Originally posted by Caffinator
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... and the whole Rolex thing reminds me exactly why I "permanently retired" my Seiko Sportsmatic5 after 20+ years of faithful accurate service. The fifth or sixth mobile I bought had a clock linked to the GSM network... My wrist is forever grateful. I cannot imagine any practical use for a watch these days.
Oh, and good coffee grinders are equipment made to very high tolerances indeed. That is one reason why they should be treated like a precision instrument and not abused.
My Swiss made gen2 and gen3 Mahlkoenig Varios have their micro adjustment so fine that you can not even feel or see the burrs move until the 3rd or 4th step. That is why a single "micro step" only makes about 1/2 second difference to the pour (circa 1% change, I suspect). That is not possible without true precision engineering. That is why I keep seeing posts from idiots that state that one micro step makes no difference at all. It does - just use 0.1g scales and put it through a Decent DE1 and it comes up on the graph as plain as day. Add another step and add another 1/2 second to the pour. It also makes the old "stepless is better" argument fade away - it is so much easier to go by the numbers.
Speaking of cars - an interesting court case from a while back: The Chevy Lumina was the victim of a 100% copy (Seeley? or Geeley? - it has been a while). The original sold 75K cars, the copy sold 300K in China domestically. AFAIC recall, although the case was won by Chevy nothing actually happened to the (blatant) copier.
Makes me enjoy my Swiss grinder into a Hong Kong made espresso machine all the more - both are high quality bits of kit that deliver in spades...
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