F-91W

Consider: this watch, costing less than a philosophy textbook, tells time with perfect accuracy. It has no ornament, no pretension, no claim to being anything other than what it is. Ought we to consider these qualities virtuous? I submit that we ought. A watch honest about itself is preferable to a watch honest about nothing at all.

The Casio F-91W is worn by men who have accepted certain things about their lives. I have not accepted those things and I never will. The watch itself is competent - it tells time - but competence is a very low bar. Van Patten wore one ironically at a lunch last week. It was not clear whether he understood that the irony was in fact reality.

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