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2024-06-17 at 6:37 PM UTCI don't wear watches. How can you stand having something on your wrist all the time? Would drive me bananas.
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2024-06-17 at 6:39 PM UTC
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2024-06-17 at 6:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by MEGA MOLE Even if you have $1 billion then still no, objectively it's still not a good idea to have $40,000 of it tied up in some random baseball card rather than as cash in a savings account or something… No it's not going to affect you at all at that point but doesn't mean it's not stupid.
I disagree, it's important to have investment items other than savings, because those can quickly disappear like what's just happened to Nigerians. I started collecting antiques at an early age, someone in the future will always pay for them. -
2024-06-17 at 6:47 PM UTC
Originally posted by Dirtbag I disagree, it's important to have investment items other than savings, because those can quickly disappear like what's just happened to Nigerians. I started collecting antiques at an early age, someone in the future will always pay for them.
Watches aren't an investment the same way baseball cards aren't an investment, the same way gold isn't really an investment. Some can appreciate in value.
They are a hobby.
I am saying this as a mole who genuinely loves watches. -
2024-06-17 at 7 PM UTC
Originally posted by MEGA MOLE Watches aren't an investment the same way baseball cards aren't an investment, the same way gold isn't really an investment. Some can appreciate in value.
They are a hobby.
I am saying this as a mole who genuinely loves watches.
I wasn't talking about those items specifically though.
My nickname used to be watch. In highschool I'd have five of them in my blazer pocket. -
2024-06-17 at 7:04 PM UTCNow I'm wondering why I was so disturbed. When I was 15 I kept a hammer under my bed just in case.
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2024-06-17 at 7:12 PM UTCCars are the worst, I hate guys who act like cars are investments.
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2024-06-17 at 7:14 PM UTC
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2024-06-17 at 7:15 PM UTCYou gotta just imagine that if you buy stuff like that, you set it on fire. Not that you shouldn't have or indulge hobbies but recognize you are doing a stupid thing because it won't affect you very much, no need to cope about it. In fact that is why it's kinda balling in the first place. We don't need to be 100% efficient in our lives. Sometimes we do stupid things just to feel some sense of power over our lives. If you have the resources, it's not a big deal so who cares? If it's not you then it's no one else's right to care hmwhat you do with your money. Even if you put it all in a big pile, pissed on it and set it on fire.
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2024-06-17 at 7:30 PM UTC
Originally posted by Dirtbag What do you love about watches?
"A dandy on the boulevards (…), strolling at leisure until his Breguet, ever vigilant, reminds him it is midday."
Alexander Pushkin
Eugen Onegin, 1825-1833
They used that in a Breguet ad too and specifically
"… ever vigilant…"
That was a perfect articulation of what attracted me to watches.
A modern watch is a beautiful object. It's a lot more engineering than most people care to think about, packed into a a perfectly compact envelope. Back in the day, timepieces were artifacts of cutting edge engineering. You should look up "Marine Chronometer" and read about the history, take a moment to appreciate what it took to get to a modern watch.
Keeping time is important. It's critical. It is deeply fundamental to what makes us human now, not just in the past when we were primitive animals.
So to me a watch is emblematic of a lot.
Then there's the aesthetic aspect of it -
2024-06-17 at 7:33 PM UTCSomehow every time I go looking at watches, I find like 50 that surprise and delight me in new ways. There are son many out there already and then there's new ones released all the time! And in such a tiny target envelope, people make such lovely and tasteful designs, sometimes they're even fun and wild and still manage to pull it off with class!
Watches are expressive. They tell you a lot about the designer. More importantly, they tell you a lot about the man wearing them. There's so much room to choose, both well and poorly. Like if I see a fucker wearing an Invicta, I know he is lost. -
2024-06-17 at 7:36 PM UTCMy watch is like my partner, my buddy, something so reliable I could lose my sense and come back, and defer to it to have kept track while I was out. A watch is like a soldier, a partner, a keeper of accounts. It's a precision machine that is always by my side and it does exactly one very specific set of things, and it does so hyper reliably. It is like if "competence" was condensed into one artifact of human origin, it would be watches.
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2024-06-17 at 7:40 PM UTC
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2024-06-17 at 7:41 PM UTC
Originally posted by Dirtbag Same. I don't even have a car, just don't feel the pressure to conform that way and don't want it to drain my finances. Driving seems to exhaust people as well.
What do you love about watches?
If you had a car you couldn't shoulder surf black women on the bus and tell us what they're looking at. -
2024-06-17 at 7:44 PM UTC
Originally posted by MEGA MOLE "A dandy on the boulevards (…), strolling at leisure until his Breguet, ever vigilant, reminds him it is midday."
Alexander Pushkin
Eugen Onegin, 1825-1833
They used that in a Breguet ad too and specifically
"… ever vigilant…"
That was a perfect articulation of what attracted me to watches.
A modern watch is a beautiful object. It's a lot more engineering than most people care to think about, packed into a a perfectly compact envelope. Back in the day, timepieces were artifacts of cutting edge engineering. You should look up "Marine Chronometer" and read about the history, take a moment to appreciate what it took to get to a modern watch.
Keeping time is important. It's critical. It is deeply fundamental to what makes us human now, not just in the past when we were primitive animals.
So to me a watch is emblematic of a lot.
Then there's the aesthetic aspect of it
What do you think of G-shocks?
When you talk about engineering are you only talking about auto-winding watches? It's the only thing that is guaranteed to work when Russia and China finally get fed up and start hitting us with EMP's.... If we're lucky. -
2024-06-17 at 7:54 PM UTC
Originally posted by MEGA MOLE My watch is like my partner, my buddy, something so reliable I could lose my sense and come back, and defer to it to have kept track while I was out. A watch is like a soldier, a partner, a keeper of accounts. It's a precision machine that is always by my side and it does exactly one very specific set of things, and it does so hyper reliably. It is like if "competence" was condensed into one artifact of human origin, it would be watches.
You should write for watch retail sites. Onegin was depressing.
I think my love of watches was an anxiety thing, always needing to know what time it was and checking my watch obsessively was like a tic. That's probably why I don't wear them anymore, the tic could return. The ticking noise was comforting as well. -
2024-06-17 at 8:08 PM UTC
Originally posted by Dirtbag Idk I think he said 6K or was looking for one in that price range. He was obsessed with watches and perfumes.
That's very expensive. My price limit for this watch purchase was about 50 bucks. I got the Amazon basics one for 20$ but I'm gonna return that then the one I did settle on was 41. I couldn't imagine spending 6k on a watch. -
2024-06-17 at 8:14 PM UTC
Originally posted by Cowboy2013 What do you think of G-shocks?
When you talk about engineering are you only talking about auto-winding watches? It's the only thing that is guaranteed to work when Russia and China finally get fed up and start hitting us with EMP's…. If we're lucky.
IN OP I showed my automatic self winding watch -
2024-06-17 at 8:17 PM UTCSo I got the Amazon basics watch in the OP, the TimeX watch and I"m gonna give my friend the self winding watch.
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2024-06-17 at 8:21 PM UTC
Originally posted by Enigma That's very expensive. My price limit for this watch purchase was about 50 bucks..
You don't need a watch.
Step 3 in making better life decisions is not wasting your money on things you don't need. (Until you're at a point where you can comfortably have discretionary spending habits)
