I too love me mechanical watches. However I'm not wedded to them being exclusively analog. I have a orient ray raven II, which is big, but really practical. (

I too love me mechanical watches. However I'm not wedded to them being exclusively analog. I have a orient ray raven II, which is big, but really practical. (I did have to regulate it my self, as its was off by 4 minutes a day. so it was desperately impractical before then) I've had it on all the time for about 5 years. It feels solid, and has 200m of waterproofing (supposedly) I have other watches, some of them are tuning fork watches (batshit crazy mechanism) or quartz controlled tuning fork. I have a cute mechanical moonphase watch with a famous cartoon character on it. Finally I have a High accuracy quartz watch as well. But OP's point about them getting bigger is spot on. Lots of modern mechanical watches are getting to the 45mm size. which is far to fucking big. However I've stopped thinking about them as "time pieces" and just accepted that its all just jewellery, that makes life far more logical.