As I use my phone quite a bit to check the time (no watches for me), I would like to easily see the time without having to fumble with it.

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That's why you always see me with at least one of my watches or at least ...(unintelligible) and drove me crazy.

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That got me thinking of: the person who watches those cameras, now has the customers SS number, in addition to majority of the time an individuals drivers license.

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"I think he watches all the Spanish players, but it's a big ask for me, " Michel, 24, told BBC WM.

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For the next seven years of my military career, I let the army give me a new timepiece every couple of years or so and never gave watches much thought.

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My silent digital monologue lead me to wonder what had happened to thermometers filled with shiny but toxic Mercury, watches (with or without hands), cameras with 8mm film, and television sets with vacuum tubes and knobs labeled horizontal hold.

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