Watches - the sort you wear on your wrist..

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How many live-aboards wear watches?

If you do, why?

If you don't, why not?

Personally, my wrist has been battered when wearing a watch when dealing with engines, bilges, winches, warps, stoves, small confined spaces, lazarettes, etc,so I've given up.

What do other folks of this parish think?

I could also extend the question to who wears rings, which i've given upon as well?!

Thoughts?
 
The moment I step aboard in Spring my wristwatch - rarely worn anyway - is used to set the mechanical bulkhead clock after winding then stored away for the summer.

I have no other items of jewelry to remove, which I would do if I had any. No rings, no gold chains with anchors, no piercings ... not even a tattoo. Can't see the point of any of them; I'm boring, I suppose.
 
rivonia said:
Wear a wrist watch all the time. However when it comes to engine work and other work that entails shoving my hand down into sharp or narrow areas my watch is removed.
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Likewise - I've found a good range of Casio watches on AmazonUK, between £8-£15, 10 year battery life, 10 bar water resistant, rather than fancy Rotary or Patek Philip which always break or go missing.
 
My watch lives on my life jacket as only used for working out whether its time to wake the off-watch. Rest of the time I go by my phone or the ships clock. As for rings always wear my wedding ring (not certain I can even get it off nowadays), usually wear gloves if doing something with sails etc as hate broken nails. Do avoid earrings as either loose them (there must be several odd ones in ToDs bilges) or catch them on my hat/glasses string.
 
rivonia said:
Wear a wrist watch all the time. However when it comes to engine work and other work that entails shoving my hand down into sharp or narrow areas my watch is removed.
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+1 - and the watch is not an expensive one. I've lost a couple either smashed against things or come off (broken strap) while swimming.

Pete
 
Peroo said:
How many live-aboards wear watches?

If you do, why?

If you don't, why not?

Personally, my wrist has been battered when wearing a watch when dealing with engines, bilges, winches, warps, stoves, small confined spaces, lazarettes, etc,so I've given up.

What do other folks of this parish think?

I could also extend the question to who wears rings, which i've given upon as well?!

Thoughts?
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I own a watch. Its lost somewhere in the depths of the chart table (where most things that get lost can usually be found :D) I know when it gets light. I know when it gets dark.
I know when the sun's over the yardarm and its time for a wet :D So no, I don't wear a watch. No need.
Next you will be asking if I know what bleedin day it is :D
 
I wear a citizen Eco watch it's solar powered so battery life is indefinite, I think! And I wear my swambo ring. Both of these come off if I need to get my grubby paws into tight spaces. I cannot nor do I understand how to passage plan without my time piece.
 
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I use a stop watch either in my pocket or (not often) on a lanyard round my neck. Necessary when taking the marina shuttle bus to town which makes the return journey back to the marina at 12 o clock sharp. Miss it and it's the taxi rank for 25 euro. Come to think of it saving 25 euro would pay for a proper watch. YES, another excuse to spend some money.
 
I wear a watch when convenient, but remove it when not convenient. It's currently on the table next to me - not comfortable when using a keyboard. I went out to the shops at lunch time and put it on before I left. I guess I'm wearing it less than 50% of the time, but would not want to be without one.
 
I was put off rings years ago by a combination of working on aircraft as an electrician - getting a ring across two live bus bars is a very bad idea, and a visit to the old Horseferry Lane industrial safety museum - old film of men unloading crates with nails in, still makes me shudder to think of it.

Watches - just put one on when necessary which isnt that often
 
Almost never wear a watch, maybe a few hours a year when meeting people at airports, stopped 7 years ago when I retired.

I think about getting up when the sun shines down through the hatch, I know I HAVE to get up when the cat does press ups on my chest with his claws flexed.

I mix my sundowner when the sun get low in the sky.

I go to bed when I am sleepy.
 
I never understood the fascination with watches especially the expensive variety, somewhere around here is a casio i paid £100 for as I needed it on a 6 week job which was time critical, as soon as I finished the job the watch was tossed on a shelf and never seen light of day since.

Besides who needs tan lines !
 
When we were long distance sailing I never wore a watch, time, day, month, year didn't matter, the only time I really knew roughly what the date was around Christmas because of the celebrations. This did cause a bit of a problem when I cleared into Trinidad, the immigration form asked for the time and date and year of arrival and I hadn't got a clue, I looked for a clock in the office but there wasn't one and Jane had gone to the bank to change some money. So I had to ask, she looked at me as if I was mad. That was the first time...
 
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