Watches

**mruffruff** · 08-10-2009, 11:07 AM

I feel naked without my $7.00 watch. I don't change batteries, just run to WallyWorld for a replacement. Same style and color every time.

I have clocks in every room of the house except the bathroom, and 3 in the kitchen. I'm really not obsessed with time................or am I?

**Barbara** · 08-10-2009, 12:00 PM

I love watches as they are a jewelry accessory- so I have lots of them- mostly very cheap ones.
The next thing: watches can be a wonderful - and handmade- piece of mechanic technology. So I stand in front of the shops and admire 15.000 Dollar watches- but only platonically. I would never spend an amount that would be nice for a car on even the nicest piece of mechnics

**Lizzie** · 08-10-2009, 12:33 PM

I haven't worn a watch for about 20 years and couldn't bear to wear one ever again. I don't have a cell phone either. I've become very adept at guessing the time of day mostly by looking at the daytime sky, or just sensing how much time has passed. I'm right within about fifteen minutes the great majority of the time. Of course at work I look at a clock.

I would notice an old style watch, such as a pocket watch, simply because they are beautiful objects, but generally they leave me cold. My favorite clock was one that always chimed the wrong number of hours, that's the kind of time I like - very Alice in Wonderland and chaotic.

**sirrahbed** · 08-10-2009, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by mruffruff

I feel naked without my $7.00 watch. I don't change batteries, just run to WallyWorld for a replacement. Same style and color every time.

Exactly!!! I have worn rhe same watch style for at least five years and hubby gets me a new one every Christmas. I think they are $7.99 now

Prior to that I had the same Seiko that my dad bought for me about 25 years ago and had it repaired until it died. I thought I would like another of the same brand and was blown away by the price!!! No thank you - give me a new Wally watch every year. It has never occured to me to look at the watch another person is wearing, unless I need to know the time.

**lizbud** · 08-10-2009, 05:52 PM

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

**Medusa** · 08-10-2009, 06:19 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

My ex-husband still carries one. He loves them.

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-10-2009, 08:24 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

Why only guys?

I have a lovely one that was my grandmother's. Have it in a display holder in my living room....

(Women wore them on a chain or a pin...)

**blue** · 08-10-2009, 10:48 PM

Originally Posted by lizbud

I really wish guys would come back to the old fashioned pocket
watches. I always thought they looked so neat. My Grandpa had a
beautiful gold watch that opened up to show time.

Somewhere around here I do have a Russian Officers pocket watch.

**kokopup** · 08-10-2009, 11:24 PM

I do not wear jewelery of any kind. I worked around High Voltage before I retired so wearing any jewelery was a no no. I stopped wearing a watch as a teen when my stretch band of my watch got shorted across the starter selenoid of my car. When 75 amps travels through a gold band it turns cherry red instantly. Needless to say I had evidence of a stretch band on my arm and back of my hand for quite a while. When i got Married I told my wife I would wear a wedding band if she could find one made of jade or plastic.

**Killearn Kitties** · 08-11-2009, 04:27 AM

I have never got into the habit of wearing a watch. When I was young they used to stop within about 10 minutes of me putting them on. Once I started work, there were clocks, time display on phones, PCs etc.

I bought one a few years ago when I was travelling on my own, realising it might be useful to know the exact time even though I was away from my desk. I don't wear it normally, but I do try to remember to take it on holiday.

**Barbara** · 08-11-2009, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties

I
I bought one a few years ago when I was travelling on my own, realising it might be useful to know the exact time even though I was away from my desk.

Was that after you missed the flight to LA to the PT BBQ?

**RICHARD** · 08-11-2009, 11:46 AM

Originally Posted by blue

Somewhere around here I do have a Russian Officers pocket watch.

Umm,
What did you do with the Russian that previously owned the watch?

**Edwina's Secretary** · 08-11-2009, 11:51 AM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

Umm,
What did you do with the Russian that previously owned the watch?

As you may recall...Ms. Palin can see Russia from her front porch. I'm guessing a passing Russian dropped it.

**Lady's Human** · 08-11-2009, 12:06 PM

Those things were CHEAP in East Berlin in the months after the wall fell. I have a Soviet General's hat. It cost me 5 deutchmarks.

**blue** · 08-11-2009, 11:21 PM

Originally Posted by Edwina's Secretary

As you may recall...Ms. Palin can see Russia from her front porch. I'm guessing a passing Russian dropped it.

You are confusing real life with entertainment. Maybe you forgot to take your pills again.

Cell phones and PDAs are a security risk in some orginizations and that is why they are not allowed in meetings or in some cases at all on the premises.

I got the watch and Russian Officers hat of of Ebay cheap.