Nonsense, Pakz. Wanting this watch to be the best it can be has nothing to do with superstition whatsoever. That's a silly thing to say.
Thanks, Itsonlytime. I'm a deep dive watch aficionado, and I want this watch to be the best it can be, and I don't want superstitious nonsense to get in the way of that.
Well I do agree with you, wanting the best possible watch has nothing to do with superstition, and all to do with facts. The number written on it as water resistance, therefore is not relevant, as what we want is the best watch, not the "best number" (how can we even begin to define that, objectively?).
I think we all agree in that we want the best deep dive watch possible. And that's the technical aspects, how it's built, to what pressure it resists (on average, over a large enough sample, plus what was the worst performance obtained on that sample, and so on and so forth) and the legibility of dial (regarding the hours, we don't care much about the legibility of the name or other assorted literature when looking for a great dive watch). And maybe the good looks (not super objective, but well). And very certainly the price (and the "value" it gives)
Now, please, for the sake of all good things including superb dive watches, will we once and for all recognize that having 4000m or 4200m or 3989m or 4001m or 3999m on the dial doesn't change a thing to the actual watch? Will we admit that the want of a "larger and round number" is just as much "cultural preferences" (which I prefer to the insulting and derogatory "silly superstition") than the want of "a number not starting with 4" or a desire for a number that when read aloud sounds a bit like "luck and prosperity" or a the enjoyment of a number that has as sole divisors itself and one, or that contains parts that can be read left to right and right to left. All of that is cultural subjective preferences (well, except being prime, but the subjectivity is in liking primes) and I don't think calling "silly superstitions" the subjective cultural preferences of about 1.5 billion humans make us really great.
