Losing watches

Liam’s new watch

Maybe it’s just me, but ever since I was old enough to have a reason to wear a watch, I have never been able to keep a nice watch. I have lost watches. I have sent watches through the wash. I misplaced one watch in a drinking session, only to see it on my friend’s wrist several weeks later. (Yes, that’s a story for another day.) My wife once bought me a very expensive, very nice watch that I really liked. Lost that too. Not sure how.

Am I the only one who loses watches?

The only watch I have been able to keep, from since as long as I can remember, is a cheap little Walgreens-esque $20.00 digital watch. An Armitron. And yes, I did buy it at Walgreens (that’s what I seem to remember anyway – I don’t actually still have the receipt). I never lose that watch. Always come home when I have a late night, that one. Never goes through the wash. Never needs a new battery either. Go figure.

But now as a father of two, director of my own company, and middle-aged guy, I have decided that I will be the master of my watch. I will own a watch and I will keep. To this end, I bought a Fossil watch on a recent trip to America. My current goal is to keep it long enough so that I can say that it cost me less than 50p a day to wear. I’ve had it for 35 days now and I am still going strong.

Wish me luck!

(P.S. Is it a bit pathetic that my goal is not to retain the watch forever, but only to the point where it is wasn’t expensive to wear? Am I setting my sites too low?)

6 comments

  1. As a man afflicted with the same disease I feel you. I admire your gusto. My perspective is that you are setting your sites ridiculously high. Go for it!

  2. Perhaps it is uncouth to ask, but after reading I am curious how many days you’ll need to wear the watch in order to reach your 50p a day goal? I mean, is this a matter of weeks? Months? Years?

  3. Hey Conall –

    Years? Heavens no! It is me still. I was scared to risk an overly expensive failure. My Fossil watch cost about $55 USD. So, give or take a bit of fluctuation in the British pound, I need to keep the watch in my possession for about 60 days. Halfway there, I am.

  4. Nice. 60 days is great. Should that sad day come when this watch walks off, I’d like to hear the final numbers of “per day” cost. Of course, if you stick it out for a few months I’ll probably forget to ask.

  5. @ Conall –

    Yep, sure do! It is on my wrist now. It’s been back to Fossil twice to fix the band, but otherwise ticking along just fine.

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