The classic tool watch styles are the dive watch, pilot’s watch, and field watch. Watches that ostensibly serve a purpose for some particular use case, but realistically most of us do not have that use case in our daily lives. Sure, you may find an occasional use for the bezel on a dive watch, but I’d guess that most of us here aren’t regularly scuba diving.
So: what would the features of a watch be for an actual, regular use case that you have? Since I’m guessing many of us have desk jobs, let’s say features for any particular use case that you have, be it your profession, or a hobby, or just something that shows up often in your daily life.
Climbing could use a few. Something that could give you diagnostics as you go rather than just the simple change in altitude. Maybe a Bluetooth connection to your belay device? Although I’m not sure if having more moving (or digital) parts in a grigri or whatever is wise.
Hiking and mountaineering could have something to help you plan your pace when at high altitude.
General outdoor tools like helping you ration your food and stove fuel and water and what not.
Typically these sorts of chores are done mentally but a backup system to keep you sharp couldn’t hurt?
Do belay systems with bluetooth exist? That’s interesting if so - what kind of data do they offer over that connection?
No idea! It might, but I’ve never heard of it before.