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armalites wrote:
The whole watch thing intrigues me, surely having a £5k plus watch on your wrist is nothing more than bling/pose factor?
If you are fully minted, money no object then go for it but I know people who have mortgages and debts who have spent £3-4k on a watch. Then you have to get them serviced
I haven't worn a watch in 20+ years, I have clocks in the house, I have a clock in my car and on my phone.
I have friend who has a watch fetish and his guaranteed to be the one we are waiting for if we are ever going anywhere.
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8th Apr 2014 12:55 pm
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Don't start on the whole posh shoes things, that's a completely new can of worms......
I've had partners who have owned £600+ handbags/shoes that "go out of fashion", mates who buy £100+ sweaters that my M&S one's look just the same, another with a £2000 push-bike that when we ride out my £250 Halfrauds special goes just the same. My B-in-L buys wine at £20-30 a bottle for the Saturday night stay in, £100+ if its for a meal but says my £30 bottles of scotch and Vodka are 'extortionate' that last a few months or longer
I spend £200+ on 'best shoes' but some I still have 10+ years on (resoled and heeled of course at about £20-30 a pop), I have decent suits that are 10+ years old (many only redundant due to my expanding waistline ), I spend £100+ on sunglasses but like them as well as watches and "have a few pairs"
It's all relative and we're all different. Some insist on throwing good money after bad on a "Friday afternoon special" Land Rover - see what I mean
8th Apr 2014 1:04 pm
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stew 46 wrote:
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The Casio G-Shock is just as iconic as many of the other more expensive watches listed on this page, in my opinion, Stew.
It was designed to fulfil a specific purpose and very few watches are as robust as a G-Shock in the types of environments you work in.
They may be cheap and cheerful compared to the other watches described in this thread but they have their place up there as a design icon.
No shame in a G-Shock (and, no, I don't own one).
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8th Apr 2014 1:13 pm
astonbuilder
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Indeed, no shame in a G-shock. (I like my Seiko divers watch as much as the others)
Not that cheap really for some models and often worn as a design/fashion statement
8th Apr 2014 1:52 pm
Scarab
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Is there some way I can block this thread showing up? because I've just spent several pounds (vague incase SWMBO reads) on this as a result of it:
Annoying thing is it's at the other end of the country and a friend of mine is picking it up for me and I'm not going to see him until about the 19th of May!
The whole watch thing intrigues me, surely having a £5k plus watch on your wrist is nothing more than bling/pose factor...? .....
I have a Rolexfor over 30 years... (after a really shoddy Omega)...
OK they tell you the time...so does a low cost watch.
For me it isnt about "its better than" or pose value...its on my wrist all the time, not just worn for going out...it does a job...very well.
....same reason I have a LandRover, A Jag, Bang & Olusen speakers on my AppleMac...I want the best I can afford...you get one chance.
Not many up market clothes (TK Max) but ama sucker for good shoes (mainly bespoke Churchs & Frattelli Rosetti bought in Italy...shoe heaven !)
armalites wrote:
.....I have friend who has a watch fetish and his guaranteed to be the one we are waiting for if we are ever going anywhere.
it only takes seconds to put one on....maybe a few more if you have to choose whichBREXIT - done properly.
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8th Apr 2014 2:29 pm
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My watch buying fetish days are over, I've only got these two now, plus a Breitling Navitimer which I gave to my eldest son on permanent loan as he said he couldn't wait till I died
I've owned this Rolex for 28 years and bought the IWC titanium In 2004/5
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8th Apr 2014 2:34 pm
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No I didn't know that, but I bet Mrs Bullivant from Caxton Nr York will enter the competition, her pork pies are delicious
Edit; just checked on Google and it looks like she's never entered the championships, but they are still delicious, they seem to only sell them on the farmers markets around your parts On a mission to find the perfect Pork Pie. Just Found it (I think)..(Yes I have)
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8th Apr 2014 2:41 pm
Tiger
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Anybody else have posh watch tourettes?!
This involves waking up from a heavy night out at 6am and rather than just rolling over and going back to sleep, look at bedside table, see no watch is there.
Jump out of bed in panic, only to find it's on the kitchen worktop where I took it off at 1am and not lost in a taxi!
Then repeat for wallet and phone....
Then back to bed safe in the knowledge that I've not lost it.
Thats one of the reasons I got the G shock, I can see it without my glasses at the illumination is good I started off with nothing and Ive still got most of it left.
8th Apr 2014 4:34 pm
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astonbuilder wrote:
Might get myself one of them G-Shock's as need a cheap one for wearing at work.....
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), I spend £100+ on sunglasses but like them as well as watches and "have a few pairs"
(one an otherwise nice zenith but without any markers, etc)
how much!!!
