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Does a High End Watch stop being such when it becomes vintage?
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MMMD
路This is worth a read as it explaines things to the uninitiated.
http://www.chronocentric.com/watches/brands.shtml
Some valid stuff. But this part made me laugh:
Summary:
If you have the kind of money necessary to play in this field, then you likely do understand what the true merits and values of world-class luxury items have to offer...
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Modest_Proposal
路I think MMMD said it best in the other trollishly similar thread.
We might be getting caught up on semantics.
To many of you guys, high-end and high-quality are synonymous. This might not be the case. I can see how an argument could be made that high-end refers to high-price/precious material. If you look up the textbook definition, it is indeed linked to high price and exclusivity. This makes sense, from a perspective of somebody who isn't a complete watch nut.
Most of us on this forum are extremely particular and knowledgeable about watches. But consider it from the perspective of somebody who knows nothing about watches. To him or her, a Patek quartz 18k watch is very obviously high-end. Is it high-quality? Well - I'd say that person is not qualified to say. I am willing to go out and say that there is a key difference between the definitions of high-end (more general) and high-quality.
Perhaps it would be best to just rename the thread tree "Haute Horlogerie" - a term that we can more easily agree upon.
Also, I agree with Tony that the answer to this question shouldn't ideally be "to each their own" because that renders the whole operation useless. Language is a means of transferring information and we can't do that unless we have a general consensus on what words tomato. It should not, more or less, be up to any one person to decide.
We might be getting caught up on semantics.
To many of you guys, high-end and high-quality are synonymous. This might not be the case. I can see how an argument could be made that high-end refers to high-price/precious material. If you look up the textbook definition, it is indeed linked to high price and exclusivity. This makes sense, from a perspective of somebody who isn't a complete watch nut.
Most of us on this forum are extremely particular and knowledgeable about watches. But consider it from the perspective of somebody who knows nothing about watches. To him or her, a Patek quartz 18k watch is very obviously high-end. Is it high-quality? Well - I'd say that person is not qualified to say. I am willing to go out and say that there is a key difference between the definitions of high-end (more general) and high-quality.
Perhaps it would be best to just rename the thread tree "Haute Horlogerie" - a term that we can more easily agree upon.
Also, I agree with Tony that the answer to this question shouldn't ideally be "to each their own" because that renders the whole operation useless. Language is a means of transferring information and we can't do that unless we have a general consensus on what words tomato. It should not, more or less, be up to any one person to decide.
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dsio
路路Ash @ 惟FIncidentally we considered using Haute Horlogerie in that forum title but didn't for two reasons:
1) New members might not get/understand the reference since the majority don't speak French and first time or novice watch collectors haven't heard the term before
2) High end was a more SEO friendly way of naming the topic
1) New members might not get/understand the reference since the majority don't speak French and first time or novice watch collectors haven't heard the term before
2) High end was a more SEO friendly way of naming the topic
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Nobel Prize
路Incidentally we considered using Haute Horlogerie in that forum title but didn't for two reasons:
1) New members might not get/understand the reference since the majority don't speak French and first time or novice watch collectors haven't heard the term before
2) High end was a more SEO friendly way of naming the topic
It hasn't been a problem at all to call it high end until now has it? it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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ulackfocus
路It hasn't been a problem at all to call it high end put o now has it? it ain't broke, don't fix it.
And it's still not a problem for everyone else except one. 馃檮
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Modest_Proposal
路I agree. It's totally fine.
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JohnSteed
路And it's still not a problem for everyone else except one. 馃檮
Yup
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omitohud
路I consider solid gold iwatch high end. Am i wrong?
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Modest_Proposal
路It is, in fact, a watch. It is just an technologically advanced watch.
I do not call a laptop a clock for this reason:
The primary function of the Apple Watch is to tell the time. All other functions are secondary.
The main function of a laptop is not to tell the time.
I do not call a laptop a clock for this reason:
The primary function of the Apple Watch is to tell the time. All other functions are secondary.
The main function of a laptop is not to tell the time.
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Geo!
路You are correct in what you say, but it doesn't change my opinion.
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Nobel Prize
路I think it's a high end communications device, not a watch. Most people use their cell phones to tell the time, in fact most people check the time on their phones far more times than make calls...that doesn't make them pocket watches.
I don't think the primary function of an apple watch is to tell the time, then again I don't have one but it would seem like a waste of hardware and software if that was the case .
I don't think the primary function of an apple watch is to tell the time, then again I don't have one but it would seem like a waste of hardware and software if that was the case .
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Stewart H
路馃槦Even I have to confess that I use the clock on my mobile phone to set my watch each morning.
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Nobel Prize
路So do I. That makes my cellphone a watch health diagnostic device.
gatorcpa
Not a pocket watch, nor a wrist watch.
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Modest_Proposal
路In one way, the iWatch is as much a watch as a computer is a filing cabinet.
Still, the iWatch was designed in the form of a watch, is advertised and displayed as a watch, and was intended to serve as a watch that could do other things.
A phone was not intended to be a time checking device - it was designed to make calls. Is my desk not a desk but a table, because I never sit in it, but rather just pile stuff on it? Is a car not a car if one sleeps in it more than one drives in it?
I don't know man.... these are kind of silly questions.
Still, the iWatch was designed in the form of a watch, is advertised and displayed as a watch, and was intended to serve as a watch that could do other things.
A phone was not intended to be a time checking device - it was designed to make calls. Is my desk not a desk but a table, because I never sit in it, but rather just pile stuff on it? Is a car not a car if one sleeps in it more than one drives in it?
I don't know man.... these are kind of silly questions.
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