| Interesting. I've never had a watch fail. And I'm not nice to them. I bet my old chuck-e-cheese watch is still ticking* away in some box.
* I guess not, as it was digital. I still can barely read hands unless I'm drunk. Then they somehow are easy to read.
Might as well continue with the tangent...
My watches were always a big part of my geekness. I had a few generations of the casio data bank watches (I think they still sell those unmodified..20 years later!). Calculator watches, I remember at one point it was one of FIVE calculators I had on me at all times in school. I had the first touch screen watch, made from that soft old fashioned touch screen stuff, no buttons, just a few touch zones. I was always jealous of a friend whose parents ran a jewelry store and wore the citizen watch with the big altimeter sensor on the side...way out of my price range. When I went off to college and fooled myself by getting a "nice" analog titanium pulsar. I could never read it and went years without really using it (I didn't start drinking till later).
Now I proudly wear my Tissot T-Touch which is a nice-looking analog with small digital display, good for both brain states, but has all the nerdy features and altimeter stuff hidden behind its crystal touch screen. I didn't want a heavy watch and the titanium version was only available in europe at the time, so I did what any true nerd would do and bought it off ebay from a shop in Geneva! Paid the same price as the regular stainless steel version here and it was delivered in just two days. Sure was a gamble sending such a large paypal payment out of the country though. | 
