It’s not like a $1000 watch is something to brag about, either. Watch-wise, that is.

Oh, hey, I spent a thousand dollars on this shit because it looks cute!

Aww, please.

I was going to add something here, but then I saw the series title. 

Oh, hey, I spent a thousand dollars on this shit because it looks cute!

Aww, please

Isn’t that the premise of all high end watches?  It’s not as if they keep time any better than a $30 Timex.

A thousand dollars doesn’t really get you all that high end of a watch. A Rolex, for example, goes for around four grand at the low end and they’re not exactly dressy at that level.

Fools must be allergic to money, else why do they keep throwing it away?

Fools must be allergic to money, else why do they keep throwing it away?

That was just great!

For the cell phone instantly killed the watch. What’s the point? I get instant accurate time from a satellite now.

The last time I wore a watch was for an interview to look dressy. On the way to the interview I noticed the watch battery was done cause time was a few hours off and wasn’t moving. I figured it wasn’t a big deal, why would an interviewer ask me the time? Well I did get that question as the interviewer saw my watch and liked it. I said it was roughly 9:45 as that is what the watch stopped on. I got lucky as it was 9:50.

Why would I want to carry a phone just to tell the time?  Especially as a wrist watch is so… handy.

Well my question is why would I want to carry a wristwatch just to tell the time? I already have a cell phone…

Especially as a wrist watch is so… handy.

Funny you should mention. Guess what they call a cell phone in Germany?

i have a casio watch that i haven’t taken off in 11 year all though it says 9 years battery but its still sharp as hell , the last time i took it off i felt like some one has cut my hand lol.
any way its stainless steel and very lose so it keep sliding on my hand causing no actual health issues, i wouldn’t trade it for a 1000 bucks.

Webs- don’t make me come over there. Grrrr

I recently went hunting for a new wrist watch.  I am an astronomer, so I tried to find one (digital or analog) that kept Sidereal time as well as Solar time.  This is useful for knowing what astronomical objects are currently visible.  I naively asked for a watch that kept sidereal time at a few watch shops, but they looked at me as if I were from another planet. 

I decided to do a web search and I found the following *amazing* watch by Philippe Patek.  It has two faces and shows you the constellations that are currently visible on the ‘night side’, chimes on the hour, keeps track of the lunar day and moon phases, and much more.  It is the most complicated wrist watch ever built and you can get it for the low, low price of 1.7 million U.S. dollars!!! 

This watch can even do things the Telsar Watch can only dream of… It prevents the wearer from being abducted by sending out an inverse… um… Tachyon pulse that scares away aliens.  It also will completely prevent the wearer from dying, or your money back**

** Dead wearer must show up in person to collect refund.  Next-of-kin not eligible.

Now THAT’s a watch! Though I have to admit that even if I could afford it the price is high enough that I’d probably give it a pass.

I have an $80 Seiko.  it isn’t particularly accurate but it winds itself, is waterproof, comfortable, is easy to read in any light or no light, and has a nifty rotating bezel.  When they say the pizza is ready in 15 minutes, you spin the bezel around…

I’m really hard on jewelry in general. I’ve shattered stones in rings and generally left a wreckage of metal that I’ve had to cut off my flesh so much that I really just don’t bother. Maybe one day I’ll invest in something ridiculously platinum that all my malicious arm-waving can’t violate and that won’t have some sort of weak spot my inner calamity can’t exploit.

Just for Elwed

Funny