Originally posted by: Mwilding
If I did, I don't think it would EVER get any wrist time.
Woah, you sound like someone who posts on a watch board with a phrase like that...scary
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With that said, personally I can understand those who cannot fathom spending a good deal of money on a watch, and in a way I envy them as really a watch when taken down to its purest function is to tell time accurately, and which ironically is the what watches that cost thousands upon thousands of dollars are the worst at....
Today expensive watches are a novelty, they are basically jewelery for most men, and for some they represent a hobby (though this is a very very very small percentile of the buying public)....
What surprises me is when the enthusiasts, who should know better, demand exacting precision and accuracy from their mechanical pieces and often use quartz as a benchmark...always leaves me dumfounded, kind of like a pen enthusiast who expected their expensive fountain pen to write just as well if not better than a bic, and be just as durable/carefree...
You don't buy nice watches for their "perforance", and that is in any aspect, not just timkeeping...as I can find a cheapo that will do anything "Better" for a fraction of the cost....you buy nice watches because you either want to show off, you appreciate the craftsmanship and have an interest in obsolete technology, or because someone got you one as a gift
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And who ever talked down Casio I will go on record as saying I have a really nice G Shock, cost under a hundred bucks, and for what I paid I think it is a really nice watch....I also have owned three Rolex along with a few other expensive and not so expensive brands and from an enjoyment standpoint I find the Casio has never been a disappointment...cannot say the same for the Rolex pieces, and no I don't put accuracy on a pedestal but I am a stickler for value for one's dollar....
