How many different watches do you wear on a normal day?

[Funk]

Coxey said:

Think you have too much time on your hands

You should watch out with jokes that bad.

[Sporky]

Funk said:

Coxey said:

Think you have too much time on your hands

You should watch out with jokes that bad.

I should have automatically spotted that this thread is a wind-up.

[blueg33]

Lotobear said:

..and here's me thinking that all watches do exactly the same job

They don't though.

Some have built in stop watches, some tell you the time in different times zones, some are too thick to wear under a shirt cuff, some are too delicate to wear daily

Overall though - they are all jewellery. If I had as many watches as my wife has ear rings or necklaces, I could wear a different one twice a day everyday of the year.

[jeremyh1]

blueg33 said:

Work day with a suit - Seiko Pressage

Work day casual - Seiko GMT or Seamaster

Penguin suit fancy dinner - 18ct gold very slim vintage manual wind Tissot

Working in the garden - a cheapo Alpha PO homage that I bought to see if i really wanted an orange bezel PO (I didn't)

Summer meal in a pub garden, maybe my black Panerai Luminor

Holiday - Tissot PRS200 as it can swim deeper than me, is reliable, accurate, comfortable, not too thick etc. Or Seiko GMT for obvious reasons

Workday with a suit !

I have been in business for 30 years or more in the beginning everybody was wearing suits . Now the scruffy Bast@@ds just wear jeans

[Bob_Defly]

magpie215 said:

I have a selection of watches.
I tend to wear one for a full week then change it out usually on a Sunday.

Same here, I tend to rotate once a week, unless a special occasion / outfit needs something else.

[Ziplobb]

summit7 said:

Today I have worn 3 of them which is a normal daily rotation for me.

How many pairs of knickers do you get through a day ?

[okgo]

Mostly none. But sometimes one. And even fewer times two (Garmin for run or something).

3 watches in one day wouldn’t be for me. After all a phone does everything that any watch can do.

[AyBee]

Per day or per year? Either way, the answer is 1. I might change the strap sometimes though if I'm feeling adventurous.

[blueg33]

jeremyh1 said:

blueg33 said:

Work day with a suit - Seiko Pressage

Work day casual - Seiko GMT or Seamaster

Penguin suit fancy dinner - 18ct gold very slim vintage manual wind Tissot

Working in the garden - a cheapo Alpha PO homage that I bought to see if i really wanted an orange bezel PO (I didn't)

Summer meal in a pub garden, maybe my black Panerai Luminor

Holiday - Tissot PRS200 as it can swim deeper than me, is reliable, accurate, comfortable, not too thick etc. Or Seiko GMT for obvious reasons

Workday with a suit !

I have been in business for 30 years or more in the beginning everybody was wearing suits . Now the scruffy Bast@@ds just wear jeans

Wearing a suit today. Exec meeting followed by main board with Japanese investors. A regular day in the office is just jeans.

[off_again]

Sniff.... have a collection next to me on some shelves, but currently only wear an Apple Watch. Recovering from a pretty serious motorcycle accident a year ago and need the damn thing to remind me to take a cocktail of drugs during the day as well as making sure that I track my movement and make sure I am moving around during the working day.

I look forward to the day that I can vary it each day and maybe swapping during the day to confuse people...

[Mezzanine]

2 for me.

One for work. A nicer one for when not in work.

[Sporky]

okgo said:

After all a phone does everything that any watch can do.

Exceptvtell you how wound the spring in your watch is. Power reserve indicator for the win.

[Lotobear]

blueg33 said:

Lotobear said:

..and here's me thinking that all watches do exactly the same job

They don't though.

Some have built in stop watches, some tell you the time in different times zones, some are too thick to wear under a shirt cuff, some are too delicate to wear daily

Overall though - they are all jewellery. If I had as many watches as my wife has ear rings or necklaces, I could wear a different one twice a day everyday of the year.

....I've only ever used a watch to tell the time and never considered jewellery as performing a 'job'. But next time I'm forging on through separate time zones or timing my catamaran crew at Cowes I'll perhaps understand

[magpie215]

Sporky said:

okgo said:

After all a phone does everything that any watch can do.

Exceptvtell you how wound the spring in your watch is. Power reserve indicator for the win.

Wristwatches a solution to having to take a fob watch out of your pocket to tell the time.

Wristwatches replaced by a phone you have to take out of your pocket to tell the time :-)

[smn159]

Lotobear said:

blueg33 said:

Lotobear said:

..and here's me thinking that all watches do exactly the same job

They don't though.

Some have built in stop watches, some tell you the time in different times zones, some are too thick to wear under a shirt cuff, some are too delicate to wear daily

Overall though - they are all jewellery. If I had as many watches as my wife has ear rings or necklaces, I could wear a different one twice a day everyday of the year.

....I've only ever used a watch to tell the time and never considered jewellery as performing a 'job'. But next time I'm forging on through separate time zones or timing my catamaran crew at Cowes I'll perhaps understand

My Garmin does loads of stuff... maps, directions, tells me how fast I'm running and how long it'll take to recover... lets me pay for stuff when I'm out without a phone as well. Think it tells the time too.

[blueg33]

Lotobear said:

blueg33 said:

Lotobear said:

..and here's me thinking that all watches do exactly the same job

They don't though.

Some have built in stop watches, some tell you the time in different times zones, some are too thick to wear under a shirt cuff, some are too delicate to wear daily

Overall though - they are all jewellery. If I had as many watches as my wife has ear rings or necklaces, I could wear a different one twice a day everyday of the year.

....I've only ever used a watch to tell the time and never considered jewellery as performing a 'job'. But next time I'm forging on through separate time zones or timing my catamaran crew at Cowes I'll perhaps understand

I use my watches for both those things, except the Catamaran is a monohull, and exact timing is pretty critical at the start, you don't want to be crossing the start line 1 second too soon.

Its jewellery because a £10 watch can do much of the stuff at £20k chrono can do but the latter will look better. A mechanical watch is also a marvel of engineering and in many cases craftsmanship. Its nice to own things that re well made

[InitialDave]

I only put one of my watches on if I'm going out somewhere socially and I remember to, so I guess my watches worn per day averages somewhere around 0.1!

[Mont Blanc]

blueg33 said:

Lotobear said:

..and here's me thinking that all watches do exactly the same job

They don't though.

Some have built in stop watches, some tell you the time in different times zones, some are too thick to wear under a shirt cuff, some are too delicate to wear daily

Overall though - they are all jewellery. If I had as many watches as my wife has ear rings or necklaces, I could wear a different one twice a day everyday of the year.

This.

You wouldn't want to wear a something delicate, or something worth £10k, £15k, or whatever, whilst doing DIY or tinkering with a car, and bashing/scratching the living st out of whatever watch you are wearing.

Vice versa, you wouldn't want to wear a scratched to bits £20 Casio digital with a suit to a formal engagement.

InitialDave said:

I only put one of my watches on if I'm going out somewhere socially and I remember to, so I guess my watches worn per day averages somewhere around 0.1!

I'm the opposite. I hate not having a watch on. Far easier to glance at my wrist and check the time rather than pull my phone out of my pocket each time. I feel like I'm missing something if I'm not wearing my watch

[MB140]

I’ve got 8 watches + 1 issued.

Tudor Pelagos LHD:- Bought as a treat to myself when I received my aircrew brevet.

Tag carrera - wife bought for me as a wedding present

Citizen eco drive - my everyday smart watch

Hugo Boss - only bright coloured watch I own. Don’t wear very often.

G-shock - wore this when flying as it’s all rubber and lasts forever as it’s solar powered.

Apple Watch series 2 - My everyday in the office watch.

Military issued aviator watch - not technically mine. Haven’t seen it for years it’s in a kit bag somewhere. I will probably have to pay for it when I demob as it’s on my kit record

30 year Sentry E3-D Airborne Technician - in a display case and will never be used or worn.

47 Sqn Hercules C130 watch - presented to me when I left the Sqn to go down the aircrew route.

The most I ever wear in a day is two. One in the office /at work. Then in the evening if I go out the Citizen / Tag.

The Tudor very rarely gets worn. I’m always nervous of someone wanting it. I was eyed up in a bar wearing it once by a couple of scrotes. Came over asking questions. Told them it was a Thailand fake, I don’t do designer clothes / shoes etc, it’s the only expensive thing I wear so I think they lost interest but I still ended up ordering a cab and bolting straight out the front door in the cab and gone. Shame it’s a nice watch.

When I demob, I might treat myself to another nice one.

Patek Phillpe
Hublot
Rolex submariner (yacht-master (maybe))
Omega soeedmaster

[InitialDave]

Mont Blanc said:

I'm the opposite. I hate not having a watch on. Far easier to glance at my wrist and check the time rather than pull my phone out of my pocket each time. I feel like I'm missing something if I'm not wearing my watch

It's because I'm an engineer, and I can't wear a watch or jewelry if I'm out on the shop floor, so I just don't bother at all at work, and this is combined with hobbies like messing around with mechanical stuff where I wouldn't want to be bashing a watch against things.

You kind of just get out of the habit after decades of not wearing one by default.