I don't understand high-end wristwatches

[Eli]

I got my ~175$ G-Shock for my 18th birthday. That's also more or less my upper limit on spending money on watches.
It was a good buy. It's reliable, protected like a tank(and slightly heavy as a result) and looks cool.

[DanS]

For a manly man, it's best to wear jewelry that nobody describes as jewelry. I guess it relies on one of those foibles of human nature.

Maybe other products just haven't pitched themselves to men in quite the same effective manner as the big watchmakers. At a minimum, watches have been sold for an awful long time, and therefore have a head start. People don't wear cuff links too much any more, but those can still look good and are masculine. Tie clips are out of style. Snuff boxes are well past their prime.

Then you have suits, the quality for which, as you say, varies pretty strictly by price, at least to the $1,000 level (I don't know if a $2,000 suit is better than a $1,000 suit, because I haven't worn a $2,000 suit).

[Footie Mad]

Hey don't degrade our snuff, snuff boxes will never go out of style and the lousy european union can take our lives but they can never take our snuff!!!

[Mrs. Tuberski]

well not all women like to wear jewlery, I can actually say i have one necklace with a pendant that tubers has the other half to on his chain, one set of rings my weddng rings and one watch that cost 40 bucks that i dont wear anymore cause of my job. When i scrub in for surgery i have to take the rings and watch off and its a pain in the ass witht the watch to keep taking on and off. So most of the time like on weekends I forget about having the watch and dont wear it.
As far as the purse for the ladies i guess you can compare that with you guys need for the biggest baddest, fastest computer on the market.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Mrs. Tuberski
As far as the purse for the ladies i guess you can compare that with you guys need for the biggest baddest, fastest computer on the market.

I object!

The fastest computer on the market is immensely useful! With it, you can play Doom3 with 268 fps instead of 193! Can't you understand how radical the difference is?!


Tsk, women

[Az]

Actually, in the case of Doom 3 it's hardly that. If you ain't got the fastest one, you got jack.

[Spiffor]

Don't ask me, I never play Doom3, because I tend to play good games

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Sorry guys Must of went a bit crazy for a brief second Dont know what I was thinking, Of course the computer is in no comparison to a purse. Id surly pay more for a pc then a purse, oh wait i did when i bought my laptop Course then again i dont know what doom 3 is.

[Dr Strangelove]

Oooohhhhh, Mrs T. Did yoiu see the thread on the UNICEF Smurf bombing commercial? Your choice of a new avatar is somewhat ironic.

[duke o' york]

It's from the Mafia game in Other Games. Ironically, in the ad everyone but Baby Smurf dies, and Baby was killed by the mafia long ago.

[Spiffor]

Actually, the smurfs are currently getting massacred in the Other Games forum (a mafia game is occuring there, with Smurfs killing each other with glee )

[Mrs. Tuberski]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Oooohhhhh, Mrs T. Did yoiu see the thread on the UNICEF Smurf bombing commercial? Your choice of a new avatar is somewhat ironic.

No i havent read the thread, the guys are right the avatar is from the mafia game. Once the mafia kills me it will change. It is ironic that the mafia is named the smurfs wonder if the gm had inside info??

[Aabraxan]

I'm confused by this, too. I like watches as much as the next guy, and maybe more so. At any given time, I own several, such as a work watch, a dress watch, etc. And I typically have my eye on several others. But even if I had the money, I just don't think I could bring myself to spend thousands on a watch. A couple of hundred, maybe, but that'd have to be the limit. I see watches and go "man, I like that watch!" Then I see the price. "But I don't like it that much!"

[Urban Ranger]

I suppose if you have millions of dollars several thousand is nothing. Kinda like a couple of bucks to us.

[Mr. Harley]

I don't understand it but frankly I don't need to. What's the point of making good coin if you can't buy something stupid and frivolous for someone you love??

Flubber. These single guys will all learn. Eventually.