Ferrari does what Ford does, only better, albeit more expensively.
Patek Philippe, on the other hand, cannot match Casio's performance, much less Seiko's. At any price.
Performance being, in the case of cars, zero to sixty, in the case of watches, matching WWV at an arbitrary point in time, the user not having needed to do anything but leave the watch on the window sill overnight.
Patek Philippe is a theatrical production, not an appliance. Putting small parts together by hand under a magnifier is a loser's game. The Japs have forgotten more about horology than the Swiss know.
Casio is made by hand.
Patek Phillipe is hand made.
Ford is made by hand.
Ferrari is hand made.
My 12 year old Timex and my Luminox keep great time and I never have to wind em.
Every other watch I own is a timepiece, many of very limited production.
I had a guy ask me about the watch I had on today.
I proceeded to gush about it being the 1st with this and that, if this particular model, there were only 2010 if them, etc.
He raises his arm and says “I got one too”.
I laughed and said not even close. His runs on batteries abd is a fune watch.
This is a timepiece, celebrating the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and unless he has another Omega with automatic movement he’s not even close and not then either.
Owning a Ferrari, the Patek and any number of things isn’t about merely what it does, it’s the exclusivity of it, maybe its importance and how it makes you feel when you wear it.
A watch is a watch.
Timepieces are different.
Like owning a Bushnell scope for rifle. Good enough but Luepold MK IV is a wholly different class, as would Honda compared to Ducatti ir Indian Motorcycle.
Ain’t nothing wrong with a casio either....