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On the contrary. All gentlemen of refinement of whom I am acquainted,
wear mechanical watches. The price tags are usually hideous and the
movements are generally Swiss. After the collapse of the mechanical
watch industry in the 1980's, there has been a gradual rebuilding of
the market based on the watch-as-art, and now it is a thriving global
business. With modern manufacturing methods, exotic materials and new
innovations still being wrung out of this ancient technology, (such
as the Daniels coaxial escapement), modern mechanical watches can
have quite respectable accuracy too - as checked by comparing their
timekeeping with the quartz watch you keep in the draw...

Mostly though, mechanical watches are how people of a certain style
recognize each other in a crowd.

Geoffrey

   

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