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What if a Screen in Your Arm Showed the Time?
What if a Screen in Your Arm Showed the Time?

New York Times

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  • New York Times

What if a Screen in Your Arm Showed the Time?

Last year, I was walking down the street in a hurry one morning when someone stopped me, asking for the time. 'Sorry,' I said, 'I'm not wearing a watch' and continued on my way. 'Your phone?!' I heard the person yell back at me. 'My phone?!' I thought, bemused. To me, my phone is for communication: calls, messages and — annoyingly — emails. Telling the time is for a watch (even though, apparently, I don't seem to wear one). Georgia Benjamin, a watch enthusiast and collector in Manhattan, said the story reminded her of something similar — 'but completely the opposite' — that happened to her late last year when she was in England. Someone asked her for the time and she realized she didn't have her cellphone. 'Sorry, I don't have it on me,' she recalled saying and then becoming embarrassed when the person pointed to the watch on her wrist. In the 100 years since the wristwatch replaced the pocket watch — and the decades since the cellphone became a retail item — our relationship with watches has been evolving. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.

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