On a trip to England in 2000 (pre-911) a friend of ours and business class hostess on our flight, arranged a flight deck visit for my wife and me. I was interested to see that the captain was wearing a Tag automatic wind chronograph! I expressed surprise at his choice. He told me that he liked mechanical watches because he could interact with them. Whereas the A320 we were flying in, didn't really need him all that much- in case something went wrong! He said it could take off by itself, fly itself, and land by itself, though the crew did both the taking off and the landing. Nothing adverse happened on that flight, but we were glad they were there.