Uselessness and Watches

As it's the Basel/SIHH time of year, all sorts of watch brands are coming out of nowhere to promote their vision of timekeeping. From the heretofore unknown brand Breva comes the Genie 01, "the world's first wristwatch with time, altimeter, barometer for forecasting the weather and power reserve indications provided by a fully mechanical movement." Basically it's got a small mechanical barometer jammed into a manually-wound movement, with a mechanism for compensating for altitude. Like so many oddities of this decade, it was realized by Jean François Mojon of Chronode.