Digital watches, anyone?

[colinh]

OK, I've been reading silly, or very silly polls since I joined, so I just thought up my own:

Do you use a digital watch, as your main day-to-day watch?

colin

[clintock]

I have my G-Shock programmed to beep on each quarter hour so I sound high tech and cool in class and movies. So far it's been working, girls ask me all the time about the meanings of sundry Vista error messages, before that the only girl I talked to was my mom.

[Finder]

Watch?? Is that anything like a sundial?

[StuartR]

I was given a nice watch when I got my masters, but I only wear it when I travel...normally I just use my cell phone...so I guess that's digital. In some ways, the watch is becoming obsolete as its function is so simple and so easily integrated into the other devices most of us now bring with us everywhere. Watches are now far more about jewelry than about function compared to times past.

[Tuolumne]

I prefer analogue watches but also have many digital watches. How about the Accutron: an analogue digital watch!

/T

[arbib]

Analog Only for me....

I have 2, 12 hour Chronograph's. (Citizen and Timex) and few odd ball analogs (Cat in the Hat face), and 1 1942 engraved windup that was a gift to a army person at retirement. (Monroe)

[iñaki]

Analogue watches and old analogue phones too (from 50 and 60´s). Yes I have a movile and a digital camera too.

[Chris101]

C'mon! Hitchhiker's Guide killed the concept.

[ltketch]

Tick Tick Tick Ti..

[gavinlg]

I have a casio digital similar to this one:

http://www.balconyshirts.co.uk/ekmps...age/black1.jpg

And it's incredibly reliable and accurate for something that cost me $60aud.. Plus I really like the retro digital look. I also have a calculator one.
For a dress watch I have an old tissot with a classic style which is beautiful. My other watch is a seiko divers which is great too.

[erikhaugsby]

Automatic watches (if they're skeleton, if just on the rear or preferably on the face as well) funner to watch. And there is still a hint of satisfaction in knowing that the watch will never never need a battery.
And you don't get a "that's such a sweet watch" with an LCD as an Automatic.

[DavidH]

I have a mickey mouse watch. No, really.

[IGMeanwell]

Yup ... on my cell phone

[Muller]

Digital? Pfft! It's a passing fad.

I have a few FSU watches; Rocketa, Vostock, and Rhula. Decent gear as they keep time well for being cheaply made, but more to do with re-enacting and that I like their aesthetics.

[mjflory]

My first "digital" watch had wheels with numbers on them that turned to show the different digits through a square aperture. It seemed really cool at the time. I've got digital watches with calculators built in, one that holds an address book, and I still usually wear a railman's watch style Timex. (Very plain numbers, hours 13-24 on an inner circle in red.) It's just easier to read.

[fishtek]

Out of a couple dozen timepieces (yeah, really), only three are quartz, two Seiko chronographs, and one Zeno chronograph (I use 'em to time my development process for b/w film.... Mechanical watches are analagous to mechanical cameras......

[nemjo]

Originally Posted by Muller

Digital? Pfft! It's a passing fad.

I have a few FSU watches; Rocketa, Vostock, and Rhula. Decent gear as they keep time well for being cheaply made, but more to do with re-enacting and that I like their aesthetics.

Do you mean Ruhla - from the DDR?

nemjo

[pvdhaar]

I think we'd first have to decide what a digital watch is..

Anything that needs a battery is a digital watch. The battery drives a digital circuit that counts oscillations in a piece of crystal. What's done with the counted cycles is another matter, some watches show the result in digits (LED/LCD), others move a pair of hands around..

So, despite having a analog looking faceplate, my day to day watch is digital..

[TheHub]

A Speedmaster, a Seamaster & a Tag Heuer. I rotate them.

[350D_user]

Ideally, pocket watches for myself. However, I have to resort to using a mobile phone, thanks to work. I stopped wearing a wristwatch when I began having holidays abroad.

My pride and joy is a 1920's Elgin pocketwatch (with a broken mainspring, alas), housed in a 10ct gold hunter-style case. However, my user is a "Jack Daniels" branded quartz pocketwatch.

[varjag]

Originally Posted by pvdhaar

Anything that needs a battery is a digital watch. The battery drives a digital circuit that counts oscillations in a piece of crystal.

Strictly speaking the circuit doesn't have to be digital, impulse is sufficient

[iml]

For the last few years I've had an analogue wind-up Poljot Russian chronograph, about 25 years old. It keeps very good time and just needs a quick wind each morning.

Ian

[StuartR]

Those make my head spin. I don't like things that make me do math any more than I need to.

[colinh]

Originally Posted by Finder

Watch?? Is that anything like a sundial?

It's a sort of portable sundial. Hmmmm. I wonder if there'd be a market for a GPS-based sundial? (The markings differ depending on location).

colin

[Carzee]

I don't wear wrist watches or rings... for occupational reasons -- could scratch/zap a sensor while I'm cleaning it or something. Digital stuff is small but so fragile.

My sentimental favorite is the Large Format analogue timepiece, but due to its age, weight and fragility (outside use is likely to degrade accuracy) .... well in truth it rarely leaves the studio wall and its a nostalgia piece.