Horological Meandering

mkvc
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I don't see why the article should be regarded as authoritative.

1. The reporter apparently interviewed one guy only.

2. The guy works in the luxury goods industry and therefore cannot state the obvious (and probably correct) conclusion that given the state of the world economy luxury goods sellers will be in big trouble across the board.

3. The luxury goods industry depends on change in fashion to keep people buying new products. The one thing you will never hear from a luxury good purveyor is that what you have in your closet this year will be perfectly fine to wear next year.

4. Accordingly, even if people want to keep wearing big watches, the industry will move to small watches if it feels it can sell more watches that way. There may be a stumbling block, though, in that smaller watches (incorporating the same features and performance) are more difficult and expensive to produce.

5. I think a lot of people never moved to large watches in the first place, primarily because of comfort considerations. The watch size controversy is irrelevant to them.