> (Of course, PG writing an essay about being too smart for fancy watches - while knowing a lot about them - is its own signaling game, just aimed at a different audience)
He was aiming at people like the people commenting on this thread and who read the essay.
Also to the startup/entrepreneur founder-types that are actually interested in building a business that makes a qualitative improvement in the market that it works in.
But mechanical watches are very appealing to nerd/geek types as well, purely in terms of the design and engineering of the movements and the precision of the manufacture.
Complications are absolutely pointless, but making a movement that can deliver them is very appealing.
He was aiming at people like the people commenting on this thread and who read the essay.
Also to the startup/entrepreneur founder-types that are actually interested in building a business that makes a qualitative improvement in the market that it works in.
But mechanical watches are very appealing to nerd/geek types as well, purely in terms of the design and engineering of the movements and the precision of the manufacture.
Complications are absolutely pointless, but making a movement that can deliver them is very appealing.