The Apple Watch is starting to pop up in the wild pretty regularly—I saw several on wrists at the airport last week, and once you see someone using a gadget in an airport it’s pretty much officially mainstream. Though the $10,000 price of the top-end Watch Edition version drew criticism for being outrageously expensive, it’s important to keep that number in perspective. As far as luxury watch makers go, $10,000 isn’t really even a mid-market price. And luxury watch makers, perhaps hoping to cater to a clientele that appreciates fine timepieces but also wants to have the latest gadget without looking like a double-Swatch-wearing refuge from the mid-80s, have struck back.
Witness the Skyview Pinnacle from boutique timepiece manufacturer Nico Gerard. According to Mashable, which interviewed Nico Gerard CEO Andy Pluemer, the Skyview Pinnacle comes with a Swiss-made automatic mechanical movement that takes six months to produce. On the opposite side of the band from the normal watch face sits a transplanted Apple Watch, looking confused and out-of-place, like a chronographical CatDog.
Like the Apple Watch itself, the Skyview Pinnacle comes in a number of styles—three, to be exact. Two are relatively inexpensive, coming in at $9,300 for a black model or $9,500 for a blue model (both of which ship with stainless steel Apple Watches awkwardly attached). On the other hand, if you’re Alec Baldwin, maybe the $112,000 gold version is more to your liking. It comes with a genuine Apple Watch Edition watch on its backside and will enable you to say "You see this watch? This watch costs more than your car!" with a high level of certainty.
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