Watches

People spend thousands of dollars to achieve validation and find somewhere to spend excess money. Get over it. There is no logic.

I don't blame you for the shower thought but you're stating the obvious. In my opinion, the G-Shock 5600 and 9052 - speaking strictly in terms of utility - are the best watches on the planet. I'm wearing a Seiko SNJ029 "Safarnie" right now and still think my 9052 and 6900's beat it in terms of utility. Luckily it's just that little bit cooler to look at.

I mean yeah

Yawn

I don't think anyone nowadays is buying a mechanical watch primarily for its technical performance specs. I think it is primarily for aesthetics and history, also happens to be very practical jewelry.

Now that said, when someone has decided they want a mechanical watch because of the reasons above, then specs do come in to play. It is pretty cool that a machine powered by gears and springs can tell time pretty accurately, and more accuracy is better although accuracy is not the only (or even primary) criteria. Same with other specs like water resistance, antimagnetism etc. None of those are reasons to buy a mechanical watch, but once someone has decided to buy a mechanical watch, those do come in to play. Still for me the looks and history are the most important factors.

Hotter take: G-Shock will be a distant memory long before any of those other watches you mentioned will.

Gshock is the watch of the ADF.

Finding out that astronauts were coming to prefer G-Shocks to the Speedmaster Pro was the main thing that drove Omega to develop what became the X-33 in the first place. Being known as *the "*space watch" was central their marketing and they were terrified of losing that distinction.

The lack of an alarm on the Speedmaster had apparently become a sticking point for astronauts for day-to-day living on orbit when astronauts had gotten used to having alarms on the surface. It's also the reason the X-33 had a LOUD alarm for a wristwatch.

Omega actually later developed versions of the X-33 for yachting for the same reason: teams they sponsored favored digital watches.

I love my Seiko Arnie.

i never find anyone who buys speedmaster because:

"they wanna be astronauts"

they buy it because its the moonwatch, the watch that went to the moon, the history of it.

and 2nd reason is because they like the looks.

You're downvoted only because folk doesn't want to accept its irrationality coming to watches. Good take imo.