I’ve seen this argument before, ‘use the clock on your phone’, but that’s hardly practical, is it, unless you’re one of those tragic muppets who goes everywhere with the bloody phone in your hand. What you gonna do, when you’re on your bike and you want a quick idea of how much time you’ve got for the ride you’re on, stop and fumble the phone out of whatever pocket in your jacket, baggies or rucksack, or take a two second glance at the timepiece conveniently placed on your wrist? If someone asked me the time and I had to fish my phone out of my pocket, get it out of sleep mode, they’ll prolly have wandered away bored. It takes one second to look at a watch, unless, of course, it’s an insanely over-complicated footballer’s special, which only tells you the owner is a prat with a taste bypass and too much money. Look at that Bell & Ross, a beautiful example of clarity and simplicity, based on aircraft instrument dials, designed to show the time clearly and accurately at the merest glance. Lovely watches, and one day, perhaps, I might get to own one. You can keep Rolex, Patek Phillipe and all the other swanky show-off watches.