[Jonnax]

The knowledge and design that has gone into the most basic of real time clocks is is incomparable to a mechanical watch.

Have you heard of MEMS (micro-electromechanical systems)?

Look at these photographs and then tell me a Swiss watch is something to be impressed by.

https://www.eng.auburn.edu/~deanron/MEMSPhotos.pdf

Watches are valuable because of marketing. Is your sentimentality worth more because it's an expensive watch?

[wrboyce]

Maybe it’s because I’m flying without caffeine but I’m struggling to grok your point. Could you elaborate?

In response to your last paragraph, I gave that example as it seems obvious, to me at least, that a premium piece of jewellery is more likely to become an heirloom than something cheap.