An expensive watch used to be a status symbol. One problem: it was not clearly visible to ALL. Come smarttelephones. I think that the phenomenon of people, mostly, if not exclusively, women, in public places obliviously crossing busy streets while talking on phones is not due to women’s tendency to blabber all the time, no, it is something else: a demonstration of a status symbol and fashion accessory the smarttelephone. I own it, and you don’t!
I buy my watches at WalMart.