Originally Posted by MDawg View Post
Meantime AccountInQuestion is answering his own questions. You seem fixated on public venues (mentioned...bars?). What about family events? Private dinner parties? That is what I am talking about.

You are thinking too much about what a high end watch "means." Maybe because no one you know wears one so you assume that if someone started wearing a $50K watch it would be for some reason. In my peer group we just wear them, we aren't trying to impress anyone. It is merely representative of having achieved a certain level of success so now we treat ourselves to some nice things. No different from driving a certain car versus another car, or choosing to live in a certain neighborhood, or house, versus another.

Now I am pretty overboard on the watch thing and have more than anyone else in my family, but there are others in my family who own a number of expensive watches too. It just becomes a sort of obsessive hobby at some point. One person collects time pieces, another who knows what.


Anyway, it is rather cool that you would prefer a F.P. Journe to a Rolex, that indicates that you're not just buying into the usual. HOWEVER, you cannot compare a brand that just started in 1999, with something like Breguet (1775). Napoleon Bonaparte had a Breguet. So did Winston Churchill.
My family events are not anything I dress up for unless you mean going out with the girl. I'm not sure how you get that I am "fixated". Getting dressed up and caring about my appearance usually means I'm going out in public, yes.

It is merely representative ... which means you wear them to represent. But you come to that conclusion with some silly word meant to elevate yourself.

FP Journes makes 800 watches a year. Rolex makes 100s of thousands. I am a man who appreciates fine mechanical things.

For a guy who professes to be so into watches it is very odd you have all these Rolexes and 1 AP. You are quick to inform everyone the value of them too - as if that is the important part.

FP Journes are known for contemporary innovation. Rolexes are kinda the opposite. I could afford a new rolex easily but I don't want one really.

I'm not buying a watch to think I'm napoleon. I'm buying it for looks or the technical impressiveness of the complications. Rolex is neither.