Breitling Chronomat

Rotary phones, typewriters, and cathode tube television sets. These are indicative of the time and place in which they were made. Examples litter thrift shops and antique stores, dust-covered artifacts of a bygone era. Yet they, like the smartphones, computers, and LED television sets of today, represented the height of technological prowess when they were created. And, like the rotary phones, typewriters, and the television sets in their large wooden cases, the phones that we carry in our pockets, the computers that we use, and the LED TVs on which we watch Netflix will all be just as obsolete sometime in the not-so-distant future. It’s a sobering thought, but like all technologies, they will soon go the way of the dodo. And yet there’s something to be said for the appeal of the analog over the digital. Sure, your smartwatch might become obsolete in a couple of years, and be worth little more than the price of the materials it’s made of. But a manual watch, on the other hand, will rem