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Do you wear one? Which ones?

I wear a pretty distinct watch daily that my dad gave me years ago called Croton...and a metal band Casio. Looking at a seiko soon! :)
 
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User#8628 said:
I don't wear them. They are more uncomfortable than bracelets and i can check the time on my phone if i need to..
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Right! Do they even make watches anymore?

Since I don't have a cell phone, I use my iPod's clock, stopwatch, and alarm functions.

When I am riding my road bicycle, I use my Garmin 810 sports computer for real time, elapsed time, moving time, and kilometers per hour.

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But as the saying goes, why wear 40K on your wrist? I saw where someone bought an 80k watch. But rumor has it that Casio makes the best watches in the world if you compare accuracy and longevity. But in terms of just making a statement, Patek says it all.
 
I have tried giving up a watch in favor of checking the time on my phone on few different occasions, but it doesn't work for me. Even after a few weeks I am still glancing at my bare wrist when I want to know the time, thinking for a moment that I have lost my watch and only then remembering and fishing out my phone and activating its screen. By the time I've done all that I have usually forgotten why I wanted to know the time in the first place!

You can teach an old dog new tricks...but not very quickly. :(

-Ww
 
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Watches are a bit like cars... it's hard to settle, so you keep going higher and higher and suddenly you are out of a nice piece of bank.

My wrist is sexy enough as is, I don't need a timepiece for it.

But if you want to make a subtle statement, there's nothing like wearing the price of a small city apartment entirely on your wrist.
 
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Grandpa left me his watch, I miss it because I send it to be serviced and it won't be back for a while :( I would love to get my hands on A.Lange & söhne but they are pricy :(
@DeepStick2020
A Patek is like a Bugatti, it is luxuries and the engine is a beast but it eats fuel like crazy.
A Casio is like a Prius, it's nothing special but it saves a lot of fuel.
 
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TheWhiteBear said:
Grandpa left me his watch, I miss it because I send it to be serviced and it won't be back for a while :( I would love to get my hands on A.Lange & söhne but they are pricy :(
@DeepStick2020
A Patek is like a Bugatti, it is luxuries and the engine is a beast but it eats fuel like crazy.
A Casio is like a Prius, it's nothing special but it saves a lot of fuel.
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I want to hear about the first Bugatti owner that is concerned about fuel consumption
 
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Damian said:
I want to hear about the first Bugatti owner that is concerned about fuel consumption
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What I was comparing was Patek's internal movements to a Bugatti's engine, it's expensive to buy and maintain, I wasn't saying people complaining about fuel consumption :p
Both will get you from A-B but how you do it, depends on you.
 
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toner935 said:
why is the time that important anyway??
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Maybe what you really want to ask is: "Why is knowing the time that important anyway??"

Now, If you are really asking 'why time is that important' , the answer can come from several different angles, let me give you a very simple street one:

You can not get it back.
If you doubt of its importance, try having no time, or even worst....try having no more time.
 
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When talking about my sub (black bezel, basic), I can't rationally use the verb "to need", but I clearly feel strange without it.
Not only it gives me time, but also completes my look, and helps connecting with people in business settings.

Moreover, even being younger than @Wwanderer I guess I'm already too old. My brain has associated time with my left wrist for already 2/3 of my life, so my iPhone will stay in my pocket.
 
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jacqueh said:
I guess I'm already too old. My brain has associated time with my left wrist for already 2/3 of my life, so my iPhone will stay in my pocket.
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I do have to say, however, that I got one of those FitBits, and for probably the first year I wore it I'd catch myself looking at it to see what time it was.
 
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Expensive watches have got to be the dumbest motherfucking thing ever. If you spend more money on, say, a guitar---it will play and sound better than a cheaper one (up to a point), and the same can be said for many items. However, spending a lot of money on a watch is just vain and silly. What's the point?
 
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matt_j said:
However, spending a lot of money on a watch is just vain.
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I think you answered your own question there. Men have few accessories that are considered acceptable by the mainstream. Like women that may collect purses, shoes, or other jewelry as fashionable accessories, men buy watches. As others have stated, they are somewhat like cars in that watches are a statement piece.

As you said spending more money on a guitar up to a point gets you a better sound. The same is said for watches. Spending more money on a better movement is more accurate up to a point so one wouldn't have to adjust as frequently.

Personally, I don't normally wear a watch. However, I have a 1904 Elgin pocketwatch that cost me more to restore than it is worth. It's something that connects me to my grandfather and it serves a semi practical purpose if I ever want to know the time, provided I remembered to wind it up.
 
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