My pleasure, Jack--and my thanks to you for providing such a clear, and clear-headed, look at the issue! I will be very interested to see how well this watch sells. The tuning fork Accutron's heyday was, in the context of horological history, or even in the context of my own lifetime, very very short, which could mean that for anyone other than a few way-back-when aficionados, the new model may seem like--trying to come up with a decent analogy--relaunching an IBM Selectric typewriter. An item, in other words, that briefly advanced the state of the art, but which was all too quickly superseded by further advancements.
I think the Selectric is a great example (and not just because I learned to touch type on one in 9th grade in the 1970s). A magnificent, incredible reliable and phenomenally precise piece of electromechanical machinery, which would probably be mind-bendingly expensive to reproduce today. There are so many things out there like that – the Babbage Difference Engine, the original Mark 1 fire control computers for the Iowa class battlewagons ... the list is long 😂
My pleasure, Jack--and my thanks to you for providing such a clear, and clear-headed, look at the issue! I will be very interested to see how well this watch sells. The tuning fork Accutron's heyday was, in the context of horological history, or even in the context of my own lifetime, very very short, which could mean that for anyone other than a few way-back-when aficionados, the new model may seem like--trying to come up with a decent analogy--relaunching an IBM Selectric typewriter. An item, in other words, that briefly advanced the state of the art, but which was all too quickly superseded by further advancements.
I think the Selectric is a great example (and not just because I learned to touch type on one in 9th grade in the 1970s). A magnificent, incredible reliable and phenomenally precise piece of electromechanical machinery, which would probably be mind-bendingly expensive to reproduce today. There are so many things out there like that – the Babbage Difference Engine, the original Mark 1 fire control computers for the Iowa class battlewagons ... the list is long 😂
I guess it’s not a watch for every citizen with that pricing.
Also, is it time for a watch case made of wootz steel???