Purely digital watches make a mockery of the art of horology, the taming of the most elementally analog process in the universe. The measured pace of the hands around the dial is a metaphor for all celestial mechanics, and for life itself.
Hands are as essential to watches as they are to humans.
Digital watches, however, are uniquely suited for stopwatches and alarms. Analog and digital are hard to blend successfully, but the Chronospace exceeds all expectations, both in aesthetics and technology. The Chronospace is ringed with a circular slide rule, another analog throwback in an overly digital world. And knowing where the decimal point goes signifies your mastery of orders of magnitude, and thus your position in the world around you. Imagine, all that from a watch.