Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
William Gibson wrote a piece for Wired back in the day about his obsession with mechanical watches.[1] He puts it thus:<p>```
Mechanical watches are so brilliantly unnecessary.<p>Any Swatch or Casio keeps better time, and high-end contemporary Swiss watches are priced like small cars. But mechanical watches partake of what my friend John Clute calls the Tamagotchi Gesture. They&#x27;re pointless in a peculiarly needful way; they&#x27;re comforting precisely because they require tending.<p>And vintage mechanical watches are among the very finest fossils of the pre-digital age. Each one is a miniature world unto itself, a tiny functioning mechanism, a congeries of minute and mysterious moving parts. Moving parts! And consequently these watches are, in a sense, alive. They have heartbeats. They seem to respond, Tamagotchi-like, to &quot;love,&quot; in the form, usually, of the expensive ministrations of specialist technicians. Like ancient steam-tractors or Vincent motorcycles, they can be painstakingly restored from virtually any stage of ruin.
```<p>(1): Seems to be pay-walled now but you can find the whole thing in <i>Distrust that Particular Flavor</i>