Thread: What types of watches do you like?

I'm not allowed to wear a watch/jewelery at work and find myself looking at my naked wrist occasionally to find out what time it is. Usually put one on when i get home especially if i'm going outside.

I too have skinny wrists so finding a watch that doesn't look like a brick or wall clock attached to my wrist is a bit hard to find. I do have 3 watches and wear one at work. When I'm home it comes off. The other two are more dress watches. I get to put one on maybe once a year. LOL. They are going to last forever. Or until they get broken from winding as anytime I want to use the one I have to wind it and set the time.

In my big truck, I have a watch on my wrist, A clock on my phone, A clock on my tablet, a clock on my MP3 player, a clock on the dash, a clock on the stereo, and one last clock above my CB. Why? I don't know. Everything comes with a clock nowadays. 7-time keepers in a 7x4x5 ft area. Or something like that.

Originally Posted by tintin

I'm not allowed to wear a watch/jewelery at work and find myself looking at my naked wrist occasionally to find out what time it is. Usually put one on when i get home especially if i'm going outside.

One time when aI was working in a factrory. {25 to 30 years ago} a coworker said that his watch quit and how was he going to tell when it was break time. I pointed to the clock on the wall but he said he couldn't read that thing and needed a digital watch.

In this day and age for the young whippersnappers watches are hardly worn if ever. For those of means it's more a piece of jewelry or a statement thing. I think down the road 20-30 years from now only the wealthy will be wearing watches and they will be costly ones as display items really. For us old fogeys it's just another reminder we're just a bunch of balding troglodytes.

Of course there will always be watch enthusiasts and collectors who accumulate them no different than folks who have collections of guns or rocks or paperweights or (har har) razors.

By the way I have a narrow wrist too at 6.75 inches and more and more outfits are making smaller watches less than 40mm. Also depending on the style of the watch the way the lugs are designed and the size of the face you can get away with a larger watch without it looking like a clown watch.

Or you can have poor people showing off their bling.

Originally Posted by 32t

Or you can have poor people showing off their bling.

That's why Invicta exists though they still sell some normal looking watches.

If you want some real bling you get yourself a Patek. They start at around 21K and a gold one will cost you around 56K. IF you be lucky enough to find one at any price.

Working on a rig we didn’t wear jewelry or watches, then somebody got the to give out watches that was like a key fob, I had one on a belt loop for years, almost a pocket watch. I never wore a watch except at home and going out, my main watch is a Seiko, and a Tag, once in a blue moon I’ll go into the safe and drag out the Commisary Rolex. Somewhere in my boxes from dad are a couple of Longines he treasured, I do believe I would carry a pocket watch if it was special

Always worn a watch. Started with timex, then those Casio red led ones, and on to diver style as my fav over the years. I broke many, kept getting new ones as gifts. My zodiac has survived on my wrist, with repairs, for over 35 years now and is still my go to. Short of open grease pails or sand, this is on my wrist regardless of the job.

Third crystal and second main stem on it, and due another crystal and stem overhaul now but still keeps perfect time. Quartz, but runs years on a battery and my dad gave it to me so there’s that too.

I reckon you did all those repairs yourself, Mike?


Bring on some more cool watches, Gents!

I had fogotten about those LCD watches, I don't like digital watches these days but my first ever digital watch was a Christmas pressy from my Mum when I was 14. It had a black face and when I pressed the button the digital time lit up in red.

I was super happy because they had pretty much just come out and I was one of the first kids with one, my friend next door had one too because a few off them fell off the back of a lorry and my Mum bought one from his naughty Dad.