I wear a mechanical watch and I love it for a few reasons. First and foremost, I like how it looks. It's jewelry. I also love that it's a little self-powered

I wear a mechanical watch and I love it for a few reasons. First and foremost, I like how it looks. It's jewelry. I also love that it's a little self-powered machine that captures energy from me living my life and stores it in a little spring. When I hold it very close to my ear and listen carefully, I hear the 4 Hz ding-ding-ding-ding-ding sound that can calm me down almost instantly when I'm feeling a lot of anxiety. If I don't want to hold my wrist to my ear, just watching the second hand moving around the dial has a similar effect. I feels alive, it's an engineering marvel, a work of art, and useful. I also have a digital watch I wear for similar reasons. It lacks the kinetic qualities of the mechanical version, but it too is beautiful, a technical marvel (to me), and useful.