It's the future, why is my wrist empty?

"WTF? We're in the 21st century, where's my helicopter and my jet-pack?"

These are pretty cliched lamentations, as far as the disappointments of living in the future.
Personal helicopters and jet-packs are obviously fantasies of the 50s.
Did anyone really expect that one day we'd all beat the gridlock in our own personal flying apparatus?  The sky would be one big tangle of assholes, and the insurance premiums would be too expensive.

A more legitimate complaint about this "future" that we are living in, is the conspicuous lack of any futuristic wrist watches, or really, a lack of wrist watches of any kind at all.

We were on our way with the advent of the calculator watch of the 80s, and the inspiration of seeing David Hasselhoff calling up his Pontiac Firebird domestic partner on his special watch... "KITT, I NEED YOU! to pick up a container of milk on the way home".

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For centuries, the watch has been the quintessential tech accessory, only to be shunted aside by the Johnny come lately cell phone? In the 21st century, now that we have the technology to to jam everything into a handy dandy wrist watch, we instead choose to jam it into a telephone that we are forever dredging from the depths of our pockets?

Sure, even with modern technology as miniaturized as it is, it would have to be a bigger than average wristwatch... But big watches are nothing new, check these artifacts from a time when the watch was king.

This model has multiple functions.

A wrist computer!

Shakespeare once said, "A Watch by any other name, (like "cellphone") would smell just as sweet.)

But Shakespeare was from the pocket watch generation, so of course he would say that.

I was raised with the expectation that my futuristic technology, should it actually be developed within my lifetime, would be available in wristwatch form. Frankly, a rose by any other name WOULD smell just as sweet, if it were strapped to my wrist.