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.
And that is the difference between quality and common.
If your argument were true Lamborghini and Porsche couldn’t exist because the luxury market would die.
Same for private jets and hotels like The Four Seasons, The Ritz and The Peninsula.
Quality, Luxury and Exclusivity are but a few elements.
For instance:
Are you an Ansel Adams type? That is; Photographs are more efficient and realistic. But, are they?
They can be and tell a story but, two different photographers can tell two different stories from the same where a picture is taken.
That is an art.
I love portraits and seeing how someone’s mind created a whole new thought or captured an essence in the brush strokes.
If we look at Picasso’s Death of a Bull Fighter, many people see blood everwhere and the Bullfighter dying.
The 1st time I saw it, I Picasso museum in France it took my breath away.
It looks grim and that was his intent but, it wasn’t what I saw.
I saw the duality of man’s intelligence against an animals brute force but, both by the very nature of living beings demand to live and for me, the outcome is not at all certain, yet one must prevail.
It should be man because we too possess the brutish nature of an animal but, have the advantage of the creative mind and rationally learn from an opponent their strengths, weaknesses, habits and that enables us to think, even briefly and formulate strategy to prevail.
The Bullfighter does die in the portrait but, it represents something else entirely to me.
Same with Musee Dorsay and one of my favorite portraits ever, Henri Regnault Summary Execution . Frckin amazing for its detail and the export of Moslem agitation . Trully, I spend a good twenty minutes studying that portrait each time I see it. Amazing detail and scary for the story it tells of Moslem desire to dominate by force and intimidation.
and intimidation.
Truly a adivistic belief system that isn’t able to evolve and become relevant in the 21st century.
That’s quality my friend and something to admire for it’s intricacy, subtleties and beauty.
Then again, I do appreciate a good old decent hammer to just do its job.
LOL
Fun talking with you.