Light hearted post, Clocks and Watches

Too many clocks to count! DH has an obsession.
Some are digital, on the oven, microwave, Bose, clock radios etc, four are carriage clocks, one of which chimes, plus two mantelpiece clocks in traditional wooden cases. Oh and a wall clock in the kitchen as well. Nothing in the bathroom. DH has four good vintage watches, I have two cheap ones which I wear alternately.
I only use my phone to check the time if there is no alternative. It just doesn’t normally occur to me.
Oh and we have a barometer as well. How old- fashioned is that?

I worked for a solicitor who had an extensive clock collection. He later became a judge, but was a nasty man who would have been found guilty of sexual harassment if he'd still been around today. He comes straight to mind whenever anyone mentions clock collections.

I have one clock, in my kitchen and a carriage clock that I never look at in my dining room (it was a leaving gift from lovely church friends when I moved from Manchester in 1994). I wear a watch given to me as a birthday gift many years ago - I'd be lost without it.

Aw I've never yet found a watch that doesn't irritate my wrist...but I cycle everywhere and it's awkward when you need to know the time and your phone's in your backpack!

⏱. I only wear a watch when flying to Oz so I can keep up with time travel! I have a box full of ex watches including one which my late husband gave me on our wedding day. I just don’t feel comfortable wearing one and inevitably forget to remove before going in the shower/bath. I have a clock in every room and otherwise use my phone. I inherited 2 grandfather clocks but couldn't stand the dinging and donging! One which was my husbands, went with DD3 to Australia the other, my parents, I gave to their very good neighbour as thanks for his help over the years. My Mum always said I was obsessed with the time, continually asking. I had a bad head injury as an 11 year old and apparently the last thing I’d asked her before becoming unconscious was the time! So once recovered it became something I repeated - often. Still do 60 years on

Always wear a watch and my late mil had her watch on always even though she hadn’t worked all her married life she always liked to do things by the clock! I would feel naked without one but a girl I work with never wears one! Do you think it’s an age thing? And why when you retire do they give you a clock?

I wear a watch everyday to work but a girl I work with never wears one she’s younger than me so is it an age thing? My late mil used to wear a watch always even though she’d never worked since getting married! She never really had to be anywhere but did everything by the clock!

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One in kitchen ... although not necessary as have clock display on oven and microwave..... have one in sitting room... again not really needed as there is display on tv ( and my hubby never turns that off). That’s it ..two clocks. I do wear a watch but the annoy me as I have the skinniest wrist and always have to punch an extra hole in the wristband . ... so tend to use my phone while out. My daughter does not have a clock at all... neither is there one in my son in laws house. But surely clocks are now about more than just telling time.... some people like them as decoration/ ornament.

I've never worn a watch.

They just annoy me

Clocks in most rooms

But my phone is what I mainly use to tell the time

I wear a watch & have a clock in every room of a 3 bed house. Still often late though

I have 3 clocks and no watches.
I use my phone as an alarm clock.

I stopped wearing a watch long before mobile phones were usual and I just got used to estimating time and checking on public clocks, if necessary.

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Yes, clocks in every room. I also have several watches and wear one in bed. I am so short sighted I can't see my bedside alarm clock. I like clocks and watches with roman numerals.

Absolutely. I have just bought a battery alarm clock for my bedside as don’t like sleeping next to electric ones. My other has just packed in after 26 yrs.
I have many wall clocks. The clock in our conservatory has packed in, but I find myself checking it for the time.

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After my morning shower I immediately put my watch on my wrist. It is old with very clear numbers and I’d feel totally lost without it. People are always asking me the time.

I feel naked without a ⌚️

It's a funny thing, I don't feel right if I'm not wearing my watch but I hardly ever look at it, but must always wear one

This is an old thread, but I'm still wearing my watch.

Yes, I wear mine when I go out.
It's so easy to glance at a watch to check the time rather than scrabbling around in a bag, looking for a phone etc etc.

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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

That brought back memories! I was over the moon when I got watch for my 8th birthday and it had Cinderella on the face.

Many years later when I decided I wanted to be an auxiliary nurse back in the 70s, my parents bought me a proper nurse’s upside-down watch. It lasted for years - a little longer than my nursing venture which ended after three days! How do you wonderful nurses do what you do?? You have my heartfelt admiration.

The thing is what s to be done with these beautiful timepieces? My father always wore a gold pocket watch, complete with an Albert (I think that it belonged to his father). But he always wore a waistcoat. He also wore a gold wristwatch.

I have my mother's gold wristwatch.

When I was a teen, I was given my grandmother's silver wristwatch. I forgot to take it off when I went swimming but, because all the workings were also silver, it did not rust and still works!

Then there is the long case clock, which has a very soporific tick tock and the circular school clock which always struck at five to the hour! They have to be wound, of course. Maybe that is too much of a chore these days. Who knows?

The oven and microwave are no good if you keep having power cuts and the plastic, battery operated one which is beside me as I type is driving me dotty - too noisy.

Oh, woe.

I usually use Alexa if I want to know the time, especially at night. Clearly I am too lazy to even turn over to look at the display when I can just say, ‘Alexa, time.’
I have a clock on my living room wall but I managed to break it when changing the hour last week end so am waiting for Amazon to deliver a new one. It is more a case of filling the space though, rather than actually needing a clock.