The Submariner and its cousins used to say something specific about the wearer. Now they mostly say you read the same three forums and watched the same YouTube channel as every other guy who got a bonus. When the lawyer, the dentist, the crypto guy, and the regional sales director all arrive at the same watch, the watch has stopped telling me anything except that the owner wanted the safe answer to "what's the good one."
That's not a knock on the object. It's a beautifully made, over-engineered tool watch, and that's exactly the problem. It's the consensus pick, and consensus is the opposite of taste. Taste is revealed by the choice nobody validated for you in advance.
These days the person wearing a beaten-up Seiko diver or a thin dress watch nobody recognizes is making a more interesting statement than the one with the waitlist Rolex, because they chose against the resale-value spreadsheet. The Rolex buyer optimized for a guaranteed answer. The interesting wrist belongs to whoever was willing to be wrong in front of the forum.