A photo of my current watch as I’m wearing it right now.
Here’s mine. I bought it new in 2015, and I wear it almost daily. It has never needed work.
Oh, I love skeleton watches! Beautiful!
Wearing an oldie watch made in 1988 with a pulsometer on the dial. Love the beaten old thing.
That’s really cool!
Here’s my reliable, simple Casio. Been with me for the past 7 years. I love this old fucker.
Here is my Bulova Sea King “Whale” from 1971 that I bought used a couple years ago. Still runs very well 54 years later.
I’m not wearing it now. But I have an old Casio calculator watch I wear.
Same one Dennis Nerdy wears in Jurassic Park
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Wow. That has to be 20 years old
The style, yeah, but this is a modern one.
You’re still allowed to buy a normal watch
“the touch screen is broken”
Father, I cannot click the book!
Does flipping the page by hand break the ebook?
No it just flips the device, but then you cant read anything
“Im gonna do a internet”
Are people really not aware that you don’t have to have notifications for everything?
You can turn all the notifications off on your phone and watch.
The value the watch brings can be found in other places, for example, being able to stay connected and have music and emergency contact without needing to lug your phone with you during a run or if you lose your phone.
A smart watch means you can leave your phone at home more often in general while still being available to those who genuinely need to be in contact with you, which is great for reducing doom scrolling and the like.
Right?? One of the first things I do when getting a new phone is disabling all the useless notifications and keeping the ones I care about. My phone doesn’t spam with notifications all day.
Aren’t smartwatch sales going down? Anyways, never understood why anyone would use one, especially since we also have phones that we carry around every day and that can notify us whenever.
There was one case in the last 3 years that I thought about getting one. I started running and hated having to need my phone on me and needed a watch either way.
Then I went to dinner and saw how a friend was continuously and unconsciously flicking their eyes down at their smartwatch every few minute if they weren’t talking and decided against it. I’m getting old…
Being able to track my runs with Strava while playing Spotify via Bluetooth to my earbuds without carrying my phone is amazing
Edge case here: my hands are constantly dirty with things I don’t want to get on my phone (relevant hobbies include machining, gardening and calligraphy). A smart watch means I can check to see if a message is important (ex: kids/partner attempting to get ahold of me) and I can answer calls and texts just using my nose/tongue + TTS. I never understood why they were such a mainstream accessory, but they are very convenient in some circumstances.
(Edit: I just remembered another use case, my partner is medically “a dingus” and constantly loses their phone as a result, but habitually is always wearing their watch. Upgrading them to a smartwatch has meant our relationship no longer suffers the daily turmoil of tearing apart several rooms looking for it. Again pretty niche, but a wonderful QoL improvement)
Same here. They are just pointless devices. A smaller screen for your small screen. And I can’t understand the point of a “watch” You take off to charge. I’m using a solar powered G-Shock and take it off my hand maybe once every 3 months.
I use my Garmin instinct to track fitness. I love it
Most of the time, it’s just a decoration.
I found this in my jewelry box when I was packing for moving. Throwback to the 80s! Very much doesn’t work.
I’ll bet you it does, but you’ll need to put a new battery in it.
If we’re doing watches today, here’s what I’m rocking lately.
I stopped using my Garmin smartwatch because they finally fell into the enshittification trap and recently tried adding AI slop and a subscription scheme into their watch app. That’s a big old nope from me, dawg.
I’m rocking a $5 Ali watch with a nice rainbow watch band.Nice. It is astounding what you can get for just a couple of bucks, and even more astounding that they genuinely work.
I would have bought something from a real brand but a red watch that matched the band at all was either this or like $10k, no in between it seemed.
Wow I love this!
I’m not really a watch person, but that one looks totally great!
It’s also approachably yet suspiciously cheap. I think I paid $20 for this close to 15 years ago, and Sinobi is apparently still at it making mechanical watches in the $30 range.
This one does two things: Tells you the time, and does so while not needing batteries.
I like my smartwatch. I’m extremely ADHD as well as hypoglycemic. I have a lifelong history of not eating, then working/playing/exercising until i get woozy or pass out. I’m a terrible judge of what I actually need to stay functional. Always have been. I’m stubborn and will just try to power through things when I actually can’t.
The watch helps me track my sleep/rem cycles and lets me know when I’ve been neglecting my health. It lets me know when I’m getting stressed and need to take it easy, and it estimates how many calories I’ve expended on a given day.
The watch and pager functions are nice for reducing screen time when I should be working, but as a health monitor I find it indispensable in keeping me honest with myself.
ADHD plus anorexia?
I’m not anorexic. Im a healthy 225. I love eating. I just sometimes forget that it’s something I need to do everyday. 😅
I weigh the same as you. On the contrary, I don’t like moving at all.
I’ve got bad knees, so running (and a lot of other sports) is out, but I live to bike. I commute every day of the year, rain sleet or snow. It’s my favorite part of the day.
The most important part of staying active for me, was finding something that I actually enjoy. If I can trick my ADHD into thinking it’s playtime, and not some drudgery that needs to be completed, it becomes a game, and suddenly I can focus for 10 hours straight.
You’ve found the most important trick then. The convincing yourself that you’re having fun not getting exercise part.
Since I don’t have any friends with ADHD around me, I have a curious question. Are people with ADHD more optimistic and positive than others? Can they always see the beautiful things in the world?
I’d say I’m probably more optimistic than most, but I don’t know if I’d apply that to the whole population. It’s a disorder that affects your ability to perform in the ways society expects you to, and for a lot of people, that sense of failed duty is a weight that they bear every day.
For me tho, I’ve never really given a fuck what society expects out of me. I live for myself first. If my boss or teachers or parents are pissed because I’m not measuring up to some metric, that’s their problem. I’m in a career now where I don’t need to worry about finding a new job. They’re plentiful. So I just focus on what makes me happy and put in just enough effort to keep my head above water and save a bit for down the line. Work and education have always just been a means to that end. I’d say I’m definitely an outlier in that regard.
I really dig your attitude of not giving a damn about what others expect and living for yourself. Lmao, I often get down in the dumps because of other people’s comments. I always care way too much about what others think. But you’ve got such a unique perspective on life, seeing work and study as ways to achieve your own happiness instead of heavy burdens. That kind of mindset is seriously on point and deserves major props!
I broke two of those. One taking something out of my pocket the crown caught and once the crown caught on rubber gloves I was removing.
Sorry to hear that. I’ve had this one for a few years now and work out in the bush all day and I haven’t had any issues.
I’ve got a Expedition Chronograph for a couple years that has been good.
I love my phone to a not great degree, but I would hate a smartwatch. I don’t like wearing watches anyways, but something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty. At least on my phone I can listen to podcasts, music, radio, etc, and I can read books and magazines. A smartwatch just feels like a shackle. Also every time I go to concerts or theater now and see the lights go down and all the smartwatches glowing in unison it’s creepy.
something buzzing on my wrist all the time would drive me batty
It’s the same when it’s in your pocket. I’d say the issue is not that it buzz all the time on your wrist, but that it buzz all the time. I disabled most notifications, except for a selection of people and apps. When I get a notification, it is usually important enough that I should check it. Everything else (including non-emergency work stuff) is checked on my own accord, when I feel like it.
Having the notifications pop on my wrist, with that system, does not feel like a shackle more than a phone constantly turning its screen on to tell you you have unread whatever.
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