@njion Something I find fascinating about mechanical watches as jewellery is how much of their appeal and their function as a status symbol comes not from being obviously flashy or made from expensive material, but from the craftsmanship, design and sense of history and culture. I think that, to a lot of men in particular, mechanical watches represents jewellery with more "substance" than a simple, obviously expensive golden chain (that's become somewhat associated with women, people of color and working class people to an extent), which makes it kind of funny that they are in many ways less accurate and reliable than other kinds of watches. Like, there's still a fair amount of vanity there, just with more plausible deniability. (This is probably why most insults about expensive watches are about watches covered in gold and diamonds, what I think irks people isn't just that they are expensive, it's that they are tacky. (There's probably something to be said about how a lot of 'bling' is done with more self-awareness than it gets credit for. It's about this complex sort of signalling where they are showing that they are rich, but still part of, in the case of bling, hip hop culture.)) And like, this isn't me dunking on mechanical watch owners, I'd totally get one if I had more money (mine's quartz), there is a lot of appeal in the promise of something that's both well-made and cannot possibly send you push notifications, track your movements or harass you about not walking long enough. I just think it's kind of interesting how much mechanical watchmaking lives on because of what it represents to people, even when it's not strictly necessary.