Velociphile - No longer in the building
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Your last point is the key one, non?
There are an awful lot of overpriced, inexcusably 'meh' watches.
Once upon a time a benchmark might be the Speedie Moon and the basic Sub. "What am I getting as a benefit over those?" would be the question in yourmind. Now I think the base has shifted. The Sub has lost its roots and become some kind of mid-tier mediocrity; neither premium horology nor solid performing toolwatch value. Basically it's 3x overpriced. Ok, I'll be kind 2x.
The basic Tudor movement clearly has key industrial learnings built in from Rolex experience. This is a total random watch from an AD in London and I only have this watch as a data point, but the telling fact is the performance across positions. Insanely good. Many expensive watch manufacturers have limits like 16s/d across positions. This is 9x better.
Something I haven't posted yet is what it does towards the end of the wind, say over a weekend of rest 60h Fri night to Mon; well, it's 3.3 s/d across 6 positions. And the rate is 1.4 s/d average. Truly awesome and yes, too cheap in a market of overpricing.
If we had a Maslow's pyramid approach to horology the bottom level might be timing - the purpose of a watch, then finishing, then ephemeral feel good factor.
"Show me your timing results and I will open my wallet".
Velociphile
Pelagos Superchronometer
Well.....
Of course other factors:
Sure....
Tudor is imo the most undervalued brand on the market today
Your last point is the key one, non?
