Welcome to Cool New Watch!
Wristwatches have certainly come a long way since the 17th century French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal first attached his pocket watch to his wrist with a piece of string and began wearing it that way. However, now that worldwide wireless phone service subscriptions are approximately equal in count to 1/2 of the world’s (almost) 7 billion person population, some people have noticed that many young people aren’t wearing a watch anymore, preferring instead to check the time on their wireless phones.
One might wonder then, why someone like me might be starting a blog today about watches, since (after all) there aren’t any popular blogs about buggy whips. (”Whipmodo”, anyone?) In answer to this question, three points come immediately to my mind:
- Watches as jewelry and fashion accessories allow us to have yet another great method of expressing our own personal styles.
- A watch is a lot quicker and easier to bring up in front of your face than a wireless phone is.
- Despite the recent addition of GPS chips, digital cameras and other “high-tech” features to a few watch models, none of us yet–more than 60 years after its first appearance in the comics–are wearing anything as cool as Dick Tracy’s 2-Way Wrist Radio–and I think there’s still enough life left in the wristwatch market until we finally get to that point!
Keeping the above points above in mind, Cool New Watch will focus on the time-honored tradition of wearing a watch, both for fun and for more functional purposes. At the same time, it will recognize that we live in a very fast-changing, digital age and the watch–like all other consumer technology products–must therefore change, adapt and its individual characteristics even be “mashed up” with the features of other electronic products, else it will go the way of the reel-to-reel tape player, the typewriter and the rotary phone. (If you’re not old enough to remember any of these things, ask your parents about them–and please invite them to read this blog. And if you’re old enough to remember these things, don’t worry: this blog is for you too.)
Cool New Watch is, as the tagline says, about “cool, new, futuristic, unique and unusual watches” (and perhaps even about a few other select watch-related adjectives in addition to that). It’s not about the boring watch that your great aunt Myrna (bless her heart) is planning to purchase for you at the drug store on Christmas Eve. It’s about watches that you will actually find to be cool. It’s also not about presenting to you glossy pictures of Rolexes that you and I both may never own. It’s about discussing watches that you will actually be able to buy (although a few watches may appear on these pages that are prototypes or that are ones that you’d be willing to save up awhile for). This blog will also recognize that a few of you out there are ladies, and that ladies like wearing cool watches too, so if you are one, you may also find some watches here that you would enjoy wearing.
So, with all of that being said, please let me welcome you to Cool New Watch! I hope that you will have a good time here and that you will come back again for another post.
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