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As the old saying goes, a man with one watch always knows what time it is; a man with two watches is never sure.
Men love watches with multiple functions. My husband has one that is a combination address book, telescope and piano.
I never wear a watch, because I always know it's now - and now is when you should do it.
Did you really think I didn't see that watch?
The hours, minutes and seconds stand as visible reminders that your effort put them all there. Preserve until your next run, when the watch lets you see how Impermanent your efforts are.
My grandfather gave me a watch. It doesn't have any hands or numbers. He says it's very accurate. I asked him what time it was. You can guess what he told me.
an eight day clock.
Who watches the watchmen?
The last watch I wore felt like a handcuff. When I need to know the time, I check my cell phone.
I like watches from that era. Back then a watch was power. Not many people could afford one. The owner of a watch was a man who controlled time ... chains and fobs were invented so that even when a man carried a watch in his pocket, you could still see he owned one
The only gift my dad ever bought me is still in my jewelry box. It died at 10 minutes to 11 decades ago, but the gold Caravelle watch keeps my dad alive. A watch isn't about keeping time. It's about stopping it.
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
If your objective is to tell time, you will not buy a mechanical watch. You have the time on your phone.
It doesn't matter how nice that expensive watch looks on your wrist if you don't know how to tell time correctly. It doesn't matter how much money you have, if it costs you too much to make it.
I'm not one of those crazy collectors - I don't have a hundred watches. Only five or six. But I do like to wear a nice watch, especially if we're on the road and I'm wearing a nice suit.
I think the time is ripe for a return to the refinement of lifestyle that the pocket watch embodies. A personal pleasure that you know you have in your pocket, which requires an elegant gesture to use and show to others.
A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring.
I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
All the rappers my age are getting Audemars and Rolexes. I want to find my own thing. That's why I travel the world - for me, that's my B-side, why we go places. I have a Hublot on from time to time but I want a home base watch - something that's elegant but has got a little pizzazz to it.
Time is money, so I went and bought a rolex.
Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes
The reason I do not wear a watch is because I am always on a watch. I just need to ask the person how long they have been watching me.
- the irony of paranoia
I'm not just living in the tradition and culture and the past, I also want to be connected to the future. The Apple Watch connects me to the future. My watch connects me to history, to eternity.
such as first-grader Vladimir's sporting a wristwatch,
chain. His left wrist held a thick gold Rolex whose
A good watch may serve to keep a recconing at Sea for some days and to know the time of a Celestial Observ[at]ion: and for this end a good Jewel watch may suffice till a better sort of Watch can be found out. But when the Longitude at sea is once lost, it cannot be found again by any watch.
For some reason, the less you pay for a watch, the surer you can be that it will never stop.
My wrists, which are tattooed with my daughters' names, are always occupied by a watch.
When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest.
The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.
He noticed Miss Bettie was wearing a watch, a steel Rolex with diamond chips. "What time is it?" he asked. Miss Bettie glanced at him and laughed. "You do seem to have difficulty remembering, don't you? Well, then, I shall tell you. It's now, Joshua Cane. Always and only now.
When a watch goes ill, it is not enough to move the hands; you must set the regulator. When a man does ill, it is not enough to alter his handiwork, you must regulate his heart.
I Xeroxed my watch. Now I have time to spare.
You own a watch the invention of the mind, though for a single motion 'tis designed, as well as that which is with greater thought with various springs, for various motions wrought.
Think of all the smart people made stupid by flaws of character. The finest watch isn't fine long when used as a hammer.
the clock is ticking
I have a lot of watches that need to be kept wound, so if I take two of them on a trip, there's always one sitting around. And if it sits around for a day, then it'll stop working. And then you have to reset the time and date, which is annoying.
He drew out of his pocket an old-fashioned flat silver watch, on the back of which was engraved a globe; the chain was of steel.
You don't stop the watch when you are afraid of getting old, so don't cut off advertising when you want to save money."
~Madi Preda
I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time.
Fine watches, I'd been told, were like rich people themselves: You could barely discern them working.
I'm sittin' on my watch so I can be on time.
The spring on a wound watch gets steadily looser, the torque grows closer and closer to zero, until he gears stop altogether and the hands come to rest at a set position. Silence descends. Isn't that all it is?
If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working.
I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.
Heavy gold watch-chain, with a bundle of seals of portentous size, and a great variety of colors, attached to it, - which, in the ardor of conversation, he was in the habit of flourishing and jingling with evident satisfaction. His conversation was in free and easy defiance of
I have never worn a watch. I did at 17 and it annoyed me.
Did you ever look at your watch, and you look away ... and you don't know what time it is?
People think a watch must weigh a lot to be a luxury. But there's no reason why we should add weight to create value. People have to overcome these notions.
Even a stopped watch is right twice a day.
You're working with models who are looking at their watch, and it didn't work for me. I wanted to have relationships with amazing people.
Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?
We are rather like children, who must take a watch to pieces to see how it works.
So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius.
If I have a weakness, it's for timepieces - if I see one I like and can afford it, I'll buy it.
I am getting old, so I really don't like clocks.
And tacksmen pay the Watch to keep an
I try to wear a watch all the time, because I think guys get the short end of the stick when it comes to jewelry and accessories. A watch is a very chic men's item, and you're sort of wasting it if you just look at your cell phone.
But as when an authentic watch is shown, Each man winds up and rectifies his own, So in our very judgments.
People create all kind of fancy watches and clocks, never stopping to realize they're building monuments to the greatest of all thieves.
Watches have watch makers, paintings have painters, designs have designers, and creation has a creator,
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
Have you ever seen a monkey examining a watch?
Clocks need a man to keep them in proper subjection.)
He never wears a watch (his own rebellion against time, against watching).
It's sad that the cell phone is replacing the watch as a time-telling device. I wear a vintage watch that's really skinny.
Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous,
On a whim, he stopped and bought a watch from a sidewalk vendor. Normally, Billy could not abide keeping time, especially when it was attached to one's body. Time was like a relentlessly needy lapdog one had to haul around. It barked too much and had no sense of loyalty.
If you want a watch with diamonds on the bezel, you don't need me.
Do clocks tell the time or does time tell the clocks?
You can have your own watch and always doubt it. If I had a watch I'd probably always be doubting it or the batteries would be dying. I just know that people always have trouble with their watches, and that's why I like public clocks.
Has my watch stopped? No. But its hands do not seem to be going around. Don't look at them. Think of something else - anything else: think of yesterday, a calm, ordinary, easy-flowing day, in spite of the nervous tension of waiting.
The hands of Fate keep time on a heart-shaped watch.
- Harkat Mulds(The Trials of Death)
I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.
God is not a watchmaker. God is a pimp.
Like a genial hotelier, Rolex has introduced me to some of the nicest people. I ask about their Rolex and they ask about mine. It's as marvelous a conversation piece as it is a timepiece.
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
I prefer reading books than the time on your watch.
Old Time the clock-setter.
I'm not too big on accessories, but I love my basic black quartz watch from American Apparel. It's a simple piece that goes with my vintage, thrift store chic style.
Do you know what time is? Not by the watch, not chronological time, but psychological time? It is the interval between idea and action.
Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.
I still have your pocket watch, my dear father. Like me, it is broken, but stubborn, and still keeps going.
I always judge a man by his shoes and his watch.
Biological clock? I don't even own a watch.
I should throw my gold watch
into the ocean and become
timeless.
Sorry, my watch doesn't speak spanish.
Our new watches are made entirely of double super gold. They are just a piece of gold that you can wear to the left, right, or directly on top of the other gold you own.
I want people who see my watches to go, 'Wow!' And the more they look at them, the more they go into it, the more I want them to say, 'Wow!' I work on a razor blade between gimmickry and amazement.
Apple Watch is the most personal device we've ever created.
When I started running, a gadget was a wristwatch with a secondhand on it.
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
A watch worn by a particle of light would not tick at all. Light realizes the dreams of Ponce de Leon and the cosmetics industry: it doesn't age.
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
I do not trust people who do not wear a wrist watch.
Say 'Synchronize watches', Motti." Con batted her eyelids. "You know I love it when you say 'Synchronize watches'." Motti glowered at Con, put on a bad falsetto French accent: "Would everyone kindly confirm their watch is telling the same time as their neighbour's watch, yes?
A man, like a watch, is to be valued for his manner of going.
This act demonstrates graphically a turning away the past and moving ahead. You now get to refresh your time in a friendly way by running with the watch instead of against it or away from it.
Tick tock, this is a clock.
She glanced at her watch, reminding herself who she was.