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You can buy a luxury gold watch and expect it to work for as long as there’s a watch repair store around, but if you shell out tens of thousands of dollars on a piece of tech like that infamous solid gold Apple Watch, you should expect that—eventually—that product will be dead, defunct, useless, and only worth the…