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>>ortusd+(OP)
The purpose of these watches has long been served. They introduced Apple Watch as a premium digital watch to the masses, getting free media attention.

Celebrity owners would have got a brief sparkle from it. Perhaps also some of Apple's marketing budget too. And they continue to own a legacy item which will have notoriety beyond mere function.

Collectors of rare historical firearms presumably don't actually fire them.

>>loveme+e8
They do, generally at least before selling it to prove it works, as a working firearm has more value than one than doesn't.

>>_3u10+b9
If I buy a WWI-era pistol, they’ll fire it before I fork over the cash? Surely not, right?

>>glhayn+K9
It depends, but the general rule is that the older it is, the less people want to see it in active use. At some point it's about preservation over anything, but there's also the safety concern! A firearm is a very dangerous thing in failure mode, so at some point a firearm is both too historically valuable, and too damned dangerous to fire.

Source: Forgotten Weapons and Royal Armory youtube channels