I have two watches. The first one, the one which I wear the most, which I've had for 7 years (and I got it for nothing from somebody who didn't want it when it was brand new), is a Garmin 910.
It is an extraordinary device designed for triathlon, which measures every type of sport, all sorts of HRV, stress, sleep, you name it, it measures it.
It's quite broken now, quite battered, just covered in rubbish. I wear it all the time, apart from when I'm trying to be smart (physically and metaphorically), so it gets the majority of my use and is massively functional daily.
The other one is the watch that I bought myself a little while ago after I got through the carnage of building the practice.
I've never had a fancy watch before, so I decided to buy one, much to Alison's disgust.
Callum and I chose what I wanted, and I bought an Omega.
Omega was the first watch on the moon, the Speedmaster. That's what Neil Armstrong and his crew wore when they stepped out, but this is a Seamaster. It's the James Bond watch, the one that Bond always wears. The one I have is genuinely the No Time to Die watch, which is made of titanium (which suits me because of the work that I do and the success I've had with dental implants).
It doesn't do anything like the Garmin 910 does; it doesn't measure anything apart from the time (it doesn't even have the date on it), it doesn't measure your HRV, it doesn't wake you in the morning, it barely lights up in the dark.
So it's analogue versus digital, isn't it?
The analogue watch is very special for lots of reasons; it will probably last forever if I look after it; it's the type of thing that my son will have after me (We went and bought it together, and I told him that). It's a keeper; it's precious, and it has emotion attached to it.
Garmin 910 I've used it for races, for lots of different things, but in a minute it will break, and I'll buy another one.
There is a place for analogue, and there is a place for digital, still, there is a place for both.
Blog Post Number - 4087