I did buy a decent, reasonably interesting, not wholly unserious and also extremely reasonably priced watch:
link A 1969 Luch, also mechanical, plain black except for its red seconds hand, and I was excited about this watch and liked this watch a lot – for about a month, at which point I began to only like it a little, and would not use the word “excitement” to describe how I felt about
link it. On its best days I thought it was “pretty cool” and on
link my worst, it was just not good enough.