Papa, it's all relative. At one point I thought $2000 for a watch was insane. Then it became $5000. It just went up from there. Now? I'm poor!
We can't all be Executive K. My threshold for what I consider insane hasn't changed in the last 20 years.
I did. Sold all my "investment" watches. Right before the market went south. Too bad really, the market is back and bigger and what I'd buy for $2000 and sell for $4000 ~ $4500 are fetching $6K plus. Glad I'm out, watch snobs make roadracers seem sane. What I have now are ones I wear and that my daughter will get when it's time.
Your cheapness needs to be a held up as an example to all those aspiring to be cheap. You make me look I am free in my spending. You sure you're not German?
Someone who thinks a $5000 watch is crazy isn't cheap: he understands how many race weekends and flight hours he can get out of that money. That said, my mother and my brother made fun of my cheapness my entire life.
Bought one as a fun daily beater for days when I am in the field working with my hands and to give the Below Zero and the Sub a break. In my opinion, the "compass" is a total waste of time (it's not really a compass) and the size is a little on the small side for me (39) and the stock strap is total junk (even after conditioning the Chinese "leather" a bunch, I could never get it to match to my wrist). But for the price it's cool because it gets lots of comments, the luminous hands are bright, hands are easy to read and the movement and chronograph seem to actually keep good time. Also can take a pretty good beating. I saw it as a daily deal over at Jomashop and I snagged it at a pretty good discount.
Thanks for the heads up. Hopefully mine will be here in a couple days. I'm not to concerned really about the "compass" as far as the band, I'm not opposed to swapping it out, have done that a couple times before. Which remindes me I need to have some links taken out of a couple others. Loosing weight's great until your watches stop fitting just like everything else. When I ordered it was listed as a 41, I wonder if it has been updated since you got yours? How long ago did you pick yours up? I don't really wear anything high end, a Movado and Bullova are the top end of my watches, just seem to rotate through them on a regular basis.
Anyone recommend any good online places to check out TAG and other nicer stuff that is reputable? Only place somewhat close to me is Jared the gallery jewelry ( which means extremely high priced shit)
^ I've used them for a few lower priced watches and they've delivered. Damn good. I would warn you to consider that if you go gray market, the manufacturer warranty is voided. You have to balance out the price versus risk. What are you looking at?
Jomashop is great. I've purchased several nice watches from them. Some of the deals they have are really strong. When I purchased my Breitling two years ago I used them to get the local dealer down a bit in price. It's hard to beat the prices they offer, free two day shipping, and no sales tax (in most states)
Too used to digitals? Little hand is the hours, big hand is minutes. Hours are the 12 large marks spread around the dial and the minutes are the 48 little ones along with the 12 big ones....
