Innovative Anti-Seismic Mechanical Watch
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Innovative Anti-Seismic Mechanical Watch
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#2For those interested, it's a Xiaomi Youpin CIGA Automatic.
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#3Having been to Basel world before, even $2k and $6k is considered cheap for a watch.
I wonder if the exposed mechanics are real or just for show (with a simply quartz mechanism really doing the work)? I remember some phone manufacturing getting criticized because the phone guts they were claiming to show in their design was actually just a fancy sticker.
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#4Is red dot an actual award-award or an pay-and-get-one-award?
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#5Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock.
AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.
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#6It's stunning to me how this mechanical watch borrows its outside design from the Apple Watch. It's got a round mechanism, and yet it's still using a black square case with rounded corners [1].
I don't really know what to make of it, other than be impressed by the design impact Apple manages to have even in neighboring markets.
[1] Flashback to the infamous design patent https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rec...
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#7Is red dot an actual award-award or an pay-and-get-one-award?
More of the latter: in 2018, more than a quarter of the submissions got one. https://www.red-dot.org/about-red-dot/news/product-design-re...
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#8We generally don't like to spread anti-seismetism here on hacker news.
Re: Innovative Anti-Seismic Mechanical Watch
#9Having been to Basel world before, even $2k and $6k is considered cheap for a watch. I wonder if the exposed mechanics are real or just for show (with a simply quartz mechanism really doing the work)? I remember some phone manufacturing getting criticized because the phone guts they were claiming to show in their design was actually just a fancy sticker.
Looks very real (and cool !) in this unboxing: https://youtu.be/nd9Srch9IeM?t=267
Re: Innovative Anti-Seismic Mechanical Watch
#10Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock. AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.
> Why would anyone want a mechanical watch?
Because it's neat. Prices generally are above my "I'd pay that for the neat-factor" level though, so there's an element of your suggestion...