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My car has a smaller user manual than that watch!
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On the wrist of a man who's got his hand on a BMW gear lever; shifting into fourth as he accelerates out of town. An image that really captures the elegance and power of a successful modern man. It's what we all strive for. Perfection.
You've missed out the glimpse of the long legs / short skirt on the gorgeous blonde sitting in the soft leather seat next to him.
You've missed out the glimpse of the long legs / short skirt on the gorgeous blonde sitting in the soft leather seat next to him.
Who is secretly regretting selling herself so cheaply and wondering how much alimony she can get?
Might be an argument that Capitalism, driven by people's desire for shiny, actually ultimately helps create more wealth that can be funneled into good causes? Maybe.
(Or there might have been once, except now we know it doesn't.)
Well our desire for shiny tech certainly has helped the emerging economies. Because they suddenly have a big asset that we need - labour. So we can progress technology.
Important to remember that not all tech is pointless consumerism. Some of it improves lives, like medical tech. Plus their making of it not only grown their economies but fuelled our desire to buy it, which has increased volumes, which has made it far cheaper. So scientists can now do things that were never possible before. And whilst we buy shiny new smartphones, the cost of normal and basic smartphones has plummeted to the point that people in emerging economies can afford it themselves. So information and ability to do things has spread to some pretty out of the way places, which empowers them to improve their lives. Sometimes, at least.
You could have bought a car at that price!!!
ps. very nice watch
Nice watch you capitalist filth bag 😀
Anyone know anything about expensive Wellies? Not Hunters!!!
That bloody operating instructions book though!
1 page in each major language and many of the niche ones too telling the owner to get it serviced regularly and don't drop it!
Nice watch and garlic presentation box.
Crikey! Some people really don't like nice watches 😉
Nice enough if you like that style of watch; never appealed to me, I'm afraid.
I'm sure the OP will enjoy many happy years wearing it.
Currently happy wearing my forty-odd year old Yema Rallygraf, which seems to be keeping very good time.
Provided I wind it up every day!
Doesn't your phone (which is likely about your person 100% of the time) tell the time?
I've worked out that it takes approximately twenty to thirty times longer to take a phone out of your pocket to tell the time than just glance at a wris****ch.
Exactly the reason wris****ches were invented, because it was much quicker and easier than fishing a fobwatch out of a pocket while in the trenches during WW1.
Seems we've regressed a century even as the technology has advanced.
Human's can be pretty dumb, sometimes.
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I don't know, some people just roll in here after nearly a year long absence with no explanation...
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CountZeroSeems we've regressed a century even as the technology has advanced.
Human's can be pretty dumb, sometimes.
Yeah we've regressed to the point where the "pocket watch" can make calls, send texts, access almost all the information in the world, every photo, video, film and it can shoot 4k video and take 20mpx photos. 🙄
Anyway, nice watch op. I wouldn't know if it cost £100 or £10,000 but it looks classy, not gaudy like a lot of expensive watches.
So, what does it do apart from tell the time? It must do lots of things judging by the size of that instruction book.
It tells the time.
Like food fills your tummy.
And sex with a sex robot ticks a box.
Or.. Life is a journey where pleasure can be gained at every single step of the way... And every time he looks at his watch, he feels a sense of enjoyment and impressiveness at the wonder of little springs and cogs and engineering on his wrist.
And when he dies, he's no better or worse than the man with a £4.99 Casio.
But until then, he's happier than he would have been without this watch.
And I suppose that's as important as anything else in life.
It's a lovely watch. There's people who won't understand it. And that's ok!
DrP
(When I got my omega I said to the chap who sold it to me that I might just bin the box. He looked aghast at me, and I've been guilted into keeping it. It really is obnoxious!!)
Box and papers are important for resale value if you want to sell in the future.
If you aren't bothered about that sort of thing them fling them, I tend to keep mine just in case.
I thought that after I said it!
I rarely sell things on in 'as new condition' - I've no intention in selling this (watch) on - I got it with the intention of giving to my son when he's older 🙂
DrP
I'm sure it's a lovely watch, and the OP must like it very much, but I'm still interested to know what else it does according to that huge instruction book?
Edit: Silly me, you're all blokes, not one of you will have read an instruction book 😀
I bet he's gagging to get hold of a sweaty g shok is 40 years. Anything else would just be far too pomp for STW 🙂
Human's can be pretty dumb, sometimes.
I was thinking the same thing! 🙂
The big instruction manual helps gives the box some more gravity. A heavy box is a sign of quality 🙂
Exactly the reason wris****ches were invented, because it was much quicker and easier than fishing a fobwatch out of a pocket while in the trenches during WW1.
Wrist watches were invented in the 16th Century.
The instruction book may be fat, but only because it tells you the same thing in about 20 languages.
I'm nice and I hate watches.
Imagine my disappointment opening this thread. I was hoping for some right-swipes.
The big instruction manual helps gives the box some more gravity.
It's big but not so large it distorts gravity.
The bigger the thing the more gravity it has. It doesn't distort anything.
Clearly you're too silly to afford an exquisite time piece , beautiful box and extended manual 🙂
Nice watch OP! However, I love the Casio!
And a Merry Christmas to [s]me![/s] you all, and your respective loved ones 🙂
Love, Capitalist Pig.
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The bigger the thing the more gravity it has.
Poorly phrased, there seems to be a drinking festival going on is my excuse. 8) Hic.
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Daily wear. Do I boast about it/bore people with stories about how much it cost? (Just short of 5k if you're interested) No, no I don't. If anyone enquires I will tell them. Did I have any real reason to purchase it? Am I a deep sea diver? No. Its just a well crafted beautiful thing. It makes me happy to have it on my wrist. If watches are not your thing then I don't feel you will ever understand and I respect that 🙂 I also own several other watches - from £50 G-Shocks to a 1976 Seiko Bell-matic auto. Love them! 😀 Nice watch btw OP
fills the sports/gents watch gap well.
What does this even mean? That's just words.
Question, at what price point does your watch demand that you drive a white car?
Daily wear. Do I boast about it/bore people with stories about how much it cost? (Just short of 5k if you're interested)
🙂
Happy Christmas.
Question, at what price point does your watch demand that you drive a white car?
Have you been reading my skoda yeti thread???!!!
White yeti on order for march...... 😉
DrP
that's a lovely watch bearnecessities enjoy sir 😀
p.s i don't celebrate xmas myself but have just bought myself a ps4 and no man's sky the last guardian good times 🙂
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Nice OP. Abit pricer than my new one. Where did you get it and how much % off RRP? I'm after a Omega
Enjoy. There's nothing like a bit of understated excellence.
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The instruction booklet is so thick as it contains instructions in loads of languages.
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Pressie off the wife, had one years ago as a young submariner back in the 90's. Lost but now replaced 20yrs later! Had no idea I was getting it 🙂
Nice watch that and the box is just what I've been looking for, for me mums ashes if your chucking it with the rest of the Christmas packaging I'll have it at postage cost.
Nice watch OP. Very nice indeed.
Yours, with a touch of envy........Z
And a Merry Christmas to me! you all, and your respective loved onesLove, Capitalist Pig.
Is that, is that a scratch on the Bezel? 😉
What a bunch of show offs ,what's wrong with a Casio for 30 quid ?I bet you lot are pub bores with your displays of wealth ?
Metal straps look cheap ..
Edit: Silly me, you're all blokes, not one of you will have read an instruction book
It's often the case that those who write instruction books/manuals do so from the point of view of someone who understands how a thing works, to those who don't, they're almost incomprehensible.
I bought a whizzy Alpine car head-unit some years ago, even changing the date-time was an exercise in teeth-grinding frustration, it made absolutely zero sense trying to follow the manual.
Had the same issue with a bloody microwave my mum bought, she ended up in tears trying to use it, I tried to follow the instructions and nearly smashed the thing.
Took it back and got a simple one with just dials on.
Even Casio G-Shock instructions can be unclear.
What watch was Sid Fiddler wearing in Carry on Girls?