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In response to the post of the AP x Swatch potentially taking AP out of the Trinity.

The “Trinity” to begin with is a pretty useless metric that really just exists to make the people who spent ludicrous sums on a watch to feel even more smug.

There’s plenty of brands outside the Trinity who have made immensely special and innovative pieces both currently and/or historically, so the argument of “who makes the haute-st haute horologie” is pointless.

IWC has created the world’s longest running perpetual calendar. Omega, Breitling, Zenith, and Bulova have sent watches into space. Cartier effectively invented the wristwatch, Rolex arguably perfected it for mass production durability, and Omega has gotten a watch to nearly 11,000 feet under water. Hell, even Nomos created their own in house escapement as a relatively small brand.

Meanwhile, while the Trinity *do* make the worlds most nuts complications with some of the best finishing, I wouldn’t say it tells the entire story. The JLC Hybris and Master Complications are just as haute horologie as something Patek, VC, or AP make.

Meanwhile, an Omega or Rolex that’s not Patek level finishing but will survive twenty times what a Patek would could reasonably be deemed equally as impressive, albeit by a different metric.

So why should we really bother with a “Trinity” of brands when we *should* be focusing on individual watches, given at the end of the day, the watch was originally made to serve a purpose, not just be an unobtanium status symbol?