The reason I got a watch with a backlight was because recently I got up on the middle of the night and I adjusted the thermostat. When I did I noticed it was 6:30 in the morning, I almost decided to stay up but decided to go back to bed for another 15-30 minutes. It was the longest 30 minutes of my life, and I woke up what felt like hours and hours later at 6:45am when K’s alarm went off.

It turned out the time on the thermostat had been wrong for a week due to a power outage and I hadn’t noticed or checked it since it happened. I felt like I got ten hours of sleep but it was also kind of disorienting.

The first watch I bought has all kinds of nifty features, like solar power and it receives the signal from the atomic clock each night so it’s always accurate.

It has a white backlight that’s a little jarring in a pitch black room at 3am, so I spotted this $21 watch on amazon and knew it needed to be my bedtime watch. It’s giant and has a warm orange light. It’s perfect!