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Mechanical and Quartz Analog Watches

It appears to us that analog mechanical and quartz watches are not as popular as they once were.  We see fewer and fewer people wearing them.  If you see us you will find us either wearing a mechanical or quartz watch.  It is what we both grew up wearing one or the other.  Most everyone we see uses their cell phone or some type of smart watch that connects to the cell phone.  Also, have see them using a fitness wrist device also to tell the date and time.

Both of us for the longest time have liked time keeping pieces.  We prefer mechanical to any other form of time keeping.  In our collection we have a few mechanical clocks (grandfather, wall, cuckoo, shield, ships bell, and tabletop).  Wrist watch we have a few different brands.  Our top favorite is Bathys Hawaii.  The watch is not longer produced but we have a “few” we can rotate through.  The watch at the top is a Bathys Benthic automatic with a mother of pearl dial.  It has an automatic ETA 2892 movement.

Why is it that people have stopped wear a analog watch.  We believe it is because the convenience of having an all-in-one device (cell phone) on you.  One less thing to have on you and worry about. 

We have read somewhere that the brain can calculate time from an analog hands time keeping piece better than a digital one (reading all the numbers).  A digital watch can present out to the second what time it is.  That means your brain has more to process than just looking at analog hands watch.  Interesting on how that might work.  So, think about it for the longest time we have had analog gauges in airplanes and car dash boards.  We are starting to see them on car dash boards or heads up displays but digital makes a person fixate on the digital numbers.

So, give it some thought of start wearing a analog mechanical or quartz watch.  At a glance of our wrist you will know what time it is.

Sandy & Stephen

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