Challenge: Name another technologically obsolete product that is thriving like Rolex

[enjoythemusic]

Originally Posted by thesharkfactor

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[thesharkfactor]

Originally Posted by enjoythemusic

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Thanks mate, that made me smile (while I was a bit down), thanks!

[Krash]

Originally Posted by thesharkfactor

..a wristwatch is obselete? I wouldn't think a wristwatch would be obselete until time itself stops. Obselete in the centre of a black hole is the only place I can think of that it would be of no use.

What is the point of your response? Wristwatches are most certainly NOT obsolete. I never said they were. But I suppose one could argue that a mechanical watch is outdated.

Do you think wheels, hammers, bicycles, and firearms are obsolete? That's what I was responding to?

[enjoythemusic]

Originally Posted by thesharkfactor

Thanks mate, that made me smile (while I was a bit down), thanks!

Always happy to help. Tho it's really allllll Sherman. Max B of MB&F said that Sherman makes people smile. That's really the whole point

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[Blansky]

I think it all relates to our feeling if something has “soul”. So called tech and electronics doesn’t seem to.

Mechanical things seem to.

It can also be nostalgia……reliving so called simpler times.

[WilsdorfNDavis]

Technologically obsolete?

"New" doesnt not equal "better".

[metallic]

I will not get sucked into the Vinyl world. My 65 year old ears cannot hear the difference anyway.

As much as I don't like to admit it, nice watches indeed are jewelry. Very functional jewelry but a form of jewelry nonetheless. I also do not like to admit that they serve as a bit of a status symbol. You become part of a club, a kinship if you will when you see someone else out in the wild wearing a nice watch.

[Tools]

Originally Posted by metallic

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It made me think if there are any other technologically obsolete products that still thrive today. Most have gone the way of the dinosaur like CD's for music or DVD's or Blockbuster rental stores.

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Just because there are digital clocks does not make a mechanical watch technologically obsolete. They are two different technologies, like electric motors vs fuel powered motors, and on and on.

[WS9D]

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[Malum]

Hip Hop and Rap .

[trichard3000]

Fun thread! How’s this for a flex… 🤣

[Yomada]

Poland Springs!!

[KatGirl]

Originally Posted by Tylerlsu2008

Let’s be honest, it’s jewelry. Rugged jewelry, but jewelry. I love my watches as much as anyone, but if I’m being honest, if I’m claiming Everest tomorrow, I’m not wearing a Rolex.

LOL

Me, neither, and I can’t think of too many things I’d rather do LESS, than climb Mt. Everest!

Kat


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[Ukkanhifi]

McIntosh Pre-amps and Power amps, Vinyl, Polaroid camera, transistor radios, watches and the list goes on.

I agree this forum's site is also archaic and the search function pre-2000s.

[steveclr]

great thread - don't think that a mechanical watch is very obsolete - admit that I have a phone near at all times but its easier to turn the wrist and read the time rather than pulling the phone out of my pocket, and if I haven't shaved in awhile and the phone doesn't recognize my face, entering my passcode - with a non-mechanical watch, you have to worry about charging or battery changes - when I was about 10 years old (about 50 years ago), I was really proud of my LED watch - my grandfather called it a 2-handed watch - he thought that it wasn't progress to need both hands to tell the time

[Cassian739]

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[Krash]

Believe it or not, CDs could make a comeback. New technology enables them to store the equivalent of 4,000 record albums or 40,000 songs on a single CD. Impressive but it’s not clear to me if there is demand for physical media anyway. I guess we’ll soon find out.




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[Mr Ben]

A Rolex will out-perform an Apple Watch if you don’t have access to a charging point…

I’d have gone with vinyl/ cars as well but seeing as they’ve been taken, I’ll go with wood burning stoves/ coal fires. Making a comeback due to gas/ electricity prices - While we really shouldn’t be going backwards, there’s something very nice about sitting in front of a roaring fire that can’t be matched by heat or air pumps etc.

[THC]

I WISH to hell, they would go back to manufacturing mechanical washers, dryers, and refrigerators
These crap computers in each only last 3 or 4 years and are 5 times the price. Growing up we had a washer that lasted 30 years, long after I left.

[TRS1]

Physical movie media in 4K. Outstanding quality and you actually own it.

[Bald Angus]

Originally Posted by THC

I WISH to hell, they would go back to manufacturing mechanical washers, dryers, and refrigerators
These crap computers in each only last 3 or 4 years and are 5 times the price. Growing up we had a washer that lasted 30 years, long after I left.

Completely agree with this! My parents still have a Kelvinator refrigerator that still works! It must be 50 years old.


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[DoubleDeac]

Originally Posted by Bald Angus

Books…e-readers were much bigger a few years ago. Nothing like the feel and smell of reading a book.


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1000% agree. Books should be a way to detach from the modern, tech-laden world.

[zengineer]

The Ford Mustang GT w/ manual transmission. Mine should be here in June. I'm not sure I'd countstuff that is just old and still working. The list of products that have fallen behind modern developments yet still sell well is much shorter.

It would be hard not to include Harley Davidson although recent models have more tech than most people whose Mom or wife won't let them have a motorcycle might realize.

And sorry guys...but the Jeep Wrangler.

[Eric88]

Originally Posted by Chaucer1787

I am a piano and accordion player and have played my fair share of Steinway pianos. An electric piano, no matter how good the action or timbre, is never a Steinway. A particular Steinway comes to mind and the action on it is like pure sex. (Sorry if this offends people). Ease of playing, tonal quality, reaction… all of these are insanely good. There is also a Roland MIDI accordion that has no guts and simply models reed configurations. In today’s world of MIDI and electronics can things be modeled to sound the same? Yes.

Hi! We are cut from the same cloth, as I'm a lifelong piano and keyboard player. I have an antique accordion that I don't play very well, though it is a cool sentimental piece that once belonged to my grandma.

On the topic of musical instruments, vintage gear is THRIVING like crazy, particularly vintage synthesizers and guitars. There are a number of synthesizers that I've owned over time that cost me something like $500-1000 back when they were out of favor, and now those same things are fetching $25k and higher. Examples: Roland Jupiter 8, Moog Memorymoog or Minimoog, etc. My guitar player friends talk about vintage Les Pauls selling for $50k and higher.

It's so interesting how this affinity for vintage gear that is hard to maintain and can be replicated by iOS apps (more or less), yet there is such demand and interest in it! I think the same can be said for the vintage Rolex market.

[Phrank]

There are several fairly active communities that are into old razors and straight razors.

This razor is almost 200 years old, it provides one of the smoothest, closest shaves you'll ever have. "Stropping" on leather keeps the edge keen, and when it loses its edge, 5 minutes on a hone brings it back to life.

This razor will be around long after I'm gone, and the journey this razor has taken over time I find kind of fascinating.

One of the reasons I enjoy using a straight razor. It was a "challenge" to learn how to use one, and it allows me to start the day with the mindset that life is to be experienced, not treated as a "task list".

William Greaves and Sons, the royal stamp (Crown WR) on the razor would be from William IV's reign in the 1830's.

[Tortoise99]

Fountain pens

[Kingranch]

Originally Posted by Blanch

Lol

True that.

[slide13]

Guitar players love their tube amps! Myself included.

I also drive a manual transmission (GTI) and frequently use fountain pens. I've been toying with going down the vinyl rabbit hole for years now and I will probably cave and do it eventually.

If there is a classic, analog, or more mechanical way of doing something that's usually the way I prefer to go.

[0nly5iv3Digits]

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[kieselguhr]

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