cynic-al – Member
My point is none of you would know if your £5K watch had a cheap quartz movement.
I’m not saying its wrong, just stop pretending its not about one up man ship of some form
I own both quartz, solar quartz and automatic. Yeah, I can tell the difference and no, I don’t give a toss what anyone thinks about my watches, especially as I expect most folk don’t even notice them.
And as such, it is in no way about “one up-manship” as I fully understand there are plenty of people about who are likely to be waaaaaay more wealthier than me, but who simply choose not to own Swiss watches or drive certain cars, etc, etc.
I’ve chosen to own the watches I have, for me, nobody else. All this “status” and “making a statement” rubbish is just that, rubbish. Its the same with my cars, I don’t give a fig what anyone else thinks when they see any of my cars and more fool anyone who judges what type of person I might be on that basis. They’ll most certainly be wrong.
In fact, in my experience, the folk who harp about the expensive watches (expensive being relative), cars, whatever other people choose to own, appear to me to be ever so slightly jealous.
Edit:
Yeah, and a bit of what Mr Smith posted, too ^^^