suppose you want a watch that:

a) is mechanical

b) can go in the water

c) doesn't look like dive watches, because you feel like most dive watches are kind of hideous

what do you think of?

@brennen I'm not a watch nerd, but I worked with a watch collector many years ago. (Me: programmer, they: overpaid salesperson with a need to impress people.) TL;DR: if a watch is rated for at least 50 m, it'll probably survive showers, swimming in a lake, etc.

I used a cheap dress watch for a year, but after three batteries in that time, I'm back to a dive watch that's worked for a decade now. (Self-winding, mechanical.)

https://www.watchresearcher.com/watch-water-resistance/ seems OK after a quick skim.

(as with most gear nerdery where i already have a perfectly fine $thing that works, i find most of the entertainment in thinking about other obscurely better versions of $thing is in defining some set of arbitrary constraints and watching everything bounce off of them.)