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by CydeWeys 426 days ago
These are luxury products. That's not the point. They use precious metals when steel would work just as well, and the really high end ones take hundreds of hours of hand labor to very finely decorated the dials and movements. Why? Because it's luxury. It's art.

And let's not even get into how much money they spend on marketing and sponsorships ..