Everyone who ever makes absolute statements is always wrong about everything. I didn't wear a watch for a long time. I used my phone instead. However, living i

Everyone who ever makes absolute statements is always wrong about everything. I didn't wear a watch for a long time. I used my phone instead. However, living in a place with proper winter means wearing winter clothes. Digging out a phone from a jacket pocket becomes a whole operation. It becames evident that wearing one more thing was preferable to using my phone to check the time. For a long time I thought I wanted a smartwatch. I was eagerly awaiting a Pebble. After a while, though, I realised that the lifetime of smartwatches if fairly limited. They're high tech, electronic tiny computers, networked via Bluetooth to a smartphone. They might last several years, physically, but even before that, they might become obsolete due to software changes. I'd rather not have a throwaway gadget, especially one in the price range of smartwatches. Seems all manner of wasteful. Once the technology matures, this might change. We're still waiting for that to happen with phones, especially smartphones, but let's give it a while. I've been using mobile phones for two decades now, maybe in another decade they'll be mature technology. And smartwatches might mature too, two or three decades after that. Meanwhile, I went for a fully mechanical watch, from the low end if you ask watch collectors, but still cheaper than a Pebble. It's supposed to last a few decades, and should thus outlast me. I like that.