<p>I have a feeling i know the answer to this but I’m going to cross my fingers and ask anyway.</p>
<p>I have a clock that I got one holiday and I hung it in my kitchen because it ticks so loudly and I find it’s ticking very annoying so I put it in my least frequent room. I just got a watch for Christmas, which i love and it’s almost perfect… except it ticks… not as loud as the one on the wall but it’s a lot closer to me so I hear it even more then that one… i feel like there’s this annoying thing attached to my wrist and it’s really distracting me. Maybe i’ll get used to it and get over my annoyance of clock tickets… but I’m doubting it. I’m ready to put this watch back in its box and never wear it again.</p>
<p>Is there any way to shut these things up but have them still remain functional?</p>
<p>My OLD watches used to tick…the kind you had to wind up…back when the Dino’s roamed. But my more recent (past 30 years or so) watches don’t make a sound. </p>
<p>I got it from my BF last night. I’m going to say something to him to see if he can take it back or exchange it for something else… it’s going to drive me nuts. I’ve been complaining about the battery dying in my old watch so he decided to replace it for me. I really like it - It’s obviously not a very expensive watch but it’s my favorite color and looks really cute. It’s got an orange face with cubic zirconia stones around it. Quartz with battery. I can’t imagine that it was more then 20 or 30 dollars. Maybe he can just take this one back and buy me a battery for my old watch - lol. He’ll notice if I don’t wear it and he wouldn’t want to waste money on something to sit in its box under a rock so I can’t hear it. I guess we’ll see. I just set the time on it this morning at 8:20 and I’m already tired of listening to it.</p>
<p>I guess your BF won’t be buying you a frying pan or dutch oven anytime soon! </p>
<p>If you know where he purchased it, ask them if anything can be done about the ticking. If not, select a quiet replacement watch with your boyfriend’s assistance. I’m sure he would want you to be happy with his gift.</p>
<p>I would say something. Years ago my husband bought me a watch I totally hated so I stuck in in a drawer and forgot about it. About ten years later I asked for a watch for Christmas and he asked what happened to the other one. Oops.</p>
<p>jshain, lol! I got a fabulous frying pan last year so hopefully I am good on those for awhile! I just find finger tapping and pen clicking and watch ticking to be really annoying.</p>
<p>I’m thinking he probably bought it online because if it was on at a store he would have noticed the ticking (at least, I think so… then again, you never know… he knows that ticking noises rank up there in my pet peeves, lol). I’m going to tell him that it’s bugging me and we’ll see what he says. I really do like it - it’s totally me… I just want it to stop ticking… </p>
<p>Even sitting here now in my home office I hear that silly clock because my door is open. I’m hearing the clock in one ear and this watch in the other one!</p>
<p>I have a Seiko dress watch from the early 1980s and that makes a faint tick if you put it next to your ear but everything that I’ve had since then has an LCD display. My current watch (which I rarely wear) is an Ironman Flix 100 and I have a Garmin 610 (GPS Runners watch) which I wear when running. I usually get the time off my phone or my computer. In the office, I have a solar-powered clock which displays temperature and relative humidity - also silent.</p>
<p>If you’re unhappy with it, I’d look into returning it.</p>
<p>I have several “Swiss-made” quartz watches – not the fancy mechanical “automatics”, just a simple dial with a battery powered quartz movement. I don’t have the world’s best hearing, but I have to literally hold the watches pushes up against my ear to hear even the faintest ticking.</p>
<p>If the ticking drives you crazy, you’ll either have to find a little better/quieter watch or switch to a quartz watch with an LCD display. I’m not sure if the Seiko or swiss mechanical watches are dead quiet. The motion of the second hand is a continuous sweep, rather than the step-step-step of a quartz second hand, but they do have little gears and stuff.</p>
<p>I looked it up and found the watch online and it says Japanese Quartz Movement. I have mine off and sitting on my desk with a notepad on top of it and I can barely hear it now. Too bad I can’t tell the time like that - LOL.</p>