• @211@sopuli.xyz
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    6 months ago

    Is anyone into watches at the age when rich men try to pick them up? I could be easily impressed by a watch now (a personalised G-Shock $50-300, any diapason $500-2k, an enthusiastic watch geek explaining their Jaeger-Lecoultre…), but not part of the target demographic.

    • Noxy
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      126 months ago

      I have some lower-four-figure watches and am always way more impressed by someone with a Casio or non-grand Seiko, they clearly have more sense than me, and excellent taste on top

    • Zagorath
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      66 months ago

      Personally I’m more impressed by a $1k Garmin than a $250k Rolex or whatever.

      • @kalpol@lemmy.world
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        46 months ago

        Ive been pretty impressed by this 20 year old knockoff Victorinox I have that cost like nineteen dollars originally and yet somehow keeps perfect time.

          • @211@sopuli.xyz
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            6 months ago

            Got excited enthusing about watches I thought are cool. Very long and deraily for the original topic. But in summary I think there’s a factor to the dance of advanced mechanics, so to say, and the deliberate absence of contemporary smart functions. A “soul”, if you will. Someone showing you their watch can be like them telling you their favourite Linux distro, it says a lot about a person, and just having one suggests they may be “my people”. 😅

            Though Rolexes are imho fugly often gaudy pieces that do have in-house movements but it clearly isn’t their main selling point. Please don’t use them as an example. I don’t know what the Linux equivalent would be, ChromeOS?