mad how there's just all this shite out there that we're never EVER going to see up close

I hate how when people try to explain time dilation, they use an example of someone falling into a black hole or another gravitationally dense object and they say "the person would notice that their wristwatch is ticking slower". As if a physical object like a wristwatch is, by magic, completely bound to measure the passing of time no matter what and so its speed would be affected by time dilation.

Atomic clocks sure, but wristwatches no.