It's Andy Fish!

Someone remarked that they were surprised I wear a dive watch rather than a Smart Watch– I’ve owned many Apple Watches but while I own about a dozen watches– I used to change the watch to match the occasion– now I just stick with this one;

Hawaiian Lifeguards are the Navy Seals of Life Guards. I can’t swim a stroke but I can wear their watch. The reason I love this watch so much is that even without my glasses I can read this watchface everytime I look at it.

The Apple Watch was great in terms of monitoring your heart rate, tracking your steps, giving you the weather, letting you know it’s time to stand up, etc– but it also got text messages which annoyed me endlessly, it also got phone calls on it which was equally annoying. But the absolute deal breaker for me was that I had to charge it at night because when I wake up in the middle of the night I want to know what time it is– and this one actually glows really brightly.

Since it needs no charging I don’t have to worry about being stuck on a four hour flight that actually turned into a twelve hour nightmare and my watch had run out of steam, this one is there for me and I don’t need to bring an additional charger on trips. I already hate having to charge my phone while I’m on the road.

So that’s why I’m on the old fashioned watch bandwagon and I don’t see myself ever getting off. I’ve also never not worn a watch– I know I can check my phone but I don’t like taking out my phone in public and I like the sneaky ability I have to glance at my watch that would make George HW Bush jealous.