Does this watch make me look old?

[WaTaGuMp]

I wont lie, I have been tempted to negotiate on this one.

http://www.chrono24.com/zenith/el-primero-36000-vph-42mm-mens-watch--id5602148.htm

 

[Thebobo]

I am looking for a watch that I can watch porno and will fit on my left wrist.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I am looking for a watch that I can watch porno and will fit on my left wrist.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Lol, not angry at all, just having me some ATOT fun, you know? In these matters, tempest in a teapot, it all comes down to this.

I will admit that I was a bit startled that your taste, so "clean" in my eyes in other areas, so markedly diverged from mine in this instance.

Cliffs: You are DEAD to me forever or until the Sun explodes in one last cataclysmic hurrah, you fetid pool of egregious excess. DEAD, do you hear, DEAD! 😀😉😱

You cut me real deep bro...

 

[brianmanahan]

The model's expression says, "this looks so stupid."

she's a witch, may we burn her?

 

[Fir]

For Rolex I'm more of a GMT Master or Sea Dweller guy.

For technical flare, hard to beat a Ball especially at night!

 

[sdifox]

You have heard of smartphones right?

 

[WaTaGuMp]

You have heard of smartphones right?

They don't look good on the wrist.

 

[sdifox]

They don't look good on the wrist.

Get a smart watch?

 

[JulesMaximus]

ebay has plenty.

Yeah, and they're all $3-4K over retail or not genuine.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Yeah, and they're all $3-4K over retail or not genuine.

I wouldn't be afraid of getting a fake, sticking with actual jewelers there. As for price, yeah if you don't want to wait, that's the down side.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

You have heard of smartphones right?

This. I've never liked watches. A smartphone is superior in functionality, so a watch is about as useful as a bracelet. Which I'd never wear either.

 

[Muse]

i think it is a fairly old looking watch... my favoriate rolex is the Daytona (many different flavors), one day i'll get one. I still can't bring myself to spending so much on a watch... 5k was enough for my lower tiered baume et mercier

I've never even seen a Rolex. Feh!

This. I've never liked watches. A smartphone is superior in functionality, so a watch is about as useful as a bracelet. Which I'd never wear either.

Dude, I'm wearing zero jewelry (I met a hand surgeon who said he'd never wear a ring, he'd surgically repaired so many hands that were badly injured by virtue of the victim wearing a ring). There is not a diamond in the house. In fact, all the gold in the house is shit I found on the street. Some day I think I'll duck into one of those places that buys gold and walk out with a small check.

 

[ponyo]

Damn Jules. Now you have me looking at Rolex Submariner 18k gold. I found local store with couple preowned I might go look at.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Damn Jules. Now you have me looking at Rolex Submariner 18k gold. I found local store with couple preowned I might go look at.

Pre-owned, Wata approves.

 

[repoman0]

Pre-owned, Wata approves.

Preowned is one of the silliest words I can think of. It sounds like such a natural part of every day vocabulary until you realize it came from some marketing guy 50 years ago trying to avoid placing the stigma of a used item on something he was selling.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Preowned is one of the silliest words I can think of. It sounds like such a natural part of every day vocabulary until you realize it came from some marketing guy 50 years ago trying to avoid placing the stigma of a used item on something he was selling.

I don't really care about what term is used, I know I wont be paying new prices, that's all that matters to me.

 

[repoman0]

I don't really care about what term is used, I know I wont be paying new prices, that's all that matters to me.

I don't pay new prices on things either (cars, etc) but I call it what it is. The point was there shouldn't have been such a stigma with used items to begin with that a fake word had to be invented.

 

[Perknose]

I'm waiting for the price to go down on this one.

 

[ponyo]

Pre-owned, Wata approves.

I don't know anything about watches but that one caught my eye. It looks like new one is around $33k or so and used ones are in the $16-$20k range. That's pretty big saving and enough to buy my wife a watch as well.

 

[ponyo]

I'm waiting for the price to go down on this one.

That's crazy. How do they make any money? Credit card processing fee is probably like $0.45. That leaves like $1.60 for the watch, Alibaba fees, and shipping from China to the US.

 

[Perknose]

That's crazy. How do they make any money? Credit card processing fee is probably like $0.45. That leaves like $1.60 for the watch, Alibaba fees, and shipping from China to the US.

Well, the same factory makes the Rollexxes WaTaGuMp is eyeing on ebay.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

Well, the same factory makes the Rollexxes WaTaGuMp is eyeing on ebay.

Swatch is to watches like Luxottica is to eye wear, they own quite a lot of the major brands. Swatch also owns ETA, which is a major player in the movements made, the Vajoux 7750 etc is used in a huge number of watches. My Hamilton uses the H21 movement, but guess what, Swatch owns Hamilton.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Swatch is to watches like Luxottica is to eye wear, they own quite a lot of the major brands. Swatch also owns ETA, which is a major player in the movements made, the Vajoux 7750 etc is used in a huge number of watches. My Hamilton uses the H21 movement, but guess what, Swatch owns Hamilton.

TAG-Heuer uses ETA movements, or at least they used to. They have been trying to get away from ETA movements for a while now but that means manufacturing their own in-house movement which isn't easy to do. Or should I say it isn't easy to do it well or economically.

I'm actually wearing my TAG today.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

TAG-Heuer uses ETA movements, or at least they used to. They have been trying to get away from ETA movements for a while now but that means manufacturing their own in-house movement which isn't easy to do. Or should I say it isn't easy to do it well or economically.

I'm actually wearing my TAG today.

The Calibre 1887 Tag uses is surrounded in controversy, they claimed it was an all in house movement, which turned out to be false. You can Google it, and read up on it, the cliff notes, it was a Seiko movement and then they ended up buying the rights to it, or something along those lines. An 1887 chrono is one of the watches I have looked into getting, but I cant justify their prices, since its almost identical to the look of my Jazzmaster.