Merkur 43C Stainless

It probably shaves well but it's not a looker and you wouldn't show it to your mates. It's a bit like owning a moped or a very fat girlfriend. It's all a lot of fun until someone finds out and sees you with it.
 
Excuse my ignorance, please. Thank you.

The point of stainless steel as I understood it is that it doesn't rust or lose it's plating or anything.

The part of a razor which appears to be prone, well, if any part is, to rusting or plate loss is the head.

So this razor has a stainless steel handle and a plated head? Why? Short words please, posts including words like "marketing" will be ignored.
 
Somehow just doesn't look like the characteristic, almost trademark, Merkur appearance of a piece of heavy industrial equipment which it's impossible to dent, destroy or wear out. Imo anyway.

JohnnyO. \