When it comes to a low end has been like A. Wolf, the phrase "pearls before swine" is quite apposite. If A.Wolf even knew what the word apposite means, he never made it past about a fourth grade level of reading.
I mean we're talking about a guy who bought a land locked piece of land in BFE and then crowed about how he had "arrived" - the equivalent of trailer trash extolling that they finally made it the level of a double wide. I am happy for him that he finally owns something not in Northeast Vegas, but please.
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accountinquestion
Why so many rolexes? If I had your money I'd have some FP Journes 100%. Do you go to the rolex AD at the casino?
Honestly I find rolexes so uninspired. I like watched that stand out a bit but not like a Richard Mille. The thing about rolexes is how slowly they depreciate so I've considered buying one due to that. It isn't so much about the cost of the watch and more about cost of ownership.
I actually bought a watch winder so I can alternate between my watches. Having to set a watch beyond the time is tedious.
I actually bought a $70 automatic from China with day, date, year, month. Incredible for $70. No one in America makes anything close to that and if they did it wouldn't be less than 100x the price.
Thought about buying a rolex super clone.. ha
Next watch will likely be an omega.
No, don't buy a fake Rolex. They are not like the real thing, no matter what you may think.
Fake Rolexes are made in different places, including in China. And anyone who knows anything much about these watches, knows that the counterfeits, even the best of them, are demonstrably different from the real thing, including in looks, movement, metallurgy and weight.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIWO8_ISeT0
If you watch this video all the way through, you'll understand how special fine timepieces are compared to counterfeits.
I posted just some of my watches, I have many. Looking at buying another one around mid five figures shortly. I generally buy only pre-owned from gray market dealers I know well, I do not over pay. I get great deals and the time pieces then become investments. Who will sell them? My heirs no doubt.
I do not have any F.P. Journe's. I do have watches like Pateks, Breguets, Jaeger Le Coultre, Audemars Piguet. Also Cartiers, Breitlings, Hublots, Franck Mullers, and others.
I am not so interested in F.P. Journe but I am interested in acquiring some Vacheron Constantins and A Lange & Sohne. If you really want to look at some watches that hold their value alongside Rolexes, look at A Lange & Sohnes.
I considered Richard Mille but I think they are just overpriced. Plus I am not particularly interested in their design or look. Hublot is fine though, and not all of them, just certain very high end models, including I have a Hublot platinum tourbillon.
As far as Rolexes, did you notice the older four digit Daytonas I posted? Very low key looking, but those are all worth six figures or more each now, and when I acquired them were valued at maybe only 10% of that. Many of the vintage Rolexes skyrocket like that.
You might take a look at some older Omegas, vintage. Here is one that is gold filled (not solid), I found for sale online today, that is cool:
https://i.imgur.com/UvvQu0el.jpg
and not very expensive (around a thou). I would not be shy about wearing a watch like that, it is a very nice watch in its own right.
Before you toss a brand name out there like F.P. Journe do your research, and understand the difference between for example F.P. Journe, Blancpain, Breguet, Vacheron Constantin, Jaeger LeCoultre, Ulysses Nardin and A Lange & Sohne, and why one might pick one over the other for a specific movement or complication.
People like to talk about things that get them excited. For me that would include women, watches and Vegas, but I keep the women talk to a minimum, at least online, being married.
There are two reason to use a watch winder. One, as you mention, is so that you don't have to keep setting the time. Or date (imagine for example a complicated watch like a perpetual calendar, I have both a Patek and Audemars perpetual calendar, they require a bit of effort to set).
The other, is that mechanical watches, like automobiles, run best when they are run every now and then. Leave them alone, and their mechanisms tend to dry out. So if you can't wear the watch or wind and run it every now and then, a watch winder does that for you.
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accountinquestion
Do you go to the rolex AD at the casino?
As far as buying from the Rolex AP (you are already getting the lingo down!) in the casinos, at least one of them knows me well and I have bought from at least two of them. However, none is owned by the actual casino (any longer), so having clout in the casino only gets you so far these days. For the most part, there are only certain watches you want to buy from the AP these days, such as stainless Daytonas, where the MSRP is well below the retail value, the rest, you may get a better deal going gray (market).
