So who likes watches... Or likes collecting them

[Lance]

Over the years have collected a few nice watches from estate sales ... I like the old self winders or anything that is unique ....

[trottigy]

When I was a kid I couldn't wait to buy a calculator watch.    Casio made them. I finally got one and wow!!! was I proud of that thing!!

 

It even had a little game one it of hitting the numbers.

 

I haven't had a watch in a long time since then. I have been eyeing this new Apple Watch, but I don't know.

 

I think I would rather a really nice watch like a nice Rolex (but they are STEEP!). Are these expensive watches really worth it?

[Áine]

My father had a 'Hunter' watch it was beautiful and engraved on both sides and was meant to be hung from a chain, I forget the name for these watches? My grandfather always wore a watch tucked in his waistcoat

[ReadYourBible]

My Dad has a 1900's Waltham pocket watch, when you open the back up there is beautiful engraving and a single diamond.

 

It was given to him by his Father, and he had intended to give it to my son.  A few years back though, with my son getting into trouble a lot, Dad thought the watch had been stolen by him.  So furious at this, he threw my son out of the house. 

 

Fast forward a year, the watch resurfaced, in a different drawer, where my Dad recalled putting it after he found it again.

 

It's still a beautiful watch, but now it has an ugly memory attached to it

 

It's like this one here:

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Antique-Waltham-15-Jewels-Size-12S-Pocket-Watch-Circa-1894-Not-Running-031033-/301559755134

Edited March 18, 2015 by cerebral ecstasy

[Musky]

This is my pride and joy.

 

 

It's a limited edition and has now become quite valuable. I have two, one for wearing and one unopened. 

[Áine]

That's really cool musky I've never seen one before

[ChocoBro]

I think that digital watches are a pretty neat idea!

[jpcook]

This is my pride and joy.

 

locwatch.jpg

 

It's a limited edition and has now become quite valuable. I have two, one for wearing and one unopened. 

 

This watch is at least 400 to 500 years ahead of its time!

[ReadYourBible]

That Borg watch is slick Musky.  You're saving that to give me when you kick the bucket right? 

[Lance]

For a new watch .. I am going to check out the new Apple iwatch .. It may come in handy or maybe not

For older watches I like the older automatics .. Just something about a good mechanical watch ...

Edited March 19, 2015 by TheDoorGuy

[jayrtom]

For a new watch .. I am going to check out the new Apple iwatch .. It may come in handy or maybe not

For older watches I like the older automatics .. Just something about a good mechanical watch ...

If you're considering a smartwatch take a look into the new LG... Looks like a traditional watch but packed with a lot of things... They say it's the best at the moment and with a much less price tag ;)

http://m.gsmarena.com/lg_mwc_2015-review-1213.php

[carlos]

Oh, do people use watches anymore?

[Lance]

It is biblical.....

Keep on the watch...

Or

Peter slept on the watch...

Groan

[jayrtom]

The world’s fashion magazines HYPERLINK "http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2014/09/09/how-the-apple-watch-legitimizes-and-enhances-the-entire-smartwatch-scene/"wait for the Apple Watch. HYPERLINK "https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-time-awesome-smartwatch-no-compromises"Pebble and Kickstarter are pushing the $20 million dollar project of the Pebble Time and the Pebble Steel. Google and its partners are wondering HYPERLINK "http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/03/18/android-wear-fail/"what happens next with Android Wear. But long before these technological marvels, wearable technology dominated by another watch.

With everyone looking towards the wrist in 2015, can we learn anything from one of the world’s first smartwatches, HYPERLINK "http://www.casio.com/products/Watches/Classic/F91W-1/"the ubiquitous Casio F-91W?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ewanspence/2015/03/29/casio-f-91w-review/

[Lance]

Welcome to 1985 .. With that watch ..it tells time and has an alarm .. I want one . Lol

[trottigy]

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/29/style/baselworld-where-the-watch-is-still-the-greatest-gadget.html?referrer=

For one week in March, this glittering watch and jewelry show (which ran March 19 to 26), attracts 150,000 industry insiders, collectors and fans, emerging from the digital mists of the 21st century like Brigadoon. It is a village unto itself with its own language, values and celebrities.

And a curious village it is. In an iPhone-toting era, where millions go out in public every day flaunting naked wrists, this is one corner of the globe where the wristwatch — that centuries-old feat of micro-engineering once considered as obsolete as the rotary phone — is the only personal productivity device, status symbol and idea on earth that seems to matter.

That certainly seemed to be the case for Mr. Singer, whose passions were stoked in childhood by his father’s rectangularJaeger-LeCoultre triple calendar moonphase. Clad in black, with a giant Gothic silver cross around his neck, the 58-year-old heir to Peter Criss’s drum stool may not look like a garden-variety watch geek

[LeslieDean]

My husband bought a Rolex as a gift for  himself after he did a big job for Cherly Crow.  He loved it and I have to admit I thought it was an extravagant gift (but I never complained when the items were for me ) and I told him he should get the full use of it and wear it daily and not just let it hang in the jewlery armoire.  He worked hard doing construction/chimney detail and could not wear it so it became an every once in a while dress piece.  He seldom ever dresses up.  Now he won't wear it to work--worry about being robbed--so the watch continues to go unused. It Is not big and gawdy  but a simple single row of nice diamonds around the face.  It seems like we can't even enjoy anything nice in this system for fear of lookings like we are showing off, or fear of being robbed. I'm sure that an office job, or a sales job that would allow you to wear a Rolex would be a nice gift for yoursself.  I have the Fit watch (but I have developed an allergy to the band) but worse that that was the having to plug it in like a device and then I would forget to wear it.  I think you would like the Rolex better!