Do you have a watch? How do you keep time? I want to see!

[elkie]

My family got me this watch last year as a gift and I've become obsessed with rolling up my sleeve to check the time, even when I'm not wearing it. It might be bad for me, I don't know yet. Needless to say, I get a lot of use out of it. Here it is in all its kinda scratched glory, it's a swatch:



It even has a ticker for the date. I love looking at my watch when someone asks for the date, it confuses everyone.

Sorry if the image is a weird size, I'm not used to forums just yet. I thought I'd try an image post to dip my toe in.

I wanna see your watch, your clock, whatever you compulsively check to ground yourself in time. Do you like a leather wriststrap or do you hate stuff on your wrists? I like to wear mine with a bracelet that my sister made me.

[IndigoGolem]

I had a nice one for some years, a Seiko. Self winding, told the time and date. It was great. But eventually it kept running too fast or two slow, even after i got it repaired a few times, so i got fed up and bought a battery-powered Seconda. It's not nearly as nice. Tells time to the second, no date, and the hours are unlabeled.

No pictures of either, because i don't have a convenient camera.

Maybe someday i'll splurge on a really nice dive watch.

[stellarfieldanomaly]

I have a Casio B650WB-1B!

It's sleek and almost all metal. It has an inverted LCD and a nice orange backlight.

But most importantly it's waterproof up to 50 meters.

That was the main selling point, as when I originally bought it I was living near and swimming in freshwater spring-sheds.

I get the feeling of compulsively checking it haha, it took me over a year to get used to wearing it.

Pics:

[Dan Q]

I wear a Garmin Instinct Solar purchased mostly using the "get a fitness tracker" fund provided by a previous employer. It's sort-of a "dumb" smartwatch in that it can buzz and show my notifications from my phone, but that's a "smart" as it gets, but that does mean that it goes about a month on a full charge; longer if I'm routinely out in the sun ('cos it can recharge with solar power).

I enjoy the GPS features. It's too fiddly for geocaching but I like that I can target a geohashpoint with it when I'm out on an expedition, and it retains a tracklog for me to extract later. I don't like the shitty ecosystem around it, though, and I'd be happy to "root" it and make it more "mine" if that's an option!

Oh, and it sports a bi flag wristband, as a little show of daily pride.