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has a vibrating timer and a vibrating alarm clock. It wakes me up without a loud alarm. I can easily set a countdown timer without having to fumble for my phone, find the clock app, switch it to the timer mode, and set it. I don't necessarily want to be tied to my phone at all times. I don't have a clock in every room of my house - in fact, the only rooms in my house that have clocks are the kitchen, the bedroom, and the TV/game room in the basement (I refuse to have a TV in my living room - it is for living). If my computer is on, there is technically a clock in office/craft room but I can't see the time from across the room. I don't have to pull my phone out of my pocket just to check the time (especially nice in the winter when I'm wearing gloves). I used to walk to and from work which never took me past a bank with the time and temp.

I stopped wearing a watch for a while - and I got really, really good at telling what time it was without having to check a clock and to have a good sense of how much time had gone by. But when I needed to become extra reliable about time, I found I needed a watch. Since this was well before cell phones, I got used to checking my wrist of the time. I find it WAY, WAY, WAY more convenient to lift my wrist to see the time than to deal with a phone.