At Queen Mary, University of London, students must take off electronic watches, while at Oxford and Cambridge, students' watches are "subject to examination by invigilators".
Students at City University in London are now banned from wearing any kind of wristwatch in exams, those at Southampton must place all watches in a clear plastic bag on the desk, while at Goldsmiths watches have to be stored under desks.
"When an audience watches, they're a much better judge of whether we're doing it right or not than we are.
As a comparison, the best Android Wear watches manage three days, while the Apple Watch is expected to need a nightly recharge.
Looking After Jo Jo bears a superficial resemblance to Trainspotting - 'Hey man, it's just like Hill Street Blues,' one character enthuses as he watches his mate shoot up for the first time - but it doesn't have the movie's ambivalence towards drugs.
But she only watches for a couple of minutes before resorting to crazed swiping and button hitting.
It seems like the longer he uses a device or watches something, the harder it is to get him to give it up.
No other city in Britain will have any units of the gold watches available to try on (or even look at) in-store, leaving the watch – Apple's attempt to compete with traditional watchmakers tendency to sell expensive solid-gold watches to the super rich in the West and abroad – a London-only prospect for the time being.
Pretty much everyone, on the other hand, who reads a newspaper or watches TV says they feel shocked by their portrayal.
And sometimes she watches me warily – she is not about to be tricked into blowing her own trumpet.
… in a special 12 months for Fifa.com: a report on Sepp Blatter's keynote speech at Fifa's Congress in June – an address listened to by 750 Fifa delegates all wearing free luxury watches: "Football as a catalyst for social change: no football without ethics and integrity".
