{"id":302,"date":"2025-03-01T11:29:23","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T11:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avadawebsites.wpengine.com\/winery\/?p=302"},"modified":"2025-03-29T09:11:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:11:12","slug":"smort-wotch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/smort-wotch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smart Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Modern Watch<\/p>\n<\/div>

The Smart Decision<\/h1><\/div>

I\u2019m just going to come right out and say it: modern electronic watches are bad.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Beneath the shallow prestige of shiny gadgets lies a long list of problems the average consumer can\u2019t avoid.<\/p>\n

The smartwatch fad is dying \u2014 and fast.
\nFrom limited battery charge cycles to software updates that brick devices overnight, returning customers are hesitant to make the same mistake twice.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the early 2000s anymore. Consumers are wiser than ever. You can\u2019t just dangle the latest tech trinket in front of our faces and expect us to line up at your door. That\u2019s right, I\u2019m looking at you, Apple.
\nWe know about the pre-installed bloatware. We know about device slowdowns, planned obsolescence, and the constant technological \u201censhittification<\/a>\u201d you push just to sell the next big thing.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly why nobody at the Super Bowl was talking about the latest Shamsung Smort Watch.
\nWe were too busy fixating on the Jacob & Co on Tom Brady\u2019s wrist<\/a> \u2014 a real piece of art. A tiny perpetual engine, tirelessly fighting gravity to deliver precision timing day after day.<\/p>\n

No software updates. No constant charging. No unresponsive touchscreens. And best of all \u2014 no ads pushed onto your wrist.
\nJust elegant, reliable time.<\/p>\n

Sure, Tom\u2019s watch might be solid gold, encrusted with so many diamonds you can barely see the metal \u2014 but mechanical watches don\u2019t have to be that extravagant to hold value.
\nWhile every timepiece might aspire to greatness, not every watch needs to be the Le Mans on Steve McQueen\u2019s wrist<\/a> to matter.<\/p>\n

Value doesn\u2019t mean skyrocketing prices like Bitcoin. Value means working \u2014 and continuing to work \u2014 day after day, year after year. A trusted companion on your arm, keeping you punctual.<\/p>\n

I just serviced a mechanical watch from 1941. It\u2019s being passed down from a grandfather to his grandson \u2014 and it\u2019s still keeping perfect time.
\nTry that one, Apple<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1437,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,87,17,86,80],"tags":[84,83,82,85,81],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-design","category-news","category-technology","category-watches","tag-fault-finding","tag-mechanical-watch","tag-smart-watch","tag-value","tag-watches"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Fzzzt-Broken-watches.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1441,"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/1441"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artisjewellery.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}