The more expensive version would be a better conversation piece. A $5 ashtray is just an ashtray. A $20,000 Ming vase is something one can talk about.
I'd be just as impressed with the vase as the ashtray. Which is to say completely disinterested in both. A knife with a blade of 420 J2 stainless is just as good a conversation piece as an identical one with a blade of s35vn.
