I am old enough to have watches be part of nearly my entire life - long before the conveniences of modern phones. I worked at a small town drugstore in my youth, which afforded me a rotating assortment of cheap, quartz watches as I was growing up - a favorite being a classic Timex Mickey Mouse. Jump ahead to now and I hadn't worn a "real watch" for years - defaulting to the ever-present phone in my pocket. But, a connection between my education/career as a mechanical engineer and the explosion of high-quality mechanical watches has me back wearing again. It's a good time to wear a watch again.