Automatic Watches - Are you active enough?

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There’s been a seismic change, especially in high GDP countries, in which society on a whole is less physically active than say a decade or two ago. This reality applies to both professional activities and leisure time. Rolex isn’t ever going to move away from its autowind automatic movements, which by default requires the wearer to realize a minimum daily activity in order to sustain the movement operational via kinetic energy. Logically, if we move around less and repetitive tasks are taken over by machinery and/or robots, how can the automatic watch survive this changing landscape?

Secondly, Rolex’s move upmarket naturally makes the acquisition cost prohibitive for lower paid workers. Isn’t it logical to presume that lower paid workers tend to carry out more repetitive manual tasks which conversely would make these people better suited to an automatic watch? Likewise, higher paid workers, within the sectors whose salaries could permit such a luxury as Rolex, tend to (generally) participate in a more sedate working environment meaning less movement overall?

The motive for my thread is to establish if TRF members find that their daily worn Rolex stops due to lack of activity? For those with a collection of watches rotated frequently, you’re probably hand winding your watches and rotate out the watch before the 45-70 hour reserve is depleted? For those who never have their Rolex stop due to lack of sufficient activity, what type of work/leisure do you do to sustain a Rolex operational full time? Does anyone have a sedate life and job yet their activities suffice so as not to ever require manual winding?

Finally, if society shifts as it is to an increasingly sedate professional and personal life, isn’t there a serious risk that automatic watches are simply no longer viable and could become unserviceable or extinct? I mean on a purely practical basis and for use as intended