/fa/ - Fashion

>>17543774
As tools for keeping time, yes, traditional clockwork is objectively inferior. Quartz is both much cheaper and keeps time better. But there's an art to old school watch making that is amazing and deserves to be preserved and appreciated. Part of what ignited my appreciation for watches was being gifted a watch with a slide rule bezel. I was like "wtf is this?" and learned all about slide rules and how to use them and I would practice using my watch bezel as a calculator in real time. I never saw anyone using these on watches or even talking about them before but I was enamored with it.

It's so amazing to me that over 100 years ago people figured out how to make a spring loaded device that could be wound out and would track time, then they minimized it to the point where you could put it on your hand, then they figured out how to make it wind itself just by wearing it. At the same time someone figured out you could do complex math and unit conversion by sliding two rulers next to each other. Then someone figured out you could minimize it by making the rulers circles that run inside of one another. Then someone figured out you could put THAT on a watch. It's a completely analog computer on your wrist that you could have had 50 years before smart phones and it doesn't use a single volt of electricity. It's amazing.

We live in a world where almost everything is disposable now, from products to entertainment. I want to have something real and amazing.