Darkside wrote:
Do you guy carry timepieces? I guess it's a bit old school, but I have a fascination with timepieces for some reason. And I'm really into alternate power supplies. So I have a standard battery powered quartz pocket watch (my wife got me one with a coin on the clamshell, I also have a thing for old coins), and a solar powered watch (eco drive that's near 20 years old and doesn't hold charge anymore, needs a new capacitor), a gravity powered clock in my living room, a couple hourglass at my desk at work... and I recent got a new watch... a automatic mechanical divers watch while a friend of mine was in Switzerland. I'm being made fun of at work because apparently watches are for old men. But I still think they're cool af. Makes me wonder if you guys think that's old fogey ahit or is it a fashion statement? I just dig collecting them.
I like wristwatches as both a fashion accessory and a cool piece of human engineering, my only current smart watch in rotation is for golf. I have a few MVMT quarts watches which replicate the look and style of watches I can't afford (or at least shouldn't buy) like the IWC Portugieser or TH Aquaracer, but my highest and best automatic movement is the Hamilton Jazzmaster Maestro. It's a bit of a rip off of the Portugieser with a thicker case and wider body, but it captures the same simplistic look and feel of the up-market buy.
Plus, I like to get the larger, phablet-type phones, so pulling out half a tablet to check the time gets to be a bit of a pain, so I think they definitely still have their place.