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My question was more at the level of "What if you could buy a Rolls Royce from China that was in ever way, practically identical and cost as much as your Dodge?

• falcolas 10y ago
  To the real Rolls cars? Probably not much. Mostly, I would see them putting a bit more effort to ensure their cars are easily distinguishable from the Chinese clones. They aren't, after all, really that much better than regular cars in the first place. A simple $40,000 luxury model from BMW or Audi is quite comparable in terms of fit and finish. The types of leathers and woods will differ, but for the purposes of a daily driver, that would make no practical difference.
  • md_ 10y ago
    In a way, the whole thing is much weirder. As Shteyngart notes, mechanical watches are in almost all ways inferior to quartz in terms of utility. But because of that inferiority (and sensitivity to manufacture), the difference between poor and high quality mechanicals is much more readily observable by the owner than for a quartz. (If my watch gains or loses 30s/day--a reasonable performance for a Seiko 7s26--I will quickly notice, whereas if my quartz gains or loses one second, I may not.) In the car case, the spectrum is basically continuous; in watches it's segmented in this very peculiar way.