So why are watch stores and wrist watches as popular – if not more so – than ever? Let’s today explore what makes this apparently obsolete gadget a relevant and significant piece of technology for the 21st century, and what the future holds. That future, we all suspect, is a long time off if it’s ever to be.
In the meantime, your wrist watch will find a way to matter and find new consumers. They are:
- Fashionable
- Elegant
- Uniquely Adaptable.
They appeal and are subject to both our intrinsic fascination with technology and also our nostalgic love for bygone eras.
Though if you think through the other side of the coin, if the wrist watch will ever completely fall out of favor, it will probably be a result of a zeitgeist-changing technological advancement. If a wearable eye-tech gadget, for instance like Google Glass ever does catch on practically, it would be surely hard to imagine anyone wearing a timepiece on their wrist. The wearer/user will be able to know the time with just a flutter of their eye. By contrast, turning one’s arm to check the time will seem downright arduous for sure.
Then the future of Google searches will change from watch online to Google Glass online. But that future as of now is far off! But as Lewand states,
“I do think that, even with the explosive growth in the smartwatch space, there still is an appetite for beautiful timeless timepieces that are classics, things that can be handed down from generation to generation.”
And yet, the wrist watch is still here, and by some metrics, the industry is as healthy as ever. For every article about the death of the watch, like clockwork, another article appears announcing that wrist watches are making a comeback. It can be difficult to keep up with the predictions. From week to week, wrist watches are either dying or living their best life.
If you look at the current trends, the most significant model is nothing but Casio G-Shock. Let’s glance through the features that make it stand out from the rest.
- G-SHOCK DW-5600BWP-2DR – G1255
The delicacy of white and blue Chinese porcelain restores the modern aesthetics in demand. Features like shock resistance and 200-meter water resistance make it a promising watch online.
Similarly, various other G-Shock models are ruling the market. They are as follows:
- G-Shock GAE-2100RC-1ADR
- G-Shock GA-2100-1A1DR
Innovations in technology have led to some exciting new developments in wrist watches, and the future looks very bright for them. Over the past 5 years, smartwatches have gone from a futuristic novelty to a flashy and vital product on the roster of nearly every major phone maker as well as other tech, fashion, and lifestyle companies. But the question remains, what do the next 5 years look like for smartwatches? Reactions by Swiss watchmakers and watch stores have been mixed. Some of them fear another unaffordable episode like the quartz revolution that almost killed/vanished them. Others consider this as an opportunity to expand their brands into more segments and heights. Some watch brands have released their own experiments on smartwatches (the majority with poor results).
Hence, the popularity of wrist watches is on the rise and there is no doubt that they will continue to be a popular choice for timekeeping for years to come. But no one knows what the future holds for watchmaking; although, since the launch of the Apple watch, it is certainly one of the watch industry’s hottest subjects for debate. Some watch brands/companies are branching out into their own versions of connectivity to life, while others are convinced that it won’t change a thing. Maybe in 2050, we can ask our own personal drones to predict the future, but, for now, we are just going to have to wait and see.
