Light hearted post, Clocks and Watches

I haven’t worn a watch since my youngest child started senior school in 1997... when I was no longer needed to collect him from school.... only clocks we have in house is clock on cooker and my husband has one his side of bed! If I need alarm I use my phone! .... I’m never late for anything!

Five clocks here if I include the one on the cooker. That makes three downstairs and two upstairs. The upstairs ones are both in our bedroom, one either side of the bed, but every time I go to bed, I stick the one on DH's side in a drawer because it ticks and drives me absolutely crazy if I can't sleep!

I used to wear a watch all the time, and like a lot of you, felt naked without it. However, because I do a lot of gardening and am forever washing my hands (without removing it!), the strap would become damp and smelly in summer, so a couple of years ago, when yet another strap had given up the ghost, I decided to stop wearing it. It felt very strange to begin with, but I soon got used to it.

I have to admit to being lazy - if I want to know the time when I am out and about, I sometimes ask the nearest elderly-looking person (most likely to be wearing a watch) if they have the time, rather than rooting around in my bag for my mobile!

I use my phone for telling the time so do not wear a watch anymore.
I do , however , feel totally naked if I am not wearing a pair of dangly earrings.

I love not having clocks running my life any more. I have a large clock in the kitchen and a clock in the bathroom, just so I don't lose track of time. My first husband had me paranoid about things not being done, being late, not being aware of his comings and goings if he was on shift-work etc so we had at least one clock in every room and he was always buying me watches. It was absolute bliss getting rid of them and running to my own schedule, I can guess the time fairly accurately as another poster said. I'm sometimes late but I try not to be by putting an alarm on my phone if it's important.
I too like to wear my earrings Mirren

Can anyone remember their first watch ever?
I do! I must have been 8, and that year for christmas, my bro.sis and I all had watches for Christmas. They were all Timex watches and mine had a pink face and a picture of The Sleeping Beauty on it.I was absolutely thrilled

I have lots of clocks, too. There are three in the living Room - an antique long case clock made in 1701, and Skeleton Clock (a Wedding present) on top of the electric fire (which is rarely used - the fire, that is) and a carriage clock. I can't read any of them - entirely due to my eyesight (limited vision in one eye only, no sight in the other), so I wear a watch! There are three in the kitchen, two wall clocks (one of which is on the bookshelves) and the other is built in to the oven. One in each bedroom and none in the Hall or the Bathrooms. I'm still more likely to ask my hubby "What time is it?" than I am to look at either my watch or my phone - the latter tends to live in my handbag, which is invariably on the floor!

Was born in watch and clock making country - our part of Switzerland is where most watches and clocks are made.

Have several clocks, including a 17C Neuchâtel clock and many watches inherited. Always wear a watch- as my phone tends to remain on the second sink in the kitchen ;)

Oh! and can I join the earring appreciation society please?

Alishka
I remember mine, bought when I was about ten. It was Swiss, and was smuggled in (or so I was told) by a friend of my dad's who had been working over there.

My first watch ever was made by my dad, especially for me so unique in the world. It was stolen from me by a **** who came to the house when DD1 was tiny baby to buy a second hand mini we had put in the local paper. When he rang, I said not to come until 7.30 as my OH wasn't there- he turned up 5 minutes later when I was bathing baby and I had taken watch off and put it on 3rd step up. I went to get towel for baby- he said he had changed his mind and went. Watch gone - I'd recognise it anywhere in the world, anytime.

Which band MamaCaz- do you remember - perhaps one my dad made too?

Oh Jura, am I right that there was/is a clock museum in Neuchatel? (vague memory from my travelling days in the 60s - may be wrong!)

I have just gone round the house.

Back entrance: no clock.
Garage: no clock.
Utility room: central heating timer, digital display.
Downstairs loo: electric toothbrush timer, digital display.
Kitchen: round clock on wall, battery-operated, Arabic numerals.
Living room: small brass mantel 'carriage clock', battery-operated, Roman numerals.
Snug: small old French clockwork mantel clock, purely decorative, needs repair (not working), Arabic numerals.
Study: very large battery-operated roundface clock on wall, with day and date, Arabic numerals.
In hall, at foot of stairs: small single-handed early-18th-century chiming grandfather clock, Roman numerals; has to be wound daily.
Bathroom: electric toothbrush timer, digital display.
On my side of bed: battery-operated plastic alarm clock, Arabic numerals.
Other bedrooms: one has nothing clocklike like at all, while the third would have a display on the bedside radio alarm if it were turned on.
We both wear battery-operated wristwatches (mine is analogue, with Arabic numerals, Mr L's is digital. He points out I have omitted the various phone sets, both landline and mobile, each with a digital display).

We have different attitudes to punctuality: Mr L thinks he is late unless he is well ahead of the specified time. I regard it as ill-mannered to turn up at 7:15 at someone's home if the invitation is for 7:30.

All this proves nothing, except that I have time on my hands.

I'm afraid I can't remember now, jura. Whatever brand it was, unfortunately, it didn't stand the test of time - one of the hands fell off it when, looking back, it musn't have been more than seven years old at the most, and it wasn't considered worth repairing.

What a horrible thing for someone to do, Jura, stealing from you in that way, and even worse that you lost something so personal.

Alishka, there are several. The main watch-making Museum is in La Chaux-de-Fonds, and there is another wonderful one in a Castle in Le Locle- and a great smaller one in my neck of the woods- which I am very involved in.

Yes it was horrible- of course the thief had no idea the watch was unique and made just for me by my dad. I am always looking for it in second hand shops - as said, I'd recognize it instantly- the brand was Favre-Leuba, which was part of the Jaeger Lecoultre group.

I became allergic to watches as a teenager. I could only wear a 9ct bracelet watch. Working in a bank I gave up wearing it for work as it spent more time in the jewellers getting repaired than on my wrist.
I spent years knowing where every clock was on my journey to work. Someone suggested that I try a watch made of titanium which surgical instruments are made of, therefore anti allergy.
Dear hubby bought me one as a retirement present. It’s great, no green itchy wrists. It was a bit expensive but well worth it.
The only trouble I have now is remembering I am wearing one as I catch myself going for my phone to check the time instead of my wrist. ?

My watch is part of me. When the strap broke recently I felt at a loss until I got it repaired.

Here's a thing to try.
Next time you see someone look at their watch, ask them, a few seconds later, what the time is. They will always look back at the watch

I wear a watch all the time, only take it off in the shower.
It was my first Christmas present from DH, in 1969 and is an Omega automatic, no battery, winds itself by the movement of my wrist. It's been a good watch for 50 years come Christmas Day!
Been sent to the service centre in Switzerland a few times and had a new bracelet. Since DH died it means even more to me, a constant reminder of him.

Including clocks on cooker, microwave and radios I have 7! Cannot bear to not know the time. Oh, and one on my mobile as well. And a spare cheap watch for when my Omega goes to be serviced.

I hate wearing a watch. Annoys me. And I do send them mad. Weird. I hate being without a scarf. Cold neck! And gloves. Raynauds!

Love it BradfordLass how funny & very probably true! I shall try it out over Christmas!
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I adore clocks and watches.

I love a clock in every room and have about 10 watches. Different styles, colours etc not just functional also fashion.

My most expensive watch is a Gucci. Bought 15y ago. My most sentimental is a Rotary bought for me on our silver wedding anniversary - 20y ago now. Himself suggested a trip down memory lane to the pub which was our local when we were courting. We used to buy a lager and lime each - we were saving up in 1972/3 for a mortgage.

We hadn’t been back to the pub since we got married and were quite pleased it was a pub that was still open! He went to the bar to buy the drinks then surprised me with the watch in ‘the snug’.
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I have at least a dozen watches and a fit bit. I have a clock in every room, some like the main bedroom have 3. I appear to be obsessed with time when I look at what I have written. I’m not really but I do like to know what the time is. You can imagine I hate it when the clocks go back or forwards!

Clocks in every room but the kitchen but there are clocks on all the ovens.
Three clocks in the bedroom, battery ones in case the electricity goes off during the night and radio alarm does not work.
I wear a wristwatch because I don't want to look for my phone when I am outdoors.

Always wear a watch, have family clocks around the house.
My stepfather was an horologist, my sister is high up in one of the most prestigious Swiss watch manufacturers.

I always wear a watch.,it's quicker than taking the phone out of my bag. I have one clock in the living room, and an alarm clock in the bedroom. In the kitchen, I can use the microwave clock.