Watches: Analog or Digital?
 

Sup guys. I know this is probably a pretty boring question, but it's something I've been curious about.

I just replaced my watch not too long ago (Timex <3) and I got an analog because I love the way they look. The faces on most of the digital ones I see are generally unappealing and I can't see myself getting one. Usually I get one that's analog with a little digital strip near the middle that displays the time/seconds/etc.

So I was wondering, what kind of watches do you guys wear and why? Do you have any sort of preferrence or do you just get whatever looks pretty?

lol smilie in the poll

I love digital. I don't care about design as much as I care about technology. A watch that does a lot and is digital is my favorite.

Fack, I meant to pick "Analog", but selected the one without a watch by accident, oh well.

I used to wear a digital until water destroyed it. I have an analog one now. My dad got me a nice Esquire watch randomly one day, quite nice.
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It depends, really. I have a leaning towards digital watches due to them being somewhat easier to read occasionally. But that's only if compared to those analogue watches that either put the numbers as Roman numerals or only have numbers at 12, 3, 6, and 9.. in Roman numerals, no less. I've also seen ones that display no numbers at all.

I don't have much of a problem against Roman numerals, but it's just uncomfortable for me, especially if I have to explain what time it actually is to those who don't understand them.

I would probably never go for those. But if you gave me a "conventional" analogue watch vs. a normal digital one I would probably pick the analogue one. A combination would be very nice though.

But, nowadays, I rarely (if ever) wear a watch. I should, though, as fumbling around in my pockets for my handphone everytime someone asks me the time is not exactly fun.

I love digital because the hands on analog confuse me:(

I wear both. Actually I have a small collection of watches now... They're becoming as much a fashion piece as a timepiece for me now.

The two watches I wear the most would be a cheap "Acqua" analog watch with a black face and white arms/numbers... and a $10 Casio digital watch which I wear at work because it's very thin so it won't get caught on things - and hey, for $10, who cares if I destroy it by accident?

I wear a sundial.

My watch has style and class. It actually has 3 analog clocks and a digital one all on the face. Though I never sit around and read the analog clocks.

It's a Citizen Skyhawk if anyone is interested in looking at it.

I wear a hourglass.



No seriously, I mostly prefer Analog because aside from 3 digital watches, I've gotten used to the hands moving around.

Analog. It's a Timex, Expedition. I felt bad having a cheap watch until I learned that in fact the President of the United States wears a Timex as well. I prefer analog because generally digital watches are real ugly.

I have a huge Casio digital watch.

I used to have an analog watch, but I managed to break it. This baby is almost TOO durable, as I've smacked it into damn near everything. It's also solar-powered and sets itself with the US Atomic Clock.

That, and it looks really techy and cool, like what Robocop would wear if he needed a watch.

It takes me too long to read an analog watch. Digital all the way.

Meh, I don't normally wear a watch, but when I do, I prefer analog. I have a wierd hatred for digital numbers (their block-like structure infuriates me), and I like the look of an analog design better anyways.

- WraithTwo -

DIGITAL please. And in 24 hour time too!

::nerd::

BINARY !!!! i'd like to get one of those. i have a binary clock at home

trained myself to read a analog watch for a while now... so that's what i prefer. (think i also have one that runs backwards ^^)
as for digital.. well.. i do hope that one day there will be one of these

I love analogue chronograph watches. Digital watches jut seem tacky to me, unless they're the fancy hybrid ones made by Seiko, Citizen or Tissot. I would really like an automatic Fortis watch, though god knows when i'd be able to afford it. Something like this:
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I used to wear a Relic brand (ironic? ^^) analog watch, but it seems to have gone missing. Just as well, since the clasp on it was in really bad shape after just 5 years. I might pick up a cheaper Seiko to replace it, since they look really nice, plus my dad's used one for over 20 years with no problems besides the occasional battery replacement.

I wouldn't mind buying a digital watch, but none of them really seem to look nice. Even the expensive ones seem to be big black and blue plastic blobs with blocky LCD letters.

I prefer analog watches for the most part. All the clocks I own are analog except for my alarm clock, which has always been digital.

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Good ol' Casio Digital Casual Classic. What can I say, it's a, well...classic. Functional, durable, inconspicuous...everything I could want from a timepiece. The clasp also has a very satisfying click, which makes it ideal to play with when I'm bored.

I have a nice analog wind up replica military watch that Americans used in WWII...but I never wear it. The only kind of watch I'd wear would be a pocket watch, just so I can lean back against a wall and spin it around on its chain. But reall, who needs a watch when you have a cell phone?

I have a fancy watch and seeing as I like fancy type watches, I have an analog. I think they look much better, and more fancy. I don't think digital watches are very fancy at all.

I don't really prefer one more than the other, but the watch i'm wearing now is analog. It's got no numbers or little tick marks, just 4 circles on the 12, 3, 6, and 9. I can tell the time fairly quickly and accurately on my watch, I don't think I'll be able to tell the time faster with a digital watch, that's why i don't prefer one over the other. but i picked analog on the poll cuz that's what i use

Analog watches are more aesthetically pleasing, but I must say that I have to take time to "decipher" the time whereas telling the time on a digital watch is instant for me. Perhaps I'd get better at it over time, but I feel that analog clocks are unnecessary in a digital age. I'd also guess they are far less accurate.

As long as you can tell what second it is, there usually isn't a need for additional accuracy.

I've always worn digital watches for as long I remember. I do believe that analog watches look better, but I wear watches to know the time, not to look good. Digital is just faster, and usually gives me more features like light, stopwatch, etc.

Digital, because it's what I've had for years and years now. I think I can still tell time manually if I were to look at clock hands in the classroom, so I'm no stupider for it. Plus it comes with the cheesy alarm consisting of beeps, an hourly beep, date number indicator, day of the week indicator, stopwatch, and an utterly useless alternate timezone feature. Roots Athletic I believe.

I was more so referring to synchronization issues.

Man, this makes me cry. ;_;

It only takes a second or two to look at an analog and tell what time it is. Synchronization MIGHT be a bit harder, but you'll never really be off if you set it right.

So awesome.

Yep, gotta go with those neat ticking hands, they keep ticking and never stop which I find cool.

My hatred of digital numbers probably comes from when I was little, and relied on the unique shapes of 5 and 2 to tell them apart. Digitized, they both looked the same to me.

- WraithTwo -

EDIT: Damn, I just now realized that I haven't set up an av/sig since the crash > <

With watches, I definitely prefer digital. Like Eleo said, the deciphering time is quicker. I also have a BCD watch: I'll take the analog one over that. I do wear an analog one to more formal occasions though.

However, I haven't worn a watch regularly for the last year or so. Now I just refer to the time using my cell phone, my PMP, a computer, clock on wall.. whatever. Easier on the wrists.

Mine's a Seiko limited edition. ANALOG. Generally, the chain and face are all black metal, with green scripts and white numbers. World time and all.

Recently I'm too lazy to wear any watches.

Sorry, but do those of you who complain that analog watches are too hard to read are able to eat your own breakfast, or do you get spoon fed? 'Deciphering time' what. Geez.

I'm only partial to digital because I'm a data whore and like any data I can see. Plus I got a free digital watch years ago that's still ticking and works great. Analog is more for style when I wear one, digital is for functon and directness.
Plus I do belive digital gets better battery life due to less (if any) moving parts.

It depends. If I feel like wearing a watch more for convenience than appearance, I'd probably go with digital, since they're so much easier to read. A lot of them also have that button that turns on a backlight, which is pretty spiffy. When I'm wearing a watch but not really planning on looking at the time a lot, I'd go with analog. They're much more pleasing to the eye.

I have always had analog watches. I honestly don't know why. I like them, but I'm kind of slow at being able to read the time quickly/acurately for people who ask me what time it is, especially impatient ones. If I'm by myself, I can read it just fine and fast, though.. how odd. But when I think about it, I only use the watch for school, and there are only so many positions the watch hands can reach before I'm late for class. I never actually read the time, it's just "oh, that hand isn't on the 3 yet, I've got time," rather than "not 1:15 yet, still got time." I'm just slow with numbers in general, utterly horrible at math.

Digital Watches are on the large part, ugly... so I have a cheap analog watch that looks vaugely expensive (bling bling homies) and of course tells the time.

I have like this thing where I feel a LOT better (Less stressed, calmer) if I know what time it is... so I almost always have a watch on.

Combination for the win. That's right, analog AND digitial, get me.

Analog for me because I like the whole mechanisme in it. Digital just doesnt do it for me. I had some bad experience with those, for some strange reason they just stop working (not because the battery was empty). I'm not so picky when it comes to looks, if it looks nice I'll take it =D

My Rado I love it when I'm making my homework and the only thing I hear is the ticking sound it makes ^^

I actually despise people who don't wear a watch... because they're always asking people what damn time it is. :P

I could read both watches. Digital just makes my life easier though.

I feel the passage of time better with analog.

I wear an analog watch - only because digital watches are so damn ugly.

I actually own a digital watch, too, but it's a sports watch and I only wear it when I swim or do something that might mess up my pretty analog watch.

Digital for me. Just some <$10 generic watch from Wal-Mart. I only have a watch for the sake of knowing the time (and maybe to use the stopwatch or alarm occasionally).

If I was going for looks, then yeah, I'd probably have an analog if I was that self-conscious.

Well considering I use my mobile I lose. >_>

But nonetheless, I prefer digital to analogue. A glance at digital tells me if I'm gonna get roasted by a teacher for coming 1 minute late to their lesson.

Analog. Simply because I find it more pleasing to look at, easier to tell the time (matter of personal preference really) and more comfortable than a digital watch. I don't know why, but I always find Digital watches more ugly than Analog ones.

Normal every day wear = analog Puma watch.
Gym = digital watch, only because it has a lap timer and I time my rests between sets.

I chose combination~ It doesn't really matter what type I buy, I just need it to tell me the time of day O_o. I just wish getting batteries for them were as easy as getting AA, AAA, etc batteries.

I always wear analog watches. Well, I used to wear digital ones before I could tell the time, but ever since then, analog all the way. Right now, I'm still wearing the watch I got for my 18th, I haven't found anything better yet!

I wear a digital watch. I just prefer them over analog watches, no particular reason though.

I never wear a watch on my arm, however I use my cell phone whenever I need the time, and it has a digital clock. I'm most used to the digitals, since I have it on my computer, stereo, alarm clock, tv etcetera.

I wear a mix. I alternate depending on my mood between Analog and my LED Binary Watch (I guess that's digital, but I'm not sure). I keep a cheap digital around for use when exercising.

I have a pocket watch; it would be blasphemy to create a digital pocket watch. Though the time on my phone is in digital. If the time is in digital, it must be in 24 hour clock, or it makes no sense to me. And I prefer roman numerals on analog watches.

Right now, I own a digital watch because I do a lot of working out and running, so its easier to just have a watch strapped onto my arm rather than something big and clunky. Besides, it has a timer on it too!

I used to have an analog watch, but as started before, I do a lot of training. They sure do look pretty, but I don't need it right now.

I use a digital, becuase I dont see the point in still using mechanical watches.


It's like driving a Model T, outdated and stupid, in my opinion.

Yeah, except that it's not like that at all, because analog watches still have all the basic functionality required for an average person.

You also seem to be a bit confused as to what the term 'analog watch' means (hint: it's not the same as 'mechanical').

Who needs a watch? I can determine the approximate time using the old sun-shadow method, or simply estimate according to daylight, and time of year.

But if I had to choose, I'd wear a digital.

I remember my vary first watch was analogue with no numbers. That one sometimes gets kinda confusing and I wear it backward occasionally. >.> But I was a kid, what do I care, eh?

Later on I got a really cool digital watch from a company name TokyoWatch (?) that has a big bottom in the middle. When you press it, it makes a loud "bong!" and follow by a voice reading the current time in Japanese, that was pretty awesome. Too bad it wasn't water resistants. I have been using a digital one ever since. I also wears the watch almost at all times, with the exception when I take showers. >.>;; Does anyone feel naked when they are not wearing watches, as in, couldn't track time whenever?

I never quite understand why people think that analogue is more aesthetically pleasing compare to digital ones, its probably pretty subjective. Although I personally prefer digital ones, reason being the fact that I don't have to actually comprehend what it is being indicated by the arm, and rather by numbers that are more intuitive. Just being lazy, I guess.

I use to have this neat digital watch that acted as a remote control for any TV. It so oh-so-ill.

Digital all the way, so I can look fast and know the minutes/seconds quickly before I had to clock back in or clock back out from work.

I love my analog watches. I've got a digital with a stopwatch for when I'm running, but for everything else, I wear analog.