High-End Wrist Watches - Do They Improve the Time Telling Experience?
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They are beautiful watches. I'm a total noob when it comes to watches. I wore a titanium Seiko kinetic that my grand parents gave me for my graduation for years until it got stolen from the backseat of a car.I think there is possibly judgment in the body of your reply!Regardless, no harm no foul. I actually own a Patek Phillipe but I keep it in a lock box and it's no where near that amount, but worth quite a few "high end" pipes.
It was to illustrate my point, no more, no less.
And I am so good looking that good jewelry detracts from my visage.....
I recently bought a new Defakto Vektor Radial automatic watch that I fell in love with.
If I ever buy another watch it will probably be a Sinn U1 dive watch. I love the utility look and minimalistic design of it.
My buddy for 35 yrs, useful when I worked at the plant timeing stuff. Wife told me to buy it.
Austin....right??!!I generally destroy jewelry and other adornments. I have a titanium wedding band that I wear when not working.
When I get "gussied up" for an outing, I also pop in a pair of "black diamond" stud earrings my wife's son gave me and bust out the $20 Citizen watch from that damned auction site. Sometimes, I even wear a shirt with buttons!
Those are the items I've not yet damaged or lost.
When wearing the watch, I often still just look at the phone for time out of habit.
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I’ve worn the same Tag Heuer for about 20 years. The new kids think I’ll get robbed just for wearing it.
Concealed Carry...., just saying.
No clue. But up until about six months ago I couldn’t be convinced that a $150 fountain pen would have improved the writing experience and that couldn’t be farther from the truth.
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For some reason, though, most people aspire to own the first three---and all kinds of similar things, from custom motorcycles to handmade musical instruments---but think anyone who spends more than $200 on a pipe is crazy.
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-Most expensive watch was $30 and haven't seen it since high school.
-Most expensive car was $14,000.
-Have yet to find a reason to own a suit as I have a strong distrust around those wearing them.
-Paintings never fascinated me.
-Outside my Savinelli collection, most of my pipes were $400+.
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Time keeping is relative
My watch has a crown guard and another has a pressure valve, but I don't do water activities.
Expensive watches are like an expensive car. They cost a lot for maintenance and repair.
Time keeping is relative
My watch has a crown guard and another has a pressure valve, but I don't do water activities.
Expensive watches are like an expensive car. They cost a lot for maintenance and repair.
I still wear my analog Timex with the stretchy metal band. Don't remember the exact cost new, but less than $35.
Maybe it reminds me too much of funerals, not sure. Not even sure when it started, I just avoid people wearing them.Hey!!
People with a lot of money are right to use some of it on stuff they like. There is some kind of line between being a connoisseur with good taste and expensive habits and being a vulgar shopaholic moron with an inferiority complex, but I have never had the means to approach it.
I've worn a watch since the first grade, and I can't do without one. I've never worn an expensive watch, and never felt that I needed one. My Seiko keeps great time, just as the last Seiko did, which I wore for 27 years until it finally croaked. @sablebrush52 and Russ Ouellette helped me pick out the one I've been wearing the last three years.
Untrustworthy pair at best. Probably picked you pocket at some point.
I'm not an animal, I'm not wearing a $50 wristwatch.
What defines a "high end wristwatch"? (I asked the same question on the "high end pipe" thread)
What defines a "high end wristwatch"? (I asked the same question on the "high end pipe" thread)
I've had both a Swatch and a Casio, so I can confirm that there's no difference between cheap watches and high end watches.
I worked for my brother’s watch company for a while. He sold his own brand, prices ranged from $400-1400. Dudes thought they were cheap.
We were surrounded by expensive, boutique watches, but we opened and closed shop by a dollar store clock on the wall. We had to adjust our expensive watches all the time for people, some kept great time while others sucked. None were as accurate as a $5 digital Chinese watch.
Much of the business relied on collectors, guys who, like us in the pipe world, just couldnt get enough. Dropping 700 on a watch was just a normal thing, and they’d trade/buy/sell on forums just like we do with pipes.
I don’t wear one. I use my phone/clock/stove/coffee pot or any other time telling device. Only time I’ve wanted one is while out in the wilderness.
We were surrounded by expensive, boutique watches, but we opened and closed shop by a dollar store clock on the wall. We had to adjust our expensive watches all the time for people, some kept great time while others sucked. None were as accurate as a $5 digital Chinese watch.
Much of the business relied on collectors, guys who, like us in the pipe world, just couldnt get enough. Dropping 700 on a watch was just a normal thing, and they’d trade/buy/sell on forums just like we do with pipes.
I don’t wear one. I use my phone/clock/stove/coffee pot or any other time telling device. Only time I’ve wanted one is while out in the wilderness.
It's all relative to what you value in a watch but yes, they improve my time telling experience. I am a watch collector with over 75 watches in my watch box so my opinion is slanted. They don't tell the time any better or more accurately than a drugstore quartz watch but they do make the experience of looking at the time an improved experience from the lower end watches. Of course if you are not into watches, it sounds silly. Just like if you are not into pipe smoking it sounds silly that a $600 + pipe "improves the smoking experience" over the $25 pipe. It may not smoke better but the experience may be better.
I think georged started this thread as more a general musing on "why is luxury peacocking 'X' right as rain but pipes we all lose our minds if.. ". Taken literal though, be happy this isn't the watch world in terms of social competition.....it makes the pipe version of "$20, $200, or $2,000" look like a quaint and low-key ?
Income + popularity (of product) in the market place....to me that's why the pipe discussions differ compared to watches and luxury cars. Pipe smoking is pretty niche and its devotees, as a group, probably skew right at the domestic income average. Probably more folks on the left side of that median than right as well. No right or wrong, just economics. So a $2,000 S. Bang.....average US income that purchase is a real deal thing to the majority of the pipe smoking crowd. Cars and fashion are the playgrounds of the top 5%+ earner bracket (widely stated, there are of course excellent savers/spendors out there) and with huge differentiation at each % to 1% (my Mercedes and Tags are mid-market baubles to my neighbor up the block with an Aston Martin and Pateks). There's just numerically a lot more people in those brackets/markets than in pipes. So when someone casually drops some pics of $500+ pipes in this hobby, I think it attracts more comments than if someone was showing their vintage Omega on a watch site.
Income + popularity (of product) in the market place....to me that's why the pipe discussions differ compared to watches and luxury cars. Pipe smoking is pretty niche and its devotees, as a group, probably skew right at the domestic income average. Probably more folks on the left side of that median than right as well. No right or wrong, just economics. So a $2,000 S. Bang.....average US income that purchase is a real deal thing to the majority of the pipe smoking crowd. Cars and fashion are the playgrounds of the top 5%+ earner bracket (widely stated, there are of course excellent savers/spendors out there) and with huge differentiation at each % to 1% (my Mercedes and Tags are mid-market baubles to my neighbor up the block with an Aston Martin and Pateks). There's just numerically a lot more people in those brackets/markets than in pipes. So when someone casually drops some pics of $500+ pipes in this hobby, I think it attracts more comments than if someone was showing their vintage Omega on a watch site.
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