Originally Posted By The Austrian
My congratulations to the marketing guys of the premium watch producers.
We are prepared to pay £££ for something doing the job not better than a cheap Swatch. Actually a quarz watch very likely counts seconds more accurate than a premium Rolex / Panerei / Omega / IWC/ Patek P. or similar...
While a watch may cost sometimes more than a decent car: what fun in action does a watch actually provide besides of owning one? On the other hand: you hardly can bring your your Moggy into a restaurant.

Maybe one has to see it different: Owning a traditional built car and an overpriced hand assembled watch proves: live is not treating me that bad.
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If we were entirely logical, then for most of us any watch is unnecessary because we carry a mobile phone and because clocks accurately telling the time are all round us. For the most part then , wrist watched are pieces of jewelry as the CEO ( how ever did this nasty Americanism become standard?) of Rolex once said they were. And I guess that the mechanical watch with its approximate idea of time appeals to those brought up on solid mechanical engineering rather than the computer generation.

But we are inconsistent. The same lovers of mechanical watches have long since given up on slide rules and mechanical calculators in favour of electronics.

For myself I am on my second Seiko Divers watch, the first having been nicked from the showers in Jersey marina. Apart from complete reliability, timekeeping accurate to a second a week, being self powered and waterproof, I can vouch that you can run over it with your motorbike and it will come out unscathed! And the final benefit? Despite what I said above, its fastened to my wrist which means that I cant leave home without it. More than can be said for my phone, hanky or wallet.