Rosneathian
1471
I really like this watch. Here's why:
Apr 11, 2021,14:10 PM
1. It mashes together two stand-out pieces of modern culture
2. It upsets conservatives just as Gerald Genta did in the 1970s when he designed the Royal Oak
3. It does what GG did again in the 1980s when he put Micky Mouse, the Pink Panther and Popeye on the dials of his watches
4. It channels a centuries-old tradition of adorning clocks and pocket watches with culturally significant motifs using precious metals
etc. etc.
Some if not all the above caused uproar among those with delicate sensibilities. GG himself was an artist and a punk artist at that. I'm not qualified to speak for him but I have a feeling that he'd have liked this watch, and enjoyed the outrage across the watch community at its launch.
Good for AP, I say.
p.s. There's nothing 'woke' about the Black Panther (not that it would be a bad thing if it was). The comic strip began in the 1960s on the back of a partially successful civil rights movement in the US, before which it was an apartheid state so egregious that both Germany and South Africa used it to refine their approaches to racial segregation. Stan Lee tapped the liberationary moment in both the US and post-colonial Africa to conceive a character that represented racial and national self-determination.