I haven't been a fan of digital watches since I was in the 8th grade a couple decades ago. But the above doesn't make any sense to me. A digital watch shows "8:57". There is no calculating involved. OTOH an analog shows a big hand near the 8 and the little hand two clicks north of the :55 notch. A human has to calculate that.
I guess I think differently.
I don't 'CARE' that it's 8:57. That means nothing to me. I only 'CARE' that 8:57 is close to 9:00, which means I've got about 2 hours until bedtime.
So, looking at an analog watch, I see the time sorta near 9:00, and if it's 8:57 or 9:03, it's the 'same' to me. I just want to know relatively how much time I have left in the day. I don't calculate to know the 'exact' time. No reason to.
If I have a TV show starting at 9:00 - so what - I've got a DVR, now I know that I can start watching it when I'm sometime after 9:00.
I'm all for DIGITAL watches when you're timing something like a football game. Where it MATTERS if there is 0:03 of 0:06 left. I guess, international soccer has the other feeling where analog is okay for them because 0:03 left and 0:06 left doesn't matter, they might play for another 5 minutes anyways!