You couldn't actually be rude to them, but you couldn't help feeling about them the same way that, say, a Vietnam veteran would feel about someone who wears combat gear to Neighborhood Watch meetings.
If in the course of everyday use accidentally into the or to watch, hard hit the watch, it may lead to the inside of the watch machine core gear such as loose parts, dislocation, etc.
Chief information officers have to buy equipment by the ton to meet spikes in computing demand or prepare for disasters, and then watch as that gear sits idle most of the time.