Quote from: lightfoot on Today at 05:40:40 PM

Quote from: vapourminer on Today at 05:04:26 PM

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I'm not 100% in favor for this watch but still I do love traditional watches more over sports watches or apple watches or whatever ...

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I wasn't referring to sports or Crapple watches. I was referring to the need for watches at all. Cellphones are pretty much de rigeur in today's world and every cellphone tells you the time, updated regularly.

The only use I see for wristwatches is for decoration and I don't wear jewelry or tattoos.

all i use my smartwatch for is for reminders (set on its calendar) and such. as being retired the only real reason i need to know the time/date anyway is for meds and MD visits lol.

and yeah phones tell the time. if you wanna dig it out of your pocket. but nothing beats smartly snapping your arm out and reading the time off your watch though. old school but satisfying anyway.

before smart watches and such, i always liked those old school LED watches (you know the ones you pressed the button and it lit the time up in red LEDs). they must still make retro models or have used ones for sale somewhere.

edit: pretty sure i messed the quotes up so took the names off. sorry

Yup, LED watches were neat, but the problem is they needed two batteries for the display so they were kinda big. Still, the Star Wars watch in 1977 is a classic in design and function.

I got a watch, that is separate from a phone or a tablet, solely to tell me the time in a second or two, as opposed to fiddling with a phone in my pocket if I'm out and about. It makes a minor difference. For the longest time, I resisted the idea of wearing a watch (I did wear one before when I was younger) when I got a recent phone because the phone does tell the time.

But it's a 4 inch or larger object just to tell the time.