Is anyone else "double wristing" it?

[Epoch KW]

Would this count?

 

[slvrscoobie]

Someone must explain to me the fascination with mechanical watches. I read some NY Times article about them vs. smartwatches, namely the Apple Watch, and I couldn't understand how people could be that enthralled about all those tiny gears doing something that computers easily do nowadays.

Maybe it's one of those things I don't get since I'm not mechanically inclined. I get how a few things work mechanically and can fix them, especially when you're just throwing physics in there. But I have never gotten into how cars work aside from wondering why they aren't all electric now just having a taste of them with my Prius. In that article people were talking about putting Fitbit-like sensors in those really expensive handmade watches and I couldn't understand why someone would do that.

Its a precision thing. If your into hand built parts, stuff like carpentry and cars, watches, and steam engines typically are just the highest forms of those arts. Imagine engineering something thats so precisely built that it can inject fuel, compress it, explode it (controllably) and makes enough power to push a 1000kg vehicle forward to 60k/h in 3 seconds. Or something thats built to vibrate 21,000 times a minute, and yet holds its accuracy to 1/86,400 of a day. And then miniaturizing it and placing it lovingly on your wrist. I think the reason computers dont hold that type of wonder is most people dont understand what a 15nm process looks like. The size of the lenses involved in printing a wafer like that.

 

[SHNXX]

Double double

 

[xthine]

37 year old (left wrist) meets 2 month old (right wrist)...

 

[webworks415]

I tried this for one day because I still wanted to track movement, but it felt weird wearing something on my right wrist. I haven't done it since, but I haven't worn any mechanical watches since either!