Man, I'm a gadget guy, and I have been all my life, but this is one bit of tech nostalgia I don't get. I had a Pebble. It never came close to being a watch I w

Man, I'm a gadget guy, and I have been all my life, but this is one bit of tech nostalgia I don't get. I had a Pebble. It never came close to being a watch I wore normally; I just used it when cycling, as a "notifications screen" -- that way, if I felt my phone vibrate in my jersey pocket, I could steal a glance at my wrist to see if it was important enough to stop (which basically meant "is it my wife?"). When it died, and Pebble was gone, I replaced it with an Apple Watch, and it's that class of hardware that proved so handy that it mostly has supplanted my collection of fancy mechanical watches.