wristwatches

[surrealAmerican]

When I wasn't looking, they seem to have vanished. I'm not talking here about expensive, fashionable watches, but just plain, inexpensive digital watches that tell time with some accuracy. It's probably been about five or six years since I last bought one, and during that time they have disappeared from the drugstores, supermarkets, and other low-cost retailers in my area.

It's not that it doesn't make sense. Most people carry phones now that incidentally tell them the time, but they were so ubiquitous so recently that their absence is almost jarring. I gather from searching online, that they are still being made, but I wonder where they are actually being sold. Do people really pay shipping for a two-dollar watch? It hardly seems worth it.

[shenmue]

1. I like watches

I still buy them.

[surrealAmerican]

2. What type of store do you buy them in?

Here I used to find them in the drugstores, supermarkets, book stores, art supply stores, etc. Now, none of those place sell them any more. I saw some in a clothing store, but they wanted more than forty dollars for a basic digital watch, because they were "fashion".

[shenmue]

3. Sporting goods

[femmocrat]

4. JC Penney has cheap ones. Not sure about men's watches though.

I buy mine at the mall (department or clothing stores) when they are on sale. I can sometimes find them for under $10. I like to have a variety of colored bands to match my clothes.

You could probably find them at those discount stores too, like Big Lots or Marshall's.

[whistler162]

5. I buy mine online

My latest is this one - http://humantimeproject.com/naval-raider/ nice watch and a good company. Limited run watches and the company donates one watch to a healthcare worker that needs one.

[politicat]

6. I admit, I got mine through Amazon. Nobody else had the specific one I wanted.

It's analog, though. (I wanted an Avengers watch. Black Widow. Geek here.)

Try Kohl's. I got one for a nibling not too long ago there; under $15, I'm pretty sure.

[UTUSN]

7. I'm old, don't need the "time" (on my wrist),

[GOLGO 13]

8. It's mostly cool kids that wear them....

I rock a shiny black G-shock (GA-110B) with a powdery blue face. I get frequent compliments & people wanting to see my watches. My musician buddies & some friends that ride (Hogs) we all got the watch bug.

[Reter]

9. I haven't heard someone say "wristwatches" since I was about 5 in 1979

The "wrist" has been dropped the same way "cellular" has been shortened to "cell" and the "micro" in "microcomputers" has been taken out.

I'm poor myself, but I just put bills aside for the Samsung Gear 2. Amazing smart watch, even has a camera.

[surrealAmerican]

12. You're right, it's rarely heard anymore.

I mostly say "wristwatch" because I typically take it off the band and keep it in my pocket, but that still doesn't make it a "pocket watch".

[Jenoch]

10. Take a look at the wrists of people

in their 20s and younger to see how many are wearing watches. My theory about why they don't wear watches is not so much that they have a clock on their cell phones and they check the time that way, it is because they spend so much time texting with the phone in their face that they always are aware of what time it is.

[elleng]

11. Sorry to hear this.

I've never had a digital watch, but before I retired I wore a wristwatch, and couldn't imagine NOT doing so. I did spot my old (with a face too small to read now) gift from my parents recently, in packing up some things. Lots of personal history there.

[Iggo]

13. Cellphones. (n/t)

[jrandom421]

14. Stiil Have mine

Got a Casio Waveceptor 12 years ago and it' s been going ever since. Love it because:

1. It's solar powered
2. It synchronizes with NIST every night
3. It lets me set time for 2 different time zones
4. It's waterproof to 100 meters (328 feet)

I got mine at Target, but I've seen watches in Walmart, Kohls, Macy's, Best Buy, Big 5, and lots of other places recently.

[GoneOffShore]

15. Just got a Timex at Macy's - $50 day/date Indiglo

Really pleased with it.

[Populist_Prole]

16. Always wore one, and still do. A watch is better than a phone for telling time anyway

I have quite a few, and most of them are of the mechanical ( wind-up ) type. From older to quite new, the newer ones being Russian. A watch being always part of me, as it were, makes it so I barely notice it and telling the time is almost an extension of one's mind.

With a cell phone, which I seldom carry on my person in normal day-to-day life, requires me to dig it out of my pocket and fumble around to get the time.

No, older is better. I'm hardly old myself at 51.

[NJCher]

17. so glad you started this thread

I need a new watch. Haven't been able to find mine for months and it was broken, anyway. There are good leads to find one here.

I love having a watch, and I'm always super-conscious of the time. Like right now I'm super-conscious that I should be doing some work instead of posting on DU, LOL.

But hey, that's what's so great about summertime breaks for teachers. We put up with %$** the rest of you wouldn't dream of just so we can have this time.



Cher

[whistler162]

18. I thought summer break was for

us tech's who have to support the students and teachers the rest of the year? Two months of quiet and the ability to work on projects without people around.

[jrandom421]

19. Actually for ust techs who have to support the students and teachers

it's three months to update and fix everything before the beginning of fall term. Definitely NOT quiet!

[whistler162]

22. Well quiet in the noise level.

A busy 2 months.

[lunamagica]

20. I still see them everywhere at the mall

And yes, most are on the pricey side, but JC Penney and Sears sell very cheap ones

[geardaddy]

21. I got mine from my lovely lady

for Christmas a few years ago.

Swiss Army Watch

[Brigid]

23. Dakota Watch Company?

I wear a Citizen solar myself.