Good gear costs money. I dunno. I like to think of myself as a randonneur out of training, and when I think of a BB lockring coming out of torque in the middle of a brevet and the whole thing grinding itself to pieces in the middle of the night, an SKF unit doesn't seem so expensive at all. A cab ride from the ass end of nowhere back to civilization would cost more than this unit.
I'm sufficiently impressed with them to want to have one installed on my custom frame.