TBH mechanical chronos still don't make a lot of sense to me
As I grow older I try to pace my activities to give me the time to think instead of rushing along, so wet shaving with a safety razor instead of skimming with a multiblade cartridge, driving with a manual shift instead of an automatic gear, or taking the time to sit down and drink the morning coffee while reading and letting my thoughts wander idly. It's actually more productive because some of my better ideas came to me while apparently I was doing nothing and just zoning out.
It's also the time when some surprising conclusions makes their appearance known without prior warning, like today while I was looking at the excellent manual wind Mathey-Tissot Type XX: It doesn't make any sense.
A wrist watch is an anachronism, buying one with a mechanical movement is illogical and adding a chronograph is simply asking for troubles.
I kept thinking that if I really needed the ability to time activities, which TBH I seldom do, a quartz chrono would serve me better by being more precise and robust, thinner, lighter, with potentially more useful complications, and I won't have to chose between keeping it thin or automatic rewind.
Then the other part of my mind, the one that until now was busy coordinating my coffee intake, made a sight and told me to shut up because I was complicating things that should remain simple: I have a mechanical chrono because I like it and the way it feels and look on my wrist and that's it.
In conclusion I should be happy that I live in a world where I can have the things that I want instead of being forced to own only what I need. The Mathey-Tissot Type XX is great because of what it is and I'm happy to have it on my wrist today.
Even if it means I have to rewind it like it's 1960 again.
I'm a big fan of watches that are interesting because they are either unique, have interesting features, well designed or simply offer a great value for their price.
Nothing wrong with the 60's,we always buy things that don't make sense but make us happy
I think there is a level of watch-nerdery to watch complications. Like the appreciation someone even figured out how to make it work at the time. It's a piece of technological history. But yeah, impractical, like everything else we're into here!