However, the sweetest savor when it comes to deploring things is probably to be found in deploring the tastes and behaviors of other watch enthusiasts, and if you’re looking for a chance to cast aspersions afresh in the realm of horology, I can think of no better incitement to do so than a story published last week in theWall Street Journal, in which the author notes the increasing tendency (I don’t think we can properly call it a trend yet) of vintage watch collectors to wear watches purely as a visual accessories. In the story, Analog/Shift’s James Lamdin remarks, “It tends to be some of the super-fashiony maven people who are all about style,” and notes that it’s not unheard of for a collector to buy a watch that doesn’t work, and wear it as a “statement piece.” In other words, you buy a vintage watch, and you don’t care if it actually works as intended or indeed, if it will ever work at all – you just wear it for how it looks. You have an inert object you’re wearing purely for its cosmetics.
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