What's your impression of a man wearing an expensive watch? (guys, resistant)
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Interesting. I asked a friend who owns a couple of rolexes. He said some people know it’s a nice watch when he goes out to a nice upscale dinner or bar. He said some men will compliment him with it. Many women he dates say they noticed it, but didn’t want to mention it for fear of being perceived as a gold digger type.
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Me personally, I wear a Fitbit . I can’t tell a 10k Rolex from a 99 replica. But I would imagine in circles I don’t frequent people can readily tell quality. I own a Ferrari, but wear clothes from Costco and Walmart. I guess it just depends what you are into.
Interesting. I asked a friend who owns a couple of rolexes. He said some people know it’s a nice watch when he goes out to a nice upscale dinner or bar. He said some men will compliment him with it. Many women he dates say they noticed it, but didn’t want to mention it for fear of being perceived as a gold digger type.
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Me personally, I wear a Fitbit . I can’t tell a 10k Rolex from a 99 replica. But I would imagine in circles I don’t frequent people can readily tell quality. I own a Ferrari, but wear clothes from Costco and Walmart. I guess it just depends what you are into.
Very true. One small point: I'll bet that if I handed you a real Rolex and a cheapy replica, I'll bet you could tell the difference. Sure, some of the replicas are getting pretty good but, most of the time, even if you can't tell the difference, you have a pretty decent chance of feeling the difference. Otherwise, for the best chance, you may need a higher powered loupe at which point, the differences are obvious if you know what to look for when looking at the movement. Most rubes think there's no reason for one manufacturer to charge more when the internals and materials are similar but in reality, there's a lot of effort which goes into fit and finish of the movement itself.
Edit: Here's a tolerable video with a substory. The presenter goes through great pains to show the difference but, the better part is that this guy himself was busted by watch enthusiasts for selling and cheating buyers out of hard-earned funds. Got time to waste? Google "Horology House scandal".
If someone in the market for a particular watch, most forums have "trusted sellers". For example, the TRF (The Rolex Forum) is fairly safe as is Davidsw. I've purchased watches from both and have no affiliation other than one as a happy customer.
I like watches, so I always notice someone wearing one, but I don't know how to determine how much a watch costs just from looking at it, and I don't want to put someone on the spot by asking them. I've seen fancy watches that I thought were thousands until I looked at the price tag and it said $200.
I like watches, so I always notice someone wearing one, but I don't know how to determine how much a watch costs just from looking at it, and I don't want to put someone on the spot by asking them. I've seen fancy watches that I thought were thousands until I looked at the price tag and it said $200.
This is what’s unfortunate about the watch industry. There are great looking watches that are affordable. Yet most people think that a decent watch is unreasonably expensive.
Here’s my Orient Bambino.
A friend of mine commented that he liked it. I told him that he’d never guess how much it costs. He guessed $500.
The MSRP was $350 but has since been marked down to $150. It’s available on Amazon and other grey market retailers for under $120. That's an insane steal for an automatic watch from a traditional well-respected Japanese watch brand.
I will never buy a Rolex, but I inherited one from my dad. His company presented him with an 18k Day-Date on his 10th anniversary, so I imagine this is a unit from 1999, I have not taken it to be appraised because at this point I don't think it matters because I will never let go of it. I am just as sentimental about my grandfather's watch, which is simply a Fossil with the company logo screened on the dial. It is an aluminum company which no longer goes by that name.
Trust me, almost nobody ever notices. The "almost" refers to other watch enthusiasts. I wear either a Rolex or Panerai every day and I can literally count on two hands the number of comments that people have made over the years, and all of them knew exactly which model I was wearing and were wearing something equally nice. The good news is that all of them are worth at least twice what I paid, so there's that. As for passing them on to your kid, my son will have my watches on Ebay before I assume room temperature.
Trust me, almost nobody ever notices. The "almost" refers to other watch enthusiasts. I wear either a Rolex or Panerai every day and I can literally count on two hands the number of comments that people have made over the years, and all of them knew exactly which model I was wearing and were wearing something equally nice. The good news is that all of them are worth at least twice what I paid, so there's that. As for passing them on to your kid, my son will have my watches on Ebay before I assume room temperature.
I would personally think that the guy either has so much money he doesn't care how much things cost, OR more likely, that he wants to impress people and is dumb enough to waste thousands on something unnecessarily to boost his ego. In other words...an insecure poser.
My cousin bought her hubby, a wealthy guy who has a booming business paving over what raw land is left in the western end of the Inland Empire, a beautiful Rolex. A year later he found out that to keep the warrantee he had to have it serviced annually at over $500 a year. He immediately sold it. Smart guy.
I would personally think that the guy either has so much money he doesn't care how much things cost, OR more likely, that he wants to impress people and is dumb enough to waste thousands on something unnecessarily to boost his ego. In other words...an insecure poser.
My cousin bought her hubby, a wealthy guy who has a booming business paving over what raw land is left in the western end of the Inland Empire, a beautiful Rolex. A year later he found out that to keep the warrantee he had to have it serviced annually at over $500 a year. He immediately sold it. Smart guy.
How long ago was this?
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