with a clock everywhere these days, you decidedly don’t need yet another clumsy/bulky appendage to your body – or so i thought for years (36 years to be precise).
after a long resistance from my rational side, i finally succumbed. i got one finally, a loving gift from my wife, actually. a Casio Edifice EF-509L-1AV bought at the new Helio store in Koramangala 80ft Road.
here’s my rationale: i have a blackberry, which also tells time (duh!). but whenever i reach for it to look up time, i inevitably end up getting sucked into the mail, and then into the calendar and then into the RSS reader (i use Viigo) – to finally realize that i took 20 min’s to look up time.
so i am going to try to roll my wrist instead from now on. i hope there was a machine that told time, and simply showed my calendar (at the least, alerted me about my next mtg) in one wearable instrument (for the days i spend in the office).
i already keep an old-fashioned pen-and paper notebook at work. and now this – i guess i am tending to a middle-aged man status one appendage at a time.
Is It Uncool to Wear a Watch?
well, there’s a watch museum in geneva that will settle the question for you
It is the one piece of jewelry a man can wear (apart from the ring, ofcourse) tastefully in any environment. While I am no fan of gaudy ‘I am money’ type of watches, I am very much one of the understated elegance of an analog watch, preferably mechanical. All IMO, but there’s a level of craftmanship that goes into making a fine mechanical watch, and wearing one is paying homage to everyone from Galileo to Antoni Patek.
I am a fan of the minimalist railway clock look of Mondaine, which also remains relatively inexpensive. Same for Swiss Army. Good enough for me.
Must be middle age, but I am beginning to appreciate the solid look of the old HMT watches compared to the titan/timex bunch.
There used to be set of old Titan watches (Raaaga) with traditional Indian motifs on them. Only for women, but used to think there were so uniquely Indian and elegant. Seem to have taken them off the product line.
the helio store had that raaga collection. has bunch of dials that depicted indian mythology/history (think of murals on ajanta caves).
but i am slowly breaking into the watch. the leather is still rough, but i’m getting there.