$6000 watch?
Good grief.
Got mine at Walmart for $12.50. Keeps accurate time. Has both the date and the day of the week.
$6000 watch. Ridiculous.
Some people can afford them. Some people can afford watches that retail for $150,000. So what? Others buy $12.50 junk from Walmart. . . and they look like $12.50 pieces of junk for Walmart. I can afford to buy watches that I like. . . and i've reached a time in life that I can splurge if I like. I wear a 15 1/2 carat diamond ring. . . what skin is it off your nose? My girlfriend has even more jewelry than that . . .and even more expensive watches, but she's wearing the Apple Watch, too.
You are making the mistake that others have made which the author of this piece is pointing out. . . that the Apple Watch is NOT just a watch, not just a piece of jewelry that elegantly keeps time like his $6000 Swiss watches did. It offers him so much more that it more than makes up for the benefit of wearing a luxury piece of jewelry. In fact, Ben, he did not even buy the more elegant version of the Apple Watch he was wanting, the Space Black Stainless Steel with black metal link bracelet, but only the Apple Watch Sport with the rubber like strap. . . yet he reaches for that Sport Apple Watch, even going back and exchanging his $6000 Rolex for it when he started out with the Rolex because the Apple Watch offers more functionality he USES beyond telling time.
The Rolex's function is the same as your $12.50 Walmart junker. . . but the Apple Watch is not a time piece, it's a wrist mounted computer that happens to have an app that tells time.