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There's a fix to the "nerdiness" issue: Have the kids pick awesome bands or band/frame combinations from AliExpress. (They're about $5-20 rather than $60-200.) There are plenty out there to transform a watch to look nothing like an Apple or Samsung watch, and look nothing like anyone else's watch.

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This thread should be rewuired reading for parents. Thank you and to parent commenters for your contributions.

If you have specific models of watches you have been most successful. Please do share.

the aesthetic and authoritative effects of wrist watches cannot be understated

It's true. Design, aesthetics, and impressions cannot not be made, and so are always constructed even without attention. People, especially kids, associate much of their identity with their appearance. Sometimes, I pine that we ought to live as Quakers in some ways.

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