So now I have 2 wristwatches

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Victor

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I have always worn watches and leave my cell at home. My watch stopped and I went to a shop that fixes them. I know him for many years. He says the watch is broke and says buy a new one. So I did a good deal on eBay only 80. Now my old watch began running again fine after being in a drawer 1 week. So I wear both of them. I should be happy but I'm not. I like both of them. The man will not answer the phone
 

Your old watch may start & stop again. I had one that became erratic and finally had to give it up. You don’t want to miss something because of slow watch.
 

I use my fitbit as a watch, has time, number of steps, heart rate, etc. I don't think it is the fancy version that can show text messages tho (or I don't know how to set it up). Daughter has an apple watch.
 
My oldest favorite watch did that stop-start thing after I replaced the battery, it would not stay on right time. So it’s retired to a drawer where it does whatever it wants.I replaced it with a $10 one from a sporting goods store. I only wear it outside, got tired of fishing the phone out of the purse when I wanted to know what time it is. Has large numbers so I don’t have to pull the glasses out to see the time.
 
I have a lot of watches... I never use my phone as a time piece, I always wear a wristwatch, and would certainly never have just one in case the one I was wearing went wrong, bit in the event I have several to match different outfits...
 
I only wear a wristwatch when I go out for what I expect to be most of the day although in my working days, I wore a watch all day, every day. I have two battery watches, both keep excellent time plus I have a mechanical self-winding and an old wind-up watch from my Navy years. My grandkids looked at me funny when I offered them the two mechanical watches........and I still have them.
 
My/husband has 2 watches.....
He wears the gold one when he has a tan , and the silver one in the winter
I’ve never worn a watch...I don’t like them, so I never know what the time is, which is good 🤪
 
Victor said:
I have always worn watches and leave my cell at home. My watch stopped and I went to a shop that fixes them. I know him for many years. He says the watch is broke and says buy a new one. So I did a good deal on eBay only 80. Now my old watch began running again fine after being in a drawer 1 week. So I wear both of them. I should be happy but I'm not. I like both of them. The man will not answer the phone
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Is it Battery powered? Intermittent starting/stopping is often a sign of the battery getting weak.
 
I feel naked without a watch. In my peak watch days, I had five on the go, mostly Eco-drive. Now I wear an Apple Watch. It’s the only kind I will own from now on. My one remaining watch sits on the ledge in the bathroom.
 
Never got the hang of winding a watch 'just right' and can't wear battery operated watches, they just don't work right on me, whether wrist or locket. Back before cellphones and clocks everywhere i used to put a watch in or attached to my purse and it would work ok.

It occurs to me the batteries in cell phones must be different then those in the watches i tried cause i often carry phone in a pocket and the basic functions like time and home screen fine tho we have signal issues due to locale.
 
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Have you seen those watches that can zap a reader and pay for your purchases? What's the point? A watch is for time keeping whilst cash is for bill paying. And a phone is for talking to someone else, remotely.
Thankfully I am well out of step with the world, there are some who didn't even know that watches were once sold without batteries, they had to be wound up, it's why they are called, clockwork. You can pick them quite inexpensively if you're lucky.
 
I am obsessed with the time--this began when I was working. I was either very bored or busy.) Now I am retired and still check the time constantly for no reason. My old watch is over 25 years, an armitron, after innumerable batteries installed by the same rather peculiar small shop. Now I have a Citizens, very similar. This clock man clearly did not check the watch carefully. Like everyone I know,-- he acts busier than he is.
 
I don't have phone. For a while back in the nineties I had a couple of folding phones from Sprint. Since their demise,
(they wre never very good, louise speakers). I've never had a smart phone. I wear a watch, a Casio ten year battery watch.
Keeps execelent time. It's a time piece, that's all.
 
Hi, Victor, 2 things. I have a old Seiko that was unreliable. Like yours it would start, for a time, when it was left alone, but it kept stopping. And really, there isn't mush a repairman can fix on an electronic watch.
The other thing is that wearing a watch is now an "in" thing. It is a fashion statement. The bigger, the better.
 
I hardly wear a watch anymore. I do remember my first watch though I was 5ys old and my Uncle came to visit. When he came in he had a cast on his arm and I got so scared that I cried. He felt really bad and the next day he came back and brought me a watch. I'll never forget that day and his generous gift.
 
I have worn a watch since the 1940s. Would be lost without one. Have had expensive and cheap ones. Doesn't matter, as long as it tells the time, has a second hand so I can take a pulse.
 

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