Ceramic watches too expensive

K korenje

no insults meant 😉

seems your 35 years is either a lie or you were just a worker behind a machine.

RegF is just someone without proper education. - no offense meant.

based on your photobuchket pictures you are playing with toys or maybe making them and you are just a watch fan.
oh well.
thought we had some engineer to engineer talk, but you appear to be just a salesman.

K korenje

yes defently cultural, ethnical, age and some other differences. I didn't know that characterizing someone for what he is is offensive.

R richard371

Love how it's always the same 3-4 broken ceramic watches that keep getting posted as scare tactics. It's extremely rare. Even googling broken ceramic watch images you only get a small handful of pics. I'll take the lack of wear characteristics any day over the extremely rare chance of breaking my insured dsotm lol. I worry more about theft or a springbar comming loose on a watch and loosing it. I've had prob 30 watches from subs, to panerais, to Dayotnas over the years and the dsotm is my fav by a long shot.

Nobel Prize

I agree with you there. There is not enough of a % of cracked ceramic watches to lable them all as a risk factor.

Steel and precious metal watches also get damaged in different forms and that doesnt make them all undersirable.

I did crack a saphire crystal on a tag heuer decades ago. Still have the watch and i never fixed it. Just lazy.

padders

And I love the lengths people go to to justify making watches out of such a brittle material. Yes from a purely engineering perspective it is interesting but I'll take the forgiving plasticity of metal any day over the risk (however small) of catastrophic damage inherent in using ceramic. If you dent or scratch your stainless watch, which granted is more likely than with a ceramic case, you pay a hundred bucks to have it put back to the factory finish. Worst case scenario if it gets run over by a bus you pay, what, a thousand for a new case. Any damage whatsoever on your ceramic wonder and the case is toast. Last time I checked, a new ceramic case was something approaching the cost of the watch. It is all so unnecessary, fixing a problem which doesn't really exist. It makes as much sense to me as making mobile phones out of glass front and rear. Great for the repairer or manufacturer, less great for the clumsy owner.

Oh and I have owned I think 3 watches now with sapphire crystals which have scratched so while that fallacious comparison between ceramic and sapphire has already been discussed, I would suggest damage to these is a lot more common than suggested earlier in the thread. I can live with this though since sapphire crystals are an order of magnitude cheaper than a ceramic case.

K korenje

yes defently cultural, ethnical, age and some other differences. I didn't know that characterizing someone for what he is is offensive.

tyrantlizardrex

The omega ceramic watches have a bit more going on than just a blank being cut, machines, polished.

Having had the tech talk from their head of product development at the Speedy Tuesday event, the ceramic is pressed, heated, cooled, polished, heated again with a mix of gasses to get the colours... they were talking over 24 hours in case production alone.

As to the "why" of their pricing?

Because they can.