Super cool is just how I write... I get your response; I'm just saying I pre-ordered this explicitly to be a fuck around timepiece. The movement is good enough; it's swiss made, but there are better Japanese options available at the price point. In the end, I gave them money because I respect their social defiance. When I was in Afghanistan, I wore an early Suunto X-Lander Military, which was probably about the same price then as the Wasson is now. Still have it, in fact. After I got home, I sent it in to Suunto for service and they refurbed it for me at no cost. Patriotism was still kind of a thing then. But I digress, the point is that our perception of value has become misaligned with reality. It's not that everything is critically expensive, it's that our currency has become nearly valueless and as a consumer class, we have become accustomed to a market comprised almost entirely of disposable garbage. Cheap is cheap and while you may have an outlier in your watch - our emergent third world is getting lower quality products with every passing year. This means that quality, no matter where or how it is expressed, will continue to steeply rise in price relative it's market segment. This does not mean it is extravagant, merely that we are becoming that impoverished.
Indoctrinated_USA 0 points 4 hours ago
Super cool is just how I write...
I get your response; I'm just saying I pre-ordered this explicitly to be a fuck around timepiece.
The movement is good enough; it's swiss made, but there are better Japanese options available at the price point.
In the end, I gave them money because I respect their social defiance.
When I was in Afghanistan, I wore an early Suunto X-Lander Military, which was probably about the same price then as the Wasson is now.
Still have it, in fact. After I got home, I sent it in to Suunto for service and they refurbed it for me at no cost.
Patriotism was still kind of a thing then.
But I digress, the point is that our perception of value has become misaligned with reality.
It's not that everything is critically expensive, it's that our currency has become nearly valueless and as a consumer class, we have become accustomed to a market comprised almost entirely of disposable garbage.
Cheap is cheap and while you may have an outlier in your watch - our emergent third world is getting lower quality products with every passing year.
This means that quality, no matter where or how it is expressed, will continue to steeply rise in price relative it's market segment.
This does not mean it is extravagant, merely that we are becoming that impoverished.