I've never seen an ad for a timepiece feature cars almost to the exclusion of the watch.
I believe a few of the James Bond movies meet those criteria /j.
Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
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#22What is this, a dial for ants?
They don’t care. I have one watch, a 2008 model from a watchmaker that no one cares about, that tells perfect time and has a mechanical alarm. It gets no love and that’s fine with me. This quote about watches from a tastemaker blew my mind:
“… the Italian-born Davide Parmegiani. I met Parmegiani, who is in his mid-50s, at his new boutique in Monte Carlo, where he sells both vintage watches and cars.
He arrived 30 minutes late. I asked him what drives the passion for watches, if not their ability to tell time.
“Sometimes I don’t even set the time on the watches,” he said. “If I want to look at what time is it, I can look at my iPhone.” He held up his smartphone: “This is the only exact time we’re gonna have,” he added.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2022/03/inside-the-frenzied...
Re: Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
#23One of the best looking watches I have ever seen. Truly a mechanical pearl. Also looks quite unique in contrast to basically every other watch looking almost the same.
Mechanical pearl: yes
Unique look: yes
Best looking watch: hell, no. it looks like utter crap. like a $2 scratch-off lotto ticket
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#24The watch can be seen about 2 minutes into the video, just at the end, after all the cars and other unrelated stuff. Fantastic directing...
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#26Price: $1,888,000 US dollars.
one of the few watch brands (the only one?) that makes a ferrari look cheaper than a clearance item at a dollar store.
Re: Ultra-flat timepiece, the RM UP-01 Ferrari, is 1.75 millimetres thick watch
#27Awful looking, terrible typography, form chases away function .... Hugely impressive piece of machinery though.
Although much better typography than the other watches on that site.
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#28Between the minuscule face and the fact that winding A) is overly complex, and B) keeps time for less than two days, this seems like more of an expensive toy than a practical timepiece. As an engineering feat, it is admittedly impressive... but impressive and useful are not synonyms.
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#29What is this, a dial for ants?
It is a watch for people who are really really good looking, and want to tell time and do other stuff, too
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#30Price: $1,888,000 US dollars.
Is there are meaning behind this number (apart from nazism, obviously)? Otherwise it seems kinda odd.