{"id":312,"date":"2008-12-24T07:38:06","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T14:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=312"},"modified":"2008-12-27T15:01:47","modified_gmt":"2008-12-27T22:01:47","slug":"watch-out-theyre-fading-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jerrysjuicebar.com\/blog\/?p=312","title":{"rendered":"Watch Out … They’re Fading Fast"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is the day before Christmas and there’s still shopping to do.\u00a0 What to buy?<\/p>\n

A watch?\u00a0 Huh?\u00a0 I say that because I open up the Washington Post on the Monday before Christmas and every other page is a full page ad — a FULL PAGE — of nothing but watches.\u00a0 OK.\u00a0 A full page ad isn’t as much as it used to be.\u00a0 But still.\u00a0 That is some heavy spend.\u00a0 All for something that fewer and fewer people seem to use.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>What is it with Christmas and watches?<\/p>\n

They still make nice gifts, right?\u00a0 Ask John Mayer.\u00a0 He reportedly gives Rolexes<\/a><\/strong> to (some) of the women he gets “romantically involved” with (I think that means he is having sex with them).<\/p>\n

But not everyone is John Mayer.\u00a0\u00a0 And watches seem to be going the way of the buggy whip, particularly among young people (the object of my shopping for today).<\/p>\n

Here’s a snippit from a story<\/a><\/strong> written a year ago by Martha Irvine of the Associated Press<\/p>\n

In a survey last fall, investment bank Piper Jaffray & Co. found that nearly two-thirds of teens never wear a watch \u2014 and only about one in 10 wears one every day.<\/em><\/p>\n

Experian Simmons Research also discovered that, while Americans spent more than $5.9 billion on watches in 2006, that figure was down 17 percent when compared with five years earlier.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Why buy a watch when a cell phone will do?\u00a0 Apparently it is a sentiment widely shared.\u00a0 I read in the New York Times<\/a><\/strong> that 2009 isn’t looking good for our Swiss friends.\u00a0 Is time is running out?\u00a0 Will the watch make a comeback?\u00a0 Will, as some claim, the watch have to turn it into some Dick Tracey type multi-function device<\/a><\/strong> in order to survive?<\/p>\n

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Too late!\u00a0 The smart phone got there first.\u00a0 I think I’ll go buy one of them.\u00a0 Then again, it we are in a recession and the kids already have a phone.\u00a0 I think I’ll buy (another) book.<\/p>\n

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Merry Christmas!<\/p>\n

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