A Different "Analog" Question

Analog watches for years, five years or so with a Garmin Fenix and recently Apple Ultra.  Wow, I now leave my phone at home and workout to music, podcasts and audiobooks.  As mentioned above, for older folks lots of health parameters, but no hard use of shovels, or bumping into things, or it will think that you have fallen.  Almost as irritating as getting asked by all my doctors if I get abused at home.  I lie and say no.  Wife still tells me that she can’t stand to be in the listening room because of all the wires.  The real abuse would start if I told her how much I spent on all the wires…

I used to wear analog, but the Apple watch has literally changed my life. I have learned that tactile reminders are a lot more effective for someone who doesn't like looking at his phone. I also use the timer daily for cooking, or timing how long the fluid is on the record before vacuuming it, etc.

Analog watches, several of them. No digital watch, I have a phone for that. I expect one day analog watches will make a come back, just like LP's did. 

I have a life-long love for wristwatches. The proper time is never more than a slight wrist flick away. By comparison, a smart phone is totally clumsy. I'd rather approach a person on the street and politely ask them the time. I never have to juggle anything. 

Watch hands are much easier to read than a digital read-out. A simple glance in the general direction of the watch is all it takes.

Over the decades, I've gone through probably a half-dozen wristwatches. Never a Rolex or a piece of jewelry like a Patek Philippe, but good quality Swiss and American watches. Yeah, all my mechanical watches eventually wore out, rusted or just went bad, but they were always a thing of beauty to wear. I keep 'em in a bedroom drawer so I can look at 'em. Ah, there's my macho but elegant IWC...

My latest watch is a Shinola. Proudly made in Detroit by folks who once toiled on motor vehicle assembly lines.

@jond

I hate having anything on my wrist the day I realized cell phones tell the time was a very happy day for me.

Ha!!!

Me to.😊 I just don’t like anything on my wrists or jewelry items at all.

Charles