/fa/ - Fashion

>>17800977
by sheer volume of units sold, the F91W, clones, and derivatives (like G-shocks) are probably the most significant purely whoreological instruments; there are a zillion kids, poorfags, and zoomers with a casio, ironman, or clone on their wrists.

second is divers, the 50 Fathoms/Submariner/Luminor were groundbreaking in their time and also significantly influenced every watch after (and arguably the GMT is a subset of the diver)

i personally think chronos (especially mechanical) are a useless complication in today's day and age but there was a time when they were necessary for racing, flying, scientific experimentation; I think they were probably the shortest lived relevance but not the worst complication

dress watches came first, putting pocket watches on straps and some of the early work from longines and cartier also directly created the field/flieger watch which is arguably its own category, and there is a lot more variety in dress watches than anywhere else

i'd argue that the "sports watch" is the least significant, most normies cannot tell the difference between an OP, Day-Date, Datejust, Explorer 1 or Air King. You can call it a "dumbing down" of the dress watch with steel/rubber straps and integrated bracelets or a "dressing up" of the diver with the removal of the bezel and optional water resistance but it's objectively the worst category