little1up wrote:I think the Hamilton prototype was just that, a prototype:ugly as shit
Hehe, well you see, the way I look at it, that's part of the charm, it looks primitive because it
was primitive, as anything that is a first is bound to be. There's an honesty in that which owes apologies to no one. It is ironic as well, that something which was on the cutting edge of a new technology is nevertheless bound to look primitive because it is a first and it has no foundation on which to stand.
Firsts are always by necessity crude; they are the raw material from which the later refinements are made. You can't put them in the same category or hold them to the same standard as what comes after. Their beauty is not the beauty of refinement, it's the beauty of birth; pure, primal, and honest.