Telling time..... Watch or phone?

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Are the days of watches gone? Saw an ad that Chex posted in another thread featuring someone attempting to wear a watch. It just got me thinking..... Are watches a thing of the past? Personally, I don't think I know anyone that even wears a watch. I grew up wearing one but these days a phone is my choice when I need to know the time. What say you?
 
I prefer a watch, which probably makes me the only 20-something to say that. Even in high school, when it was taboo to pull out a phone in class, I was usually the only person with a watch. One classroom didn't have a clock in it, I probably got asked 10 times a day for the time in that class.
 
I have several watches and haven't worn one in years.
 
When we go out I wear my 'good' watch. Wearing it so seldom it now feels weird having it on my wrist.
 
Phone, I had a watch in highschool but then didn't use it anymore all phone now.
 
watch. When I dont have one on I feel naked. 'course I am over 40
 
Neither of the above. I own a watch but rarely wear it. I just don't feel the need to be pressed for time. Not that I'm habitually late (I'm not - I keep track of the time when I need to via wall clocks or the clock in my car's console). I feel even less motivated to wear an "electronic leash", a.k.a. cell phone, and don't own one.

Saw an advertisement on TV yesterday for a new smart phone that you could wear like a watch, and one of it's "features" was an app that made it look like a watch. Seemed funny to me - buy an expensive smart phone plus pay monthly service charges and one of it's "features" can be duplicated much more cheaply by the real thing (watch).
 
I wear a watch, easier to keep up with time if it's on my wrist. Probably be easier to keep up with my phone if I could wear it on my wrist.
 
I can't stand to wear a watch and never could. I also can't stand wearing any type of jewellery.
 
I could never keep a watch longer than 6 months, I either broke it or lost it. My phone is y best watch ever.
 
Have to have my watch but the one I'm wearing now is borderline clock! :D
 
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this one!
 
There are clocks everywhere; car, computer, and every appliance in my kitchen. But I prefer a watch over a phone (I hate digital clocks).
 
Zerkfitting said:
There are clocks everywhere; car, computer, and every appliance in my kitchen. But I prefer a watch over a phone (I hate digital clocks).
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Just wondering, are young kids today taught how to tell time the traditionally way with a clock face and not digitally??
 
TexasRaceLady said:
Good question, Bob. I know most of the youngsters I encounter at registers in stores, couldn't make change if they weren't told by the computer.
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My wife say's that in Florida they are taught both clock face and digital. But by the 6th grade about half of them have forgotten how to read a standard clock face because they never see them.
 
Johali said:
My wife say's that in Florida they are taught both clock face and digital. But by the 6th grade about half of them have forgotten how to read a standard clock face because they never see them.
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Heaven forbid somebody hang this on the wall

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Johali said:
Yep. My old ship's wall chronograph's would blow their mind.
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They're necessary as a ham radio operator. Now granted i just use the world clock function on my phone, they are still handy.
 
Magnethead said:
They're necessary as a ham radio operator. Now granted i just use the world clock function on my phone, they are still handy.
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We had ones marked GMT/ZULU/UTC or any combination thereof. The last 20 years or so they were mostly just for show. Our communication rooms and Bridges have GMDSS and are all digital.
 
I use a phone to check the time. I'm horrible with jewelry.
 
I wear a watch as jewelry sometimes, but I had a G-Shock that I had for the longest. A very good and reliable watch.

I prefer a watch that's not digital. Honestly, I think its sad how young men and women cannot tell what time it is on an analog clock.

Or read a map without GPS
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I could go on, but I still enjoy watches. I'm not huge on jewelry, so I want collection of watches instead.
 
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