I definitely like mechanicals, and I don't think smart watches are going to kill them. Swiss pricing however is something that exists because someone found out

I definitely like mechanicals, and I don't think smart watches are going to kill them. Swiss pricing however is something that exists because someone found out how to get crazy amounts of money from folks with too much of it. Good mechanicals need not be swiss, of course. On the lower reasonable end where people aren't making their own movements, there's still a lot of expense in what folks like ETA are doing to things, and there's a lot of price padding in Swiss stuff (and even rising prices from German companies like Sinn and Nomos, though a lot more affordable, still not cheap). There are plenty of smaller US watch-companies too (Lum-tec is a good example) making reasonable margins. These things tell time without a battery, and aren't something that will distract you and cut into your attention like a smart watch. I use my phone, I appreciate it, but I also realize it cuts into attention and concentration, and in some ways, liked it better when it did not exist. I don't want a second phone doing the same thing to the way I think in long-form, and I definitely don't want a watch I have to remember to check the battery on every day. There are times when I'd like to have a dumb phone again, really.