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That would depend if it was a fake copy of an existing car or a seperate model in its own right.
I would buy a great looking Casio that looked almost the same as an Omega. I would not buy a fake Omega.
Authentic watch vs Replica
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That would depend if it was a fake copy of an existing car or a seperate model in its own right.
I would buy a great looking Casio that looked almost the same as an Omega. I would not buy a fake Omega.
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Remember though that £30 game actually cost several million pounds to make, your 15k watch cost several hundred (at best)
R&D into a watch, materials, labour, a lot more than a few hundred.
A game may cost a lot to make, but you will be paying soo much for a gfx card and a number of games to play over the course of a few years. Tot that up and along with additional components upgaded to play the latest games you are looking at easily being able to afford anice TAG or Omega that will last many years. How many years will you be playing those games for, 5-10, doubtful
FOX, would you buy a mondeo kitted out to look exactly like your BMW ? Not an obvious answer is it
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R&D into a watch, materials, labour, a lot more than a few hundred.
A game may cost a lot to make, but you will be paying soo much for a gfx card and a number of games to play over the course of a few years. Tot that up and along with additional components upgaded to play the latest games you are looking at easily being able to afford anice TAG or Omega that will last many years. How many years will you be playing those games for, 5-10, doubtful
yeah but i could spend literally less than £10 and get all the features and more that the tag has.
Even a £300 dell will be able to play a huge back catalogue of games, enough that you would probbably die of old age before finishing them all.
Also if you're going to include R&D, then that makes the watch even less valuable, because the R&D for CPus/gfx cards is into the billions, let alone the facilities to make them.
I got Css for free and wasted hundreds of hours on there, unless you have OCD and compulsively check our watch every 5 seconds you still wont get as much use out of it
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Remember though that £30 game actually cost several million pounds to make, your 15k watch cost several hundred (at best)
There is obviously profit in the manufacture of watches but I think you're way off on the several hundred figure, the man hours in a real watch (not talking about posers' rados/jacobs over-priced fashion watches etc.) are huge. The R&D is enormous and the whole process is time consuming (
) - good manufacturers typically do a 1,000 hours of testing before a watch leaves them for retail.Features that you would actually use, or just stuff to play around with on the first few days, after which you revert back to the time reading
A £300 dell could play loads of old games, but I'm talking about the pinnacle of things here, nice Omegas, TAGs, Breitlings, and the latest games + hardware. A watch will be useful for every second of it's life for many years, a pc won't be able to be used as much unless it is on and used all the time
Honestly we are all foolish for spending lots of money on our chosen hobby/ hobbies. But it makes us happy and gives us purpose, so all is good. E.g. i don't see the point of a digital SLR at this point in my life, as a point and shoot does the job for me, but then again I spent £2.5k on a Kuro telly when a panasonic shows a good picture acceptable to most, but it looked crapped compared to the Kuro.
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There is obviously profit in the manufacture of watches but I think you're way off on the several hundred figure, the man hours in a real watch (not talking about posers' rados/jacobs over-priced fashion watches etc.) are huge. The R&D is enormous and the whole process is time consuming (
yeah but the testing is done on a handful of machines, that are just left to run doing batch jobs of lots of watches.
Testing for a game takes months of actual man hours
yeah but the testing is done on a handful of machines, that are just left to run doing batch jobs of lots of watches.
Testing for a game takes months of actual man hours
Or just release it to the public to test, E.g. battlefield 2
yeah but the testing is done on a handful of machines, that are just left to run doing batch jobs of lots of watches.
Testing for a game takes months of actual man hours
you're comparing a high volume low value business model with a low volume high value business model
fair enough on the testing point in some respects but there is a difference between nerds getting paid a pittance to try and break games in the hope that they will get their big break into the gaming industry and skilled engineers and craftsmen
That would ruin my precious tag
Tags suck :/
Additional feature your watch doesn't have, great for hoovering
Plus the endless hours of fun trying to decide on the best way of saying heuer
-AD- started it!
you know the testing pat isn't done by skilled craftsmen either? but techs, they just load the watches onto the machines press start, and hope for thier big break in the engineering/design industry
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But we're talking about a watch here, it either tells the time accurately or it doesn't. A knock-off isn't likely to tell the time more accurately than the real thing is it?
I'd consider buying a replica if the style was something I really liked and I wouldn't/couldn't buy the original because of the risk of damage/theft but I don't think I'd be attempting to show it off, even if it was only me that knew it was a fake that would tarnish it. I'd generally prefer to wear a cheap watch that doesn't pretend to be something it isn't than a cheap watch that does.
yes because the knock off will most likely be a quartz. Even cheapo quartz's keep time better than the best engineered clockwork watch.
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Fair enough, I guess it depends how you define performance then really. A real watch with a proper clockwork mechanism is actually functional, a quartz with an imitation of the mechanism just looks like it might be.
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he lives in america therefore the right currency for him
doesn't even need a mechanism, how many people open up wither fake watches to show people the gubbings?
And it's still fictional it still tells the time, just with a greater degree of accuracy (aslong as it;s a semi decent quartz).
Tbh though i find a vibrating piece of rock to be far more impressive than cogs and springs.
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