Curiosity

[andrewducker]

[Poll #1458276]

Comments

[bracknellexile.livejournal.com]

Admittedly I stopped wearing a watch because it irritated eczema rather than for tech reasons.

[simont]

I too found it inconvenient to wear a watch on my wrist (though in my case it was for constriction rather than skin irritation reasons), so I made an experimental custom watch strap that fastened it to my belt instead. This turned out to be a resounding success and I've never looked back.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Ditto. My wrist swells by up to 1cm in diameter depending on temperature/exercise. Leather straps didn't have enough "give", steel straps likewise, and rubber/plastic trapped sweat and itched like crazy.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Tritto. I love not wearing a watch, and find digging the mobile phone out of my pocket only mildly inconvenient.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

I used to get a little red circle when I wore a watch! Though I've been thinking about buying one that is attached to a leather strap type thing, but I'm worried it might be a bit too bondage for the office!

[luckylove.livejournal.com]

The eczema/allergy combined with a lack of enthusiasm towards buying watch batteries was my reason.

[andabusers.livejournal.com]

I would still wear my watch, but it is somewhere down the back of a cabinet.

[communicator.livejournal.com]

lost my watch :-(

[andrewducker]

See, back in ye olden days I'd have had a new watch in days if I lost mine. What stopped you replacing yours?

[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

I have to have a sweep second hand for work so I wear a watch every day.

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Really? Why? I can't imagine what a sweep second hand would do that a countdown wouldn't.

[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

It's a combination of portability and waterproof-ness. Plus there is the convenience of "look at the wrist" as opposed to having to unglove to get out a cell or other device. Wrist watch just seems more practical for what I do.
(I suppose there's some old dog new tricks elements to it as well.)

[interactiveleaf.livejournal.com]

Oh, so it's not that you need an analog watch as opposed to a digital? The specificity of "sweep hand" confused me.

[sttatus-quo.livejournal.com]

Actually analog is easier for what I use it for. It's tough for me to count accurately *and* visually see different numbers as they change on a digital face particularly when what I'm counting has irregularities and rate variances between 50-110/minute and I may or may not be having a difficult time finding the source.
It's probably because I'm just used to it, having grown up in an analog age.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

I have a watch that has no strap cos it has 5 seperate alarms (useful for watches [bit like shifts] in sailing). I never use an alarm myself, but I set one for Steven's benefit. I prefer to get up when I wake up naturally - this works cos I wake multiple times, especially towards getting-up time, I just pick whichever one is not too early. On the rare occasion that I am little later than needed, I just get ready faster or cut things from my morning routine. I hav eonly ever had one job that wasn't flexi-time anyway. Of course I can't really inflict this on someone else with fixed working hours...

[dapperscavenger.livejournal.com]

I have neither a watch, nor a phone, and am reliant upon displays of the time in my environment.

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

Much easier to look at my wrist than to get my phone out, eg when it is raining, or when I am on a bike.

[cybik.livejournal.com]

It turned out that I was allergic to the last watch I had, so I stopped wearing it. If I find one I like and I'm not allergic to I might start wearing one again.

[erindubitably.livejournal.com]

I tell time by the sun.

...which means I'm a bit screwed here.

[pisica.livejournal.com]

I have a watch that keeps time in multiple time zones. I like it a lot, even though there isn't much practical use for it when I'm not traveling - it isn't as though I can't just subtract eight hours to know when I can phone my folks.

[zz]

a bit like not having a use for a smart phone, i'm so rarely away from computers/clocks and *needing* to know the time, that i've not worn a watch in over a decade. now i have a mobile i can look at, at least when i've remembered to charge it.

[anton-p-nym.livejournal.com]

Watch, and not merely because I don't have a cell phone.

-- Steve recognises that this puts him out of the mainstream, but whatever.

Obligatory ...

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Your poll is flawed ! :-)

Sometimes I wear a watch. Sometimes I carry it in a pocket.
Sometimes I tell time from a) the watch, b) the phone, c) the iPod, d) sneak glances at other people's watches, or e) other clocks around the place.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

A watch has been on my wrist for so long that the skin underneath it has pretty much enver seen daylight.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

However, though I still wear a watch, where I wear it ahs moved from wrist to round my neck. (The watch strap was exacerbating my tendency to wrist problems.) How's that for irrelevant trivia?

[andrewducker]

Madam, I am (as they say) all about the irrelevant trivia :->

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

I really like your pendant-watch :-) I have occasionally considered doing something similar myself.

[blackmanxy.livejournal.com]

Of course, I don't wear a watch because my watch stopped and I've been too lazy to do anything about that. But what I'd really like to do is get my pocket watch fixed.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

Station clocks, guesswork, the sun and occasionally stopping people in the street to ask them [laugh]

I wore a watch from about age 10 to about 13, but never since.

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Have about six rather lovely watches, but broke my left wrist and it thickened by two inches and watches feel weird.

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[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I don't like having anything on my wrists unless it's something I'm actively attending to. Thankfully, where I'm living it doesn't get cold enough for this to be a problem very often.

[botrytis.livejournal.com]

I use a carabiner watch to avoid the hassle of a wristwatch scraping on laptop surfaces. I keep being tempted to upgrade to a pocket watch.

[random-redhead.livejournal.com]

I wear a ring watch instead of a wrist watch as my wrists grow ganglia/ tendonitis stuff if i wear things tightly on them.

[nmg.livejournal.com]

I used to tell the time by buying bus tickets.

It's only one step from there to the Goon Show and "what time is it Eccles?"

[intemporaliter.livejournal.com]

I always have my phone with me. Occasionally I wear a watch on my belt or a pocket watch, but for aesthetic reasons - I tend to still look at my phone for the time.

[andrewhickey.livejournal.com]

Watches stop working when I wear them within days, for some reason, which is why I stopped. Don't own a mobile...

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

I carry a watch in my pocket. Some times I even look at it.

I used to always look at my phone to get the time, but I realised this was a rather unhealthy activity, and that I had a watch in my pocket anyway.

I am very good a judging time, and good at seeing public clocks.

Ooh ooh I'm special

[aliiis.livejournal.com]

I tell the time on the move
[x] by using a mobile phone - when NOT on my bike
[x] in some other way (the cyclometer) - when I AM on my bike