Did Cell Phones Kill The Wrist Watch?

A cellphone can only kill the wrist watch for people who have no sense of style or taste. That's why most people who wear wrist watches wear wrist watches.

Very rarely is the decision to purchase -- or wear -- a wrist watch to be able to look at their wrist and tell the time

EXACTLY!!

I never wear a watch. And i understand the fashion part of it but this is really a ridiculous item. Just buy a bracelet.

I find with the massive amount of clocks in the world that i am pretty much in touch with the time at all times. so why bother adding one more?

has to be taking in consideration.

what do you think is more PIMPish? rolex or nokia.... mine rolex or other good watches are better.. so I think that good watches are more respectful then cell. cell will never kill watches. I like mine RADO watches!!!

It has something to do with it, I know I use my cell for time check

My advertising workshop teacher was going on about how technologies are coming together to centralize functions in just one gadget, like the cell phone.

I told him that he was wrong and that technologies were not coming together, but growing apart. This is one of the reasons why WebTV sucked, TVs with incorporated VCRs sucked, etc.

He suggested that he was the teacher and I was the pupil, so I just asked him why was he wearing a watch if he had a cell phone.

Things were quiet after that :P

I used to a wear a watch through high school, but then switched to using my cell, but now i'm getting back into wearing a watch

OMG!...Who are you O mystical one?

Watches are definitely for fashion now more than ever. The cell phone definitely is killing the average Timex, but never the Rolex, or the Movado, or any other "satus" watch, or fashion statement.

People didn't stop owning horses when the auto was affordable.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16693402/

Remember this one? I think is was Palm OS

haven't worn one in a while myself either... :-/

My Timex takes a licking and keeps on ticking

I could'nt agree more.

DH

In an overall sense I would have to agree....I spend a lot of time in Asia and nowadays wrist watches are not common except as a status symbol amongst men. I never see young women wearing them these days...Not unless it is a fashion element - ie colored Swatch etc.

I still wear a very heavy Omega Seamaster, but only as a masculine thing...

I have found that since I got my last phone, Motorola ROKR E6 I haven't taken my Ipod out of the house. SO I would say the phone and Ipod have been pretty successfully converged now.

So funny, we were just talking about this. We needed a second hand on a watch to time something and no one had a watch because everyone used their cell for the time!

That was his answer? What an arrogant prick.

Well, he didn't say it. He kind of looked at me and gave me some stupid reply like saying "hey hotshot, if you're so good, you should be teaching the class". Same thing, if you ask me.

Of course, I look like an ass in front of the class because superficial analysis tells you that technologies are, in fact, merging into single devices. I mean, cell phones have photo and video cameras, iPods can play music and video, the Blackberry can hook up with the Internet, etc.

However, if you look at it in depth (and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know this), they are actually diverging. I mean, are the photographers from FTV shooting with cell phones? Don't think so. Have book sales declined in favor of e-books? Nope. Have you seen TVs with incorporated DVD players? I haven't, probably because of the same reason TVs with VCRs didn't last long, even though it makes perfect (common) sense to incorporate them together.

Al Ries wrote down in one of his many books that alarm clocks come with radios. When you listen to the radio, do you actually use your alarm clock to do it?

Everyone says: "oh look how everything is coming together" and things like: "soon we'll be able to do everything from a single device".

Truth is, that is not going to happen any time soon because deep down, we don't want it to happen.

Life would be too boring with a single gadget that does it all.

Besides, think of paintings and photography. When photography was invented, its main task was to capture reality as accurate as possible, a task that had been assigned to paintings long, long ago. What did the artists do? They started using paintings to represent other things. That's when surrealism and abstract art, among others, were born and made paintings a necessity again.

As far as I`m concerned I still ware a watch although I have a cell phone.Most of the people don`t wear watches anymore,I can understand this thing because the cell phone,among other interesting features,it has a watch

Yup .. the same as when JFK was sworn in- not wearing a hat- and killed the whole millinery industry, in less than a year.

I don't think watches will ever totally go out of style ... there are still lots of ppl who do't have cell phones. Amazing isn't it .. how fast everything changes ..

And it all started with a transistor.

one of the best ad slogans of all time.

But notice you don't even see commercials promoting everyday watches anymore. timex ads used to be everywhere, and when Swatch was at its peak in popularity you saw them advertise eveywhere in print and on TV.

I only have my cell out, it's all you need

always wear a watch