• Bahnd Rollard@lemmy.world
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    Watches have always been a status symbol after their primary function of telling time.

    You keep your phone in your pocket, but a watch is there for all to see, is it an expensive Rolex? A cheap Casio? A fruit watch, connected to a fruit phone? Or something that looks like that device from the begining of Spy Kids 2 that I still want 20+ years later.

    Function then fashion, and its always kept up with the tech of the time, all they way back to the chronometer.

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        Shut your face, it was cool. Also the bigger one the antagonist kid wore did… But that was like 3 watches and very early 2000s CGI.

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      Watches have always been a status symbol

      Sure but we have phones now. Doesn’t matter what your status is, you dont need a watch. It used to be a status symbol as being a person who needed to keep track of the time because you were busy. But nowadays that’s nonsense.