CaliforniaJed[Purist]
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But Kari,
Mar 11, 2015,20:49 PM
Our watches are already relics. We're wearing centuries old technology on our wrists. Their value and appeal is not challenged by technology. To the contrary, their appeal is a reaction to the "throwaway" technology of the current age. A smart-[INSERT NAME OF DEVICE] is planned to become obsolete and replaced. Our watches were obsolete they day we bought them.
The risk, if any, would be if the watch becomes, permanently and pervasively, THE place, and the only place, for wearable tech. You're all right -- wearable tech is coming, but it will be EVERYWHERE -- in our shoes, our clothes, our glasses, perhaps implanted even, and yes, to an extent, in our watches. So I suppose there's a risk that smart watches will displace some mechanical watches in the world at large. But I suspect, as I indicated in my earlier post, that the awareness they will bring to the watch industry, generally, will be far better for mechanical watchmaking than most seem to think.
And if I am wrong and it kills value, I'll die happy with a much bigger collection than I would have had otherwise!
Best,
Jed