I still check my phone even when my watch is perfectly readable

yep. phone is just faster to grab than turning your wrist. muscle memory doesn't care about your beautiful movement.

Same.Half the time I check my phone it's to see notifications and I just happen to glance at the clock too. The watch never had a chance.

This is gonna sound dumb but I started leaving my phone in another room during the day and it fixed this for me in like a week. Turns out I wasn't checking the *time*, I was checking the phone.

Not broken, just conditioned. The watch is the accessory, the phone is the tool. Hard to untangle that after 15 years.

leaving the phsone in another room is a bold move in this economy

I get why tinfoil_orchid's approach works, but honestly I'd just end up walking to the other room every fiive minutes. My problem isn't the phone's location, it's that my hand goes for a pocket before my brain even decides anything. What actually helped me a little was turning off the clock on the lock screen. If I unlock the phone for notifications I stop getting the time for free. Makes me use the watch because it's the only easy option left. Still catch myself though.

opposite problem here. I got, so used to reading the skeleton that I now glance at my bare wrist when I take it off. and then I feel weirdly naked.

that's just a watch tan with extra steps

salty_biscuit_9 fair, I live in a small flat so "another room" is like six feet away. your lock screen trick is smarter for most people.

I don't think this is a watch problem at all. You'd do the same with any watch. People just like touching their phones.

grumpy_sofa is probably right but it stings

Give it time. Six months isn't that long. I spent about a year doing the same thing and at some point the wrist started winning. No idea when or why it flipped.

saltwater_taffy that's encouraging actually. Was starting to think i'd just genuinely lost the ability to read a dial.

I'd also add that skeleton dials are their own trap — sometimes I look down to check the time and end up staring at the balance whe el For a solid ten seconds and forget what I was doing. So it's not that I check my phone, it's that my watch doesn't even deliver the time efficiently.

crumb_commander that's the real issue. you look for the time, get distracted by the machinery, then check the phone anyway. infinite loop.