Timekeeping/telling the time!

[Hillybilly444]

Personally, I haven't worn a watch for years...if I need to check the time, I look at the laptop, the mobile phone or the clock in the car! Recently I have been thinking that this probably isn't ideal...I had a quick search on the bay for wind up watches...they don't seem to be made any more! Do you guys all wear watches? Wind up/battery?

[Plymtom]

Yes a cheap Casio digital, but frankly if things went really south so would the need for modern time keeping, but I do have several old wind up watches, my son also had a thing for pocket watches so there's enough kicking about.

[pseudonym]

Nope, haven't had a watch since 2000.

Like you, I use the mobile.

Since I retired I use that even less.

[Oldarborman]

Look at the sun's position in the sky !!!! or if your Tummy's rumbling it's either lunch time or tea time

[redskies]

I think we did this before sometime. I don't wear a watch, haven't in years. I make my own schedule through winter and the early part of spring - I sleep when I'm tired, wake when I'm not, eat when I'm hungry. It keeps life interesting - seems I'm one of natures night owls In summer, we're so far north we don't actually get much in the way of dark, and I reset to days because of the shop. If I'm not in the shop, I'm still more of a night person, but there's so much daylight, it doesn't really matter.

Time is a very human construct, and I loathe the modern habit of having to be somewhere else ten minutes ago all the damn time. We rush too much, it's not good for us!

[Plymtom]

My mobile is a crap time keeper, all my mobiles have been, but my little watch has been going 5 years on one battery and has only had the hour changed twice a year and the minutes by 2 once, my mobile at this point knows what day it is but thinks I've just had breakfast

or if your Tummy's rumbling it's either lunch time or tea time

nope that wont work I think I'm half Hobbit

[Oldarborman]

Would that be second breakfast and luncheon

[Yorkshire Andy]

i use my mobile usually due to spinny yank your arm off machines at work should you ever get a watch strap snagged..

My now long gone grand parents got me a lovely kinetic watch for my 18th which if tshtf would be ideal as its self charging with movement

[preppingsu]

Bought OH a solar watch a couple of years ago. He only wears it for work, weekends are pretty much eat when hungry etc.

I have asked for a solar watch for Christmas, I haven't had a watch for a couple of years due to a replacement battery coating more than the watch is worth, but I do miss it!

[Hillybilly444]

I was thinking not so much as needing to know what the time is...but more if you arrange to rendezvous with someone/somewhere in an hour or 2 hours or whatever...be a bit stuffed without some means of telling...going to keep digging, see what's out there...maybe just a couple of cheap like budgie battery watches to secrete about places may be a good idea?