Why Men Are Wearing Watches That Don’t Tell Time?
From the Wall Street Journal. An interesting thing, but a concept, or more accurately a conceit, that I just don’t understand.
What’s the point of wearing a watch when you’ve got a phone glued to your palm? For some, it’s all in the looks.
It’s not just casual wearers who rationalize strapping on comatose tickers, though. “I rely on my phone to tell me the time and I’m a mechanical watch collector,” said James Lamdin, the founder of Analog/Shift, a vintage watch retailer in New York City. With an extensive collection at his disposal, Mr. Lamdin sometimes switches watches multiple times a day, and he doesn’t pause to set each one.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-men-ar ... 1531155881
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Why Men Are Wearing Watches That Don’t Tell Time?
It seems that since I first viewed the article, the WSJ has restricted the article to subscribers only....
It’s probably a breach of copyright to copy the full article here, so this snippet from the page gives the gist, without the full list...
Today, it seems, style-conscious men are adopting the Pop artist’s perspective, treating their increasingly redundant wristwatches more like jewelry than a tool—a move that traditionalists might instinctively want to ridicule. Judson Lee, 38, a director at an advertising agency in Fayetteville, Ark., owns three watches but almost never sets them. All of his timepieces are mechanical and therefore require winding for an accurate read, unlike quartz watches which can dependably rely on a battery. He thinks of each watch as “an object of style,” an accessory that rounds out an outfit as a bracelet would. He wasn’t always indifferent to conventional timekeeping: “
It’s probably a breach of copyright to copy the full article here, so this snippet from the page gives the gist, without the full list...
Today, it seems, style-conscious men are adopting the Pop artist’s perspective, treating their increasingly redundant wristwatches more like jewelry than a tool—a move that traditionalists might instinctively want to ridicule. Judson Lee, 38, a director at an advertising agency in Fayetteville, Ark., owns three watches but almost never sets them. All of his timepieces are mechanical and therefore require winding for an accurate read, unlike quartz watches which can dependably rely on a battery. He thinks of each watch as “an object of style,” an accessory that rounds out an outfit as a bracelet would. He wasn’t always indifferent to conventional timekeeping: “
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