this chap yet:
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2005/writers/pete_mcentegart/11/21/ten.spot/tx_flava.jpg

I always wear one. I don't like not being able to see the time when I want to see it.

Yup. Left wrist. Had one and the same watch for years and years.

I have a little watch thingy that attaches to my belt buckle. It's orange.

I'd go incasne without my watch. This one is made of win because it uses magic(or some manner of radio signal) to keep the right time. Although it does have the date in American, which sucks.

Almost ALWAYS wore a wristwatch, the last one I had was one of those Timex DataLinks. Before that I had a number of digital watches, including one of the first LED watches - the kind you had to press the button to read, because the LEDs drew so much power from the batteries that it couldn't stay lit. Even so, it STILL burned through batteries in a matter of weeks. I STILL have the first wristwatch I ever owned from when I was about 8 years old (I'm 49 now!), an old Timex wind-up job with a radium dial - and yes, it's STILL ticking, despite having been submerged in a lake and through the shower once or twice. The only thing I've ever had repaired on it was a broken crystal. Maybe Timex will read this and put it in a commercial... Now I wear a clip-on Mountain Dew watch that I got by saving points from too many bottles of the stuff. And it's always set 5 minutes fast - I HATE to be late...

Watches are for people too lazy to take their phones out of their pockets.

Edit: says the guy who still hasn't left his bedroom at ten to one UK time.

All the time apart from sleeping haha i can't live without time.

I always wear a wristwatch. I'm one of those types who is constantly looks a this watch but never knows what time it is.

Last quarter I didn't, this quarter I have done so an awful lot.

I wear a watch, pretty much every waking moment. I've developed a habit of constantly checking it all the time (situational awareness, what can I say) which absolutely drives my girlfriend insane to the point that when we're together, I often have to take it off and set it aside.

I always wear a watch. They say one of the earliest signs that you are insane is a warped perception of the passage of time. (Whew! took me three months to write that!)

But sometimes, it's all I wear. :)

I usualy wear one when I get out of my house. Its analogic, looks great and improve my looks.

right now my cellphone is my timepiece, it has an alarm on it and everything, so that's useful.

before I had it (in my break from having an evil cell phone) I used to wear a watch on my key chain, which is really just a carabiner with a bunch of keys on it. I wear that on my belt buckle when I am wearing jeans, attached to my purse when I am not.

I wear a watch, and I also have a pocketwatch I like to wear as often as possible. It's an old-style watch you have to wind, and I love it ever oh so much more than a battery-operated digital crap-fest.

I used to wear watches since childhood.
But when my last watch broke down, I decided to stop wearing watches.
And for me it was a good decision. What I only found out after I stopped wearing them.
It made me nervous. Every five minutes I had to look on it.
I was always hounded.
And to tell the truth, most people don't need a watch.
You have a watch in the car, on your computer, on your mobile, in the office, on houses and churches. Clocks and watches are everywhere.
I for my part really don't need a watch.
And if it is really important to know the time, then I go and ask the next person I see in the street.

Then again many people wear their watches for decoration.

I wear mine pretty much 24/7.

I literally feel naked without my watch. It is just way too strange to not have one.

What they said.

Yes. I've worn a watch almost daily for over 20 years now.
I have the daily watch, a more rugged water-resistant watch and several nice dress up watches and wear whatever is appropriate.

I think its part of a man's dress.

Not at home, but I always wear my wristwatch when out of the house.

I am surprised no-one has mentioned this chap yet:
http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2005/writers/pete_mcentegart/11/21/ten.spot/tx_flava.jpg

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah boyeeee!!! :p

Yep. The only days I don't wear a watch are when I'm running late in the morning and forget to put it on before I rush out the door. Then I feel naked all day. :(

I put mine on in the morning when I get dressed but it comes off almost as soon as I get to my desk. I don't know ... actually, I do know why. I write out my daily list of things to do with a calligraphy pen and I'm not comfortable doing that sort of writing with the watch on. So it sits on my desk pretty much all day, unless I go off to a meeting or something, in which case I put it back on. So I guess I mostly don't wear it, especially not on the weekends.

Yes. For a few years I didn't have a watch, I just used my mobile to tell the time. Now I'm technologically advanced & have both. :p

A wristwatch sometimes. But I've went so long without wearing one regularly that it's uncomfy now... and I always feel it. Years ago I wore one so much it was weird not having it on.

My wrist feels naked if I'm out without a watch.

I always wear a watch. They say one of the earliest signs that you are insane is a warped perception of the passage of time. (Whew! took me three months to write that!)

But sometimes, it's all I wear. :)

That begs the question, which appendage do you wear it on?

I have a sports watch, which was a gift, but I don't wear it.
It's nice to have, but I cannot stand the feeling of restriction from watches, belts, chains, or anything else that straps to me. I would never make it in a crazy ward.

I want a pocketwatch, which will completely eradicate my hatred of the wriststrap, whilst simultaneously making me look smart (I'd have a pocket watch after all!)

:rolleyes:
I wear a turnip everywhere I go.

www.vcn.bc.ca/help/guides/turnip.html

I've asked for one of those uber-resiliant dive watches for my birthday, as I don't have one at the moment.

Often

When I'm not wearing one, I get fidgety and irritable. I dont like not being able to tell the time at any point in the day.

ditto

I broke mine over 2 years ago before a Cricket match, i never got it fully repaired even though it was under warranty now it needs a new battery.