Watching watches

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I started a thread to consider watches for Sophist. Then I realized I collect them:

timex was my first brand, endorsed by my mother who is part as.
i moved from timex to seiko when i found out they made an auto wind watch.
my father who is more than part as gave me a casio when i ran my first marathon.
next i moved briefly to the casio baby g because it had multiple alarms and entertainment as well as a data bank. i prefer the casios as they have more features that i need.

my current watch is a casio solar wave ceptor with 19 time zones, a data bank, 5 alarms with memo, water resistant to 50 meters (they go up to 200), a stop watch, and stainless steel band. I have two other solar watches that cost more than the casio (one, a gift from my then partner, was $500 on sale). the expensive one is a citizen analog/digital with 23 time zones digital and on the bezel, stop watch, timer, alarm and too much bling. only wear it on fancy occasions. The elgin is much more modest and only has a calendar and tachymeter. Its notable however because it is all analog.
i still have the baby g, a watch for running (computes mileage!), a casio edifice (mudproof for gardening), a backup running watch (timex), a loaner (armitron), 3 automatics (2 seiko and one grey market), a pocket watch and some junk watches (a t-shirt watch, a keychain watch)

Ay, yi, yi.
I went to check on the running watch brand (reebok), and found two timex ironman watches, a timex expedition, an ABC sports ("the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat" is engraved on the case), a second pocket watch (the first one is missing), and wonder of wonders, my "marathon casio" with the correct time (given no one has adjusted for DST) and date on it. The marathon watch went to 10 marathons and other races, and is 17 years old. It counts 30 laps (including splits), has a timer with auto repeat function and an alarm.

And, yes, i now realize that i have just as many timexes (4) as i do casios.

and 'way too many watches, and way too much fun with this.

Gah
found another timex.
timex 5, casio 4.
should have given my sister something else for holiday a couple of years ago.
on the other hand, i haven't bought a watch since 2003.
could be time for a new casio....

I have 5 Watches. A British one, a Canadian one, an Elvis one, a Beatles one and a Monkees one.

I love watches. But I don't have enough 'cause I'm poor.

But I'm a watch/clock-aholic. I always feel the unwavering desire to know the time. I need to know the time. I'm a little obsessive.

I'd love to start an old clock collection. But that will have to occur when I am wealthier. I love old clocks.

BTW, my mother will be ordering my watch tomorrow. When it gets here, I'll have to go have it resized (have some of the links taken out) since it's a men's watch and I've gotten woman wrists.

I also love watches. I have three, but two of them are cheap plastic ones that didn't work and kept bad time. My official watch is has a strap made from braided thin strands of gold and a diamond set into the 12. It keeps great time. Its only fault is that it has no second hand. I like watching the second hand on watches.
I also own 3 of 4 clocks, only one of which works.
I get very disoriented if I don't know what time it is- I like to know when I am.
If anyone has too many watches, I'll be happy to take them off your hands.

I don't wear a watch as I feel uncomfotable with things on my wrists and other parts of my body. I feel freer without a watch to look at too and can just look at my mobile if i need to know the time.

I'm not into watches anyway but dislike digital ones, I think real face watches are more classy, (depending on the style).

I have no concept of time, so I have to have a watch. The funny thing is that the batteries never last very long when I wear one all the time. When left in my Jewerly box, the batteries are good for about two-three years. When I wear it every day, about 6 months on a Quartz, and not quite a year on digital. My jeweler, who replaces the batteries in my watches, said I run them down more than others he's seen. I have met a few folks in my line of work with the same problem. They also mess up television pictures by being close to the TV and the Walkie-Talkies we use on dont work right with them. Some one in a college class of mine a while back suggested it was Magnatism. (She couldnt wear a watch at all, and we put a compass in her hand and it went haywire, freaky) none the less, I rotate watches every so often to keep the life of the batteries longer. anyone else had this problem?

I've got about 5 watches. It's not that I wear them all, I only wear 2 of them, one for normal everyday wear (it's pretty looking with a gold band and stuff) and another one for sailing. The other 3 are either sitting around collecting dust or they don't work. Main reason for havin so many was that the batteries ran out and instead of replacing the battery, I replaced the watch. But they're all waterproof 100m or more

It's funny. I'm usually pretty good with my concept of time but I have the obsessive need to know the exact minute.

And I also couldn't bear a watch without a second hand.

my ex used to run down watch batteries that way. It took her maybe three months or so. She does better with the lithium batteries (about a year) but before that I bought her an automatic (self-winding) and that worked fine. I lent her my first solar powered watch and she killed it. She also doesn't ever have a working gas gauge - they always fail within a year or two of her buying a car. i'm going to tell her about the compass thing.

My favorite was a swatch, an incredible peice of functional design.easy to change the battery, easy to change the wristband,tough as hell. Used to wear it face up on my belt-lost it in the mountains of Colorado after I'd had it ten years.

Can you have too many watches? I like to have a few of each small item around so their easy to find.
If someone really gets off on collecting them, great-though I try to hold down my degree of hoarding 'cause it messes up your
ability to travel.

Jes' ordered my watch.

I do not have many watches, but I have worn more than one watch at the same time, and I always know what time it is within five minutes of the actual time. I do enjoy watching clocks and when I was younger could watch them for hours, especially grandfather clocks.

I have a good sense of time but I think that comes from cooking... you get good at knowing just when the timer will sound.

i only have one watch wich i wear regularly. on somewhat of a related note, have you ever noticed that digital clocks will never let you watch them change time?

Last edited by Elk on 05 Dec 2005, 9:35 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Everytime I watch a watch its slow.

I wouldn't say I have a collection, but I do have a few.
Back in the day i had about 7 swatch watches when they *cool*.

I do and have had a favorite watch for some time now.
I have 2 of the same one so that I have a spare if I misplace one or the unthinkable happens.

My day just doesn't go right if I don't have a timepiece on my wrist.