Timeme

[brrm]

If you're feeling as bored as I am, comment on this post with a photo of your wristwatch, if you have one. If you use a mobile phone, pocket watch or grandfather clock, that'll do too. Interesting facts about it optional

My watch looks like this:





I bought it at 'Watches of Switzerland' on Market St (?) in Cambridge, which I think might actually not now be a mobile phone or coffee shop. I'm fairly sure it was for my 16th birthday, which makes it, erk, 13 years old. Nearly all the glowy stuff has come off the minute hand, and it could probably do with a service. It is also clockwork but winds itself automagically. Which is handy when you're on planets that don't sell button cells.

Comments

[emperor]

I don't have a digital camera.

[lnr]

I don't have one with me, but cheated :0)

[lnr]

http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/or/orange-siemens-a62.jpg

Though mine looks less shiny than that, through living in my pockets for the last couple of years. It gains time, and is currently about 3-4 minutes fast, having last been reset maybe 6 weeks back. I'll reset it now actually.

[aendr.livejournal.com]

My current watch is something like this http://www.casio.com/resource/images/large/lw22h-1av_large.jpg but with a white rather than black face, and is on its third leather strap and has a scratched face. It has an alarm and glows blue when the "light" button is pressed. I don't need the alarm any more though.
I'm about to get a new watch for my birthday, in a month's time. It looks like http://www.buydakotawatches.com/images/ProductImages/large/45230_a.jpg
It's analogue and windy, with a light, but the winder is on the correct side of the watch, unlike yours, and it's not a magic self-windy one. I want an analogue watch because I think it's important for small things to learn about analogue time telling devices. Just a shame it doesn't have a date window.

[cjholding.livejournal.com]

I have a Citizen EcoDrive which I bought off eBay in 2005. Effectively a digital watch driving a analogue movement, it also has Perpetual Calendar (so I won't have to adjust the date for short months or leap years until 2100) and a Sapphire face, which allegedly can only be scratched by diamond.

Couldn't find a library photo, but did find the instructions (I have a slightly different case than the one pictured):
http://www.citizenwatch.com/Technical/English/Abbreviated/E76x_condensed.pdf

Apparently if left in the dark for 2 days the watch will hibernate and come back to life any time within 2 years, not that I've managed to test it. The second hand stops moving after 3 minutes which confuses some people as it comes back to life.

[dominic hargreaves (from livejournal.com)]

http://www.larted.org.uk/~dom/photos/web/medium/ixus400/134canon/img_3476.jpg
has been my watch since Christmas 2005 - it was a present from Gillian after my previous watch (an Accurist with a green face) gave up the ghost. I think it lost its water resistance at some point and didn't like Glasto. I'd had that one since about the same age as you.

I wear it everywhere - can't imagine being without it.