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In March 2012, at a jewelry show in Switzerland, watchmaker Hublot unveiled
In March 2012, at a jewelry show in Switzerland, watchmaker Hublot unveiled
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In March 2012, at a jewelry show in Switzerland, watchmaker Hublot unveiled what news reports hailed as the world’s most expensive wrist watch—a timepiece (钟表计时器) encrusted with 1,282 diamonds, including six stones that weighed more than three carats (克拉) apiece. It took 17 workers 14 months to set all the stones in the one-of-a-kind timepiece. The price tag? Five million dollars. The company’s president, Jean-Claude Biver, told the reporter that it’d be hard to make a pricier watch than this one, given that "the surface of a watch is limited" and there just isn’t much room for more bling.
Hublot’s over-the-top (奢侈的) watch is an elegant piece of wrist candy, to be sure, even if you wouldn’t dare to wear it on the street without an armed escort. But if you’re concerned about actually using a watch to tell time, this one probably isn’t that great of a choice, since there’s so much glitter on the face that the positions of the hour, minute and second hands are tough to discern. Also, there’s no digital display and no stopwatch mode, so it wouldn’t be very useful if you want to keep track of your pace when you go for a jog in the park. In comparison, a humble Timex Ironman T5E321, the sort of watch you can purchase on Amazon.com for as little as $47, can do all of that and far more. It has a back-lit (背光) display that you can read clearly even at night, and if you’re a traveler, you can set it to flip between two different time zones. In a pinch, it even can double as an alarm clock.
But most importantly, the $5 million watch doesn’t necessarily keep time more accurately than a $47 watch—at least to any degree you could discern. In a study published in Horological Journal in 2008, a researcher from the National Institute of Standards and Technology used sophisticated scientific equipment to test the performance of four cheap watches, including a counterfeit Rolex purchased from a street vendor for $15. He found that all four were astonishingly precise, to within a few thousandths of a second per day.
So for strictly utilitarian (使用的) purposes, the answer to the question we’ve posed is a simple "no". But "better" is subjective, and people pick watches for a lot of other reasons besides telling time. [br] Why would it be hard to make a pricier watch than the one unveiled by Hublot?
选项
A、There aren’t enough precious diamonds.
B、Watchmakers cannot afford to make a pricier one.
C、Workers decline to make a more complicated one.
D、There is hardly room for more bling on a watch.
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据题干中的hard to。make a pricier watch可定位到原文第一段最后一句。该句提到,宇舶公司总裁让.克劳德.比弗告诉记者,考虑到“手表表面空间有限”以及没有空间再镶嵌珠宝这两个因素,很难再制作出比这款手表更加昂贵的手表了。由此可知,很难制作出更贵的手表的原因主要在于没有足够的空间可以用来镶嵌更多的钻石。故选D。
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