1: I wear my watch all the time (don’t always have a phone with me!) and it can take a beating. Sure, as you said, a G shock can take more of a beating, but…

2: Since there’s no battery, you rarely if ever have to open them and mess up the seal. Sure, eventually, you might have to, but I have family members with old Seikos and Citizens that have never been opened or serviced, and they still are watertight and run great. Sure, they’re not as accurate as quartz, and a quartz solar provides the above benefit without sacrificing accuracy. However, I usually wear one for a few days and then switch it up. Still very accurate over such a short time period, and by the time I get back to it, it’s stopped, and I can reset it off one of my quartz!

3: I don’t scuba dive (my Dad does, where I got the love of the watches originally!), but i do spend a lot of time in water, we own a cottage on a lake and it’s not just leisure in the water, but often work as well. Whether building or repairing the pier, diving down a few feet for a mooring chain and setting up the mooring buoys, fixing something on one of the boats, or searching for a dropped object…..and like I said, I nearly ALWAYS wear a watch, might as well make it one that can handle diving so I don’t even have to think about water getting inside.

4: In a world where our history is being erased and forgotten and everything is electronic and tracked to the nuts and built to break so you have to buy another, I really think there’s something just extra awesome about a spring powered marvel of engineering with roots going back hundreds of years and which can function in extreme environments, and which worl for decades, keep their value, and can be passed on to my kids someday.