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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I personally can get down for a purely mechanical watch just for the sheer engineering involved

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Stop buying the marketing hype. An LED display alone is significantly more complex and engineered than any mechanical watch. Every smart watch on the planet is literally full orders of magnitude more complex than any mechanical watch.

If you said, "it's a small, simple, cool machine" that would be completely true. But they are not more engineered than nearly every other device you possess in your home, including the nearest set of $20 bluetooth earbuds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Not to mention they're worse at keeping time.

You know, like the whole point of a watch.