Don’t Deride My Plastic Watch

So you just bought a shiny new luxury watch made of stainless steel, with beautifully contrasting polished and brushed finishes. While most people don’t open the caseback where usually only a watchmaker would look, you’re not most people. There, surrounding the delicate clockwork mechanism, you find a ring made of — gasp — plastic? Are you horrified? Don’t be. The use of plastic is a documented phenomenon in watches that cost well into four figures. And while it

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