[thih9]

I used to be fascinated with that, until I saw a wall clock that had a smooth second hand movement. It was a cheap $10 clock, because it's not an issue to put a larger battery into a wall clock.

Maybe I already got my kick out of seeing a smooth second hand movement and no longer feel the need to look at it on my wrist. Or perhaps my fascination was based on some gatekeeping, and seeing a cheap item with a similar feature made it disappear. Likely both.

I guess people who genuinely admire the engineering effort would be left unaffected.

[dharmab]

I wear a mechanical because the loud tick of a full size 1Hz second handdrives me bonkers. Although I can handle the small seconds in a quartz chronograph.