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Do you wear a watch?
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Thanks for the education….. seems the problem is with tapatalk, not the poll.
As to the poll, a few new votes added for a total of 59 to date.
The pattern has not changed much, with WATCH and traditional watch wearers sharing the lead, with nearly 50% of the vote. Add in moderately priced watch wearers @ 11.9% and 60% of the votes are accounted for.
Folks who don't wear a watch (18.6%) and occasional watch wearers (10.2%) make up another near 30%, leaving 10% of the vote split between cheap watch wearers (8.2%) and a single non Apple smart watch wearer.
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I wear a watch often; I wouldn't say always. I have a Bulgari watch that I wear a lot, especially if I go out.
A sun dial works fine. No watch, phone, or electronics involved.
Sundials work best in warm, sunny climates in countries, or regions which are found not too far away from the equator.
What happens when it is overcast - as it often is in countries such as the British Isles - where the cloudy days outnumber the sunny ones?
And, what happens as you go further north (or south), where striking seasonal variations in the length of day, (and consequent angle of the shadow of the dial) make such calculations a bit of a challenge?
I've started to wear watches again and prefer using those than pulling out my phone but I would like a good Apple smart watch in future if I jump to IOS.
I would like GPS, for it to function without a phone, water proofing, couple gig of storage and good battery life which I feel is a few years away.
I would like GPS, for it to function without a phone, water proofing, couple gig of storage and good battery life which I feel is a few years away.
That's 5:00 and beer thirty respectively. Which results in the same thing.
My days are marked by events rather than "the time".
Dawn is breakfast time. From then on a certain cadence rather than clocks determine my day.
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72 votes on 29 July, with the WATCH and high end traditional watches @ 25% each. Non-wearers of watches make up 18%, with occasional wearers accounting for 6%. Regular wearers of moderately priced watches come in at 12.5%, cheap watch wearers are nearly 7%, and smart watches other than apple are least represented (unsurprisingly) at just over 4%.
I actually saw an Apple Edition "in the flesh" last week, along with one of the stainless/Speidel ones.
It's interesting, though, that I probably saw 20 Pateks going by on wrists and I doubt you could have counted the number of Rolexes, Omegas, and other traditional "higher end" watches...out of all of those there were only two Apple watches.
It's interesting, though, that I probably saw 20 Pateks going by on wrists and I doubt you could have counted the number of Rolexes, Omegas, and other traditional "higher end" watches...out of all of those there were only two Apple watches.
Interesting…… I have yet to see the WATCH outside a shop. I don't know anyone who owns one.
And neither do I, actually.
Somewhat to my surprise, to this day, I have never seen one 'in the wild', but have seen plenty of high end watches on wrists.
I actually have had a handful of students the past couple of semesters who have had them, as well as a couple of co-workers who do. All that I've seen so far are the sport watches-the stainless steel and edition one were at a watch collector's show/swap meet.
Like I said, though, it's still telling when $100K Pateks are more plentiful than Apple watches.
Like I said, though, it's still telling when $100K Pateks are more plentiful than Apple watches.
Well there's something to be said about those being around for many many more years with basically technology that has been taken for granted for a long time and carrying various levels of prestige (beyond a new technological device) that has also been built up over many many years.
The basic difference between traditional watches and Apple watches, is that we know for a fact that we can hand down traditional watches for generations and hundreds of years, and they will still function and work as they always have.
Apple watches, we can expect any given model to be useful for 3 to 5 years. Until Apple abandons support for that model.
Granted, it may function as long as you stay with a cell phone that is compatible with that watch. Perhaps extending its life to a potential of 10 years for the most determined person who is resisting updated hardware / phones.
For that reason, traditional watches will remain desirable and useful as daily wear / fashion items, even if they were your great great great great grandfather's watch. That is something unlikely to ever happen with any model of Apple Watch.
I agree completely.
Actually, I cannot see the Apple watch having an enduring appeal; it is not the sort of thing that anyone will want to wear in a decade, let alone half a century's time, whereas some of the timekeeping classics from the mid twentieth century, and older, are ageless, and will look well (and, more to the point, run well) on a wrist in years to come.
I love my Watch! My business involves a lot of travel and this is when I need my watch the most, constantly checking the time for boarding planes and trains. I almost missed a connection when I had a traditional watch because I didn't realize my connection was in a different time zone. Traditional watches don't have the ability to adjust time zones on their own. My business is in live events so I constantly need to know what time to be back on headset after a break and my watch is the perfect thing to glance at while I'm operating the computers during the event since I don't have to take my hands off the keyboard to look. I can do a quick Thanks! reply or dictate a more elaborate reply without missing a beat. I don't wear my watch in the house that much but I do when I'm grilling so I can use the timer. I wear it mostly on the road. I use it to pay for things, as my boarding pass to get on a plane, a way to create a quick reminder or make a math calculation. It's a wonderful tool for busy people. And my main client's show team all have Watches and use them to send each other quick messages and to find out where they are at. People who own them know what they use them for, find them invaluable and it would be hard to give them up now that they know what they can do. I have ZERO interest in owning an expensive dumb watch as a status symbol.
i do have a smartwatch, but i dont wear it anymore.. i dont like it. it feels like a mass product, looks like a toy and doesnt do anything that i cant do with my phone which is always near to me anyway.
i wear my "dumb watch" because it is just beautiful and it is a piece of art - not a status symbol. i dont have any watch to be as a status symbol. i only have (had) watches with a normal prize range (2000-4000 dollars).
i wear my "dumb watch" because it is just beautiful and it is a piece of art - not a status symbol. i dont have any watch to be as a status symbol. i only have (had) watches with a normal prize range (2000-4000 dollars).
That's a "normal" price (or should I say "prize") range?