If you exclude my A158, which is omnipotent since it has been trending lately, 0 of the watches I own are easy to find in the wild, especially my rare pieces. 

Seriously, if I find someone else in the wild rocking an Alarmdate (mechanical alarm) watch I would lose it, especially if it was a Technos like mine

Uses for the Chronograph complication for me:

1: Misalign minute/hour chronograph hands

2:

But seriously, even if I don't want to seriously use my Casio Edifice's chronograph as a time tracking device, I want to at least keep it tidy for the few times I do (mostly out of boredom, and to mess around the Tachymeter thing). 

But the previous owner of my Casio Edifice probably gave it some beating, because the chronograph's minute hand fell off once for me, and if I try to use the chronograph feature too much, it keeps drifting clockwise. Luckily I got the watch for almost 5x cheaper than in retail price, and all I gots to do is to not press the button again... Sigh, can't even fidget with the Chronograph without being annoyed 😂

And my opinion for the other complications, even though I don't have watches with them (for now):

•  I think a diving bezel is just how @MWC2020 's show character, Kurt Santana, reviews: How well does it fidget, rather than how whatever it is supposed to be used for 🤣
• Calendar/moon complications feel more like eye candy, so it's more of a design complement rather than an useful/purpose-oriented feature
• By far, the GMT hour is the one that seems more useful out of the bunch. Not only blends in with the looks of some watches, but it also keeps the job of dual time simple and elegant for the analog watches. I am supportive of any complication/function that helps seeing dual time something else than having to reach for my phone or to change my regular watch every now and then (especially when there's people like me, who work with people from other countries)

IMO, as a owner of a small vintage collection, I do admit I like to keep my watches fresh if possible. But there's just something that is just not the same in a completely pristine watch against something that clearly got its scars in life.

My Technos Alarmdate was clearly well-preserved and possibly restored by the watchmaker I bought it from. I recently learned he is selling his old collection to raise some cash, but also to pass them forward as well. 

But then, there is a case like my most recent acquisition, my "James Bond" Seiko:

It got a handful of scratches, but this watch is old enough to be my parent. From what I heard of the same watchmaker I bought my Alarmdate from, the acrylic is original, and is reaching almost 50 years old. And it is still kicking it! The watch works perfectly despite the minor cosmetic damage. 

And it brings to the table the emotional value: if I ask my watchmaker to polish the scratches off, it will surely look pretty again, but then I would be wiping out the many years of history the watchmaker had collected with it as well, and it is not as if the scratches are that dense or make it hard to read the dial. So I am voting forward to keep the damage, and flex the scars it has painstakingly collected throughout its watch life.

As I mentioned in a post I did some time ago, I believe watches can also be "mechanical jewelry", and damage/scratches can also be a feature when showing history.

Surely so: the reference number is H357-505B. 

As I have written, it is not exactly the model used in the James Bond movie, I don't know which one it is, but it seems to be of the same line of Seiko's anadigi watches from back in the 80s, and the previous owner, my current go-to watchmaker, was surely savvy to find one of these back then.

I mean... Who doesn't want to have a tool that looks nice as well? 

That's why I made this post to know, since there are many interpretations on what watches mean for each one of us. Just like how there are some that see watches as a dress accessory that does the extra work of telling the time, I am surprised how some mentioned how they see it as a tool, but generally as a tool they want to look nice with, or a tool where they care about the quality of it. 

Most of what I remember of that conversation was my mother mentioning pride and vanity about spending too much money on something you don't need.

But what I want to focus is her valid question about why people buy expensive watches in the first place, and that it is not all about vanity or trying to flex richness. All I did was to answer my interpretation on the matter

I would ask for a 1960's Technos Skydiver in perfect condition.

The reason is: I know there might be rarer and historically significant models out there, but for me, a Brazilian, it's one of the rarest finds I could think about, and it's from back in the day Technos (and other manufacturers in general) still valued Swiss movements, and the Skydiver series used to be from the top of the line. 

I would love to have this watch in my collection/for personal use partly because of the patriotism, of course I would love to wear a great watch that was made in my own home country, but also it is something that I would see being passed down through generations as well.