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Swiss Watch Maker Debuts $30,800 Apple Watch Clone With Mechanical Loading Wheel
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I may have gotten one just to brag to myself, if it were $30k. However, I am not paying $30,800 for some clone that isn't really a clone.
It might not be as hard to imagine if you have spent time around the kind of people who don’t have a sense of taste and would spend $30k on a watch and not think twice about it. Unfortunately, I have—and don’t recommend it.
I can picture more than a few trust fund babies who might get this for novelty purposes.
I mean like how dare someone be successful and wealthy. How does this mean that someone is only looking out for them selves. $30k for many isn’t that much money. Lots for me thought
Those $30K pay for the food and shelter of a lot of people, from those that mine the primary material, to those that assemble the pieces, to those who move the pieces from one side to the other, to those that advertise the item. So yes, $30K is a lot for many of us, but most of the cost is material (it's not built with cheap plastic...), and production and assembly. Thanks to items like this, we don't have more people looking for food in the streets exactly as thanks to many other cheaper items we don't have more people looking for food.
However, if someone feel compelled to pauperism about useless stuff, they might lead by example by selling their Apple stuff, canceling their streaming subscriptions, etc.
Wow, looks awful. I like my apple watch for the software features, but hate the square design. Can't believe someone made a mechanical watch that looks like the apple watch. I would love a round watch, and yes, I know it wouldn't fit as much text, but that doesn't bother me.
I get that there are rich people with no taste, but who is this aimed at? If it's for people who like the Apple Watch, then why the little spinning wheel, which seems like a troll of the Apple Watch (and smart watches in general)? And if it's for people who look down on the Apple Watch in favor of their fancy mechanical watches, why make this thing look like the object they distain?
That's the watch you need when someone tries showing off a tasteless gold-plated version of the Apple Watch.
It’s true, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I bought my Apple Watch for its functionality, not for its looks.
If Apple Watch never existed and someone designed a watch matching its design, I wouldn’t buy it.
But again everyone’s tastes vary.
Moser is a successful small Swiss brand which often have a bit of humour in their watches and campaigns. Very very nice mechanical engineering. A cool brand, and this one shows their humour.
I have been involved in the creation of 2 mechanical watches. We are brainstorming a 3rd watch and had thought about making it compatible with Apple straps, but decided it was to risky. Note that you can find plenty of cheap Apple compatible straps but no 3rd party watch that is compatible. A bit of a pity because the Apple straps are fabulous.
yes, Oris is good, well made. There are other cool ones in the midrange segment like yema and christopher ward.
the word manufacture is important. It means a movement that the brand created itself from scratch. Which is seen as the ultimate mastery of watch creation. Most mechanical watches in the market use 3rd party movements, usually from Eta, Sellita, Seiko or Miyota. Usually the manufacture watches cost more because of the development effort vs just plugging in a 3rd party engine.
the dial is pitch black, but the crystal still reflects. And in fact crystal reflections tend to be more noticeable on dark dials than on light dials.
The vantablack dial is very cool. I have been looking for more affordable alternatives that are close enough for my own creations.
