Would love to know what you guys think and your reasoning for it. I’m starting to see a lot of Apple Watches/Fitbits/Galaxy Watches in my area compared to more traditional timepieces.
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You forgot the third option: None.
I got a smartphone, I don’t need a watch to tell the time.
Most of the time, wrist watch (non smart) is more worn as a accessory to the look that a time teller.
Absolutely, but then you could also just wear a bracelet :)
Or both. I wear a normal watch and 4 bracelets
I don’t wear any watch at all. Time isn’t real, it was invented by capitalists to sell more watches.
No ⌚.
No watch gang.
I don’t care to have anything on my wrist. But I want to start tracking steps, especially over winter, to prompt myself into enough daily activity. So I’m going to try a ~$50 fitness tracker on my wrist and see how that goes. If I can get past the annoyance at having something on my wrist, I may shop around for a full smartwatch, or more likely wait for the next gen or two. I am deeply unimpressed with the size and battery life of the flagship smartwatches right now.
I go old school and rock a pocket watch (my cellphone).
Kids today need to look the fuck up.
Is there a sun in the sky? Yes, well get back to work. No? Then shut up.
But how will I know when I work up a sweat if my watch does not tell me?
Casio G-Shock owner here. I prefer a watch to always know the time without checking my phone but I would never use IOT devices, including a smart watch for privacy & security reasons.
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I wear mine for outdoor stuff and a simpler Casio for a daily driver. Got my wife a matching pink one!
Satisfies my old-school wants and needs, about bulletproof, cheap as hell on eBay, all that.
Yup, same here. Never really understood the G-Shock thing until I got one. The 5610U is truly one of the best watches hands down, and they’re cheap. I find myself using timers and alarms much more because I may not have my phone at all times (around the house etc). Solar to boot? It really doesnt get much better, they’re fantastic.
What a coincidence! I got the same one, M5610U-1ER here. Truly the best one for my use case. I spent a couple of months researching for a good watch and settled on this. Solar, time syncing, very good modding and aftermarket community, just perfect. A watch for life.
Where my Casio G-Shock fam at? Solar, set by atomic clock, stylish, pretty backlight, old Nokia cell phone levels of indestructible. What’s not to love?
I gave my ~25 years old G-Shock to my son, he somehow lost it the garden in the fall. I found it the next spring when the snow had melted. I dried it up and changed the battery, it works like nothing had happened.
Amazing design.
Same. I’ve beat the shit out of this watch and they’re not even expensive. It has some dings now, but it took quite a while dealing with my blue collar bullshit before it started showing abuse.
Regular watches - been wearing watches of some kind since middle school, and at this point I feel undressed or like something is missing without anything on my wrist. Like many others here, while I love the tech of smartphones (and admittedly the smart watches are really cool) but don’t want an even more in-my-face screen to further pull me into more phone time. Trying to really cut back on screen time. Also, if I went for a smart watch, I’d feel the want to wear it all the time both because of how much they are and to keep activity tracking data consistent, which would mean my collection of watches would likely get much less wear time.
Watch I have on now is the Citizen Eco-drive I got when I graduated college, years of service and frequent wear in situations I had no business wearing it and it’s held up great. Because of the eco-drive it’s one of my few watches I don’t have to worry about, it just always has the right time.
I really do relate to your reasons. I had been using a smartwatch from spring 2020 until last week, and while it was great for some fitness tracking, it ended up giving me health anxiety due to the constant feeling of ‘needing’ to meet all my fitness goals daily, and the notifications buzzing my wrist regularly breaking my concentration during work, or for slower times of the day such as sitting on the couch with my headphones and just focusing on the music.
Citizen FTW! Their Eco Drive Watches are the real deal. Accurate, reliable, won’t break the bank. Citizen really do live up to their name as a company, they’ve created a practical and economical slew of products that appeal to the everyday working man. Plan on getting one myself soon!
I always have my phone on silent mode and have messages turned off for most apps, so I’ll have to check them manually. This is less stressfull to me. I just get to relax without being bothered.
So I think I prefer a regular watch since I don’t see the benefits of a smart watch in my situation.
After a bad experience with a Sumsumg product, I would say a standalone watch that doesn’t connect to anything.
Regular watch. I already often find it stressfull to be constantly connected and available with just a phone, I don’t want to be even more available.
Either, depending on my mood and if my batteries/charge are good.
Smart watch. Great for notifications and telling me if I need to pull my phone out and reply or not, whether mid conversation, driving, cooking, etc. Also fitness tracker so I don’t need my phone on a run.
I would never wear a dumb watch. I need my watch to do more than tell time.
Regular mechanical watch. I don’t care about my notifications, I just want what is effectively a piece of jewelry. I prefer the watch to a bracelet because I also appreciate the worksmanship and design of the analog machine.
I’ve worn both, but I’m just looking for watches that can do 24H time. Smart watches are nice for setting alarms and cooking timers. Regular watchss don’t need to be charged and are much more durable and usually less expensive. I’ll probably continue to switch back and fourth.
Smartwatches don’t really get updated for more than a few years anyways, which is a bummer.
