Who still wears a normal watch?

[tranceking26]

I searched and couldn't find any threads about normal watches. I wonder what % of the forum community here doesn't own/want an Apple Watch.

What brands do you like?

Here's one I picked up for less than £20 recently. Came with the correct time out the box.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7343959

 

[jkcerda]

Used to have one with vibrating alarm. That thing would wake me up unlike the sound alarm. I have not worn one in years

 

[nouveau_redneck]

Garmin Forerunner 935.

 

[jbarley]

My daily watch, a 25 year award given to me back in1990, by the company I worked for "Macmillan Bloedel" a forest products company here on Vancouver Island.

 

[Healer Flame]

Got Rado watch, Florence series are my favorite but want to sell it now to buy smart watch.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I searched and couldn't find any threads about normal watches. I wonder what % of the forum community here doesn't own/want an Apple Watch.

What brands do you like?

Here's one I picked up for less than £20 recently. Came with the correct time out the box.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/7343959

There is an excellent thread in the "Picture Gallery" section of the forum, entitled "Who's Got A Nice Watch? Traditional Watches Only - No Smartwatches" where watches are discussed at length.

I suggest that you send a note to the mods ('contact us') and request that this thread be added to the already existing thread.

Re watches, I still wear a traditional watch, an Omega Deville that I have had a decade, and which closely resembles those classic watches from the 1950s and 1960s, with a clean face, elegant Arabic numerals at every second space, starting with 2 and concluding with 12, and dauphin hands.

 

[mike.coulter]

I wear a Casio everyday, normally a 5610 or my Mudmaster.

 

[decafjava]

Me, a gift purchased by a close friend from the Acropolis museum. It resembles a Swatch but with ancient Greek inscriptions on it.

 

[BlankStar]

If you want to know how many % use a normal watch; add a poll? ;-)

 

[makinao]

Me. 6 Seikos, a G-Shock, and a Skagen.

 

[bunnspecial]

Rolex ref. 16013 for me for every day wear, and other interesting things as the occasion calls for it.

 

[yaxomoxay]

 

[tranceking26]

If you want to know how many % use a normal watch; add a poll? ;-)

Where to put it? need somewhere where loads of people would vote. Plus don't wanna start being lectured about putting things in the wrong section lol.

 

[decafjava]

Where to put it? need somewhere where loads of people would vote. Plus don't wanna start being lectured about putting things in the wrong section lol.

It should be ok here as it is a general forum.

 

[tranceking26]

It should be ok here as it is a general forum.

Thanks, just added one. Hopefully this poll will gain attention.

 

[Huntn]

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Used to have one with vibrating alarm. That thing would wake me up unlike the sound alarm. I have not worn one in years

This used to be my go to watch, accurate, 2 time zones, and inexpensive. No watch now, I always have my phone, and generally speaking don’t have to keep that close an eye on the time.

 

[AngerDanger]

Maybe the options should be between a Smart Watch, Normal Watch, and Nothing instead of exclusively an Apple Watch. 🙂 I'm one of the two people who still wear a Pebble watch.

EDIT for fans of unnecessary info: I actually got the watch free from Pebble for writing a couple watchfaces. They did pretty well on the Pebble appstore, so they wanted me to keep updating them to support color, but I told them it'd be pretty hard to with my b/w only Pebble.

They actually sent me two Pebbles because they thought AngerDanger and my real name (which I'd been using to correspond) were two different people.

 

[tranceking26]

Maybe the options should be between a Smart Watch, Normal Watch, and Nothing instead of exclusively an Apple Watch.

Done, I had completely forgotten about them. Vote away! 😎

 

[AustinIllini]

I have a Tag Heuer Formula 1 for daily use. Watch people make fun of me but it is my favorite and was a watch I had wanted for years.

I have the model when Tag sponsored McLaren so it's black and white.

 

[0388631]

Where on earth did you find a classic Vostok?

 

[Apple fanboy]

I stopped wearing a watch when I started carrying a mobile phone with me all the time.

Haven’t owned one in years.

 

[QCassidy352]

I have a Skagen and a Citizen, but I haven’t worn them since I got my Apple Watch.

 

[Miat]

No smartwatch. Usually have a cheap quartz for general purpose. Something like this Timex T2N338.

 

[yaxomoxay]

Where on earth did you find a classic Vostok?

I got it when I visited the Soviet Union.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I got it when I visited the Soviet Union.

Around a decade ago, I saw them for sale in street markets in Tbilisi.