This watch buys you time

Can you buy time? Many would argue you can’t, but I think you can.

Money can free up your time but can’t give you more of it.

Money can buy you better health care but can’t give you good health.

Money can buy you expensive watches but it can’t buy you time… or can it?

What does it really mean to buy time? The harsh reality is, no sum of money can change the fact that all of our lives are finite, but maybe the purchases and choices we make with that money can keep you healthier, fitter or monitor your health, in a sense buying you time in the hope of staving off illness.

Enter stage, the Apple Watch… A watch that buys you time.

This is a personal story of the impact an Apple Watch made on my family and how I came to be a daily Apple Watch user (even though initially I was very sceptical of strapping a mini-phone to my wrist).

The story starts in 2015 with what could now be considered a historic moment for Apple when they first announced the OG Apple Watch, a humble version of what we know it to be today. I am a self-confessed tech geek, mainly thanks to my dad, who was a day one adopter of the Apple Watch Series 0. It wasn’t the lack of cash as a poor art student that stopped me from buying the first Apple…