Ok, it seems to me, it’s obvious from your question you probably never handled a luxury watch in person in a (5000$-10000$) segment.
I tell you my opinion geniune opinion:
Until 2021 I only owned a Seiko (150$) and a Timex (170¢) I still have the Timex.
One time I decided to be a little bit braver and walked to Bucherer to try a luxury watch on my hand for first time in my life.
The watch was just randomly a Tudor Pelagos 42 (black matte dial) up until this point I never handled a luxury watch in my life.
The first impression was:
😳😯🫨🙆
To translate it:
Oh my God!!! This is so beautiful!!! I never seen a watch like this in person!!!
To any untrained eye in watches, it’s extremely obvious the difference in build quality, aesthetics that a watch like the Pelagos was screaming (I am luxury) and this applies to other brands in that segment.
I didn’t buy the watch (I didn’t have the money) at that time, but in my mind I said "oh wow I’d definitely trade 20 (150$) Seikos for this.
It doesn’t mean Seiko is bad or Anything, we just talking about different quality segments even within Seiko. I’m pretty sure those Prospex are screaming luxury too due to their build quality.
From that point, I sold my cheaper watches and I changed my mentality from (quantity) -> (quality).
Bought a Grand Seiko, a Longines and a Hamilton and planning to buy a Breitling Navitimer beginning next year insha’Allah!
To balance the discussion, I’ll add that when I tried luxury watches on, it was entirely unimpressive. Salesperson was annoyed, I was bored, I bought a 75 dollar watch instead from a different place.
Ok, it seems to me, it’s obvious from your question you probably never handled a luxury watch in person in a (5000$-10000$) segment.
I tell you my opinion geniune opinion: Until 2021 I only owned a Seiko (150$) and a Timex (170¢) I still have the Timex.
One time I decided to be a little bit braver and walked to Bucherer to try a luxury watch on my hand for first time in my life.
The watch was just randomly a Tudor Pelagos 42 (black matte dial) up until this point I never handled a luxury watch in my life.
The first impression was: 😳😯🫨🙆
To translate it: Oh my God!!! This is so beautiful!!! I never seen a watch like this in person!!!
To any untrained eye in watches, it’s extremely obvious the difference in build quality, aesthetics that a watch like the Pelagos was screaming (I am luxury) and this applies to other brands in that segment.
I didn’t buy the watch (I didn’t have the money) at that time, but in my mind I said "oh wow I’d definitely trade 20 (150$) Seikos for this.
It doesn’t mean Seiko is bad or Anything, we just talking about different quality segments even within Seiko. I’m pretty sure those Prospex are screaming luxury too due to their build quality.
From that point, I sold my cheaper watches and I changed my mentality from (quantity) -> (quality).
Bought a Grand Seiko, a Longines and a Hamilton and planning to buy a Breitling Navitimer beginning next year insha’Allah!
To balance the discussion, I’ll add that when I tried luxury watches on, it was entirely unimpressive. Salesperson was annoyed, I was bored, I bought a 75 dollar watch instead from a different place.