Pocket Watches. Am I the only one?

[Birdgun]

Do you regularly carry a Pocket Watch?

I'm the only person I know that still carries a pocket watch.

Started carrying a pocket watch when working around explosives. Wrist watches tended to snag on items we were handling and cell phones were forbidden when around the explosives.

I retired in 2013 and still choose to carry a pocket watch.

Humor. True story.
A buddy and I were talking about old mechanical wind-up watches. My buddy told me he was showing his 9-year-old son some of his old mechanical watches. He told his son that these watches don't have batteries. "You wind the stem every morning and they'll run all day." His son replied, "A watch that'll run without a battery. What will they think of next?!?!"

God bless,
John T.

 

[Mule Packer]

Yep. I've got a few and carry one almost everyday. Don't have a picture of the one I carry the most, but here's a picture of a few that I have.

 

[Shark Bait]

I don't carry one, but I have one that belonged to my great grandfather. When my son was in Boy Scouts, a boy asked me what time it was. I showed him my analog wrist watch. He looked at it and clearly couldn't tell what time it was. Oh well.

A Hamilton 974, not RR grade, made about 1910. And my great grandfather, Robert Wester Cates, who it belonged to.

 

[Onomea]

I have three American railroad watches, two Hamiltons and an Illinois Sangamo Special.

This is a Hamilton 950B:





i wear them very rarely. I guess this is because while I find them beautiful, I am accustomed to a wristwatch.

 

[StrawHat]

This is my Sunday-go-to-meetings watch, circa early 1900s.

Here is my around the house watch, keybwind, key set. Circa 1873.

I have several others, my daily carry is a stem wind, lever set, railroad grade Hambden. Accurate to 2-3 seconds a week.

Kevin

 

[rwsmith]

I hate wristwatches...

..and digtal watches even worse. If I didn't already carry my cell phone, I'd wear a pocket watch. I've done it before and liked it but it has been years. Actually, I'd like to chuck the phone and carry the watch.

 

[Ivan the Butcher]

I like pocket watches, but only carry mine when shooting in SASS events.

Ivan

 

[S-W4EVER]

I like pocket watches, carried one in college. Kinda hard to carry one in uniform so I went to a wrist watch until I was eligible to retire. Since then, I haven’t carried or worn a watch. Kinda redundant in the age of cellphones.

 

[Baxter6551]

I have my great Uncles Hamilton. He was a conductor on the Wabash R/R and lived in Wilkes-Barre PA.

 

[chief38]

I have three or four but have not carried one in 50 years or so.

I wore a wristwatch every single day of my life when I worked. I slept with it on, showered with it, swam with it did everything with it. Shortly after retiring at 55 I stopped wearing one on a daily basis. I do still wear a watch when I leave the house but when home I eat when I am hungry, pee when I have to and I have a built in time keeper who lets me know I need to get into the shower so we won't be late - lol.

At home I couldn't care less what time it is ...... hell, I don't normally even care what day it is. lol!

 

[DWalt]

I still have my grandfather's Illinois silver-cased pocket watch. It probably dates from the early 1900s. He was a gentleman of the old school and always wore a vested blue pinstripe suit, even at home. That watch and its chain and fob was always in his vest pocket. It still runs, but I haven't wound it for many years. Monetarily not worth much, just a memento.

 

[biku324]

I have my grandfather's 1924 Elgin. It still works perfectly, and is going to my granddaughter.

 

[moralem]

There are a few of us left……

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[Jon651]

I have a nice collection of antique pocket watches ranging from the late 1870s thru the 1930s, all American-made, mostly Elgin with a few Walthams and a Hamilton thrown in for good measure. It all started when I inherited my grandfather's pocket watch, a nice Elgin "hunter case" 15-jewel watch from c.1915, and it was all downhill from there!

Unrelated funny story (similar to the one you told)...

A good friend of mine was at a local garage sale with his 15-year-old son. His son found an old Underwood typewriter and excitedly called over his dad, exclaiming: "Look, dad - a manual printer!"

 

[StrawHat]

My Hampden, railroad grade built in 1905. I carry this one everyday.

I have several more. The hardest thing about owning one is finding a watchmaker who can repair them!

Kevin

 

[Smoke]

I worked in a machine shop for several years. Company rules were nothing on the arms from the Elbow down.

I carry it in my T-shirt pocket. I don't like pulling out my phone in public

 

[H Richard]

This 1923 Elgin was my Grandfathers. I spent well over it's actual worth to have it completely restored, and they did a great job. It sits in a stand on my computer desk and gets winded every morning. Do have to bump it up a minute every 3 or 4 days.


Only picture I had handy showing it.

 

[fhsjrm]

I had my great-grandfather's Burlington (Illinois) pocket watch converted into a wristwatch by the good folks at Vortic in Fort Collins, Colorado. Then I had them convert another one of his watches, a Waltham this time, for my Dad. It's cool wearing your great-grandfather's 103 year-old watch on your wrist!

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[gjgalligan]

I have never before seen a watch pocket on the left side of pants!
What brand are they?
I have a couple of pocket watches but don't carry them much because of carrying a pistol on the right side.

Edit to add: I just took a second look and realized it is picture taken of an image in a mirror.
So not on the left side.

 

[robvious]

I only carried one for a short while as a kid.. it was my grandfather's "tractor watch"... used a shoestring to attach it to my belt loops... son loves pocket watches... has a pile from wife's family.. one takes a key...