As far as the modern age, I refused to enter it until Hurricane Katrina forced my hand. I didn't own a cell phone until 2005. After Katrina flooded many parts of New Orleans, my employer sent me to live in Ft. Worth while my dear wife was still here in New Orleans taking care of her mother and lining up a contractor to fix up our house. The easiest way for us to stay in touch required me to get a cell phone. Since then, I've allowed the company to call me on it when they pay me the "on call" salary premium, so I've at least learned how to profit from it.
As to watches, I have this Casio that is digital and has the "Wave-Ceptor" feature that synchronizes it every day to the U.S. Naval Observatory's broadcast time reference signal. I'm never more than a couple of seconds away from exact synchronization with the Colorado time-sync signals that are the USA secondary reference time source.
