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[-] BirdyBoogleBop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 4 months ago

Digital isn't better it's just different. Also a tonne of wristwatches are still analogue.

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It absolutely is tho. Usually more precise, 1:1 translatable into written text, can use the superior 24h system and uses the same reading system that is already taught in school anyways.

[-] loaExMachina@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 months ago

"Ususally more precise" > This depends on how precisely it is set, not on the display. Unless it's a connected watch, but then it's much more expensive and less energy efficient.

"1.1 translatable into written text" > Both are, you're reading the same number

"Uses the superior 24h system" > Adding 12 to a number isn't complicated. And with habit, most people who use analog watches and the 24h system know which position of the needle means what number in 24h format without doing the math. Some clocks don't even have digits. Unless you've been sedated and woke up in a room without windows, you'll know which side of 12 you're on. And otherwise, you've got more pressing issues.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 4 months ago

Right! Just to prove a point, I am going to make an NTP enabled rolex, and sync it to my microsecond accurate local NTP server! :P

[-] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

There's nothing stopping an analog clock face from representing 24h time:

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[-] Emmie@lemmings.world 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

🤢 what an utter abomination

This is why puppies die

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 2 points 4 months ago

I was ready to hate it but after a good look, it doesn't look that bad. Doesn't work for small wristwatches but could look nice for a big wall clock.

[-] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 8 points 4 months ago

Wristwatches are just jewelry at this point tbh. They've been rendered completely redundant by cell phones. The only people under 60 who wear them are doing so as a fashion statement.

I'm sure a lot of wristwatch stans will downvote me but I don't care I'm still right

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 16 points 4 months ago

Ever since college I've always worn a cheap watch on my wrist least for the same reason my grandpa stopped keeping a pocket watch: its more convenient to check on your wrist for the time than your pocket.

Granted we're getting way off topic here since except for a few years its ways been a digital watch. Asserting analog watches are more numerous in models when digital watches are more numerous in sales, therefore reading an analog clock is a useful skill is odd to me. When I was wearing an analog watch for my allergies it was a flieger because the mental tax of making the hands turn into a singular time was a frustration.

I learned, though, from this that how you present time changes how you perceive time. Kids who grow up with digital representations of time consider "the current moment" in a much narrower and instantaneous scope than people who grew up thinking of time as being a spectrum on a dial

[-] variants@possumpat.io 7 points 4 months ago

Watches are just more convenient. You don't need to carry a phone everywhere and with texts and calls showing on the watch you don't need to find your phone to check.

I use my watch with alarms/ timers to know when I need to clock out or in from lunch etc while I mostly leave my phone at my desk while at work so if I'm walking around the building I still get my alerts through my watch

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 4 months ago

Watches that can get alerts can show digital time. So, chalk another point up for not learning analog time.

[-] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 months ago

For office attire or going out, sure.

If you're doing repair work, running lines, etc, a watch is the choice. Your hands are busy, so a watch is what you need (Except for specific trades where you don't want to risk it getting caught in machinery).

I can say with 100% certainty that I know large swaths of folks in their 20's and 30's who regularly wear watches. Some smart, some digital, some analog.

[-] newfie@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

Wristwatches don't have the negative psychologically addictive and anxiety-producing effects of smartphones

[-] flerp@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I'm a watch nerd with a collection of mechanical watches and I'm not going to downvote you because you're right. I wear them because I like them even though I know they are anachronistic. I can't remember the last time I interacted with somebody significantly younger than me who was wearing a watch, and as I said, I'm a watch nerd, someone's watch is one of the first things I notice about them.

I will say that they are occasionally more convenient than other places I could check the time but I've built my life in such a way that I very rarely have to care about what time it is and I go weeks at a time without checking the time, just wearing them because I'm fascinated by tiny gears and springs doing their business and I like the feeling of it on my wrist.

[-] Kalysta@lemm.ee 1 points 4 months ago

I use my wristwatch all the time to take dogs’ pulses.

Having a cell phone next to a grumpy dog is asking for a broken cell phone. I’m sure people in other fields need wristwatches as well.

Just because you don’t use them don’t mean they’re not useful.

[-] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 months ago

Also, just because they’re useful doesn’t make them necessary.

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