What wasting time in watch forums taught me about masculinity.

Watch forums were a context in which men talked to other men about manly things with the assumption that it's all guys here, bro These men declare that they would only spend money on a watch that they can pass down to their future grandsons The villain, Captain Vidal, is meticulous about his appearance and cares deeply about his watch.

Vidal's father had smashed the watch while dying in combat and asked that it be given to Vidal so that he would understand what sort of man Vidal Sr was My first was a gently used fashion watch, followed by a vintage Russian diver's watch and, last but not least, a brand-new watch that has some chance of surviving me but was both gorgeous and on sale.

I still find myself trawling watch forums regularly Happy in my newfound confidence, I marvel at the words of the men I find there, men trying to both keep and cheat time by acquiring a watch that, by outliving them, might lend them a kind of immortality. . Source