Horological Meandering

I look around at the younger generation(s) and it is common not to see them wearing wristwatches at all - they tell time from electronic devices such as mobile phones (the modern pocket watch!). We have pondered here before how to inspire the next generat... 

As a youngster, I always wore watches -- mostly Snoopy watches and the like, because I just always wanted to know what time it is. I have no idea why. As a teen I became more obsessed with the bands and bracelets than the actual watch itself. As I got old... 

...did TM 'convert' you, fizzhogg? Cheers, pplater.

It's been ten years since I first met the legend.

or had one as long as I can remember I got my first wristwatch for usage from uncle in 3rd grade primary school Darwil black dial rose gold plated piece (ok now we know my obsession to that particular gold tone and dial case combo :) ) It was lost during ... 

But. My relationship with watches has certainly changed over the years When I was young I hankered after a watch. It was a item with which was attached great status and a sign of reonsibilty I am not sure if the brand was even relevant at that stage , onl... 

...only in the last couple of years or so have I moved from seeing a watch as a time telling utility to a wrist worn meld of art and mechanical engineering! I have worn a wrist watch for as long as I can remember. An hours and minutes only Timex first. Ha... 

.. (or is it de-evolution???), the next watch should perhaps be a skeleton, no? :-) Cheers, pplater.

...might be a more horological term than devolution!! I am interested in skeletons but haven't seen one I love yet. Part of this disease requires constant searching, so who knows what I'll find. Cheers, Dave

...well, almost always - most of the remembering years, anyway. Which brings to mind the exchange reported in the photo-journal "A Day in the Life of Australia". The photographer took a photo of a gnarly, grizzled old stockman in a battered cowboy hat lea...  

Since I was old enough to remember, and aside from the G Shock craze for a period of about 3-4 years, it's always been mechanical, from a manual wind mickey mouse watch as a boy to Seiko's and a Swatch mechanical watch before finally moving on to the "rea... 

"an elegant weapon from a more civilized time"

Always. It started from 2010 when I got a rolex gmt master ii from my father.

when I was given a wristwatch. I migrated to quartz after elementary school, but when I received an inherited pocket watch (red gold Omega) upon high school graduation I started using that instead. I got a "professional" looking quartz wristwatch (another... 

It could be interesting to discover the background of watch freacks. I'm sure there was a time they didn't pay attention to watches. Things change... As for me, I've always been wearing them (i.e. since before 10 years old). I would say quartz (and a mand... 

... there are several PhD's worth of behavioral psychology on PuristS. In fact we do get students and even university professors enquiring about access to our membership and the archives here. Of course we value your privacy highly and never share informa... 

that we are under professional surveillance here ;) Sincerely D

that we are under professional surveillance here ;) Sincerely D

...of school, I wore a wristwatch. A little Rotary that originally belonged to my aunt and was engraved with her name under what would now be considered a NATO (if NATOs were black, yellow and red striped). A watch that my sister now wears regularly. As f... 

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Interesting post Andrew. I starting wearing wrist watches since I was young, probably 7 or 8 when I started reading time. I started with digital watches but my dad got me an automatic seiko when I was probably 9 or 10 (which I unfortunately have lost many... 

. . . but then stopped because it was too elegant for my liking. Then the quartz revolution pretty much put a stop to any practical interest, as I rarely had any spare cash. It wasn't until I was in my late twenties that I was able to get a suitable mecha... 

...was the three weeks when I had a cast on my left hand and wrist 11 years ago. I thought about putting a velcro strap on my Speedmaster but I had the watch but not the strap or the energy to go find one at that time of my injury. It would have been cool... 

Aged about 7 my first watch was a fat Newmark, which I thought was too large for my slim wrist and sounded so loud it seemed as if everyone across the room heard it tick. It did not have a seconds hand, which was something I recognised at that early age I...