I used to be very interested in these. I really enjoyed learning about the various movements, servicing them, etc. When in college I worked to be able to buy a

I used to be very interested in these. I really enjoyed learning about the various movements, servicing them, etc. When in college I worked to be able to buy a couple nice automatic watches and have always appreciated them. They're absolutely fascinating. But I kind of fell out of interest in favor of digital watches years ago. Love smart watches like the Basis and Pebble as they're like an extension of my phone. My old Tag and IWC have been sitting in a drawer for years and I'm torn between selling them for the thousands they're worth, or keeping them around in case I get interested again. I think the age of passing down watches to your kids is over and generally they're simply status symbols,whereas before they were status symbols that served a useful function (that's now replaced with our phones). One would be able to make a living learning to service expensive mechanical watches, but the industry seems to be dying and I'm reasonably confident it won't make a resurgence among the general population.