I always find it funny when people call watches jewelry as if they aren’t still the most convenient way to tell time and do other things.

Sure you can reach into whatever pile of lint and pull out a phone to check the time but by then I will have already set the timer on mine. It’s faster to the draw 🤷🏽‍♂️

Then what if you work a job with long hours? Are you supposed to take your smart watch off to charge it?!

Lastly to help me better appreciate the mechanical mastery that is a good time piece, I changed the font on my Home Screen to unreadable so I have to check my watch rather than my phone. It helps me disconnect from digital and value time more.

Just my two cents. P.S I’m roasting coffee here which is extremely time sensitive and happens super fast.

  • Nix_Nivis@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    IMHO yes, any watch is obsolete in almost all professions. Where do you need to know the exact time on a regular basis? In any office job, the exact time is only relevant for meetings. For those you usually have an alert anyway (and the clock on your desktop).

    In law enforcement/rescue precise time is important (for the report), but you have actual tools (badge cam, defibrillator) that keep and document time for you.

    In many cases, it maybe beneficial to know the (rough) amount of time something took, but not the precise time (“it took me 10min to do xy” vs. “I completed this task at 14:26”).

    So, all in all, I can see limited value in some edge cases, but in general watches have become obsolete.