Try putting that mythical Timex Kinetic (I don't think Timex makes a Kinetic watch) under water or bang it around. It won't last very long. Try that with a Rolex (or Tag-Heuer, for that matter) and it will still work.
In the book "The Book of Honor" (about CIA deaths), there is a passage about someone who was blown up in an embassy bombing. He was wearing a Rolex. His brother received the watch, which had the crystal cracked. He replaced the crystal and gave it to his nephew (the dead man's son). The watch still worked. Do you think that'll happen with a Timex? I don't think so.
As for whether SIGs or H&Ks are worth it? Both SIGs and H&Ks I've owned worked 100% out of box, all the time. Not so with Glock and CZ. Don't get me wrong - I feel comfortable with the last two as my bedside guns. In fact, the CZ is my favorite bedside gun.
However, the price of CZ right now is a kind of "market anomaly." When the cost of labor and manufacturing in the Czech Republic catch up with the rest of Western European levels as their economy improves, CZ prices will go up too.
As someone pointed out, the price difference between, say, a SIG and a Glock (or even a CZ) is really very little over the lifetime of an owner. Now between a custom-made 1911 (say, $2,500) and a Glock ($450), that could amount to quite a bit!
Talking about market conditions, isn't it a shame that the Japanese don't build commercial guns? I mean, see what happened to the auto industry when the Japanese entered it in force? Aside from the availability of reliable and inexpensive Japanese guns, imagine what would happen to the quality and price of American and European guns if the Japanese were in the gun market, too!
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