Horological Meandering

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Thank you for your suggestions

Thank you for your suggestions. After doing some research on the internet, I agree with Ginger that my budget of $2,000 will not buy me a nice automatic watch. I wanted an automatic, rather than a quartz, because I will wear this watch for a long time, and I attracted to the idea of charging it by wearing it, of a direct interaction with an object I will wear on my body every day.

Also as a feminist, I hope to own a watch whose mechanism would be appreciated by both women and men. As I was doing research, I was particularly struck by how many more choices men have. To me, this is a reminder of the fact that only recently women have been active professionally in male dominated industries (although there is still a way to go to achieve equality in the workplace), where a watch is one of the main status objects. I do not mean to say that a watch is primarily a status symbol, I am just thinking how men's and women's designs often (not always) mirror stereotypes - men's watches are complicated because men have complex intelligence, while women's watches are more simple mechanically and adorned with all sorts of silly, girly designs.

This being said, I have decided to save up and wait until I can have a more serious watch.

Thanks again for your advice!