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The mechanical implementation in a wristwatch is certainly novel, but you need to be reductive. At this point, you might as well recognize that all wristwatches are useless, since we have our phones to keep more accurate time anyways. At which point, the entire conversation was superfluous, wasn’t it?

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak Using an accelerometer to detect motion and disable components to save power isn't a novel idea, and isn't worth 100x more than another watch that tells time just as well. Making such a big deal over it taking 8 years to implement tells you that's the selling point.

Reminder: all mechanical watches are totally mogged by this fucking thing

@Paladin308 @i2cjak Yes, it does actually lmao it’s a genuinely impressive feat of mechanical engineering

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak They spent 8 years on a teaspoon hole, because people will pay them $15,000 for it. Does it do anything a G-shock doesn't? Of course not, because the teaspoon hole was always the point.

@Paladin308 @i2cjak The mechanism they spent 8 years developing did not exist beforehand actually, they invented it. But I do think it’s funny that you’ve argued yourself around a circle, and are now agreeing with me that a quartz watch is easy to make because the backend is already developed.

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak They spent 8 years developing something that already existed for bragging rights. I can dig a hole with an excavator or a teaspoon, which one I use is entirely dependent on how much you're willing to pay for bragging rights. Now, how hard is it to dig a hole?

@Paladin308 @i2cjak They spent 8 years developing their quartz watch mechanism. They’re not choosing to build a simple shitty quartz watch, they’re looksmaxxing. They mog. Such is my original point.

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak Flipping a causal relationship is not a null change. They could choose to build a mechanical watch in a less labour intensive way, but they do not, because making it more difficult is more valuable to them than making it easier.

@Paladin308 @i2cjak “The price is not about the difficulty, they just choose to do something difficult which drives the price”

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak Selling a quartz watch for $15,000 just proves my point that it was never about the mechanism, or the difficulty of production, it was always about the exclusivity. They choose to make the production process more difficult to create the exclusivity that they are selling.

We have, the Swiss have ETA, the Chinese even produce tourbillons now, and that manufacturing process is still far more complicated than building a simple quartz watch. It is a little funny that you have this response to the watch I posted. It’s fair, it’s not super well known outside of the watch world, but you should look into FP Journe. They’re very innovative. They also sell a quartz watch, for $15,000.

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak Acting like robot assembly cells aren't a thing. If we invested as much into industrialized production of mechanical watches as we have in quartz watches they would be just as "easy", which is why discounting all of that in the analysis is silly.

@Paladin308 @i2cjak It doesn’t assemble it. But, to humor you, if we want to consider the CNC machine, this also requires semiconductors, and therefore making a watch would also require building a semiconductor fab by hand using your logic. This is obviously ridiculous.

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak Can you make one smaller than a grain of rice? The quartz watch is only easier to make if you begin from the point of already having the key components, which is the actual hard part. A CNC could crank out mechanical watches at the push of a button too.

@Paladin308 @i2cjak I can make a crystal oscillator by hand, in fact it’s very easy. A watchmaker also does not mine their own materials and develop precision steel manufacturing from scratch in order to build a watch. Those things are prerequisite but not what makes building a watch difficult.

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak Quartz watches were cheap because the process was amenable to industrialization, which is not the same as being easy. Find me a single watchmaker who can make a crystal oscillator by hand.

@Paladin308 @i2cjak Are you rebuilding the entire manufacturing stack from scratch anytime you build something? This is absurd. Quartz watches took off because they were cheap, they were cheap because you could make a lot of them, you could make a lot of them because their construction is simple.

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak Mechanical simplicity and ease of construction are not the same thing. The best Swiss watch maker of the 1800s with unlimited time and budget could not build you a quartz watch.

@ConeroBayesiano @MoustacheGoat @Paladin308 @i2cjak How reductive. An analog instrument doesn’t play a perfect note, the aesthetic value of its sound is driven by its harmonics. The relevance that accuracy has is relative to use case. This is why mechanical watches came back into fashion after the quartz crisis.

@BuschPhysics @MoustacheGoat @Paladin308 @i2cjak if you do something complexly worse then it is plain bad complexity is only justifiable when the outcome is measurably better

@NASAAdmin >aiming for April 1 >theyre going to prank us

The next chapter of America’s journey to explore the solar system begins TONIGHT. Artemis II and the SLS rocket roll out of the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Complex 39B as we target a launch attempt as early as April 1. This mission will potentially send astronauts farther into space than any human has traveled before - around the Moon and safely back home. And, under @POTUS’ National Space Policy Directive, we’re just getting started.

@MoustacheGoat @Paladin308 @i2cjak You’re conflating performance with complexity. They are two different things.

@BuschPhysics @Paladin308 @i2cjak What do you mean with redundantly simple? It is more precise and needs zero maintenance, you are argumenting for steam engines

@Paladin308 @i2cjak A quartz movement is a redundantly simple mechanism. It’s not harder to build than a mechanical movement simply because we understood mechanics well before we discovered piezoelectricity.

@BuschPhysics @i2cjak We built mechanical watches for centuries before we figured out how to make crystal oscillators.

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