The iPhone will do it all too no need your AW for that
True, your iphone does all that an AW can do. And more.
Your iphone can do everything a mechanical watch can do: tell time, day, date, stop watch, timer, GMT, etc. It can do everything a multi-function quartz watch can do too: auto-sync time, compass, altitude, moon phase, tides, sunset\sunrise, multiple time zones, barometric pressure, etc.
So you really don't need a mechanical or quartz watch at all. Which explains why so many young folks don't wear watches at all. Many never have.
An AW is a tool that allows you to interact - at a glance, or with a silent tap on wrist, in many instances - with your iPhone, whether it's in your pocket, backpack\briefcase, on your desk, or at home.
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call in insecure.
when I had a watch that I paid thousands of dollars for, and whenever I looked at it to admire its beauty (because they are beautiful and they are engineering marvels), I was always conscious of what other people would think of me. I felt superficial and pretentious.
But when I wear a AW, I look at it to use an app. I am not ogling at it the way I look at a mechanical watch.
Mechanical watches are indeed engineering marvels. I admire them because they are designed, manufactured, assembled, and adjusted\repaired by humans. And they do what they are designed for so well, considering they are powered 100% by human action, whether hard-winding or by our motion.
A modern mechanical is a pinnacle of human achievement for what it is: a time piece. Because each one can be unique from its brothers, based on the individual skill of who assembled and\or fine tuned it, each one can be a work of art, with its own unique character. Add to that that the people that assemble them are a dying breed of highly skilled craftsmen.
Buy I have recently come to recognize an AW is also an engineering marvel. Just that each piece itself not a work of art: the slightest variation is defect, not character.
it is designed by computers, manufactured and assembled almost entirely by machines. What human involvement there is does not include craftsmen. The AW could not have been designed, manufactured, or built without a lot of technology. And the whole idea is still in its infancy: the pinnacle is decades, or generations away, and will evolve into something that looks nothing like it does today.
So while I see both as engineering marvels, a mechanical watch is a triumph of human achievement; an AW is really not a watch at all, and will someday be a triumph of AI technological achievement.
