Have you ever had to sit at a Linux terminal and repeatedly type the same command while waiting for a different result? A common example from personal experience would be typing the ls command when waiting for a certain file to appear in a directory, such as when a running Bash script is expected to generate a file. For a situation like that is exactly why we have the watch command in Linux.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/watch