Where’s the true value?机械表的真正价值?在上世纪七十年代,历史悠久的瑞士钟表业曾经拥有全球九成的市场占有率(当然要归功于二战期间中立的瑞士仍然如常地生产钟表制品)。那时候谁会想到,来自亚洲的石英表一经问世,竟然会带来一场“石英危机”(Quartz Crisis),瑞士钟表业因此被打得落花流水?讽刺的是,石英表其实并不是日本人的原创发明,而是来自瑞士,但那时候 Where’s the true value? The true value of mechanical watches? In the 1970s, the long-established Swiss watch industry used to have a global market share of 90% (of course thanks to the neutrality of World War II, Switzerland still produced watch products as usual). . At that time, who would have thought that the appearance of a quartz watch from Asia would cause a “Quartz Crisis” and the Swiss watch industry was beaten? Ironically, the quartz watch was not actually Japanese. The original invention of man, but from Switzerland, but then