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....
But with how much technological leverage?
Judging by the price of the one I own, quite a lot. Otherwise, the Japanese watchmakers would have to be working for far less than they are worth. And that's the point. Humans should think. Machines should work. There is no way Casio could have delivered what they delivered if they were working like the people in the video.
Complications are not to be bragged about. They are to be engineered out.
Timepieces are different.
If the cheap watch outperforms the timepiece, then the timepiece is an artifact, not a watch. Like the difference between a copper penny with Victor David Brenner's initials vs without. Totally irrelevant, IOW. Both should be worth $0.01, stepped on by Bernanke and Yellin.