Interesting Wrist Watches?

brobak asks: "I've always been interested in interesting, wearable timepieces, and lately I've been wanting to start my own collection. They needn't be wiz-bang, high tech gizmo's, so much as interesting ways of displaying the time. What are some unique, or interesting time pieces that Slashdot readers own? Where should I start my collection?"

LED watches

[Odocoileus]

When I get a job, I will be finding myself a nice old red LED watch. These old watches are the defacto standard for fine programmers everywhere. LED watch == fine programmer.

Re:binary watches

[SpacePunk]

Nixies are neat http://www.cathodecorner.com/nixiewatch/ [cathodecorner.com]

I also prefer analog or the old 70's LED watches. Funny now many people look at a LED watch and are just astounded.

Re:binary watches

[onion2k]

If you're going to wear a binary watch, make sure that you're able to read binary as if it were Base10. If a foxy chick asks you the time in a bar not being able to read your watch loses whatever geek points a binary watch might have afforded you.

Obligatory Reference

[Anonymous Coward]

You still think digital wristwatches are a pretty neat idea? How primitive.

Re:Not to rip on you guys but

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually, watch technology is finally avaliable to us farmers for reasonable prices, but we have also learned to tell time by the behavior of our oxen.

atomic wristwatch

[Anonymous Coward]

you need an atomic wristwatch (and not one of those radiocontroled ones)

http://www.leapsecond.com/pages/atomic-bill/ [leapsecond.com]

Re:Obligatory Reference

[Anonymous Coward]

The days of the digital watch are numbered.

Re:Not to rip on you guys but

[hunterx11]

Kramer: "I don't wear a watch."
Elaine: "Well, what do you do?"
Kramer: "Well, I tell time by the sun."
Elaine: "How close do you get?"
Kramer: "Well, I can guess within the hour."
Elaine: "I can guess within the hour and I don't even have to look at the sun."
Kramer: "Yeah."
Elaine: "So what do you do at night?"
Kramer: "Well, night's tougher, but it's only a couple of hours."

Re:binary watches

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, but:

1. Do people who wear binary watches even go to bars?

2. Do foxy chicks ask people with binary watches what time it is? I mean, if you're wearing one of these things in a bar, you're probably also wearing a shirt off of ThinkGeek with some profound saying like "Got root?", a holster containing a graphing calculator, and maybe even this hat [thinkgeek.com], things collectively known as The Foxy Chick Repellant Kit.

3. And even if all you have is the binary watch, and the chick is interested enough to ask what it is, how long will it take for her eyes to glaze over as you try to explain, at which point she walks away?

Of course, this all goes out the windows if she happens to be a geek chick, but if she is, she may already have her own binary watch, so she won't even have to ask you what time it is.

Re:binary watches

[Feanturi]

The more important part there though is, if you meet a foxy chick in a bar, do NOT let her know that you have a binary watch.

Re:Old hat

[Anonymous Coward]

If you wear a jumpsuit all of the time with built-in underwear, there's no need to buy all 3 clothing items separately. So why isn't your closet full of jumpsuits?

Re:LED watches

[cgenman]

LED watch == fine programmer

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Just a shipping error

[Jetson]

I was very disappointed when I opened my binary clock and found that each base-10 digit was represented in binary, so 35 would be 0011 0101, rather than 100011, as it should be.

I'd send it back - obviously they sent you the EBCDIC model by mistake.