22-06-2026, 11:56 AM
(22-06-2026, 03:38 AM)Ropium Wrote: Luxury watches are sold on the premise of workmanship artistry etc, but those guys with the loupes and tweezer are just normal people by all accounts and appearances. It would make sense to have a 100 dollar watch if the designer and builder were some kind of giga autist of the 1700s, but most watches now are designed by computers and built by brown or off white hands. For redundancy or convenience a 10 dollar casino is more useful, robust, reliable, than every rolex on the planet
Yeah I don't buy that the modern watch is hand built by the Swiss
It's probably 3d printed, especially the TRASH TIER brands like Jacob & Co. which are among the most expensive.
My knowledge about horology is from subscribing to Robb Report magazine in year 2005
