Watches

**Lady's Human** · 08-09-2009, 05:49 PM

I wear a watch constantly, and it drives me insane when I forget to.

Beware 'mechanics' wearing nice watches......they don't get their hands dirty.

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-09-2009, 06:29 PM

I love timepieces....watches, clocks. The more unusual the better. I wear watches like bracelets -- different colors, styles, etc. and have clocks in every room (even the garage and the patio!)

There are times a cell phone just doesn't work as a watch -- on an airplane for example when they must be turned off or in a meeting or interview when picking up the cell phone is a little too obvious.

But other people's watches? -- only if the watch is very interesting or very overdone....

**RICHARD** · 08-09-2009, 06:36 PM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

I wear a watch constantly, and it drives me insane when I forget to.

Beware 'mechanics' wearing nice watches......they don't get their hands dirty.

But, have you been to an airshow?

**blue** · 08-09-2009, 06:55 PM

I havent worn a watch in over a decade. I hated the tan line.

I stopped wearing a watch when I got a cell phone, I taped my watch to my tool belt so I wouldnt constantly be pulling out the cell to check the time. If Im on a plane, why do I need to know what time it is? If Im somewhere where it would be noticable that I was looking at my watch it would be just as noticable if I was looking at my cell.

I remember the days of the Swatch Watch Revolution, people wearing 5 or 6 Swatches. Or the huge "pocket" watches or the 6" digital watches.

Your $5 dollar watch means as much to me as your $10,000 dollar watch, absolutely nothing.

**Cinder & Smoke** · 08-09-2009, 06:56 PM

Originally Posted by Lady's Human

I wear a watch constantly, and it drives me insane when I forget to.

Beware 'mechanics' wearing nice watches ......
they don't get their hands dirty.

I'm surprised your Uncle Sam even allows wrist watches around the
high-speed sorting machinery!

Mr. Watson (of IBM fame) had strict rules about
* NO wrist watches
* NO rings
* NO loose fitting necklaces
* NO around-the neck Neckties - Clip-On ties ONLY (Card readers could
. . *GRAB* a tie quicker than they could read a card!

)
* Everyone wears safety glasses unless in an office
* Everyone wears safety shoes in the plant

When I switched to *fixin radios* - I quickly discovered RF energy and
High Voltage DC just loved to *JUMP* onto carelessly placed watches and
rings

- so they went in my pocket or sat on the office desk.

**Lady's Human** · 08-09-2009, 07:01 PM

Trust me.....

Once I open the little covers that say "High Voltage", watches, rings and dog tags get put in the pocket, even though I wear a non-conductive watch.

(There are even places where I take the watch off that aren't high voltage.....the 300A 5V power supply in particular)

In the military, the power amplifier section of one of the radios I worked on had a particularly nasty reputation. 50KV coil in a relatively tiny area.......Lots of arc burns from that puppy.

**Laura's Babies** · 08-09-2009, 07:20 PM

I only wear one when I travel or have an appointment. I do not notice other peoples watches either. I have a really small arm and have never had one that didn't slide up and down my arm and I find them terriably annoying.

**blue** · 08-09-2009, 07:23 PM

The main reasons I stopped wearing a watch was a nice electrical burn I got after getting zapped while working on a 277 lighting run, and getting my wrist caught while trying to fish a com run through a hole.

I did get some nice burn marks on my big toes from my steel toe boots but I still wear those.

**Moesha** · 08-09-2009, 08:32 PM

I don't notice watches very often but wear one most of the time. I had misplaced my regular watch and my backup had a dead battery back in the spring. I went on vacation around this time to Disney World with some friends. Since I didn't ride many of the rides with them, I needed to know the time to meet back up with them. I got tired of pulling my cell phone out, so I bought a watch at one of the stores. It has a leopard print band and a leopard print Mickey head on the dial. I have had several people comment on it, including my doctor while performing my annual breast exam!

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-09-2009, 08:36 PM

I have clients that have rules against employees bringing cell phones to meetings (they think the employees should be paying attention to the meeting - not texting or checking messages or reading emails on their Blackberry.)

I have some clients who have rules against personal cell phones being turned on or visible during working hours. Lots of business reasons for it.

That is why I believe watches will never completely go away!

**krazyaboutkatz** · 08-09-2009, 09:59 PM

I used to always wear a watch but then I kept forgetting to take it off at work when I'd go to sandblast some metal copings and I'd end up getting sand inside of it and ruining the watch. Now I rarely wear one unless I'm going some where for a long period of time or I'm meeting up with some one. I still don't have a cell phone or an ipod but I'm usually surrounded by clocks at work and at home.

**aTailOf2Kitties** · 08-09-2009, 08:32 PM

I have to have a watch on, I go nuts without one.
I may notice an unusually-colored or sized watch if someone uses their hands a lot but I don't fixate on whether or not someone is wearing one at all.