There are some who will tell you that watches are a sign of modern slavery, a mark of our subservience to the Almighty Dollar and servitude to modern obsession with productivity. The mark of an OCD mindset that we’d all be better off without.
I disagree.
I believe that watches are merely a tool that, like any tool, can be used or abused. Or maybe they’re not even that- maybe they’re just a fashion statement. Something fun that doesn’t have to have much more depth than that. For instance, the watch on the left is whimsical and utilitarian at the same time, a wearable piece of art.
The one on the right is minamalist, striking, and somehow manages to be both retro and futuristic at the same time. Is it a sundial, or the nose-cone of a rocket? Or neither? Or both?
Then thare are watches like this one by Ferrari, which say “I had a quarter of a million dollars to spend on a watch that doesn’t actually show what time it is.”
- Allan Lacoste