Comments by "Golden Croc" (@GoldenCroc) on "Doug u0026 Hoovie: Will Car Enthusiasts Care About EVs?" video.

I get the analogy but its almost 100% exclusively marketing and brand name making those clocks sought after. There are also lots of practical differences in that a mechanical watch cost literally zero to run, can easily be stored by the dozens in a normal desk drawer and have very low maintenance costs... all of which are many many many magnitudes more expensive and cumbersome with a car. There will be car enthusiasts for vintage ICE cars, but it will be many thousand of times less than currently.
9
@MisterMonsieur And not a single argument was seen again, just more bluster. Very well, carry on. But I would advice you to find some confidence in your own choices, getting this worked up over real world facts cant be healthy. Cheers.
2
@MisterMonsieur No, I understand just fine, its you who interpreted what I wrote wrongly. I never said "Recent" marketing, those brands made their name many decades ago via, thats right, marketing among other things. But they do also have a lot of more modern marketing as well, supplanting their older already entrenched reputation as luxury goods. "People" dont generally buy luxury goods for any superior function, they do it to show off. Secondly, who are "We" here? I was talking about the average buyer of a mechanical watch, in the same way as the average buyer of a sportscar or high end car. I would have thought that was clear from the context of the OP and my earlier post. Pure enthusiasts of mechanical constructions are so few it couldnt keep an automaker or a high end watchmaker such as Rolex economically solvent for a week... So they are hardly worth mentioning in the context of a "market".
1
@MisterMonsieur Surely you cant dispute what I said about them being viewed as anything more than an investment or luxury goods to be shown off by the majority of owners, or else you would have offered some sort of refutation instead of a string of Ad hominems? I seriously dont understand what you are so triggered about. Why cant you be satisfied in loving watches for yourself? Why do everyone who buy them have to be enthusiasts? Are you scared of being mixed up with one of the "posers" yourself? Understandable, but dont take it out on me, please. I am simply making analogies between the classic car collector/entusiast market and watch market, expanding on what the OP wrote. Settle down.
1
@SlackActionBumble Somewhat right. There are different customers, but the majority couldnt care less if it was made of cheese. The pure "status symbol, non nerd" buyer are for sure way, way above 90%. Know a few myself. The "true nerd" customer that appreciate the mechanicals are likely very low single percentage range. I know of one such guy, and could also potentially be one myself, but I am too nerdy to accept something that tell the time so much objectively worse than a quartz one. Which is why I use a high end quartz watch. To each their own.
1
Imiev in the intro? Interesting...
1