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What's the consensus on wooden watches?
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Wood is for clocks that sit indoors, stay stationery and in a controlled temperature environment.
Wood expands and contracts in heat, is naturally pourus, is brittle and can't be sized down accurately to the micro-milimetre.
There's a reason that wood has been around far longer than metal yet we only started getting wood watches in the last decade or so - it's because it's impractical.
Just because you can make watches out of certain materials that doesn't mean that you should. You could probably make a watch out of cardboard, leather, wool, bread or pasta. Doesn't mean you should.