Who Has Given Up Their Watch and Just Used Their Smartphone?

my watch at work, so I just don't wear one anytime. Phone works for me.

Use both Watch and Smartphone

I still wear a watch. It's easier than getting the phone out of my pocket and then unlocking the screen. I have a Citizen Eco Drive watch that my wife bought me. It charges from light so there's no issue with winding or replacing the battery.

I also have a nice Roven Dino watch that a friend gave me. It's a nice watch but the clasp on the band broke. I had the band replaced and the clasp broke again after a year or so. It's a specialized band that only fits that brand of watch and the company no longer makes the band. What a crock. I now have a very nice $400 watch that doesn't clasp. I suppose I could have a leather band MADE to fit it but it would no longer be the classy looking watch it was originally meant to be. Whatever.

I take guff from my kids for wearing a watch but, as I said above, it's easier to just glance at my wrist than to get the phone out of my pocket and then unlock it and then have to put it back in my pocket. Especially if I'm driving.

My watch is analog rather than digital. If I had a digital watch I'd have to put on glasses to read it. With an analog watch I can get a good approximation of the time without glasses.

It's kind of funny but people years ago gave up pocket watches in favor of the convenience of a wrist watch, now people are going back to a pocket watch. i.e. cell phone.

I have a solar powered Casio waveceptor that I really like. I did not realize it when I bought it, but the solar battery only lasts from 5 - 7 years. I had to replace mine after only 5 years. I hope you have better luck.

then a decade since I have worn a watch. Too bad too cause I am a watch aficionado and own way too many. and I keep buying them...lol.

I Use both.

Everywhere I go there's clock of some sort, I stoped wearing about 1990, then I got a cheap one, had it on about 3 months & never worn it since. 2 clocks in the car, 1 on gps,the phone, the lounge wall, the stove, the saterlite top box, the radio, the microwave, the weatherstation, and there's got to be some I've missed.

Never wear my watch at home but feel naked without it when I head out.

Daylight savings time starts in a few weeks, my watch will not be an hour off until November rolls around again...

Look again dmcfz30.flylow Daylight Savings time starts on Sunday

dragging my solar clock until Dec. 2012 then time will run out as scheduled

Have you noticed the date and some of the different methods of writing it? My favorite is that the middle two digits are the reverse of either end.

My watch is already set for DST. They always announce it on the news so I always know when the change occurs.

two main reasons why I still use a watch:

my phone keeps going dead 3/4 through the day. And I'm not allowed to have a phone at work (kept in a locker). Some places freak out about security, watches are fine, phone = no way.

I still use one - never have to turn it off on an airplane.

A watch makes a statement. In the world of white collar business the watch you have on your wrist or chain says a great deal about you. Like it or not the symbols we use to make a statement do count when it come to money power and sex

Still wear a watch, an analog automatic. Two time zones plus UTC at a glance. Can't beat that on your wrist.

Does it make a statement? I guess that's for the observer to decide. For me - as a "symbol" - it basically says...I want two time zones plus UTC at a glance on my wrist.

I had a significant-other pick it up off the nightstand one morning to see what time it was. She nudged me half awake and said, "I can't read this thing. What time is it Here, Now?"

I would probably say the same picking up her smart phone. Which for her is a symbol of status.

the phone (or anything else) will never replace it...been that way for about 45 years.

until my battery died. Now it's just my iphone.

I am still addicted to looking at my wrist for time and would get a sunburn on my wrist without my watch. I wear simple water resistant Casio's. I use the stopwatch feature when cooking.

When I go out, watch, but just around the house or around the area, then phone.

besides I can not open a cell phone to check time at church. I do correct the time on my watch using my cell phone.

I will never give up wearing a watch. In my opinion.....a man can never own too many watches! My collection of watches, that are worn on a regular basis, is 17. You may see anything from an old Casio G Schock to a Luminox Black Out to a Rolex on my wrist depending on the day and/or place.

Watches have always intrigued me and I am constantly looking for whatever is new or unique in the world of watches.

Constantly looking at my wrist if I forget it at home

A Rolex Oyster I haven't worn in over 30 years. Paid $60 for it back in 1967.

Same reason I wear my watch still.

Been out of work for the last 5 months due to a botched surgery. Since I've not been dressing for the office I found myself using the phone and not the watch. Funny I didn't even think about it until I saw this thread.

I bought years ago. It will be around my wrist long after all those other things have gone back to their natural elements.

I also have not worn a watch for years and use my phone. At least 15 years.

No need to carry a watch any more.

That was the final kicker for me... I don't want to spend the minutes and battery life to boot an Android phone in airplane mode just to find out if we're there yet.

Too much hassle to pull out my phone and look at the time.

A fine watch is more than a simple timekeeping device. It's a miniature mechanical marvel full of springs and gears and flywheels and escapements and counterweights and countless other parts, all working together with great precision in total harmony, relentlessly recording the never-ending passage of time. Who could give that up for a lousy old cell phone?

I've been using a digital watch for years and I doubt it has any of the parts that make it a "mechanical Marvel".

When I'm outside I use the sun. At night I have a hard time telling the time, though.

I took the plunge about 4 years ago. My watch broke and just started using my phone.

I rarely wear a watch any more. However, there are times when I feel the need.

.... on a motorcycle? Although I have a GPS for the bike I only mount it when I'm going on a trip I'm not famliar with, which isn't very often.

OK so I wear my watch all the time outside the house, as already mentioned easier to glance at your wrist then pull out the phone.

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Recently, I had to leave my Tag for a new battery and overhaul. Kept looking at my wrist for time and them opting to look at iPhone. No way would my phone ever replace my watch .

Basically this is what we're talking about. The wrist watch replaced the pocket watch maybe 100 years ago because it was more convenient. Now people want to replace the wrist watch with a pocket watch? (cell phone) I don't get it!

watches?? we dont need no stinkin watches...

gave up the garmin too for Google maps on droid bionic.

about to ditch the laptop on vacations also for the browser and hotmail capabilities on the droid...

Just less stuff to carry around nowadays.

Unfortunately, I have resorted back to a digital pocket camera again - canon s100 for better low light pics.

Does Anybody Really Care? Sorry, couldn't resist that one for those of you who remember Robert Lamm and the rock group Chicago Transit Authority.

Wasn't wearing my watch, so didn't realize what time it was. I stopped wearing watches when my few dozen (part collection, part statement) were taken as part of the burglar's keep more than 20 years ago. Since then, I only wear a watch periodically. Never while traveling, as it's just another thing to take off during pre-flight screenings. My phone works well enough if I need the time, but as I've been aging, most of the time - I find that I don't really care what time it is.

Have to keep a watch here in SUNNY Arizona, can't read the screen on the cell phone in bright sunlight.

Besides, after 60 years of wearing a watch, it becomes part of the body ... like glasses. Even after contacts, one wears sun glasses so he doesn't feel naked!

RT

me, did it long time ago, even before smartphones came out. I haven't used a watch for like 3 years.

wear the watch, carry the phone

I hav ont of those watches that syncs with the atomic clock nightly. I still wear the watch but only use it about 25% of the time. It just feels weird when i don;t have the watch on my arm

Yup, I only wear a watch as an accessory now. Most don't work anymore, but are too pretty to throw out.

Never wear a watch now that I have a smartphone.

Phone works just fine for me.