[Closed] So, just sent my watch off for a service...

And if so, which of Jupiter's moons is it on?

Where a Rolex will draw admiring glances, a Casio will leave a girl wondering if you still live with your mum

Has a watch ever drawn an admiring glance? Except in the narcissistic imagination of the wearer? Or from some other equal Patrick Bateman-a-like? Seriously? Every time I think of a statement watch like a Rolex, I immediately picture.....

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They're like wearing a Range Rover Sport, with a body kit, and a private plate on your wrist. It just screams 'absolute stroker'!

Binners - agreed, and indeed Terry is a stroker of epic proportion. But for Mr Terry there a rolex is proportionally less expensive as a fraction of his hard earned and deserved (!) salary than a casio is to you or I. Is it gratuitous bling when you can afford it with ease? Do you and I look at a Rolex and not see its obvious engineering loveliness because of its social climber connotations?

A fair point. I'm sure its a beautifully crafted piece of engineering.

I know its just personal preference - each to their own, and all that - but I think from an aesthetic viewpoint, they're just really, really ugly. I don't like unnecessarily fussy stuff. And there's far too much going on with watches like that. And those chunky metal straps are truly hideous! All IMHO, of course

Got an orange neoprene strap on mine binners, like a proper divers jobby! Does that increase my stroker level exponentially? I also wear mine in the sea....

obviously there is a sad section of society that thinks a bling watch marks them out as an important grown up member of society, you know what they say about fools & their money

And you probably know the saying about fools who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing? We can't all win The Monty Python Yorkshirmen sketch!

I've not got a £4k watch, but do have an MG in the garrage which once serviced, taxed, insured and MOT'd costs about what the OP's paid, every year! It gets used probably a lot less and can't even tell me how much petrol is left accurately, let alone the time!

wrightyson - I think an orange neoprene strap sounds refreshingly, almost dangerously subversive actually.

They're still ugly though 😉

Don't understand this expensive watch business, but coming on a bike forum (even this one) and ****ing on about watches is asking for mockery.

and I claim my £5

'Tis funny how this comes up every few months on a forum where many wouldn't think twice about paying £4k for a push bike. It always polarises those that can't begin to see how anyone would spend so much on [i]that[/i] and those that do.

For those wondering, it never reaches a sensible conclusion just goes quiet for another couple of months before going round all over again 🙂

[i]Has anyone pointed out yet that you could have just bought a replica for £120 and the wife would be none the wiser?[/i]

It looks like [i]that[/i]?!?

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Gawd, I wish I had money to burn.

I don't understand the hysterics over expensive watches. A five grand watch might seem ludicrous to some people but's it's hardly the definition of opulent consumption. If you drink 5 pints of lager every Saturday night you spend about 5 grand over 5 years.

In a similar vein a nissan micra is probably a more reliable and useful car than a fancy penis extension, but I know what I'd rather drive 🙂

John Terry's watch is a limited edition. It's powered by the up and down shuffling motion of a five knuckle shuffle. He recharges his many many times during the day. 8)

'Tis funny how this comes up every few months on a forum where many wouldn't think twice about paying £4k for a push bike.

I think most of us would think twice about that much, but in any case - bikes DO something. Watches don't - at least nothing remarkable.

Expensive watches ONLY exist as a place to put money. They have no other quality besides being expensive. That's it.

Errrr, 'that's it' in your opinion. Others may exist. Not very liberal of you there Moly. Tut tut.

A £5k bike works a lot better than a £100 bike.

A £5k watch doesn't tell the time any better than a £5 Casio - and often worse.

I don't think they're a waste of money necessarily - I've never lost significant money when selling old watches. In fact in some cases have made a few quid. But would agree they're not much more than (well engineered) man-jewellery and no different to women wearing expensive jewels or those ridiculous handbags that cost the GDP of a small country - if it wasn't for my stupid expensive watch how would the fit young men I'm trying to pick up in the bar know that I was loaded? 😉

if it wasn't for my stupid expensive watch how would the fit young men I'm trying to pick up in the bar know that I was loaded?

You could always light your Cuban cigars with £50 notes

You could always light your Cuban cigars with £50 notes

Apparently it's against Wetherspoons' code of conduct 🙁

Errrr, 'that's it' in your opinion. Others may exist.

Yep, entirely my opinion.

As for being illiberal - I'm not trying to stop anyone from having nice watches 🙂

There are many things in life that you can choose to spend money on where a cheaper functionally equivalent option exists - pens, clothes, cuff links, ties, luggage, shoes, food, fragrances, pets, hi fis... Just because I can't understand why people spend money on some of these doesn't make their choice any more right or wrong than someone who chooses to spend their money on a watch, but don't let that stop the arguing...

pens, clothes, cuff links, ties, luggage, shoes, food, fragrances, pets, hi fis

A long list of things I'm proud to say I've never spend more money on than was required 😉

(and I don't think I've ever bought cufflinks, ties, or fragrances)

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(and I don't think I've ever bought cufflinks, ties, or fragrances)
I bet your mother buys them for you 😉

I inherited one tie from my father that I use for funerals and weddings, I've got some of my grandfather's cufflinks about somewhere but I never use them because I have shirts with that clever modern invention - buttons.

And I attract women with my natural musk.

Oh, and thanks to an advert over there --->

May I present you with a watch owner:

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A long list of things I'm proud to say I've never spend more money on than was required

Same here! Except the hifi, which I cobbled together with discount and obselete ebay parts for about £500 in total, between 1999 and 2004 or so. It sounds a lot better than a £50 radio though.

That chap looks like he's wearing an Android watch though - interesting!

So you've only ever eaten the cheapest thing that satisfies your appetite and nutritional needs and only drunk to quench your thirst? Surely anything more than that is frivolous expenditure?

Hmm..... I don't think food is comparable. I'm certainly not eating in fancy restaurants and drinking expensive wine, but I'm not eating tesco value either.

There's bargain bin stuff, there's good value, there's nice, and then there's bonkers. And then on top of that there's ludicrous.

I have a watch - it's not a £5 Casio, it was abotu £150. It was also a gift, and I never wear it either 🙂 My wedding ring was £90 too.

Welcome to the STW puritans thread. Only unnecessarily expenditure on high end bikes allowed. Any other category considered frivolous 🙂

Oh no, I do spend money on stuff, but only stuff that actually DOES something. And I'll spend more on stuff that does something better than a cheap version.

Value comes from function in this house 🙂

I love champagne, and will hopefully be drinking loads over the next two weekends for the wife's 40th celebrations, however it'll probably be cava....

Moley's pointless expenditure this week:

Panniers
Rack
Map of Great Divide route

🙂

Hehehe 🙂

Value comes from function in this house

So no "little luxuries" just because you like them, regardless of whether they're the best thing for the job or not? Each to their own I guess...

A £5k bike works a lot better than a £100 bike.

A £5k watch doesn't tell the time any better than a £5 Casio - and often worse.

£1.5k coffee machine.
£20-£40 kg artisan roasted coffee
£4.5k one-off handmade italian bike.
nice restaurants. (bocca de lupo on saturday, Noviko next week)
first name terms with the wine merchant.
6 pairs of handmade northampton goodyear welted shoes.
only an old seiko diver and a new yobokies seiko.

it's my money, i enjoy spending it on those things. they are there to impress me not other people.
i'm not after affirmation of vanity purchasing from people on the internet i have never met 🙄

evidently if you buy well with rolex's they should just about pay for their servicing. prices of daytonas have always risen.
you would never get that kind of return on a bike, car or hi-fi.

>Includes a crown but that is included in the price of the device anyhow. After having recently had to spend £900 on a new turbo for the car and now this, the worst kind of things to have to spend money on.<

Aha... fur coat and nae knickers.

You wont be banging many fitties wearing a cheapo watch. If you cannot afford a proper watch, then better to go with a cheapo digital watch or a Swatch. These watches are not pretentious and what they say about you is that you are practical and rate functionality.

One of the worst fashion sins imo is wearing anything analogue looking that costs less than say 2K pounds. Unless like I said its a Swatch.

One of the worst brands of watches and biggest accessory sins are for example Tag Heuer watches IMO. Why - It shows that you 'care' about your watch, but that you could not afford a proper watch. If you cannot afford a proper watch then just buy a Swatch. Otherwise save up a bit of money and buy a cheaper IWC etc... 🙂

or a cheaper Sinn, timefactors, Stowa Damasko, archymede etc. still great watches but without the gauche rolex nob-factor. (though i wouldn't mind a silver faced air-king as they are quite subtle)

A £5k bike works a lot better than a £100 bike.

A £5k watch doesn't tell the time any better than a £5 Casio - and often worse.

Unless you are racing or riding suitably difficult terrain then I'm not sure that's true. Certainly I've seen a group at Cwmcarn on £20 bikes who looked to be thoroughly enjoying themselves. Their club had set a £50 limit previously, but the bikes were deemed too good 😀

A nice watch is clearly jewellery to some extent, so it's ability to tell the time is secondary. Mine is absolutely rubbish at timekeeping, as its over 80 now and needs a bit of work. I just like it as an object.

£1.5k coffee machine.
£20-£40 kg artisan roasted coffee
£4.5k one-off handmade italian bike.
nice restaurants. (bocca de lupo on saturday, Noviko next week)
first name terms with the wine merchant.
6 pairs of handmade northampton goodyear welted shoes.

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Some really tasteless and cheap analogue watches I've owned... 🙄

I would post pics of the ladies I've been with but they were/are never fitties and it was nothing to do with my personality that attracted them to me 🙄

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Never owned one of these but they're next on my list 🙂

WTF happened in here in 24 hours?

Anyhow, casio - £8.99, I don't live with my Mum, I love the simple face (like wearer), I don't feel like a nob, and I don't crap myself when I'm wearing it that I might scratch diddums.

*I do also have a diddums watch fetish, and I am a nob*

EDIT: Although I don't 'get' Rolex, or mahoosive cases and chronograph stuff, unless you really are a diver, or have wrists the size of your ankles.

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This thread has really depressed me I didn't know people could be so judgemental about almost nothing.

This thread has really depressed me I didn't know people could be so judgemental about almost nothing.

You must be new here....

...and as a result, must be judged.

Friggin' newbie. Stinking up the place with your new car smell...and...erm...sorry..I seem to have lost the thread. What were we talking about?