How come I kill watches when i wear them?

Have you looked in the mirror lately?

It's because you are an evil, scummy spam bot.

Actually, I know a couple of people who have this problem...or at least, who claim to have the problem. They claim that watches seem to die quickly when they wear them.

The first person who mentioned that to me I knew to be an honest and reasonable person. I know she bought several watches during the time I knew her...and I know I saw the watches after she wore them...and truly, they did not work properly.

My thoughts were that somehow she was inadvertently damaging them, perhaps by allowing them to get wet in some way.

When that same thing was mentioned by a second person much later in my life, I came to the conclusion that perhaps this actually does happen due to some feature of particular people.

While typing this response, I decided to Google the item…and searched “People kill watches.”

I got 209,000,000 hits. It is a real problem. You can Google it and see if you fit any of the suggested reasons.

You're buying discount/sale watches, and the batteries are nearly dead by the time you purchase them.

But only 50 hits if you quote "people kill watches".

Hello Members,

One of my watched stopped recently, but it is because of its battery. I think it depends on the brand.


Thanks and Regards,
Carlow Mapthew

I've got a box of 20 or 30 watches that says brand, price, battery or windup doesn't matter. They're all dead. Some sped up, some died a short death while others just couldn't keep time.
Now I use a phone.

I also have this problem. I was told by my greatgrandmother that too much electricity in the body can drain the battery life.

My husband and I had gone to a children's science museum for fun, they had a little set up where you put your hands on and it read the amount of electricity in your body. My husband came up at around 7.3 (close) and I came up at a .23, this explained a lot of things to me, why I always got a spark touching metal and why watches always died. My body was absorbing the energy from the battery, this became even clearer when I realized I couldn't touch or soulder components to a PC board without blowing the IC's, even a static band only worked once. I later tested myself and my husband on a volt meter at home, again his came up 9,7 Vac and mine was 0.3. In conclusion I feel like it is similar to sleeping on the ground without a barrier and the ground tries to even itself out with your body temperature sucking out your warmth in the interim.