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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  2665 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: RGM Watch Company: An American in-house manufacturing case study

Principally aesthetics. But there's also something about a hand-crafted object of miniature precision that can be hundreds of years old and still functional.

Plus you put it to your ear and it ticks at you.

Dunno. I'm more of a clock guy but nobody gives a fuck about clocks. It's all about the watches. And they won't teach you clocks until you know watches.