> Are there other automatics that will outlast a person’s life? Very unlikely. You do hear the occasional story of a mechanical watch running fine for several

> Are there other automatics that will outlast a person’s life? Very unlikely. You do hear the occasional story of a mechanical watch running fine for several decades without requiring any servicing, but there's a lot of survivorship bias at play there. It's extremely unlikely to go ~8 decades without needing servicing. Keep in mind there are lubricants at various places in the movement that are essential to proper operation that evaporate/denature over time.