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I think the chance of you wearing the latter for more than three years before it's lost or you're bored of it or it's forgotten in a drawer somewhere is pretty low.

Longevity is overrated. People don't want to wear the same watch for a lifetime, no matter how fancy.

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I don't know - at some point the age and history of the device itself become the dominant factor, not the fanciness. E.g. as I'm writing this, I'm wearing a relatively low-end watch (a Seiko Kinetic) that was a gift about 20 years ago, and even that tiny bit of history provides me with a fair bit of nostalgia and joy. I get the advantages of smart watches, but it _is_ a shame that they can't really be timeless in the same way.

Personally, I'm just not a fan of having to keep charging those smart watches every other night.

Especially when taking them off to charge at night means losing access to sleep tracking, which for me is the only killer feature smart watches have going for them over the smartphones that I already have.

I've got a Fitbit versa which has a 4-ish day battery life. I sleep with it on, and take it off to shower. I charge it when I shower and I've never once had it run out unexpectedly (since I started doing this)

My amazfit bip lasts for over a month on a single charge

Meh, I tend to wear the same things -- clothes, glasses, shoes, backpacks, until they're unusable. I don't wear them for fashion.

I'd love a carefully crafted mechanical watch, maybe with a compass (if such things exist).

These days I don't carry a watch but I'm kinda starting to want one because I hate using the phone.

I don't know, the longer I wear my Swiss watch the more I want to keep it on - but I did choose it to match both my skin tone and my wedding ring.

Smart watches however, I have a small collection that didn't make it past the three month mark before they ended up in the back of a cupboard (charging them is super annoying and after every experiment I have had with them, I still find just being able to tell the time quickly is the feature I value the most)

Addendum: y'all like to list the one or two items that have sentimental value, but have you considered the vast graveyard of junk that you've left behind that has zero value to you sentimental or otherwise? Your hoard of long-term personally-significant items is probably fewer than you can count on one hand. Where's that old t-shirt you bought five years ago? How many USB-chargers have you lost track of?

That's a extreme generalization. When you wear it for utility and not for fashion, you couldn't care less how your watch looks as far as it fulfills your needs.

My partner bought me a nice but not expensive Skagen watch as the first present she ever bought me.

I plan to keep that for the rest of my life

You're presuming that because some (or even most) people grow bored easily, people who appreciate mechanical watches do.

I've worn a Casio F-91W for 15 years.

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