It's stunning to me how this mechanical watch borrows its outside design from the Apple Watch. It's got a round mechanism, and yet it's still using a black square case with rounded corners [1].<p>I don't really know what to make of it, other than be impressed by the design impact Apple manages to have even in neighboring markets.<p>[1] Flashback to the infamous design patent <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rectangle-with-rounded-corners" rel="nofollow">https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rec...</a>
Having been to Basel world before, even $2k and $6k is considered cheap for a watch.<p>I wonder if the exposed mechanics are real or just for show (with a simply quartz mechanism really doing the work)? I remember some phone manufacturing getting criticized because the phone guts they were claiming to show in their design was actually just a fancy sticker.
Bremont already has a shock-protected rubber movement mount with a floating movement. And of course all mechanical watch movements (except some cheap Chinese ones) have Incabloc shock protection (or some derivative).<p>Edit: It looks like some Breguet watches use a super-old-school mechanism invented by Breguet in 1790.
Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock.<p>AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.