by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Wednesday February 25, 2015 @01:15AM (#49124897)
I freed myself from wearing a watch about 10 years ago. No longer having the familiar restraint around my wrist has made me feel free. I much prefer a phone in the pocket to a phone on my wrist.
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
1) How often do you look at the time? I look twice a day tops, if at all. 2) Alarms are hard - why are you fumbling at all.
1: I have a job. 2: I tend to wake up several times before the alarm time. If it's just 15 minutes before, I get up; if longer, I stay in bed and try for some additional sleep. Also, sometimes I sleep other places than where I have an alarm clock.
Your phone doesn't already have alarm features? Couldn't you use that as your alarm clock and, when turning it off check to see if you need to get up or can sleep in? I mean, you are already reaching out of bed for your alarm anyway.
I could walk to work. I could grow my own food. I do a lot of things but phones are not alarm clocks- hell these days they're barely even decent phones. Right tool for the right job.
Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a company that has already achieved a measure of success with previous smart watches and one would imagine a good deal of profit. Why are people still crowd funding stuff like this, couldn't they raise the capital in some other fashion or, y'know, plough some of those profits into their latest endeavour? What next? Micro$haft crowdfunding Wind'ohs 11? Keep crowdfunding for those who actually need it./rant
Call me crazy, Mr Anon, but isn't while you are sleeping the BEST time to charge your phone? I know it is mine. When I go to bed, I make sure my alarm is on, my phone's 'block spam' feature is on and I plug it in to my charger. In the morning, I always have full charge and am woken by my alarm.
I have been using phones for my alarm clocks since my old nokia when I was in university. I have a job, sadly, posting on slashdot isn't it. Goodbye:)
Your phone doesn't already have alarm features? Couldn't you use that as your alarm clock and, when turning it off check to see if you need to get up or can sleep in?
No, it doesn't work that way. See, when the alarm goes off you know you cannot go back to sleep. That's kind of what the alarm is for. So when you turn it off it's always time to get up and never time to sleep in.
It's when you wake up without the alarm going off you may want to know what time it is, preferably without any fumbling that makes you more alert, nor noises waking partners, dogs, cats or walruses. All I have to do is lift one hand and open one eyelid and blissfully slip back to sleep. Tha
I read somewhere, a long time ago, that wristwatches became "popular" during first world war. The reason was that watches were needed for executing coordinated attacks along the front. Wristwatches allowed you to check time, without letting go of your weapon.
This also accounts for wristwatches being worn on the left hand. It allowed you to aim your rifle while being able to look at the watch along the arm that supported it.
That doesn't really work all that well for lefties.
I'm a left-handed person and I always wore watches on my left hand. First of all it didn't cause me any problems to do so. Second of all it would be awkward to operate the watch on the right hand, since button-placement is ergonomically better suited for wearing watch on the left hand and operating it with the right one.
Try winding a "legacy" analog watch with your left hand, while wearing it on the right one. You can, but it's damn uncomfortable.
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it was before this actually... Anglo-Burma wars and Anglo-Boer wars towards the end of the 1800s saw wristwatches become popular with the british millitary officers as they found it difficult to use a pocket watch from the saddle or while trying to shoot a pistol.
Wearing a watch in bed is idiotic. Your skin needs to breathe now and then. Do you wear your shoes to bed as well? You deserve also to wake up with the imprint of the watch on your forehead,.
It really depends on the kind of watch band you have and how tight you wear it. If it's something like leather, cloth, or rubber then you definitely should take it off daily. If you have a metallic band and it isn't completely tight against your wrist, then there should be enough air flow around the watch band to not have any problems. If you have a full metal watch, and wear it to bed, and wear it in the shower, then it should remain relatively sanitary, and you really don't ever have to take it off.
I DONT WEAR CLOTHES AND ANYONE THAT DOES IS A FUCKING MORON!
Why is everyone on the internet so hopelessly and religiously devoted to their own personal choices no matter how minor? I wear a watch to bed sometimes, because mine is a Pebble and vibrates to wake me up.
This is right up there with which way people put the toilet roll on the rod. It doesn't harm anyone either way. People are ready to burn the heretics and others begin to wonder if maybe wiping their ass with their left hand is a better idea.
Wearing a watch in bed is idiotic. Your skin needs to breathe now and then.
That's two disjointed statements. Wearing a band that slides the width of the watch up and down makes skin breathing no issue at all. Not wearing an appropriate band is going to cause problems whether you sleep with the watch on or not.
Do you wear your shoes to bed as well?
What purpose would it have? Unlike a watch, which does tell the time, also in bed.
You deserve also to wake up with the imprint of the watch on your forehead,.
That says a lot more about your sleeping habits than mine.
Because you can launch a synchronized attack from the trenches without everyone fumbling to stuff their watch back into a pocket. Then fashion took over.
"I freed myself from wearing a watch about 10 years ago. No longer having the familiar restraint around my wrist has made me feel free. I much prefer a phone in the pocket to a phone on my wrist."
And I felt the same way -- until I started wearing a pebble. I like keeping my phone in my pocket rather than taking it out 50+ times per day to see if an email or text is trivial or not.
Here's a hint, they are all trivial. If someone can't be bothered to talk to you in person, it's probably not something that needs your attention immediately, if ever.
Same here. I stopped wearing watches because I had allergic reactions to the metal, and for the past 15-20 years I used my cellphone as my watch instead. I don't often need to check the time, and when I do, odds are I'm behind a computer anyway. When I ordered my Pebble, I was a bit concerned because I didn't know how my skin would react to the plastic, but fortunately, the Pebble didn't provoke any reactions.
For me, the main benefits my Pebble brings to the table are moving the notifications out of my p
Yes, but not sure if you can reply from the watch on ios. For Android it's a recent addition. Google is your friend, or you can contact their support through the site, they're relatively responsive.
Same here. I stopped wearing watches because I had allergic reactions to the metal, and for the past 15-20 years I used my cellphone as my watch instead. I don't often need to check the time, and when I do, odds are I'm behind a computer anyway. When I ordered my Pebble, I was a bit concerned because I didn't know how my skin would react to the plastic, but fortunately, the Pebble didn't provoke any reactions.
You can easily replace the Pebble's watchband, as it is standard 22mm. I hated the original silicone watchband and bought a nice leather one on Amazon for $20. Now the Pebble feels and looks nicer.
I simply set most notifications to silent and treat them like email, to be looked at when it suits me. The only ones that actually vibrate are ones I wish to read quickly, everyone else has to wait until it is convenient.
I like keeping my phone in my pocket rather than taking it out 50+ times per day to see if an email or text is trivial or not.
This. I didn't realize how annoying it actually was until I didn't have to do it anymore. I like my current Pebble 2 quite a bit, and am looking forward to the Pebble 3.
I thought the same way until my wife got me a Pebble last Christmas. It's so much easier to glance at my wrist than to keep pulling out my phone. I also like the Dislock app over using an unlock that someone will eventually see over my shoulder.
Republicans still wear watches because they're so stupid. It's hard to pull out your phone when you're raping a child. That is why their kind still wears watches and why they're flooding this scam with cash. It's because they hate females as is the way of their kind.
There are some functional benefits to a wrist watch over a pocket watch such as the ability to tell the time even with your hands full, but really, watches (particularly at the higher end) are more about being a piece of jewelry than funcitonality. Consider the fact that a $10,000 Rolex or Omega automatic is typically substantially less accurate than a $100 Seiko with a quartz yet people still pay the substantial premium. Heck, I've found myself guilty of wearing an automatic watch set to the wrong time because I was in a rush in the morning and wanted to wear the watch for the look.
There's tons of better, more accurate sources to tell time, but people wear watches anyway. When you start viewing watches as just a piece of socially acceptable (typically male) jewelry, they tend to make much more sense.
That is the problem with a lot of these smart watches. The Pebble is awesome in terms of functionality and battery life (well, compared to other smart watches anyway), but it looks like a cheap digital watch from the 70s, and most other smart watches look like crap. There's a couple of ones that look at least halfway decent: the Moto 360 and LG Urbane are round (which I prefer) with a choice of metal bodies and metal or leather straps. I was disappointed by the appearance of the Apple Watch (square, but
Recently, I saw a picture of a diamond-encrusted Apple watch band / case. I'm sure there will be a market for third parties, catering to people with more money than either common sense or fashion sense to 'improve' their smart watch in one way or the other.
Now that nobody has a 'classical' style computer, case modders have to go somewhere.
Recently, I saw a picture of a diamond-encrusted Apple watch band / case. I'm sure there will be a market for third parties, catering to people with more money than either common sense or fashion sense to 'improve' their smart watch in one way or the other.
Don't laugh. Turns out custom straps actually are quite important, and it's a mistake many Swiss watchmakers forget about. The fact that Apple provides a wide range from the get go signals other manufacturers to step their game up.
I freed myself from wearing a watch about 10 years ago. No longer having the familiar restraint around my wrist has made me feel free. I much prefer a phone in the pocket to a phone on my wrist.
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
The chances of my wristwatch battery dying (they last years between "charges"), or it automatically syncing to a new time zone (when I don't want it to), or contracting a virus (when I never want it to) are pretty much zero, and yet I've just described struggles people go through daily with their "watch". Why the hell would I subject myself to that when a wristwatch will pretty much just work non-stop.
You "freed" yourself, as if the burden of a wristwatch was akin to the struggle of enslaved African Americ
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
Apparently, they were needed by pilots in the early era of flight. They needed to keep track of time, and at the same time they had to control the aircraft, which, at the time, was a hard physical work. So, wrist watches became a necessity, then cool, then a fashion item.
Pocket watches were preferred by men until World War One. (Women preferred wristwatches). During the war, men found that having a watch on the wrist was preferable to fishing one up from a pocket. After the war, the fashion for mens pocketwatches never revived.
Same, but involuntarily, I developed extremely sensitivity to nickel. and could no longer wear anything on my wrist except gold or titanium. I bought skagen titanium watches, but first one they had used stainless steel for the claps, so it game me a horrible itch, next one the glass broke, and last one the latch broke. That some $300 wasted on low quality Danish junk that looks nice but can't stand up to normal wear. I still look for watches, but they all advertize their material for the face side. The bac
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
Fashion. You've got this beautiful $100k timepiece, so you strap it to your wrist so that everyone can see it and know you are able to afford such thing. Same reason people wear their jeans halfway down their arse, so people can see their expensive underwear.
I also don't understand why people want to handcuff themselves with gadgets. It's been 22 years for me since I freed myself but I understand that everybody makes his own rules:-)
I still prefer watches, but fancy one as in useful like the old school Casio Data Bank 150/300 watches. I wished smartwatches were like those without requiring those big phones.
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I freed myself from wearing a watch about 10 years ago. No longer having the familiar restraint around my wrist has made me feel free. I much prefer a phone in the pocket to a phone on my wrist.
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
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Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
Primarily because you can glance at a wristwatch without having a free hand or any specific clothing.
And you can also wear a wristwatch to bed. I like being able to see whether I can sleep for an hour more without fumbling around.
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1) How often do you look at the time? I look twice a day tops, if at all.
2) Alarms are hard - why are you fumbling at all.
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1) How often do you look at the time? I look twice a day tops, if at all.
2) Alarms are hard - why are you fumbling at all.
1: I have a job.
2: I tend to wake up several times before the alarm time. If it's just 15 minutes before, I get up; if longer, I stay in bed and try for some additional sleep.
Also, sometimes I sleep other places than where I have an alarm clock.
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Your phone doesn't already have alarm features? Couldn't you use that as your alarm clock and, when turning it off check to see if you need to get up or can sleep in? I mean, you are already reaching out of bed for your alarm anyway.
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I could walk to work. I could grow my own food. I do a lot of things but phones are not alarm clocks- hell these days they're barely even decent phones. Right tool for the right job.
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Correct me if I'm wrong but this is a company that has already achieved a measure of success with previous smart watches and one would imagine a good deal of profit. Why are people still crowd funding stuff like this, couldn't they raise the capital in some other fashion or, y'know, plough some of those profits into their latest endeavour? What next? Micro$haft crowdfunding Wind'ohs 11? Keep crowdfunding for those who actually need it. /rant
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My phone cant wake me up if the battery is dead, you unemployed clod!
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Call me crazy, Mr Anon, but isn't while you are sleeping the BEST time to charge your phone? I know it is mine. When I go to bed, I make sure my alarm is on, my phone's 'block spam' feature is on and I plug it in to my charger. In the morning, I always have full charge and am woken by my alarm.
I have been using phones for my alarm clocks since my old nokia when I was in university. I have a job, sadly, posting on slashdot isn't it. Goodbye :)
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Your phone doesn't already have alarm features? Couldn't you use that as your alarm clock and, when turning it off check to see if you need to get up or can sleep in?
No, it doesn't work that way. See, when the alarm goes off you know you cannot go back to sleep. That's kind of what the alarm is for. So when you turn it off it's always time to get up and never time to sleep in.
It's when you wake up without the alarm going off you may want to know what time it is, preferably without any fumbling that makes you more alert, nor noises waking partners, dogs, cats or walruses. All I have to do is lift one hand and open one eyelid and blissfully slip back to sleep. Tha
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You can't? I can always just set my alarm a little later and just close my eyes again. Guess everyone is different.
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I work for a living. I would look at my watch at least 20-30 times a day at least as I record my activities so I can bill them to my customer.
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I work for a living. I would look at my watch at least 20-30 times a day at least as I record my activities so I can bill them to my customer.
You must not work with computers for a living - I would have the software record the time (date and elapsed for good measure) automatically.
But I'm lazy.
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You need one of those ceiling projector clocks. I've had one for years and it's the nuts. Just look at the ceiling to see the time.
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Sounds implausible. Only the officers would have needed to know what time the barrage would lift (or whatever) and they generally didn't carry rifles.
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Try strapping your watch on your right wrist (if you're right handed), and you'll understand why we carry them on our left wrists.
FTFM (Fixed that for myself)
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I'm left handed and I've always carried my watch on the left hand.
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Once again, the simple answer is the right one.
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I'm a left-handed person and I always wore watches on my left hand. First of all it didn't cause me any problems to do so. Second of all it would be awkward to operate the watch on the right hand, since button-placement is ergonomically better suited for wearing watch on the left hand and operating it with the right one. Try winding a "legacy" analog watch with your left hand, while wearing it on the right one. You can, but it's damn uncomfortable.
The o
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Wearing a watch in bed is idiotic. Your skin needs to breathe now and then. Do you wear your shoes to bed as well? You deserve also to wake up with the imprint of the watch on your forehead,.
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I DONT WEAR CLOTHES AND ANYONE THAT DOES IS A FUCKING MORON!
Why is everyone on the internet so hopelessly and religiously devoted to their own personal choices no matter how minor? I wear a watch to bed sometimes, because mine is a Pebble and vibrates to wake me up.
This is right up there with which way people put the toilet roll on the rod. It doesn't harm anyone either way. People are ready to burn the heretics and others begin to wonder if maybe wiping their ass with their left hand is a better idea.
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Wearing a watch in bed is idiotic. Your skin needs to breathe now and then.
That's two disjointed statements. Wearing a band that slides the width of the watch up and down makes skin breathing no issue at all. Not wearing an appropriate band is going to cause problems whether you sleep with the watch on or not.
Do you wear your shoes to bed as well?
What purpose would it have? Unlike a watch, which does tell the time, also in bed.
You deserve also to wake up with the imprint of the watch on your forehead,.
That says a lot more about your sleeping habits than mine.
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Because you can launch a synchronized attack from the trenches without everyone fumbling to stuff their watch back into a pocket. Then fashion took over.
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"I freed myself from wearing a watch about 10 years ago. No longer having the familiar restraint around my wrist has made me feel free. I much prefer a phone in the pocket to a phone on my wrist."
And I felt the same way -- until I started wearing a pebble. I like keeping my phone in my pocket rather than taking it out 50+ times per day to see if an email or text is trivial or not.
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THAT is why I will never own a fucking smart phone.
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Here's a hint, they are all trivial. If someone can't be bothered to talk to you in person, it's probably not something that needs your attention immediately, if ever.
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Same here. I stopped wearing watches because I had allergic reactions to the metal, and for the past 15-20 years I used my cellphone as my watch instead. I don't often need to check the time, and when I do, odds are I'm behind a computer anyway. When I ordered my Pebble, I was a bit concerned because I didn't know how my skin would react to the plastic, but fortunately, the Pebble didn't provoke any reactions.
For me, the main benefits my Pebble brings to the table are moving the notifications out of my p
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sounds cool. does it work iwht iphone?
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Same here. I stopped wearing watches because I had allergic reactions to the metal, and for the past 15-20 years I used my cellphone as my watch instead. I don't often need to check the time, and when I do, odds are I'm behind a computer anyway. When I ordered my Pebble, I was a bit concerned because I didn't know how my skin would react to the plastic, but fortunately, the Pebble didn't provoke any reactions.
You can easily replace the Pebble's watchband, as it is standard 22mm. I hated the original silicone watchband and bought a nice leather one on Amazon for $20. Now the Pebble feels and looks nicer.
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I simply set most notifications to silent and treat them like email, to be looked at when it suits me. The only ones that actually vibrate are ones I wish to read quickly, everyone else has to wait until it is convenient.
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I like keeping my phone in my pocket rather than taking it out 50+ times per day to see if an email or text is trivial or not.
This. I didn't realize how annoying it actually was until I didn't have to do it anymore. I like my current Pebble 2 quite a bit, and am looking forward to the Pebble 3.
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I thought the same way until my wife got me a Pebble last Christmas. It's so much easier to glance at my wrist than to keep pulling out my phone. I also like the Dislock app over using an unlock that someone will eventually see over my shoulder.
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Because you don't have to reach into any pockets: it's just there, ready to read.
For me that positive exceeds the negative of fumbling around in pockets, but YMMV.
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some of us don't wear pants and it makes it a real pain to dig out our phones (think about this before you respond)
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You didn't think before you replied! I'm a lady!
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You didn't think before you replied! I'm a lady!
Well I suppose that smell is more bearable. Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
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Republicans still wear watches because they're so stupid. It's hard to pull out your phone when you're raping a child. That is why their kind still wears watches and why they're flooding this scam with cash. It's because they hate females as is the way of their kind.
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It's hard to pull out your phone when you're raping a child
I guess you'd know about that, eh Mr Clinton?
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No one has ever resisted looking at their phone... you can see the people just itching to check their texts. At least a watch is mildly intrusive.
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"No one has ever resisted looking at their phone... you can see the people just itching to check their texts. At least a watch is mildly intrusive."
Don't you just love it, when you give a speech and 2 dozen people are checking their watches every 30 seconds?
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Re:Watches - Jewelry, Not Functionality (Score:5, Insightful)
There are some functional benefits to a wrist watch over a pocket watch such as the ability to tell the time even with your hands full, but really, watches (particularly at the higher end) are more about being a piece of jewelry than funcitonality. Consider the fact that a $10,000 Rolex or Omega automatic is typically substantially less accurate than a $100 Seiko with a quartz yet people still pay the substantial premium. Heck, I've found myself guilty of wearing an automatic watch set to the wrong time because I was in a rush in the morning and wanted to wear the watch for the look.
There's tons of better, more accurate sources to tell time, but people wear watches anyway. When you start viewing watches as just a piece of socially acceptable (typically male) jewelry, they tend to make much more sense.
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random: "Hey, you got the time?"
SlashdotOgre: "Yeah it's exactly... the wrong time."
That will be a swell date.
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And this is why those Pebble things are useless. They look like something you only bought because you couldn't afford a proper watch.
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Recently, I saw a picture of a diamond-encrusted Apple watch band / case. I'm sure there will be a market for third parties, catering to people with more money than either common sense or fashion sense to 'improve' their smart watch in one way or the other.
Now that nobody has a 'classical' style computer, case modders have to go somewhere.
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Don't laugh. Turns out custom straps actually are quite important, and it's a mistake many Swiss watchmakers forget about. The fact that Apple provides a wide range from the get go signals other manufacturers to step their game up.
A horologist's take on t
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Pebble Steel. You can even download a watchface that says Rolex!
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I freed myself from wearing a watch about 10 years ago. No longer having the familiar restraint around my wrist has made me feel free. I much prefer a phone in the pocket to a phone on my wrist.
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
The chances of my wristwatch battery dying (they last years between "charges"), or it automatically syncing to a new time zone (when I don't want it to), or contracting a virus (when I never want it to) are pretty much zero, and yet I've just described struggles people go through daily with their "watch". Why the hell would I subject myself to that when a wristwatch will pretty much just work non-stop.
You "freed" yourself, as if the burden of a wristwatch was akin to the struggle of enslaved African Americ
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Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
Apparently, they were needed by pilots in the early era of flight. They needed to keep track of time, and at the same time they had to control the aircraft, which, at the time, was a hard physical work. So, wrist watches became a necessity, then cool, then a fashion item.
My intro to aerodynamics book told a story similar to this one: http://monochrome-watches.com/... [monochrome-watches.com]
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Sounds like a myth. They made wrist watches in the 16th century.
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Pocket watches were preferred by men until World War One. (Women preferred wristwatches). During the war, men found that having a watch on the wrist was preferable to fishing one up from a pocket. After the war, the fashion for mens pocketwatches never revived.
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Same, but involuntarily, I developed extremely sensitivity to nickel. and could no longer wear anything on my wrist except gold or titanium. I bought skagen titanium watches, but first one they had used stainless steel for the claps, so it game me a horrible itch, next one the glass broke, and last one the latch broke. That some $300 wasted on low quality Danish junk that looks nice but can't stand up to normal wear. I still look for watches, but they all advertize their material for the face side. The bac
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Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
Fashion. You've got this beautiful $100k timepiece, so you strap it to your wrist so that everyone can see it and know you are able to afford such thing. Same reason people wear their jeans halfway down their arse, so people can see their expensive underwear.
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I still prefer watches, but fancy one as in useful like the old school Casio Data Bank 150/300 watches. I wished smartwatches were like those without requiring those big phones.