My main thing with smart watches in general is I try not to use them for anything too convenient like the type of convenient Iād be pissed to not have (sending text, answering calls. I tend to forget to charge them/bring them altogether so simple telling time and music control/displaying notifs is all I need
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I have gotten used to the size, but coming from not wearing a watch to wearing a Pebble to a Frontier was a big jump. I think the biggest thing I like about the Frontier is the integration with Samsung Health if you have a Samsung phone. Other than that I use it as a watch and a notifications device mostly, so the Pine or Pebble were great for that.
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Iām always attracted to timepieces, but sadly I canāt wear a watch. I quit buying them because they invariably end up in a box somewhere.
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I love having a variety of time keeping apparatus. My most recent favorite is a TI-3510 calculator which happens to have a clock function and a gas plasma display.
this one you link to was a beautiful example
I saw this Nixie Tube watch a couple of months ago
looks pretty sexy
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Yeah I love that watch. And so useful! Nothing beats the Badley timepiece to discreetly know how much longer you have to endure a boring meeting. But I havenāt worn a watch for so long I just hate something hanging on my wrist now. Same as shoes: wearing them for more than 2 hours has become torture to me.
I solved the boring meeting problem by changing job 
As for the time telling function, I solved it by looking at the clock on the nearest wall, asking the time if thereās no clock around - which, I discovered, is incredibly rare - or simply relying on dead reckoning and leaving a bit earlier to be sure to be on time.
I own this Numitron Watch in silver from the same guy. You can clearly see that the watches are made by hand, the quality is pretty good too. The one I got is rather big though, only really wearable by people with bigger wrists. It got a magnetic switch to activate the accelerometer to wake the watch, I use my xG3 to switch it on and off 
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I currently have two watches.
An 1894 Elgin BW Raymond in a salesman case (front and back are crystal so you can tell the time and watch the mechanism without opening it up). That is on a hand made Albert chain with an 1894 Morgan silver dollar as a fob at the other end. The chain is alternate lapis lazuli and agate beads. (And a pocket watch might be a good solution for you @anon3825968)
The other is a Xiaomi Mi Band 6. I upgraded from a Mi Band 3. This measures pulse, steps and blood oxygen levels, it has other features (that I donāt use much).
Unfortunately, no.
Watches - like keys, credit cards, cash, spectacles, clothes - are part of this cohort of crap that we modern humans have to herd, take care of, buy, replace, remember to take with us. Iām trying to āclear the airā around me, so to speak. I want less crap. I want to get out of the house as I am and stay more or less functional in society.
Some things I canāt do without. Glasses for example (and several pairs too nowā¦ The minute an active adaptive focal lens implant comes up on the market, Iām signing up). Clothes when itās too cold - and the minimum required to avoid getting arrested for indecent exposure when it isnāt. But shoes arenāt necessary. Keys arenāt either (thatās what drew me to implants in the first place). Watches arenāt.
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I saw that and thought it would be great for somebody with a mag implant 
Thatās really awesome that someone actually has both of them 
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I have 4 Nixie tubes I need to make into a clock but itās been stuck in limbo for ever
Person gifted me the tubes and never gave me any follow up info to get/make the clock base
Replying to myself here, butā¦ I just found this:
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/eye-institute/lasik/procedures/crystalens-iol.aspx
Hmm, now thatās pretty damn interesting.
Sorry, I was assuming from this that you didnāt want a wrist watchā¦ Not that you didnāt want a watch.
Personally I like having older less accurate time pieces. Back when time was more local and less universal people were less worried about a few minutes here or there.
Both really
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Are they VFD displays? I love the blue/greenish hue they give of 
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yeah, very interesting, you are less mentally stable than I thought you were ābubbaā
I never made no such claim.
Oh, I know, it was purely my assumption.
Just disappointing for me, I am normally a pretty good judge of character