Why can’t you perfectly counterfeit a watch? The value of watches mostly comes from rarity and not resources.
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I’m a watch guy. And yes, you can absolutely make a perfect replica of high end luxury watches that will fool a casual observer. But why stop there? It’s a lot simpler to make a perfect replica of a purse and with luxury purses not even the manufacturer could tell the difference if your replica is good enough as the materials and construction are pretty simple (compared to a watch anyways). For paintings there are high quality scanning and printing techniques (even down to capturing texturing and 3d brush strokes) that can reproduce paintings indistinguishable to the human eye to the original. You’d have to break out magnification and chemical analysis equipment.
So why would someone pay 10K for something that costs 500 bucks to make and for whic there are EXCELLENT knock offs available for 1k? You could very easily imagine aliens coming to earth and being completely baffled at that question. But there’s something about the human spirit that cares about the history of a physical object. It is an irrational thing, but it is undeniable. It is better to have king arthur’s real sword excaliber than it would be to have a perfect replica. Its better to have Winston Churchill’s half finished box of cigars than a random box of the same brand and vintage. Its better to have Neil Armstrong’s omega speedmaster professional than it is to have some random speedmaster, and in turn better to have one of those than a knock off.
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