What kind of watch do you wear?
Monday, September 11th, 2006 - 9:09pm
I like watches. No, scratch that, I love watches. I love watches so much that, as I said in the "What do you collect?" thread, I collect them.
However, I do have a favorite that I wear most of the time.
This limited edition Omega Speedmaster. The reason that I wear a Speedmaster as my primary watch is that it appeals to my geek side because the speedmaster is the orginal moon watch.
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I don't wear watches...
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Palm Treo 650.
Or a polar 725i if I'm running or riding.
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Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...
I always wear a Polar S150 heart rate monitor.
Mostly because almost every day I run, skateboard or cycle. It just got to be convenient about 5 years ago to just wear my heart rate monitor watch all the time.
Deep down in the bottom of my heart I hold a soft spot for old school Swatches. If I could find one of those with a Swatch Guard I might be tempted to take off my HRM.
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I get these little Wal-Mart deals that clip to your belt loops. It keeps up with the sun so I'm pretty satisfied with it.
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A Rolex. I wish I knew if it was real or not. Got it from the in-laws for my birthday after the wedding and haven't had the guts to actually ask. Thinking they might get a hitman if I ask and it's real.
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I've always been told that if the second hand "ticks" then it's fake -- but if it glides then it's real.
Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...
Tell that to the Malaysian black market dealers my Dad got his from. 15 dollars.
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I've never heard that before. The things you learn on GamersWithJobs.
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it glides, but it just can't be real. It's nice and all, but who in their right mind would give their son-in-law a watch worth that much?
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Someone who's been to Malaysia.
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A nice guy that is trying to show he won't kill you in your sleep for taking his daughter? Or maybe it's a fascade and trying to make you feel comfortable before he goes in for the kill.
Yet even then we ran like the wind,
whilst our laughter echoed under cerulean skies...
Mine has hands and good old fashioned analog numbers. You new fangled kids and your contraptions! *shakes fist*
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No watch for me. I've always got my cell phone or have a clock nearby. If I find myself without anything like that, knowing what time it is is not going to be a concern.
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I wear a fairly old Casio Twin-Graph.
I like it because I hate big watches and the style for men's watches these past many years seems to be VERY BIG.
Mine has hands too.
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I havent worn a time-shackle in years
Edit: That has to be a joke, right Chiggie? I mean the date is on that picture in two places...
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It was a knee jerk question, it just struck me as funny that the entire picture is dedicated to dating itself.
Like when someone is kidnapped and made to hold up the newspaper.
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You're good enough for their daughter, why not for a Rolex?
If you really want to make sure, just take the thing to a Rolex shop.
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I no longer wear a watch, I just use my cell phone to tell time. I think the last watch I had was Powerpuff Girls or something.
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How long have you had it? Most Rolex watches are automatics; they use mechanical movements. If you have had it 5 or 6 years and it is still running then it is probably real.
Here is a good page to try and determine if your Rolex is real.
Rolexs actually aren't that expensive, at least as far as watches go. The all steel Rolexs are around 4500-5000, while steel/gold Submariners are around 6500-7500 and finaly all gold Rolexs are are 10-12k without diamonds.
A light-powered Citizen my wife gave me when he got her then-new job about 5 years ago. I love it very much. It's very practical and understated (silver body, silver dial). It shows both date and day of the week, which not too many watches do without going for an overkill with a gaggle of dials and extra hands that all make you look like a total dumbass when you wear a thing like that to the office.
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I don't wear watches. On weekends, I usually don't even carry my cellphone.
I can tell _about_ what time it is based on what I'm doing with my kid and whether either of us is hungry or cranky and where the shadows are and how hot it is.
That's good enough for me.
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I've got a small collection of nice Fossils. The wife usually gets me a new one every year, and I rotate them. This is the one I'm wearing mostly now:
I don't really need a watch because I have people who handle that kind of thing. So it's really more a question of what watch my flunky wears. And the answer to that is "I don't know- I never deign to look at him."
All I know is that if I'm ever late anywhere because his watch his slow, his lickspittling days are over.
I wear a Seiko Kinetic. Looks like this -
I had a kinetic Pulsar (which is a Seiko brand) which I liked very much and would probably wear to this day, but its crystal got scratched really badly when I was hit by a van while rollerblading.
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I only wear a watch to when I'm going clubbing or something. It's basically jewelry anyway. I have a few flashy-ish watches; but due to my destructiveness with them I don't bother buying anything over $50.
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I wear a Citizen Eco Drive when I'm out and about and a Suunto X6 altimeter watch when I'm mountain biking and hiking. The Citizen is great because it has no battery and needs no winding and has kept fantastic time for the four years I've had it. The Suuno X6 takes a reading every 3 seconds of my altitude and plots it in a downloadable chart and is accurate to within +/- 3ft elevation. Also has weather functions, a digital compass, and tracks ascent and descent rates. Without it, I wouldn't know that I climbed a total of 15,200 feet on my mountain bike last week.
I have one of these
Except it was made for some credit card company through BMW and has a small BMW logo on the front and doesn't have the date indicator. It's 256 mb. I keep reasonably updated versions of firefox, spyboy, adaware, avast AV, aim, boot disk utils, some software manuals, and probably some porn I'm forgetting about.
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