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I consider watches as jewellery.
A smart watch is not jewellery in my eyes. It is a purely functional device.
A watch can acquire scratches; a bracelet can be scuffed; a dial can fade or discolour. These are ‘patina’ and show a watch has “lived a life”.
But woe betide anyone who gets even the slightest mark on their crystal.
It’s a slightly odd question to ask, because whatever my answer is has no bearing on anybody else’s response.
It’s a bit like asking what shoe size fits me best.
I tend to prefer a smaller-wearing watch, but what is a small size to me - at 1.93m, 100kg and 65mm-wide wrists - is going to be totally different for a smaller man (or woman)
As a lover of languages you’ll know that specialist fields often adopt words and imbue them with a meaning that diverges from their original etymology. Watch making is just one such field, with its own set of jargon words. As a particularly grievous example (to me, anyway), the watch world has adopted the word ‘homage’ and its use now bears little resemblance to its original meaning.
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