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_refugee_  ·  3679 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Do you wear a watch? Why?

No, I don't, and because not only do I have a cell phone but I work in an industry in which it is perfectly acceptable to pull out and check said phone - not a physical labor industry for instance, or some similar circumstance where it would be stupid to bring the phone on the job. For instance If I were a teacher I would probably totally wear a watch, but it would be bare basics.

I don't wear a watch because I don't find I have any need to, probably in part due to becoming accustomed to relying on a cell phone for the time since high school. Also, I tend to kill the things I wear with regularity. So for me a fancy watch doesn't make sense as I'll still just scratch and burn through it.

I do like them though - but conversely, I wouldn't be able to recognize a watch as indicator of status symbol, which I think they often are or can be.

Everyone else who commented seemed to wear a watch so I thought I would offer up a different perspective. Unless I slept in it I would forget a watch probably about a quarter of the time.