Wrist watches

[Nokiamies]

Anyone else still using wrist watches? I mostly mean non smart ones. I have had quite few over the years and despite being quite old school in many things I am mostly into digital ones over mechanical/quartz mechanical (I talk like they would have been around since atleast 80s).

As child I had mechanical watch as digital ones were more expensive. I mostly wanted digital since having numbers digital looked cool, it also had stopwatch and many models atleast Casios had backlit. I know that you could have mechanical one with all those features but they costed even more than digital one. I had few no name brand digital watches with awful clock drift, then I got myself Casio F91W which was very good and kept time. These days I got Casio that shows world time

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main reason for having it was it being water resistant and able survive even if got wet which at the was important on boat. It has worked pretty well so far and it less sensitive to temperature change than mechanical ones.

I never had interest in smart/sport watches as for me most important feature of wrist watch is to show time and I only care that my pulse is over 0. It if drops at 0 then it is bad, anything over it is fine. Also they are pretty wasteful as you cannot service most of them yourself and once battery fails they go dumpster. Also fiddling around super small touch screen is very hard (maybe it is due my butter fingers) .

I am happy that there is still market and demand for regular wrist watches and I seen many switching off smart ones to have good old reliable one

[UCyborg]

I haven't worn one in at least 5 years I think. The last one has had weird issue resetting every couple of days. It was plain digital one with ability to radio sync the clock. I don't go to many places and mostly have some other means to lookup the clock.

I was "the watch guy" in high school, the only one in class who had one, so classmates would often ask me what time is it. Was one of the few in elementary school as well, but I don't remember how much I was being asked about the clock, might have been similar.

[The-10-Pen]

In high school, I wore an expensive Peugot analog and my brother wore a Casio calculator digital watch.
Cheerleader friends would tell me that my brother would never land a girlfriend until he gets rid of the calculator watch.
They were wrong, of course, but I still find it funny to this day and have never worn a digital, let alone a calculator, to this day.

[xperceniol_sal]

I still wear a watch more for that fact that I feel bare without one now ... more for looks I would say honestly. I don't even own a smart phone.

[K4sum1]

I used to wear an original Pebble, then I wore a Pebble Time for a bit, but then I no reason to wear a smartwatch. So I haven't worn any type of watch since.

Maybe if I was out and needed to be notified of something asap, but pretty much nothing of importance happens. Often I just don't go out with a phone even.

[UCyborg]

This is the problematic one I have.

It was serviced once, but resetting didn't stop. The battery was depleted few years back, now it's just sitting in the cupboard.

Maybe if I was out and needed to be notified of something asap, but pretty much nothing of importance happens. Often I just don't go out with a phone even.

Such is life when you have no life.

[BenjaminK]

No smartphone on my side either - good gracious, we're a rare breed ^^ ! -, but (more to the topic) I felt compelled to back Nokiamies's tastes : I also started with a cheap Casio digital, while traveling in Taïwan. By then, I was a bit too carefree about hours, schedules and, unfortunately, other people's expectations, so a close friend, your typical cute asian woman, offered me the means to be a bit more punctual - at least when others are concerned ^^'. I kept it many years, half as a watch, half as a keepsake.
Eventually, it broke and, with repair costs way above the watch's value, I replaced it with a much sturdier G-Shock model - the 5515 GST W130bc, if anyone's curious : it's a very good one -, filled to the brim with functionalities that... most of us will never use (lol), that I've been wearing for 10 years or so... I do appreciate the fact that it toughness (including its bracelet) is off charts : sweat, water, heat, falls... You could more or less push nails in with it ^^ ! I remember an airport agent, at the customs, which was wearing the same model and commented it by saying "Yeah, of course, it's the only ones which really last for long !". That particular model also features solar recharging, which is... well... a neat bonus, even though I'm not sure you're actually saving time or money with it.
But no, you don't have access with it to a pulse meter. And yes, indeed, if your pulse drops to zero, you're in trouble !