Agh! Didn’t read all the choices! I put smart but the answer is different. Only some of them are smart. Some are automatic mechanical movements and the really fancy one is that Citizen you guys sold a while back.
I have multiple watches. None of them are digital. Some are merely utilitarian, purchased for $5 from the secondhand store, and kept in a pocket while I’m gardening. Others were purchased because of their beauty, and I wear them, and love them.
(I currently have two of those Citizen Eco-Smart watches, with a solar battery as the face.)
Digital watches are unattractive (at least to me).
Pebble Time Steel smartwatch here. I’ve had many watches over the years though. Digital, Digital calculator, digital TV remote control, and finally no watch for a long time until the original Pebble was released.
My son is a dedicated Analog watch fanatic though, he likes things that go around.
@kazriko Casio makes analogs too. I really like some of the Sky Cockpits (some are also G-Shocks) like this one but they get pricey, and my cheap G-Shocks and Marlins just keep working decade after decade…
I hadn’t worn a watch in years. The company where I started working in June buys a Fitbit for anyone who wants one so now I wear that. It actually works. I’m walking a lot more than I would have. Which is good because the new job is purely software development. If I didn’t have this thing to make me conscious of getting up and moving around, I’d be sitting on my ass for hours at a time.
The clocks at my work are very inconsistent/not in sync so I bought a $10 Casio. Kinda wish it had more than one alarm but other than that, I feel no need for anything fancier.
I love watches. I use most often a Garmin 235 which can read my pulse and track my feeble attempts at running; among other cool stuff it also does the usual smart watch things like email and text messages.
I also have a 1st gen pebble (red) which I like. Love not having to look at the phone to see who is calling. No interest in having the phone announce caller ID info. Aside from that and weather and text messages I don’t use most of the smart watch features.
I have a more recent pebble - it’s fine but the type is no easier to read, particularly the caller ID. Why to they waste the watch face space with the useless ringing phone image and put the caller’s name in tiny type?
Also a g-shock rangeman that I love love love. Solar powered. I have several other g-shocks, including several vintage ones I got on eBay. I love these and they’re seemingly indestructible and I just like having them around.
I also have some I just liked the look of and picked up cheap - a watch with a beautiful wooden band - a bunch of old times indigo watches
If I see something that seems well-designed and interesting to look at, or has interesting features, I start looking for a way to get one for next to nothing. Usually eBay. Sometimes here - I have a Marley watch.
I don’t like the very plain look of most watches. It has to either be functional in some cool way (g-shocks, suuntos, garmins) or be visually interesting without having the visual features just be there for show. Unless the design is off-beat.
I don’t want a really expensive watch unless I become filthy rich. Perhaps not even then. I do love my drawer of weird watches and swap them out, or (nutcase alert) wear a smart watch plus a regular watch (warning this conduct is likely stupid).
I also have a few smartwatch failures - a Samsung fitness watch that never worked, a few other weird smartwatches I didn’t like, an early LG that worked but I never loved it and no battery life. I was given a few of these by people who gave up in them, or bought them cheap on ebay.
I love having a drawer of them. I try to stop myself from collecting stuff but am ok with this indulgence I guess. I have the more expensive watches I wanted - the garmin and the rangeman, both purchased from slickdeals listings - so if I allow myself to purchase more it must be stupid-cheap.
I eye-lust after a ridiculous Casio g-shock Iced Out bling watch just because I think it’s hilarious. Looking at the pictures makes me laugh. Have not allowed myself to buy one cause I’d prob only wear it on Halloween or something. Or perhaps never wear it out of embarrassment. It would just be a wrist joke to have around.
It comes in various colors. Here is a rather sedate version, but if I ever let myself get one I’m getting the stupidest looking color, say pink or purple or rose gold. Obviously all the stones are fake. These are priced for collectors. I want a cheap one.
@f00l I haven’t been able to make myself spend $$$ on additional Casios. I love them and if I had money to blow I would, but other priorities prevent. So I keep my DW200 Marlin and DW5600E going and going and going…
Personal electronics are banned at work, so my Martian stays at home. I wear a spring-powered self-winding analog watch with only Hours, Minutes, Seconds. The glass back and front allow me to see its inner workings.
I got an Apple Watch a little over a year ago, and I love it. Okay, it’s had problems… apps were utterly useless until watchOS 3 came out, and the UI still isn’t great, but it’s a darn good smartwatch, and I like it better than my OG Pebble. It also looks pretty nice.
Here is what a quiet creepy lurker type has say about such rude,hard to use and useless site such as this .EAT ME YOU DOUCHES !
YOU LOST MY SALE AND I WILL NEVER VISIT HERE AGAIN AS WELL AS TELL EVERYONE I KNOW HOW RUDE AND HOW MUCH YOU SUCK !!!
@JonMclane how do you make it to the website and miss the front page with the huge “buy it” button?
Obviously you wouldn’t fit in here. Someone already told you above where to order, and you come back with this childish rant.
I have a very nice gold Seiko analog watch I got from my parents for college graduation in 1985. I love it and used to wear it every work day, but now I have a job where the dress ‘code’ is never better than casual; only time I’ve worn it in the last few years is for weddings & funerals. Kinda sad.
Use my (dumb) phone or pedometer to tell time these days.
I got eco-drive chronometer that I’ve never worn, and a texas instruments lcd watch that the tritnium has half lifed dead, and a wwII gi hamilton, and a gold peregaux. none of which I ever wear. I got a 17 jewel self-winding swatch skeleton watch because I thought the concept of a disposable 17 jewel self-winding watch was pretty obscene.
There was a time when I wore a watch and boasted a pretty sick watch tan after summers of marching band, but now I don’t really bother. If I’m out somewhere I have my phone, my car, or any clocks that might be around to check the time.
Always had a thing for the skin diver look in watches.
Along the way had a battery powered Acutron and Tag Heuer all of which bit the dust at some point. Finally was talked into buying a Rolex Submariner at the same time my wife was upgrading her Rolex. At that time she traded in a 20 year old Rolex which we had paid 1,200 for and got a 1,100 credit against the her new watch purchase.
Anyway the cost of a new Rolex Submariner has doubled my watch has doubled in cost from what I paid and I could sell mine for 1,500 more than I paid for it. Not many things you can use everyday for 13 years and appreciate in value. Just had to have it cleaned after 13 years at cost of 500.
Never take it in the pool even though its a divers watch. Have a solar powered casio for that.
I had an original Pebble that I used on my motorcycle and a few “nice” watches that I used the rest of the time. Shortly before the Apple Watch announcement, I was planning on adding a Milgauss to my collection.
I bought an Apple Watch to replace the Pebble and suddenly just stopped wearing all the others. I realize “smart” watches aren’t for everyone, but I’m one of the (rare?) few that finds it indispensable.
Casio G-Shock FTW
@duodec Terrorist!
@duodec
Yeah mine is weaponized to cause FUD.
@f00l Q said the Marlin was a smidge too small for such enhancements, but the G-Shock provided an ideal platform for such enhancements.
@duodec
I do love these stupid things.
Hope you saw the pix of the bling g-shocks I posted later in the thread.
Weaponized, I say.
@f00l Saw them, and the purple apology avalanche that followed. I acknowledge their capacity for FUD.
In fact, my watch is a black one of these Martian Notifiers.
@baqui63 Alien!
Solar powered
Agh! Didn’t read all the choices! I put smart but the answer is different. Only some of them are smart. Some are automatic mechanical movements and the really fancy one is that Citizen you guys sold a while back.
I have multiple watches. None of them are digital. Some are merely utilitarian, purchased for $5 from the secondhand store, and kept in a pocket while I’m gardening. Others were purchased because of their beauty, and I wear them, and love them.
(I currently have two of those Citizen Eco-Smart watches, with a solar battery as the face.)
Digital watches are unattractive (at least to me).
@Shrdlu +1
@Shrdlu +2
blarg, mine is both analog AND digital. but the analog broke. no tick tick just swing swing.
@sixsmith digi-log? anal-tal?
I wear a Pebble Time Steel
Pebble Time Steel smartwatch here. I’ve had many watches over the years though. Digital, Digital calculator, digital TV remote control, and finally no watch for a long time until the original Pebble was released.
My son is a dedicated Analog watch fanatic though, he likes things that go around.
@kazriko Casio makes analogs too. I really like some of the Sky Cockpits (some are also G-Shocks) like this one but they get pricey, and my cheap G-Shocks and Marlins just keep working decade after decade…
My phone.
I haven’t worn a watch since 1995
@somf69 You have me beat. I only quit wearing one in 2003.
I hadn’t worn a watch in years. The company where I started working in June buys a Fitbit for anyone who wants one so now I wear that. It actually works. I’m walking a lot more than I would have. Which is good because the new job is purely software development. If I didn’t have this thing to make me conscious of getting up and moving around, I’d be sitting on my ass for hours at a time.
I hate things on my wrists, so I have a pocket watch.
The clocks at my work are very inconsistent/not in sync so I bought a $10 Casio. Kinda wish it had more than one alarm but other than that, I feel no need for anything fancier.
I love watches. I use most often a Garmin 235 which can read my pulse and track my feeble attempts at running; among other cool stuff it also does the usual smart watch things like email and text messages.
I also have a 1st gen pebble (red) which I like. Love not having to look at the phone to see who is calling. No interest in having the phone announce caller ID info. Aside from that and weather and text messages I don’t use most of the smart watch features.
I have a more recent pebble - it’s fine but the type is no easier to read, particularly the caller ID. Why to they waste the watch face space with the useless ringing phone image and put the caller’s name in tiny type?
Also a g-shock rangeman that I love love love. Solar powered. I have several other g-shocks, including several vintage ones I got on eBay. I love these and they’re seemingly indestructible and I just like having them around.
I also have some I just liked the look of and picked up cheap - a watch with a beautiful wooden band - a bunch of old times indigo watches
If I see something that seems well-designed and interesting to look at, or has interesting features, I start looking for a way to get one for next to nothing. Usually eBay. Sometimes here - I have a Marley watch.
I don’t like the very plain look of most watches. It has to either be functional in some cool way (g-shocks, suuntos, garmins) or be visually interesting without having the visual features just be there for show. Unless the design is off-beat.
I don’t want a really expensive watch unless I become filthy rich. Perhaps not even then. I do love my drawer of weird watches and swap them out, or (nutcase alert) wear a smart watch plus a regular watch (warning this conduct is likely stupid).
I also have a few smartwatch failures - a Samsung fitness watch that never worked, a few other weird smartwatches I didn’t like, an early LG that worked but I never loved it and no battery life. I was given a few of these by people who gave up in them, or bought them cheap on ebay.
I love having a drawer of them. I try to stop myself from collecting stuff but am ok with this indulgence I guess. I have the more expensive watches I wanted - the garmin and the rangeman, both purchased from slickdeals listings - so if I allow myself to purchase more it must be stupid-cheap.
I eye-lust after a ridiculous Casio g-shock Iced Out bling watch just because I think it’s hilarious. Looking at the pictures makes me laugh. Have not allowed myself to buy one cause I’d prob only wear it on Halloween or something. Or perhaps never wear it out of embarrassment. It would just be a wrist joke to have around.
It comes in various colors. Here is a rather sedate version, but if I ever let myself get one I’m getting the stupidest looking color, say pink or purple or rose gold. Obviously all the stones are fake. These are priced for collectors. I want a cheap one.
@f00l
Here are some rangeman watches similar to mine
@f00l
Here is the Garmin Forerunner 235. I got both this and the rangeman at extreme discounts. Nothing like the prices I’m seeing today.
@f00l I haven’t been able to make myself spend $$$ on additional Casios. I love them and if I had money to blow I would, but other priorities prevent. So I keep my DW200 Marlin and DW5600E going and going and going…
@f00l You call’n purple a stupid color? Huh, huh, huh? Wossamotta U, crazy? Them’s fight’n words.
@Barney
I repent. I misspoke. I apologize.
All bling g-shocks are stupid and funny and fun. So if I ever decide to throw $ away on one I’m going for max flamboyant stupid.
Thus watch is stupid because if the crazy fake bling, not the color.
And I love purple, all purples. That indigo (is that the word?) tone between dark blue and dark purple is a particular wonder to me.
I’ll try to find some pix.
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@f00l You think you can get met to forgive you by throwing pretty purples at me? (You can.) Oh, you posted other colors? I guess I didn’t see them.
Personal electronics are banned at work, so my Martian stays at home. I wear a spring-powered self-winding analog watch with only Hours, Minutes, Seconds. The glass back and front allow me to see its inner workings.
@PocketBrain I feel like we may work in similer industries.
This is the one I wear Relic Skeleton Watch
I got an Apple Watch a little over a year ago, and I love it. Okay, it’s had problems… apps were utterly useless until watchOS 3 came out, and the UI still isn’t great, but it’s a darn good smartwatch, and I like it better than my OG Pebble. It also looks pretty nice.
I have one I bought when I worked in Germany in 1983 that has a moon that goes across the face and shows the phase of the moon.
@Kidsandliz
You know the brand?
nuttin
My watch is SOLAR POWERED!
Nothing,where do you order,don’t want to talk
@JonMclane oh you go here:
https://meh.com/
and click on “buy it”
Here is what a quiet creepy lurker type has say about such rude,hard to use and useless site such as this .EAT ME YOU DOUCHES !
YOU LOST MY SALE AND I WILL NEVER VISIT HERE AGAIN AS WELL AS TELL EVERYONE I KNOW HOW RUDE AND HOW MUCH YOU SUCK !!!
@JonMclane
@JonMclane how do you make it to the website and miss the front page with the huge “buy it” button?
Obviously you wouldn’t fit in here. Someone already told you above where to order, and you come back with this childish rant.
@JonMclane
We won’t be wishing to eat you. You sound like you just might taste really really bad.
@f00l A bit bitter, perhaps. Rotten even.
@JonMclane oh crap I didn’t notice the name this morning… now I am worried… so sorry Mr. McClane
Today I am wearing a watch that kinda looks like this:
Tomorrow my wrist will probably be nekkid.
Binary.
Only worn when I’m traveling.
I have a very nice gold Seiko analog watch I got from my parents for college graduation in 1985. I love it and used to wear it every work day, but now I have a job where the dress ‘code’ is never better than casual; only time I’ve worn it in the last few years is for weddings & funerals. Kinda sad.
Use my (dumb) phone or pedometer to tell time these days.
I got eco-drive chronometer that I’ve never worn, and a texas instruments lcd watch that the tritnium has half lifed dead, and a wwII gi hamilton, and a gold peregaux. none of which I ever wear. I got a 17 jewel self-winding swatch skeleton watch because I thought the concept of a disposable 17 jewel self-winding watch was pretty obscene.
There was a time when I wore a watch and boasted a pretty sick watch tan after summers of marching band, but now I don’t really bother. If I’m out somewhere I have my phone, my car, or any clocks that might be around to check the time.
Always had a thing for the skin diver look in watches.
Along the way had a battery powered Acutron and Tag Heuer all of which bit the dust at some point. Finally was talked into buying a Rolex Submariner at the same time my wife was upgrading her Rolex. At that time she traded in a 20 year old Rolex which we had paid 1,200 for and got a 1,100 credit against the her new watch purchase.
Anyway the cost of a new Rolex Submariner has doubled my watch has doubled in cost from what I paid and I could sell mine for 1,500 more than I paid for it. Not many things you can use everyday for 13 years and appreciate in value. Just had to have it cleaned after 13 years at cost of 500.
Never take it in the pool even though its a divers watch. Have a solar powered casio for that.
I had an original Pebble that I used on my motorcycle and a few “nice” watches that I used the rest of the time. Shortly before the Apple Watch announcement, I was planning on adding a Milgauss to my collection.
I bought an Apple Watch to replace the Pebble and suddenly just stopped wearing all the others. I realize “smart” watches aren’t for everyone, but I’m one of the (rare?) few that finds it indispensable.
I’m currently wearing a Pebble 2, but I have at least a dozen different watches. I love them.
I am still rocking my Kickstarter Pebble
my watch is in my phone
My Garmin Nuvi fitness band. My real watches are in hiding in my jewelry case.
Huawei Watch