Wow. I've owned probably a dozen pairs of gloves over the years - and I don't think I've spent $195 on all of them combined!
I've spend that money on gloves, am I crazy? No, it depends on what you do.
I always go to My job by bicycle and I get cold hands easily, and I hate cold hands, hurts like hell.
Those gloves where a leather outside, then a goretex inner glove and then another glove layer of fleece.
It's Goretex which make them expensive, all goretex have to be certified to get a license to make them.
Is it too expensive, not when you don't own a car which will cost a lot more in petrol, taxes, maintenance and the like.
There are a lot of people who buy expensive gloves, motorbikers for instance.
Would I buy gloves like this, no, I just get one glove of when I get a call but it is rare in the morning so early and in the afternoon I could easily just ignore it and call back when I am home 20 minutes(10 Km) later.