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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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ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Didn’t the spy kids Watch not tell time?

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- Bahnd@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  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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Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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.

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