<p>I wear a watch all the time and feel “naked” without it. All 3 of my boys wear watches, now, too. I set my watch to the correct time, but I set the clock in my car 7-8 minutes fast. No, I don’t know why, but my mother did that, too. And I am compulsively on time for everything.</p>
<p>Four out of five people in my family wear watches daily. My daughter relies on her cell phone. We got my oldest son a very nice expensive watch from a friend of ours who has a watch shop but he was so used to his digital timex “ironman” watch that he didn’t like it. He admired it but knew he wouldn’t wear it so, with regret, we returned it.</p>
<p>I have never left the house intentionally without a watch since I was 12 years old. I have quite a watch collection too (was thinking about the collection thread) and am always, always punctual or early to everything.</p>
<p>H wears a watch; kids don’t (but yes, cell phones serve the time keeping purpose).</p>
<p>The RA in my hands has migrated to my left wrist, and wearing rings or a watch makes my joints ache, so I no longer wear rings or a watch. I rely on my phone, just like my D and her friends do.</p>
<p>I have lots and lots of watches, wear whatever matches my suit, outfit, etc. I feel lost without one though when working out, or swimming - wrist feels undressed.</p>
<p>Always wear one, recently switched my longtime nice one to a cheap Timex with a big white face and actual black numbers on it that I can see without magnifiers on. It also lights up so I can see it at night, but I can’t find one that proprels me out of bed and dresses me at 2 AM and drives me into work!</p>
<p>Kids don’t wear them, but my s is forever looking at mine in church, especially when the long-winded priest is preaching!</p>
<p>I’ve worn watches regularly since my pre-teen years. It’s such an ingrained habit, that I feel uncomfortable going through the day without one one. I’ve tried repeatedly, and in vain, to get my kids into the habit of wearing a watch, or at least remembering to bring their phones when they go out. Next month, it will be six years since acquiring my trusty “Rolex”-knockoff Seiko.:)</p>
<p>corranged - funny you should say you wear it on the wrong arm… so do I! I had an operation on my “correct” hand and switched my watch over. To this day I still wear it on the wrong hand and to this day - almost 10 years later - I sometimes still look at the (empty) wrist where the watch “should be.”</p>
<p>My watch is not one of the real expensive ones, but it is incredible: a Citizen titanium, with a titanium band, so it’s extra light. And it has my two favorite features: Eco-drive (solar powered) so I never have to change the battery, and a perpetual calendar, so I never have to change the date. It even knows about leap years.</p>
<p>The funny thing about it though is that if it is in the dark, it goes into an energy-saver mode and the second hand stops moving. As soon as it comes back into the light, the second hand goes flying around the face to catch up to where it should be. First time I saw that, I thought my watch had gone crazy.</p>
<p>I love my watch but it’s as old as the hills. My hubby gave it to me long ago for our 15th wedding anniversary…looks like Cartier but is only Raymond Weil. The hands are black, but when you look at them from an angle they turn the prettiest shade of blue…which I think is so cool. The watch has been extremely reliable; but I left the extra links in so it would slide up and down my arm like a bracelet (can’t stand tight stuff) and have broken two crystals as a result of all that action. They weren’t cheap to replace either. My husband constantly nags me to have the thing properly fitted.</p>
<p>I am left handed and as long as I can remember I wear my watch on the wrong hand.
I feel lost without my watch.
My spouse associates watch with work. He wears his watch for work but takes it off as soon as he walks in the door. He never wears one on weekends or vacations.
My kids use their cell phones.</p>
<p>I wear a watch. Not on weekends.</p>
<p>For those who travel to NYC, I buy the ones sold on the sidewalks no more than $10 per. Or Timex at the drug store/Target.</p>
<p>Kids use cell phones now.</p>
<p>I always wear a watch and cannot stand it when I don’t have one on.</p>
<p>Recently I had a watch drama - my mother had given me a beautiful watch 22 years ago. The watch is extremely meaningful to me because my mom was killed shortly after she gave it to me. Anyway, it has a self winding mechanism so I never took it off, and finally, the self winder broke 
. The watch can be repaired, but it is going to take a while. </p>
<p>My husband saw how upset I was, so he surprised me with a beautiful new watch. It is totally different than the other one, so I think I will enjoy wearing them for different occasions.</p>
<p>bowing my head in shame…</p>
<p>I am absolutely lost with out my watch. I have a Bulova that I literally live in (it is on in the shower, washing dishes, etc). I set it twice a year and only change it when I am going somewhere that I need to be dressed up.</p>
<p>If I don’t have my watch on, I find myself constanly looking at my left wrist and the now remnant of the tan mark from my watch.</p>
<p>I often put on my (cheap) watch before I put on my clothes in the a.m. Drives me nuts if I go off to work without it. H wears watch every day also. S1 and S2 have never worn watches. Just carry their cell phone everywhere they go.</p>
<p>quick poll about how you wear your watch, listing left- or right-handedness, the wrist you wear your watch on, and how tight you have it.</p>
<p>dig: right-handed, right wrist (“wrong hand”), and slightly loose (on purpose), so that it slides around just a bit.</p>
<p>digWife: right-handed, right wrist (also wrong), and VERY loose, like ldmom06, so that it is more like a bracelet. Which also means that the face usually is facing “down” (palm-side vs back-of-the-hand side). That is rough on crystals.</p>
<p>My old watch (that’s getting fixed) loose like a bracelet. The new one, tight because it has a strap, not links.</p>
<p>left hand, loose</p>
<p>Over the years I have owned several watches. Couple of Timexes in high school. Jumped into a pool with one, it died for no apparent reason. Other just died. Step-grandfather’s 1940’s oversized Rolex with a leather band after college. Stolen from my locker at the gym. Two Swatches as an adult. The battery in both of them died after 3 months. I have come to the belief that watches are allergic to me, that I must emit some kind of electromagnetic packet-based radio-frequency type wavish thing that kills watches dead.</p>
<p>As a result, the quick look around to locate the clock everywhere I am, and a well-honed ability to peer at other people’s watches, and a practiced and well-phrased question. “Excuse me, um, you mind, um, do you have the time?”</p>
<p>I practically never take mine off. When I had to make do without it (to put in a new battery) for a couple of weeks it was really tough!</p>