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Originally Posted by mongrelnomoad
Are you guys not perchance judging the brand image rather than the creation itself? This is far from tasteless…
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There are two versions of "judging the brand image" IMO:
There's the image/style it's cultivated in recent years, and there's the image (as a maker of luggage, purses, and leather goods) it's cultivated over 100+ years. Dismissing it over the former is indeed silly, as that is purely a stylistic decision. But it's hard to ignore/move past the latter (for me at least): I'm not really interested in a watch from a "purse making" company.
LV, Hermes, RL (as also mentioned) are all "fashion" brands, not historically known for mechanical watches. That makes me biased against them when paying a premium for their logo on either a watch made by someone else or a watch without the horological history of other similarly priced brands.
It's even taken some historically known for jewelry (Cartier, Bvlgari, Piaget, and others) decades to be truly respected as "watchmakers" (vs. makers of time-telling jewelry).