I'm a big fan of modern tech and I don't think I'd enjoy wearing anything that expensive!
But it's a really cool piece of art and I thought the depth of the dial was especially interesting. From afar or in pictures, a watch looks like a 2D display, and since we mostly only see them in pictures, it's easy to forget that a lot of analog tech was subtlety 3D.
With most natural objects, when you see a picture it's obvious it's just a picture and there's a third dimension, but with mechanical devices it sort of feels like you're looking at a picture of an old fashioned screen, and you never notice that there's depth you don't see.
Highlighting that aspect is a really cool design choice.
The weird thing about a watch like this is that nobody is going to know enough to steal it unless you tell them what it is (or...put it on the internet, I guess). It's also small and super low-key, and therefore, not at all hip in today's watch market.
You're more likely to have your phone stolen. Thieves are all about risk/reward: they want your Rolex Sub or your (gaudy, ugly, huge) Royal Oak, which they know they can flip for a huge profit.
This is exactly true: the watch offers a kind of "security by obscurity" most better known watches lack.
It is a "if you known you know" thing. At the same time it is a very hard sell (for any potential thief looking for quick money) as the watch is unique in its configuration and mostly "meaningless" for other people (rather than me).
Anything you own will eventually get scratched. Past bracelet scratches, mechanical watches are rather hardy - unless you're buying something particularly rare and complicated the standard ETA and Seiko movements you'll get in most brands (as well as the house movements of major brands such as Omega and Rolex) will handle physical shocks just fine. I don't exercise wearing a mechanical watch, but that's as much due to sweat and weight and tracking heart rate as any risk of damage.
You can get comparatively affordable mechanical watches that are sufficiently shock, magnetism, and water resistant to do anything normal people will do in their lives. If you're an underwater welder, astronaut, EE professor, or other career with esoteric risks, obviously do your own research and maybe just buy a GShock.
But it's a really cool piece of art and I thought the depth of the dial was especially interesting. From afar or in pictures, a watch looks like a 2D display, and since we mostly only see them in pictures, it's easy to forget that a lot of analog tech was subtlety 3D.
With most natural objects, when you see a picture it's obvious it's just a picture and there's a third dimension, but with mechanical devices it sort of feels like you're looking at a picture of an old fashioned screen, and you never notice that there's depth you don't see.
Highlighting that aspect is a really cool design choice.