>With clocks on the wall, clocks in cars, clocks on computers, clocks on cell/mobile phones, putting something on your wrist to tell time seems quaint to me. The only exceptions I can think of offhand are for referees and other sports officials, who need stopwatches, and maybe someone who is going off into the wilderness with little or no access to electronics. Of course, this group being what it is, I am sure other exceptions will quickly be named ;-) (And that doesn't include people who buy expensive watches to show how much money they have).

I have a watch at hand right now - and I put it on my hand only when I travel, because (1) I still manage to live without a cell phone, and (2) I have the time on my camera, but it's a bit clumsy way to see the time, and the camera may be in the bag.

But, you know what, we bought a classic alarm clock, and one wall clock, for the big room and for the kitchen. Because the microwave we bought doesn't have buttons, it has two analog dials (intensity and wind-up clock) and nothing digital on it, and the oven has no clock on it - and even if it had, it's turned so that you have to go around it to see its front.

Anyway, I hated those clocks on the coffee machines, microwaves and ovens, because they were invariably 12-hour clocks. Sometimes I'd just snap out of whatever I was doing, look at it showing 6:59, and I wouldn't know whether it was morning or evening. Had to go to my monitor to check.