/fa/ - Fashion

Being a watch snob is the dumbest fucking hobby. It's a meta-hobby; you can't make watches a hobby, because unlike say an art, or musical instrument there’s no ‘practice’ to engage in. It lacks a ‘verb’ to describe the act of engaging in the hobby. The lone thing you can consider a hobby is ‘collecting’, and specifically amassing a thematically aligned collection, like say Speedmasters through the decades. Anything else is just hoarding or confusing the accumulation of jewelry for something significant. Watches are a meta-hobby, in the same way people are now aroused by the idea of porn, more than the porn itself.

I mean, just look at the retarded image I posted. At no point since the 80’s is the Rolex a ‘working man’s daily driver’. That’s just a statement to make trust-funders and kids buying on credit feel good about their purchase.

The “hobby” is an endless parade of grifters, weird old men on YouTube, and young morons tricked into aspirational purchasing, convinced somehow that buying and wearing a specific watch will finally communicate their ‘place in the big leagues’ or communicate ‘who they are’, because they are incapable of communicating that through the actions and life they live.

All of this dumb enough on its own, but then you get the cherry on the shit sundae in which a parade of mountain-jews basically screw you endlessly with poor build quality, expensive servicing and a consumer experience that makes Walmart look class-leading.

It’s a dumb hobby. You’re better off spending time doing anything else other than thinking about watches. Buy a EcoDrive/Oceanus/G-Shock and then if you’re actually rich, buy a Rolex. Anything else is dumb cope unless you’re actually ‘own an estate’ tier wealthy.