On Tuesday, 24 April 2018 13:33:01 UTC+1, Jimmy Wilkinson Knife wrote:
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 13:05:34 +0100, Steve Walker wrote:

On 24/04/2018 12:39, charles wrote:
In article , NY
wrote:
"Brian Gaff" wrote in message
news I don't wear a watch, my clock talks and is in my pocket. Does not
matter which. You know you should get out more!

"Jimmy Wilkinson Knife" wrote in message
news I'm right handed, so I prefer to use my right hand to look at the
time. Can someone explain to me why most right handed folk put their
watch on their left hand?

The normal convention is to wear a wris****ch on the opposite hand to the
one you write with - maybe so you can look at the time while you are
writing, or else so it is less likely to be damaged when doing tasks with
the dominant (writing) hand. Because the winder is on the right of the
watch, this makes it more difficult to wind a conventional watch if it is
worn on the right wrist and wound with the left, so left-handed watches
used to exist in the days when all watches were clockwork and had to be
wound frequently, but mostly, left-handed people (like my mum) had to
remove the watch to wind it.

Now we've dealt with that one, how about the question of whether the face
should be uppermost when the palms are laid on a desk, or downwards
facing the desk on the pulse-taking side of the wrist.

Of course, the use of watches is declining. People tend to rely on their
mobile phone these days.

I feel lost without a watch, even when I have my phone to hand. Plus I
can glance at it at any time, without having to retrieve it from my
pocket and turn screen on.

Indeed. And who carries their phone everywhere they go? I leave mine at home unless I'm going on a long trip somewhere and think I might need to call Green Flag or tell my relative I'll be delayed in traffic. A phone in a pocket falls out when you sit down, and in a car that can mean unbolting the seat to access it. I wonder how many pound coins scrapyards retrieve from scrapped cars? I must lose a fortune down the side of my car seat.

Plus the battery is unlikely to go flat for
the next 18 months or so.

Mine lasted 6 months, but then it has an altimeter and barometer on it which use a lot of power.

Why did yuo feel the need to get one with an altimeter ?
Do yuo often need to know what height you are at say when drinking a pint sorry taking sips. Maybe it's all part of your problem of hitting your head on low things.



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