I wear a watch because I like having a delicate and brilliant piece of mechanical engineering on my wrist (or electrical engineering if I'm wearing a quartz watch-- I wear mechanical, though). It reminds me how ingenious humanity is.
I think I can achieve the same effect to a greater degree by having a computer in my pocket that weighs virtually nothing, can do things that super computers of 20 years ago couldn't, can play games, keep my schedule, let me contact people and has me constantly connected to this amazing human invention... the internet. All with no wires. I'm tethered to nothing. It's a piece of friggin' magic. I can appreciate a watch for what it is, but when it comes to a reminder of the amazing ingenuity of the human race, most of today's phones have them beat hands down.


@Shiny
I'm glad I don't work in an industry where my wasteful spending of potentially $1000s of dollars on a silly watch with a big name is going to make a huge difference in my life. It disgusts me that there are people out there who can afford to buy 5, 10, 30, 50 thousand dollar watches just to make an impression and make themselves even more stinking rich. It disgusts me more that there are people impressed by these pretentious displays of overspending on something absolutely silly. Buying a multi-thousand dollar Rolex watch is no different than spending thousands of dollars on rims for your stupid car. The only difference is in who finds it impressive.

I'm glad I'm doing work where my skills matter more than how blinged out I am.