People Still Love A Mechanical Watch
A mechanical watch is worse than a smartwatch in almost every measurable way. It’s less accurate, requires maintenance, doesn’t sync to anything, and certainly won’t track your steps. And yet people still love them. This piece isn’t really about watches — it’s about why, in a world obsessed with optimization and efficiency, some things remain beloved precisely because they refuse to be optimized.
Older generations might hold on to a mechanical timepiece for nostalgia — the feel of winding it in the morning, the memory of who gave it to them, the irreplaceable sense of continuity it carries. Younger people, too, collect and wear mechanical watches for reasons that aren’t sentimental in the usual sense, but rooted in a different yearning: for artifacts that seem to stand outside the relentless pace of updates and upgrades, that feel like something you choose rather than subscribe to. Before telling the story of the watch itself, it helps to tell the story of what we think time should be — and what it actually is in a life that keeps going long past the age we thought we’d have stopped caring.
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