VintageGent’s Menswear Daily

Watchful or Watchless?

This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Victorinox Swiss Army. All opinions are 100% mine.

A close friend of mine made a horrifying confession to me recently. He doesn’t wear a watch. That’s not shocking. I can’t mentally recall if I ever noticed him wearing a watch. Of course, I notice watches but people could have them covered up by gloves and jacket cuffs in the winter, and therefore I wouldn’t have seen it at all. The bigger confession is that he has not worn a watch in at least ten years. They get lost, cracked, and bands break. Oh, and then forgetting to take it off before taking a shower and waterlogging it is another consideration. You would think something like the Victorinox Swiss Army would be durable enough. How does he tell time? His cell phone!

With the onslaught of PDAs and phones with their own perceivable IQ, the wristwatch is a real throw back because it only does one thing, or two if you are lucky.

I personally choose to wear a watch because -

• It’s low tech. A battery or wind up watch doesn’t emit any electromagnetic flim flam
• I am the Shadow. No one can punch in my coordinates and figure out where I am located on the globe.
• Accessorizing. A watch, much like cufflinks can pull a formal outfit together.
• Memento. A watch given by someone special can be worn everyday. You can look at it and say, “hey, THEY gave this to me.”  My grandfather still wears the watch everyday that his dad wore every day.
• It tells time. Yep. I know that’s obvious but when the power goes out, it still ticks.
• Life saving. If you give a kidnapper or burglar your watch when they ask for it, maybe he or she will forget about your wallet and the 18th century scrimshaw sharktooth in your pocket or your life. Maybe not, but you never know.

Are you old school like me and like to wear or collect watches? The whole line of Victorinox Swiss Army watches and knives have their own Facebook fan page. Of course, almost everything besides VintageGent’s Menswear Daily has a Facebook fan page now, so it is not really that surprising. Hey, what a novel idea.