OK, I promise this is the last post about watches, and I promise to keep my morbid interests to myself from now on.
Reader Kathleen mentioned Tikker, a life expectancy watch, and I decided to research it:
The principle behind Tikker is very simple. It estimates your life expectancy based on a questionnaire and converts the answers into a countdown display in years, months, days, minutes, and seconds until your appointment with the Grim Reaper. It can even compensate for leap years.
I think I’d wear one, although this might be a dangerous toy that can do damage to one’s mental health.
By the way, do you remember how I said the other day (and yes, I have started quoting myself, this is scary):
We live in the world where there is a soaring number of people whose skills and time are so precious that they hire career management services, employ life coaches, attend networking events, participate in mentorship programs, download endless productivity apps, and schedule their lives in 10-minute increments. At the same time, the gulf between such people and the functionally illiterate / unskilled is widening. There used to be a middle-ground between these two classes but it is disappearing.
Tikker and the 5-minute watch we discussed recently arise precisely from this phenomenon.
Clarissa's Blog 
The second you put one of those on, the subjective part of your soul dies and you measure out your life in coffee spoons.
LikeLike
I don’t believe psychologically healthy people tend to wear those watches. There is a limit, after which obsession with time becomes unhealthy, even if you are a busy person.
LikeLike
Agree with Pope:
“Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescribed, their present state:
From brutes what men, from men what spirits know¨
Or who could suffer being here below?
The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today,
Had he thy reason, would he skip and play?
Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food,
And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
O blindness to the future! kindly given,
That each may fill the circle marked by Heaven”
Most people won’t want to really know their date of death, to a day, hour and second. You may be interested because of the trauma, but somebody w/o a trauma and with this Tikker is morbidly pretentious (?). If people knew the Tikker was 100% right, they wouldn’t be wearing it.
LikeLike
So you spend so much time managing time that you have no time for anything else.
LikeLike
Thanks for this post. I have to admit that I find these ideas for watches fascinating.
LikeLike