Will Smartwatch Save The Wrist Watch Market?

[gichicago]

Does the Wristwatch industry need to be saved? It seems to be doing fairly well; not experiencing the high growth like smartphones, but not going the way of the VHS tape. These articles are a few years old, but i dont see anything conclusive smartphones are causing the decline of wristwatches

Watches are back in vogue - Los Angeles Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/07/fa...pagewanted=all

[scarabchuck]

Originally Posted by Jello071

It is 2015, if you notice many people no longer wear wrist watches because everything is on their phone now. But do you think the SmartWatch will change that?

The wristwatch market is moving along fine. And the majority of the people that are keeping that market going won't give the Smartwatch a second glance.