Any Children watch suggestions?

[Catyack]

For a 2 year old boy, a gold YM 2 is the obvious choice. He can learn some of his colors, how to count up to 10, and in a few years be the only kid in kindergarden who knows how to correctly spell "Yacht" which is a huge bragging right for any parent to bore others with. In the meantime, he'll have 5 pointers to be mesmerized by and buttons to push to make some "Go" and "Stop". The complexity of the dial, hands, and buttons and how they are interrelated should serve as a device to expand his little growing mind if it doesn't actually confuse and cause him give up thinking out of frustration...essentially making him dumber... but it's worth the risk especially if you can have more kids. Additionally, it's too big to be successfully flushed down into the plumbing and any Rolex is WR to even the deepest toilet bowl depth so no worries when he's in his throwing-everything-in-there phase.

Finally, since he's entering his Terrible Twos, if you're not one of those lazy huggy-fluff dads who ascribes to the mis-guided notion that allowing public temper tantrums and enabling proto-brattiness are just signs of his developing boy-child psyche and therefore does nothing about it, causing the rest of us to suffer, you'll need some sort of corralling and mild punishment device, and the YM2 fits the bill. If it becomes his favorite toy, you can take it away from him. If he keeps wandering off, you can wrap the bracelet a couple time around his leg to wear it as a sort of really expensive ball and chain. If that isn't enough, both ankles in the bracelet serves as a hobble. If he gets into putting his head small places, getting stuck between stair rails etc, have him wear it around his neck as a yoke collar to break him of that. If he's picking his nose all the time or learning to stick things into electrical sockets, a "time-out" with his arms secured with the YM 2 around his elbows behind his back works well and with the handy feature of having the timer for measuring when 10 minutes is up right there in front of you, but not him. You could also keep it on a longer NATO strap for looping around his head if you need something big, heavy, and gold to cover his mouth when he's acting-up vocally in public. Remember, kids learn quickly that threats are of no use if you don't follow through.

Then when he's an older, well-adjusted young man on is way to a successful adulthood because you raised him right, he'll thank you for his YM2 with all it's battle scars from his childhood.

[SL BRABUS]

Smurf....

[fullcourt]

my son loves his g-shock

[BomB#Frog]

Originally Posted by bobernet

I was looking for some kids' sized swatch automatics the other day, but all they seem to make in the smaller sizes are quartz. :( They might be old enough to wear a ladies' sized watch if I can find something in unisex colors.

So what's wrong with quartz for a 2yr old?

[jujin]

Rosegold skydweller

[Vanessa CW21]

My daughter's first watch when she was 2 was a quartz Mickey Mouse watch. She loved it.

[Catyack]

Originally Posted by BomB#Frog

So what's wrong with quartz for a 2yr old?

A quartz wouldn't suit his Fendi trainers, Burberry twill trousers, and Little Mark Jacobs shirt ensemble. The best bet is to take him for a stroll in his Roddler through the boutiques of brands befitting his station, sit him on some display cases, and find out what "sings" to him. If he drops his ziplock bag full of fruit loops and spills his sippy cup reaching for one, you know that's it.

[Sportwatchmania]

Originally Posted by 1st amg

We just bought our 4 1/2 yr old daughter a Swatch Hello Kitty and my 6 1/2 yr old son has a new Swatch Batman, they love them as they also feel like dad, now they want another Swatch to their collection and my son said he also wants a watch winder boxAttachment 531377

Wow your son has a Batman, awesome

[vitalsignsrn]

My niece & nephew might be too young to actually tell time but I got the watches for them because they saw their father wearing his watch & wanted to emulate him. Really touched my brother as well. We did a family day at the Toronto Zoo this summer, both kids had their watches on the whole day, even the 2.5 yr old. :-) I was so proud. They might have been the only kids I saw there the whole day with watches on.

As Nicholas said, Swatch provides charts & cardboard clock cut outs to teach the kids to tell time when they are ready. ABSOLUTELY buy them the watch that represents what they are really in to today. The key is to keep them interested. LOL LOL

[vitalsignsrn]

Vanessa, that is one beautiful little girl. She wears her watch like a pro. !

[BlackBay1]

How about a Snoopy watch? He's a character you'll love for a lifetime.

[submariner66]

I started to get into watches when I was about 8,9 and 10 years old. I would look at Seikos in the px and ask mom if I could get one, I think like my dads Rolex oyster.

[ROLEX4EvEr]

Originally Posted by Vanessa CW21

My daughter's first watch when she was 2 was a quartz Mickey Mouse watch. She loved it.

That's adorable !!!

[Matt C]

Both of my boys had Lego watches when they were younger.

[QueueCumber]

Originally Posted by ROLEX4EvEr

I want to buy my son a watch, But wanted to see what the forum has purchased there child for a wrist watch. My son is only 2 yrs old but I want to get him something nice but so far the internet doesn't have anything nice.

2 years old? A little early to instill the perception of time on the poor lad, don't ya think?

[mike]

Moved. Again not a Rolex topic.