The gauntlet has well and truly been thrown down on the polished concrete floors of Time+Tide's headquarters in this week's office row, as a truculent James Robinson asseverated that pocket watches in 2020 are about as useful as a solar powered watch in a sensory deprivation tank … that is to say, completely pointless. Deputy Editor Nicholas Kenyon was having none of it, however, and was locked-and-loaded with a counter argument that could've knocked Robinson's Watch Rats socks clean off. Enjoy the figurative fisticuffs. James Robinson – Against It will surprise no one reading this, but I'm typing up this literary "left, right, goodnight" on a laptop, and not an Underwood typewriter. Now, I'm sure you know where I'm going with that little analogy, but I will also freely admit that mechanical timepieces of almost any kind are antiquated. However, the reason I have a genuine disdain for the pocket watch is twofold: a) their inability to adapt, and b) the people that still choose to use them. Mechanical wristwatches have evolved, mutated and found ways to not only still be relevant but be desirable. In fact, I'd say the state of the mechanical wristwatch industry is the best it…

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