# What items don't correlate their price premium to their functionality?

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> [@GTI\> b5 s4](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gti-b5-s4/51564/24):
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> So with that logic, Ferraris and other exotics are for fashion, pure and simple, compared to say, a Hyundai Accent.
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> MV Augustas an Ducatis are just fancy pants fashion over a Ninja 250.

You’re comparing a sun dial watch vs a Rolex… apples to oranges.

It’s more like a GT-R sports car VS Ferrari . Both are sports cars, both are fast, one carries a much bigger premium with few drastic improvements.

Good example:

**The Aeternitas Mega 4 - $2.4 million**

Vs

Rolex Submariner

$7200

Both are high end watches, both will have high quality internals, high quality glass, both will tell time etc, one costs absurdly more than the other with little to gain.

> [@You're saying it wrong....](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/youre-saying-it-wrong/51536/31):
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> It tells time, that’s the function.  
> A 10-dollar Casio will do that as well as any watch.  
> 200 is just for the fancy-pants stuff like compasses and such.  
> Anything above that and it’s fashion, pure and simple.

Range should be ~$200 to ~$1000. Little to gain. Not really gaining “status” or extreme durability or legendary name in that range.

After that watches have a function but it’s not just to tell the time. It’s to last, be a status symbol, retain their value etc.

From ~$1000 to ~$10,000 there is (assumably) a range of some gain but then again anything over ~$10,000 starts offering just about no other value to you other than novelty features in limited production or what not.

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