Time machines (12/365)

I have always been a huge fan of watches since I was a little kid. I loved the mechanical ticking sounds of analog or the beeps of a digital watch. In the 90s, that was a piece of technology you carried with you and it provided you with the most important commodity, time. There were no smart phones nor smart watches back then.
The obsession just kept in increasing as I grew up. Analog went to digital, then digital watches had  planners in them and now we have something equally powerful as a small computer strapped to your wrist.

Now I am not a smartwatch or technology hater or anything but I have started feeling that smartwatches never had that appeal, that level of attachment you have had with your analog watches.

After switching from smartwatch to smartwatch I just understood no matter how much you love it and how brilliantly it's built, it is going to be obsolete or outdated in next 3 years. And considering the pace of improvements, I don't think many people wait till their smartwatch gets outdated, they will just buy it every year as like their phones.

Do we really need to change a watch every year? the only thing we need it is for the time and some minor features without having the hassles which come with phones or other pieces of technology. 

Consider a watch which you have been wearing for the last 10 years, it would have been with you through thick and thin, through prosperity and adversity. You may have been dumped wearing that watch and may have proposed someone wearing that watch. The point here is, it has been there with you all this time, and it certainly has an emotional attachment.

Current gen smartwatches last hardly for 2 or 3 years before you need a battery replacement, and its not easy. By that time you realize the watch is no longer made and may not get the battery replacement and you are left with a very costly bracelet. Be it Apple, LG, Huawei or any company.

I started with an LG G watch then moving to Moto 360 1st Gen. I had a phase of life where I was keen on fitness and since my Moto360 barely lasted through the day without even fitness I decided to get Samsung Gear Fit. two years later I wished to get back to Android Wear and got the Casio WSD f10 (really good in batterylife till date after 2 years). but the charging struggle was real and with proprietary charging cables and dock which i forgot to carry, I used F10 majorly in timepiece mode just for the time. 

Finally frustrated with smart watches I just got myself a Casio Protrek PRG650 tough solar and I have never looked back ever since. Although guilty of switching between protrek and WSDF10 based on need, F10 is great during rides when you need a quick glance at the notifications on a motorcycle.

So which time machine would you like to own?