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Jewelry is also fucking retarded. Once upon a time some guy was like 'you see this rock? awfully shiny. you want that rock?' and some dumbfuck was like 'yes, I do' and the guy with the rock replied '$$$' and thus, jewelery was invented.

It's a damn shiny rock. It serves no purpose. And people pay thousands of dollars for tiny rocks. Buy vibrators, not rocks. Cheaper 10 fold, actually useful, great gifts.

You better watch your back, you might already be in a CIA list now.

https://www.watchesofespionage.com/blogs/woe-dispatch/casio-f-91w-the-preferred-watch-of-terrorists

Hell yes!

Does your wristwatch carry a history of use in terrorism? Did it once raise flags at the border if you had more than one? I’ll wait…

Casio gang ⌚

No probably about it.

Mechanical watches lose 10-15 secs per day which declines as they get older or aren't serviced, a $40 Casio might miss 30 secs per month, never needs servicing other than a battery change.

Mechanical watches are no longer utility items, they are fashion items that happen to tell time.

In 10 years that Rolex will hold its value, and may even appreciate in value as they often do.

Even a $40 Casio will still be working good as new in 10 years with less than $5 in parts & labor.

Your $400 smart watch will be literal garbage because its battery is nonreplaceable.

But the one with the Rolex logo will most likely retain it's value over multiple years and might even increase.

Yours will probably be out of software updates and incompatible within a couple of years.

Wouldn't a nice fake work just as well for that purpose? Like not a 20€ fake from the Vintimille market but a nice one.

You can do better https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005204663125.html

Stop buying the marketing hype. An LED display alone is significantly more complex and engineered than any mechanical watch. Every smart watch on the planet is literally full orders of magnitude more complex than any mechanical watch.

If you said, "it's a small, simple, cool machine" that would be completely true. But they are not more engineered than nearly every other device you possess in your home, including the nearest set of $20 bluetooth earbuds.

There is something special about a watch (especially a mechanical one) that a phone can't fulfill. It's a tiny machine operated by gears and that's just so amazing. When you get a watch where you can see the movement it just ticks the right boxes. And there are some really beautiful, amazing watches which don't require selling your house.

A while ago I came to the conclusion that a Casio G-Shock is the best watch. They don't have to be expensive, a good one will sync the time multiple times a day, so it's always accurate. A good one also has small solar panels in the watch face, so the battery will never be empty, and all of them are really build to last.

From a pure functional perspective I think it's the best watch ever made. It basically tells you the correct time, always.

My $8 watch in a nutshell

I wish that was a common flex instead of people crawling up from 100m back.

It's the cuestion who needs a watch for $100.000 and why. Even for an billonair, even if he personally appreciate these technical marvels of a Pattek Phillipp (which the same craftsman who created it could never afford), everyone else doesn't give a shit if the guy is wearing a $100,000 or $100 watch, if it's not directly a plastic Casio. The status symbol continues to be a very ugly disease, teaching others: I am someone important, commoners. The same ones in those days with the first mobile phones, they stood in the middle of the road looking ostentatiously around while they communicated loudly so that everyone knew they could afford this luxury, with the prices that still had this bricks at that time. The evil of capitalism and savage consumerism.

Do people have no respect for jewelers

Yes? I mean, what for? Nowadays, stones with impurities are more worth, because they are proof that the stone wasn't just created in a microwave (but mined under life-threatening conditions by poor people). It's all just artifically inflated money-making nonsense.

Excuse me sir I think you dropped your monocle. (╭ರ_•́)

This sentiment is more of "I want a 30.000$ NFT pfp even though good artists can go way cheaper for art commissions.". Equivilent of an AI generated PFPs in watches are those 10$ watches you see some street vendor is selling. They could look appealing for those without a clock and want to try one, but for someone that wants a quality watch, they lack quality.

There exists good quality watches for 100-500$ range that'll never die on you, and can last multiple next generations after you. Hell, even cheaper if you don't care that much about aesthetics. It's dumb af to drop above 4 digit numbers on a watch where you're not getting any reasonable difference from any perspective whatsoever. Similar thing goes with PFPs.