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You really hit on something else that I forgot to mention, that being kinetic energy. Picture your watch falling to the floor, only it can land on three substances - tile, wood, or some nice cushy foam. As the watch falls, its kinetic energy is "g" times its weight times the distance it falls. With all of these being equal, where does the kinetic energy go when the watch hits the ground?
In the case of the foam, this substance will absorb all of that kinetic energy and the watch will remain unharmed. If the watch hits the wood, some of the kinetic energy will be absorbed if the wood is soft enough, but the rest will be transferred back to the watch, causing damage. In the case of the tile, virtually all of the kinetic energy will be put back on the watch.
So, now we've added hardness and kinetic energy to the equation. Didn't this all start with a simple question about g-forces????
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