Comment by dogma1138 | Hacker News Reader

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Not with a 2.5M watch, but you can buy a Rolex, TAG, Omega or many other hand made swiss masterpieces for under 10K, all of them tbh look much more appealing than a square piece of gold on your hand.

It's also quite sad that the base watch has a freaking sport strap even in the "gold edition" if you want to actually have a classical watch strap you'll have to cough up 17K....

CH was right, the only use of this watch is to show just how much money you are willing to spend on a piece of crap.

A classical luxury watch has at least a heirloom factor, i got a pretty expensive watch for my 18th Birthday and i still keep it as one. This watch will be obsolete after 18 months, not to mention not maintainable after 3-4 years.

What happens when the battery dies out? what happens when you no longer can run WatchOS 3 cuz IWatch 2 is out? :)

Give me a nice breitling or an omega any day these watches will last for centuries and still keep working and keep true time.

I actually do not agree with you that a Rolex necessarily looks better than an Apple Watch Edition. To me, most Rolex watches just look like massive hunks of metal. Seriously, the size and weight of some of these watches is really ridiculous to me.

Also, mechanical watches do not last centuries without being serviced repeatedly every ~5 years. Servicing a high-end mechanical watch can easily cost many hundreds, if not more.

Many mechanical watches are also not automatic, which means you do indeed have to "charge" them every day (hand-wind them). For instance, Nomos is my personal favorite watch brand of all time, and while they have a mixture of manual and automatic watches, their highest-end offerings (about $20k) are all manual.

Finally, you mentioned TAG, and one of their best known watches is square: the Monaco.

> I actually do not agree with you that a Rolex necessarily looks better than an Apple Watch Edition. To me, most Rolex watches just look like massive hunks of metal. Seriously, the size and weight of some of these watches is really ridiculous to me.

Rolex datejust and explorer are both pretty classy without being oversized. But yeah, the oversizing of watches has gotten a bit silly (this is across all brands, not just rolex).

Battery is replaceable obviously. Why would you doubt that?

And for how long will apple continue to make the battery? If any part of the electronics will die, and it will it's game over for that watch.

If you have a mechanical movement then there are replacement parts for watches made over 150 years ago still being made.

With the potted mess of consumer electronics these days GL fixing it in 5 years from now. 10K for a paper weight.

On another note Apple just increased it's loan scheme in the UK to 8K GBP which is the price for the entry gold model.

So now with 48 easy payments and 15% interest you can own yourself a real peace of wannabe richness.

They could perhaps replace the 'movement' - what an odd name for a fully electronic watch.

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