Do You Have The Time?

[@marcdewey1242]

Andy was my main reason for watching 60 minutes back in the day.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

Probably one of the earliest Hollywood films to show a man wearing a wristwatch is Universal Studios' "The Mummy's Hand"(1941) in which archaeologist Steve Banning wears one.

[@ChrisR]

The world needs another Andy Rooney to point out how bizarre some aspects of life really are. Like, say, having a bunch of watches.......

[@kevinfoster2884]

I’ve been a loyal viewer of 60 minutes for years. Excellent correspondents & terrific journalism the best in the business. The Rooney piece was not intended to be taken seriously (in most cases) or over analyzed. Mr. Rooney did a few serious pieces. For example, his interview with Kevorkian was well done.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

Another really interesting topic by Andy Rooney. He failed to mention in this "60 Minutes" segment that when wristwatches were first invented, they were only popular with women because men thought it was not masculine to wear a wristwatch. But as the soldiers came home to the USA during and after WW2 and people saw the former soldiers wearing their GI- issue wristwatches, men changed their opinion that wristwatches were "unmasculine" to wear. Andy Rooney was right that the decline in popularity of pocket watches occurred because of the decline in popularity of vests as a piece of men's apparel. Vests were designed with a shallow pocket or pockets to hold a pocketwatch. I thought that Andy Rooney did a another segment on "60Minutes" in which he mentioned that you can tell a lot about person's personality by the type and style of watch he or she wears. Another interesting thing is that both the watch Andy Rooney wore in this, "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" segment and the watch that the CBS-TV Network gave him for his many years of service to the network lacked lume on the hour and minute hands and markers. Of course, men of the WW2 generation mostly did not wear watches when going to bed at night, so they felt no need to be able to read a watch dial in the dark. It is interesting that in this, "A Few Minutes With Andy Rooney" segment on "60 Minutes", Rooney stated that the only time he would reset his watch was a every few years when he would buy a new battery for it. Are we to assume that he never reset the time on his watch twice each year to allow for the conversion from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time and vice-versa?

[@michaelbarlow6610]

I have never understood why anyone would wear a watch with the watch dial facing downward on the underside of his wrist? Don't people who do that realize that if you wear a watch that way you can damage the watch crystal or the watch itself whenever you put your left arm down on a table or other hard surface? It is especially foolish to wear a watch that way if it is a moderately expensive or very expensive watch.

[@NUFIGHTER]

@@michaelbarlow6610 From my time as a medic in the Navy (aka Corpsman), we wore our watches face down because it was an easier position to look at the face while we take someone's heart & respiratory rate.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@ NUFIGHTER777 1. I don't doubt that what you say about doctors wearing their watches with the watch face facing down because it is easier to read the watch dial when taking a patient's temperature or checking a patient's heart rate is true. But for non-doctors and non-nurses to wear their watches face down is taking a chance on damaging the watch crystal by accidentally banging it against a hard surface like a desktop.

[@NUFIGHTER]

@@michaelbarlow6610 True, it could damage the watch crystal. I've heard of people wearing it face down because being face up could hit a lamppost or something else in your path. To each their own I guess.

[@RobertJarecki]

​@NUFIGHTER True! The crystal could be damaged hitting something like a lamppost. I switched to wearing my watch face down after catching the movement on a door latches several times and either being stopped in my tracks or pulling a leather watch band off the movement. I'm not very "graceful." I don't wear a watch anymore. I'm retired. Edit: After switching to "face down, " the watch band didn't have enough clearance to be caught by a door latch.

[@stacie4170]

Although they’ve greatly diminished in quality…I still buy the times watches. Ya know…with the wristband that pinches you every once in a while 😂😂😂

[@michaelbarlow6610]

Could Andy Rooney really have been so cheap that he would'nt even reset his watch twice a year to compensate for the changeover from Standard Time to Daylight Saving Time and vice-versa just to conserve that miniscule amount of battery energy????!😂😂😂😂

[@brianm5563]

He was so great at whining 😆

[@evmcmunn]

i stopped wearing/owning watches 15 years ago...

[@infamoussoul2346]

I want a pocket watch

[@mikes380]

Get a Vest

[@RobertJarecki]

The little pocket in jeans can also be used as a watch pocket.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

I realize of course that Andy Rooney grew up during the era of the Great Depression in the 1930's during which people's finances were wiped out by the Stock Market crash in 1929, but after he started working as a commentator on the TV show "60 Minutes", he undoubtedly was earning a very good salary, so you would think that he would have been more generous to his kids or grandkids by buying one of them a good quality watch instead of purchasing a lousy-timekeeping, cheap $9.99 watch! He reminds me in that regard of one of my aunts who would come down to visit my family once a year at Christmas and her idea of a wonderful Christmas gift for my brother and I was a box of Chicklets Chewing Gum! Can you imagine someone handing you a small box of chewing gum and saying "Merry Christmas"! 😂😂😂😂 Also, Andy Rooney was being hypocritical in this 60 Minutes segment on watches when he criticized the CBS-TV Network for its' failure to "spend a little more money and given him a watch with numbers on it" and yet he himself showed his cheapskate nature when he pointed to a $9.99 watch on his desk that he was going to give to one of his kids for Christmas one year but never did! Andy you can't on the one hand criticize your employer for failing to buy you a more expensive watch to give to you for your years of service to the CBS-TV Network, but then on the other hand be so chintzy as to only spend $9.99 on a watch as a gift to one of your kids!