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14105018 No.14105018 [Reply] [Original]

Why would anybody spend thousands of dollars on a watch? It's a watch. It has one purpose: to keep time. I don't think you should buy the cheapest Timex or Casio you can find, but a Tissot or Frederique Constant will keep time just as well as an A. Lange und Sohne or Rolex at a tenth or twentieth of the cost.

>> No.14105028

Money and a feeling of 'ive made it' are common reasons. I dont think its work it to spend that much, but like a few hunder is alright. Just remember a dollar to an average wage person is like $25000 to a person with 1 billion. To bezos its $3000000

>> No.14105030

Are you really asking why people spend thousands of dollars on status signaling products in this day and age?

>> No.14105032

>>14105018
There’s already a containment thread, you fucking idiot.

>> No.14105035

>>14105030
You would have been right 120 years ago, but now the automobile has replaced the watch as the social status symbol.

>> No.14105050

>>14105035
You’re not always in your car, but you can always wear a watch.

>> No.14105061

>>14105018
Why would anybody spend thousands of dollars on clothes? It's clothes. It has one purpose: to keep you covered. I don't think you should buy the cheapest Wal-Mart or Kohl's shit you can find, but items from Target or Old Navy will keep you covered just as well as Gucci or Tom Ford at a tenth or twentieth of the cost.

>> No.14105116

>>14105061
This is a fashion board and you're essentially saying the only purpose of clothes is to keep you covered. Why are you even here?

>> No.14105129
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14105129

Yep it's a scam and the greatest delight of a marketing exec. They managed to trick people that paying for more for dated technology and worse timekeeping is somehow luxurious.

>> No.14105199

>>14105018
I just bought a Chinese knockoff instead, it cost a fraction of the price and the only way you could tell the difference would be to have it examined by a jeweler.
Unless several thousand dollars is totally irrelevant to you, i.e. you're a millionaire, anyone who pays Rolex money for a watch is an idiot.

>> No.14105219

>>14105199
Post pics

>> No.14105247

>>14105116
thats his point faggot

>> No.14105255

>>14105247
It's a retarded point because you could diminish anything with that logic.

>> No.14105269

>>14105035
it's a significant status thing mainly if it's a car made for being driven in, not driving (e.g phantom)

>> No.14105291

>>14105129
That graph does not support your argument....

>> No.14105293

>>14105199
Or I could just see how much time it looses per day.

>> No.14105294

Rolex is the ultimate bugman watch

>> No.14105300

>>14105291
brainlet

>> No.14105303

What I find wrong and toxic about wristwatches it this tendency to bring normal people to what is essentially a luxury market, with all the antics and the nonsense attached.
It's like telling an average Joe to buy a Rolls Royce or a Ferrari because the cheaper cars "aren't worth it".

>> No.14105323

>>14105300
Retard

>> No.14105398

>>14105303
Exactly, you shouldn't associate with commoners

>> No.14105402

>>14105291
It does you fucking donkey. The one in red is what the price SHOULD be after taking into account inflation. The one in black is what they are charging RIGHT NOW because sheeps will pay that amount for it.

>> No.14105421
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14105421

>>14105129
This bullshit again.
>>14105402
In that same period the USD - CHF exchange rate has increased by 5:1, almost exactly the same as your charts shows. Not everything can be boiled down to a single graph, learn some economics.

>> No.14105428

>>14105018
watches are like ((jewelry))
it's value is whatever retards would pay for it

>> No.14105449
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14105449

Now give me a mechanical watches with the same features as this. How much will I have to pay for it?

>> No.14105775

>>14105449
I forget how much a credor minute repeater costs

>> No.14105865

>>14105449
Yeah but foes it have an oyster inside it?

>> No.14105871
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14105871

>>14105018

The beauty of manual labour, the intrinsic value of said manual labour and precious materials, the cultural aspect of mechanical engineering upon other things are to be considered. Imagine all people would put as much work and attention to detail in everything they do - we'd live in a perfect world. So a precious, meticulously engineered analogue watch is a small glimpse of paradise and perfection accessible to everyone here and now.

>> No.14105876
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14105876

>>14105449

>> No.14105985

>>14105293
It's lose not loose you fucking retard.

>> No.14106000

>>14105199
do others think you are rich now?
nothing like a 10000$ watch on a poorfag

>> No.14106025

>>14105018
>It has one purpose: to keep time
literally just check your phone. watches nowadays are nothing more than a fashion accessory and should be bought with that in mind
who the fuck buys a watch to "keep time"? lmao

>> No.14106102

>>14105871
The beauty of outsourcing 40% of your watch parts manufacture to china and raising the prices of the end product still.