Mikko Hyppönen, famed IT security researcher and longtime head of research at F-Secure, has been wearing an Omega Seamaster Professional original blue wave dial “Bond Watch” as a daily driver for 25 years now. His is a few years ahead of mine and the full-size version, and he’s rocking the original bracelet, but he’s basically my brother-in-watch. And, unsurprisingly, the man who coined Hyppönen's Law of IoT Security (“whenever an appliance is described as being ‘smart’, it is vulnerable”) likes his mechanical watch for the same reason I like mine, too:

I’ve been carrying the same watch for 25 years. It’s an Omega Seamaster Professional. This is not a smartwatch. No wifi, no bluetooth, no chipset. Can’t be hacked.

Mikko Hyppönen’s Omega Seamaster Professional (Photo: Mikko Hyppönen)

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