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Originally Posted by RPKESQ
Well, I had to go back and read the entire thread... again. I guess what you're saying is that you like to wear a little piece of marvelous engineering on your wrist. 'Cause otherwise, all it does is tell you the time and date, and maybe the phase of the moon.
If you have a phone, don't you get all that and more? There are clocks all around us. We don't need watches to tell time.
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Not in a mechanical manner.
High end mechanical watches can have:
24-hour watch
Automatic watch (self-winding watch)
Chronograph for measuring short time periods
Double chronograph or rattrapante, split-second timing or lap timing
Flyback chronograph, can be reset while the timer is running
Date display
Day of week display
Second time zone
Equation of time
Display of zone solar time (as opposed to standard time)
Display of true local solar time
Display of sidereal time
Display of time zones (for the world traveler)
Time of sunset
Time of sunrise
Easter date calculators
Quarter repeater
Five-minute repeater
Minute repeater
Passing strike (chiming watch)
Alarm
Month display
Sign of the Zodiac
Display of leap year cycle (year 1 to 4)
Moon phases
Mechanised star chart
Astrolabe dial
Perpetual calendar
Annual calendar
Power reserve or réserve de marche
Quickset date
Week of year
Dead second
Foudroyante (Flying Seconds)
Tourbillon (considered by some to not be a complication but rather a mechanical refinement)
They do not need batteries.
They are made with such precision that it makes the best cars look like buckets of rocks. They are in every sense of the words, the premire mechanical constructs that will fit on your wrist or in a pocket ever devised by man. All wrapped up in an artistic design and superb craftsmanship.
What about that is not worthy of appreciation?