What whould you choose?

[Goodwatch]

Today I watched a small documentary about Dutch watchmaker (literally) Christiaan van der Klauw. He has a small workshop where all his watches are made by hand. He starts out with a brass disc in which the chambers for all the cogs and wheels for the movement are milled (the platine) after which this is decorated and rhodium plated. His specialty is the ‘Astrolabium’, watches that besides time and date also show the positions of the sun and planets in real time. They range in price from 2450 to 32500 Euro. A new movement takes him about a year to design.

Nice watches for sure. But I’m not compelled to buy one, I’d buy a Sub date instead. This, in fact, goes right against all common sense. Why choose a mass produced (don’t kid yourself, Rolex mass produces those watches) watch over a real handmade and very special timepiece?

Question is: what would you do?

Frans.