Time runs out for the wristwatch

Posted on | January 17, 2006 |

Another gadget becomes the victim of the mobile phone. This time its the wristwatch. According to the Journal Sentinel, all the cool dudes and dudettes are refusing to wear their time on their wrists and are just looking at their cell phones instead.

“I see our business going down because of it,” says Chuck Reardon, manager of the Time Square watch stand at Brookfield Square, “But I do see a lot more kids buying the fashion watches like Fossil. They’re doing that as a fashion statement more than anything, more than a need for a timepiece.

I can vouch for it - have stopped wearing a wristwatch for almost a year now using the mobile to check time. Just didn’t know that it was also being cool.

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