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there are as many styles in high end watches as in low end watches. price reflects finishing, quality of materials, movement, brand history, marketing...
here, these are five figure watches without a zillion dashes
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panic
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Thanks, those are certainly a bit outside what I mentioned. However, saying there is a huge variety isn't really the same as saying "here is why the over-arching aesthetic is this". Is it an aesthetic hangover from the 'dead reckoning by slide rule' days?
Also surely we can agree that the pricing of larger brand luxury and premium goods is absolutely divorced from the reality of the cost of the goods and their construction.
youramericanlover
Not much of a watch enthusiast admittedly, although I feel I can appreciate nice design. As a genuine question, can I ask about the styling of higher-end watches? They all seem to communicate to me "I would like to be landed gentry with a taste for the sea, but I live in Woking." Why all the shiny metal plated bands, roman numerals, and gothic fonts? Why the zillion dashes circumnavigating the face? Breitling would work as a benchmark here.
More succinctly, can someone provide me a link to a wide-view aesthetic justification for why these watches look like they do?