What Do you Say To People Who Use The Cell Phone Argument?

[Y4BBZY]

To be honest, I can care less what other people think. In one way or the other people spend more than the needed/norm amount on goods/services from cars, cell phones, computers, clothing, etc. For me, its on watches and other frivolous things that they don't need. Plus its a little more discrete to look at a watch to check the time than to look a phone.

[LesserBlackDog]

A cell phone is no substitute for a wristwatch. In my line of work, I am in and out of jails, mental health facilities, and courtrooms every day. Even in the past few days alone, I couldn't tell you how many occasions I've had to tell my colleagues the time because their cell phones are turned off or in storage bins.

I wouldn't time my bike rides or runs with a cellphone, either. Who goes running with their phone? I strap on an Ironman or a G-Shock.

When I'm in bed, I'm not going to get up, get my phone, and look at it in order to tell the time. I can see the time with a flick of my wrist.

If I'm talking to someone but I've got somewhere to be, I'm not going to whip my phone out to signal to them that I'm ready to leave. I'll take a subtle look at my watch.

When my hands are full, I can turn my arm slightly and see what time it is. No need to set everything down and go digging through pockets.

Sure, your can use your cell phone as a clock. You can also wear your underwear as a hat. But that's not what it's designed for, and it's not the most effective tool for the job. As another poster commented, the wristwatch has replaced the pocket watch for a reason. Using a cell phone instead of a wristwatch to tell time is a practical and functional step backward, not forward.

[alice1212]

If I only wanted to know the time, and didn't care about quality, artistry, history, complication, beauty, style or statement, then exactly right,

[NutellaBear]

Challenge them to a duel. I can read time from a watch faster than you can get a cell phone out and push a button.

[Monocrom]

I tell them no one uses pocket watches anymore, and that I refuse to go backwards in time-keeping evolution.

If it's just some stranger off the street though . . . I ignore their rude as Hell comment.

[PJR]

The reason I do not use my cell phone as a watch is because people can't call me on my watch (at least not yet anyway) and there are sometimes when I don't want to be bothered but still need to know the time.

[Janne]

It has happened only a few times.
I tell them it is a matter of class.
Once, I was lucky enough to wear my JLC Sun Moon. I said: "Because of this" flipped the case and showed the movement.

[VolkswagenFox21]

The only person I know who uses a phone to tell the time is my brother. He doesn't find watches comfy.

I've never heard anyone else say suh a thing to be honest....

I see tons of people checking the time on their phone, friends and family as well.

In regards to not finding a watch comfortable, I can certainly relate. I always had a problem that on some days I'm just not comfortable with a watch on my wrist. Actually just before replaying I had to switch my watch to the other wrist because the other feels "fatigued".

[cambrid]

I wear a wristwatch for the same reason that I wear a jacket or suit, shirt and tie. It's a tradition, in the case of the suit, it's a tradition that goes right back to Beau Brumel. Some of the most elegant and masculine men in history dressed this way, Clint Eastwood (Dirty Harry), Cary Grant, Sean Connery and Dean Martin to name but a few. Dressing this way today is a form of continuity that associates a person with the values that these men represented on screen. Wearing a wristwatch is exactly the same. I wear a wristwatch because my father wore a wristwatch and my grandfather wore a wristwatch. They wore wristwatches because their time was valuable, they were adults with adult obligations and responsibilities, and what they wore, the image they presented reflected pride in their status. When i look at my watch it reminds me of my father who provided for seven children by working sixty hours a week and was never late for anything. That's the kind of man I want to be. My wristwatch doesn't play angry birds, it doesn't receive unwanted messages in bad English, nor does it identify the latest Brittney Spiers record by waving it in the air, I guess I'll just have to live with that.

[dcdude]

Other times... I say 'when you're in a meeting, pulling out your phone to check the time is so amateur. I just glance down at my wrist. Like a BOSS.'

I was going to say, this situation in particular seems very awkward to me, so I'm glad I'm not the only one. The disconnect is, "Is this tool about to make a call right now? In the middle of the meeting?" It's almost always the under 30 crowd. Apparently, the (fashion?) watch industry is in a mild panic because apparently no one under 30 is buying (cheap) watches anymore.

I honestly didn't even know that my phone even had a clock until about 4 years ago, and even then I never imagined leaving the house without a watch. This also helps explain the tools with their phones in the gym: are you here to work out or play with your phone? I'm usually rocking my Casio! When I grab my phone, it's usually because someone else is calling me...imagine that! I even have text messages disconnected. Until my boss or customers start texting me, I simply don't care. E-mail and phone is sufficient. Don't even get me started on "good enough" iPhone photos. For better or worse, the phone is no longer a tool and has become a lifestyle...a "destination," and some kids can go days without touching a real computer.

The other thing the CEO doesn't do is listen to his iPod on headphones in the office. If your work is that easy, boring, or repetitive, the only place you're going is out the door. Again, this is almost always hipsters 35 or under. Gawd, I sound like a crochety old fart (turning 44) but I've felt this way forever.