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▲ clircle 6 hours ago

I’ve owned a few mechs and eventually sold all of them. Too fiddly, hated worrying about the accuracy.

▲pelagicAustral 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

True. It can be a pain in ass, but it can also be part of the allure... plus, you do also have non-mechanic analog beauties like some of these Citizens that come with the craziest thing, they automatically set the time based on radio towers in the northern hemisphere, i mean who the fuck thinks about stuff that? And they charge with light, not the sun, light... forgot the name of the technology... then you have the Bulova Super Seville that also has a super interesting quartz mechanism, keeps the heartbeat of the watch operating at a rate that makes the seconds hand move as if it was a mechanical watch,and battery last a decade or something... those also super interesting watches...

▲TheOtherHobbes 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't understand the allure of something that doesn't do what it's supposed to do.

Time keeping is a solved problem. Why would anyone spend varying shades of fortune on something that is functionally inferior, but explicitly labels itself a "superlative chronometer"?

▲knodi123 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I have a quartz-powered mechanical, with deep water proofing, radio sync and solar power, and sapphire glass. I don't have to worry about charge/battery, or scratches, or any water, and it's always 100 accurate. I will literally never have to think about those things, which is why I like it.