>finally make it>time to find out about luxury I guess>basic rolexes are only like $10kwtf I thought they were like $100kAnyway what dumb luxury shit do you like?
>dumb luxury shitI want a stockpile of Christian Dior Sauvage (Eau de Parfum). I can confirm it makes women horny.
Like 90% of the time you spot someone with a luxury watch it's a chinese replica.In the last 10 or so years replicas have gotten so good that the high quality ones are indistinguishable from the real thing unless you start pulling it apart and inspect the interior. So the status symbolism that used to come with luxury watches is gone now that every retard is walking around with fake $50k watches on their wrists. Everyone will assume yours is fake too
>>62422171Yeah I don’t really want one. Just the first thing that came to mind.
>>62422176It's natural to want to show off a little bit when you finally escape the wagecage, but tech billionaires minimalism and high end replicas (not just watches, but most things) having become easily available online to everyone has changed the game.If you want to show off, get a nice house. You can't fake that
>>62422160>Anyway what dumb luxury shit do you like?Not telling. It hasn't caught on with young strivers who have no taste, and I want it to remain that way. Always gatekeep.
>>62422223If that's your reason to own a quality watch, you really are just a peasant.You own those watches for 2 reasons. 1. You enjoy the craftsmanship. 2. You have them as a collection as those are tax free to pass down to your family and they'll know where to have them evaluated.Caring about what idiots on the street think must suck.
>>62422223this. we are in an era where poor people are dressed up in (fake) designer shit and rich people are dressed as inconspicuously as possible
>>62422232That's why the vast majority of people purchase luxury watches. If you enjoyed the craftmanship and viewed it as an investment to be passed down it'd be sitting in a safe, and not on your wrist for everyone to see. If that's you, good, but most people wear it precisely to show it off.
>>62422232I used to work at an authorized dealer for one of the highest end brands and almost all the people who came in raved on about muh craftmanship. If you tried to actually have a conversation about the watches mechanics they only knew surface level shit that takes 10 minutes to learn with google. Muh craftmanship was just their excuse so they wouldn’t seem shallow
>>62422160I like Hugo Boss suits and polos, watches (multiple manufacturers but Rolex, JLC, and Grand Seiko in particular), Porsches, luxury vacations, Tom Ford cologne, and expensive dinners. I could buy nicer suits than Boss but I like how they made the uniforms for the SS.Rolex starts at $10k for an explorer or an airking or a used no date submariner but they go all the way up to $1 million. You should really never drop more than $50k on a Rolex though, past that point you should only be looking at the Holy Trinity, A Lange & Sohne, or FP Journe. A Daytona with jewels on it is still just a Daytona.>>62422223The only true tech billionaire minimalist was Steve Jobs but he still was flashy, he wore Japanese designer and drove brand new Porsches and AMGs that he rotated out every 6 months. The rest just have no fucking taste. They should have never given those niggers money.
>>62422160I like Bulova and you can get a nice one for like $600 and they're one of the most accurate watches on the planet. All you're doing with a Rolex is paying for the name so you can show it off to women and flex on other men when you go to Miami.
>>62422232>You enjoy the craftsmanshipnigger you couldn't tell the difference between a fine crafted watch and one that comes inna cereal..
>>62422322poorfag cope
Eh, I'd rather just wear something I could rough up and easily replace like a Tag Heuer or Kuoe watch and waste my money on something ridiculous like a G1 humanoid robot instead.
I have a Rolex and an Apple Watch in a fancy gold plated case that I use to track my exercise/steps The Apple Watch gets more compliments lmao
>>62422350>apple watch with gold plated caseThat is extremely tacky. You sure the people complimenting it arent just mocking you?
>>62422160>yucky upwardly mobile newly middle class behaviorbeing rich is getting to fly wherever you want without having to wait in line, or sleeping on a boat next to a beach with no one on it because no one else can get there.that is luxury.buying shit like this is for cattle who want to impress the other cattle, and make it clear that they DEFINATELY DID NOT GROW UP EATING MAYONAISE SANDWHICHES AND PUBLIX CHICKEN ONCE A WEEK
>>62422353The average person is just tacky man I don’t care since I only wear it while exercising
>>62422160Chrono24 to scoop up a vintage watch for cheap
>>62422403Buy an ad you huge gaping asshole faggot
>>62422366Youre only saying that now that the average retard in america can afford one of these watches.And I agree with you.
>>62422160Imagine springing for a multi-thousand dollar watch without a tourbillon. All the other rich guys will laugh at you behind your back.
>>62422160For me it’s Zenith
>>62422160We had a watch thread about a month ago and determined>price doesnt matter, you should aim for 100-1000 dollars, anything else is giving money to tyrone when he robs you in an alley>if the watch looks cool and you like it it was worth >rolex doesnt store as much value as it used to
>>62422421>poorfag cope>>62422419Actually a based and respectable option
>>62422407The average retard in america could always afford one of these watches it's only in the last 20 years or so that the price started skyrocketing because of globalization and poorfags who want to think they're rich so they chase trends. Rolex along with the other swiss companies used to make regular consumer grade shit for ordinary people because a watch was just something you needed as a tool. Then the quartz crisis came and almost put them out of business, they redirected their efforts with luxury branding but it never really took off until the internet fed it to the normie masses.Watches are retarded tulips, they don't have much value in physical material, it's all just labor and that labor can be bought cheaply elsewhere. They're also coping mechanisms for people who live in tiny shoeboxes that can't own real things that take up space.
>>62422171This isn't really true. I've seen so-called Rolex superclones and they never get it right. You wouldn't be able to get it past anyone who cared deeply about the Rolex you were interested in, which only makes it good for impressing non-watch people. Who frankly don't care anyway.I'll give you an example, this is the ARF replica of the OP 39. They don't bevel the hour markers. No replica of this watch does. That is very visible because those bevels glint constantly. If you know anything about this watch, you'll never mistake the replica for the real thing.Now a Frankenwatch that uses an authentic Rolex dial, hands and case - that's hard to tell. But costs a significant fraction of the genuine article.t. I wear a quartz Omega that looks cheap as fuck, but I like it.
>>62422466I spot fakes fairly often, probably about 1 out of 2 high grade watches that I see. The most obscene ones are when you see a fake Rolex and it's ticking because it has a quartz movement, lol. Frankenwatches are not truly fake and most of the time it's shady watch dealers who put them together to be able to move stolen watches. You'll never buy a frankenwatch if you just don't buy second hand bullshit from Jews though.
>>62422481What are the odds of a genuine jeweler selling fake secondhands? I'm curious.
>>62422176- expensive bicycle (easy to blow 10k) and fun if you are in a city with good bike paths where you wont get smoked by a truck- nice gold chain under shirt (easily 20k if you buy a 100g 24k chain)- expensive education for your kids (loads if you send your kits to ivy leagues)- nice car - expensive mountainbike if you live in an area with trails (easily 10k)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGXxfGMz08k
>start saving up for nice watch>months later realize I don't want the watch>invest/spend the moneyThis has happened to me 3 times.
>>62422491complete fake is very low because it's both criminal and would completely destroy their reputation if they got caught selling fake shitjewelers also constantly buy and sell back and forth between each other and if another jeweler comes into your shop and spots fake shit in your inventory your reputation is cookedbut frankenwatches are fairly common with shady jewish jewelers in the diamond district etca frankenwatch is all authentic parts it's just the parts come from different watchesthey buy stolen watches off of niggers and then will take these stolen watches and play mix and match with a bunch of other watches so that if your average coffee and donuts pawn shop unit cop comes into their shop and looks at their inventory they'll never spot the stolen watch they're looking forpretty much nobody will ever be able to tell a watch is a frankenwatch besides a rolex service technician that opens it up and looks at the serial numbers of everything, and rolex won't service a frankenwatch
>>62422160one thing to remember. nobody actually notices 10k steel rolexes. the fun stuff that actually get compliments are way more expensive. and if you get a steel rolex and want respect you are GAYget a daydate 40 and you'll enjoy it for life. personally, i want a heavy custom gold 18k belt buckle but havent pulled the trigger on it since what i want is going to be like 40k
>>62422507one other thing if you want to blow money: get good math tutoring for your kid so he will grow up to be a tech elite chad IMO every spare cent should go to your kids math education.
>>62422507day dates are nice but a solid gold day date is not a great daily driver because gold is soft and you'll fuck up the band wearing it all the time.but if you wear one everyday anyways, respect
>>62422171Some of them their wrists are so small it makes their fist look comically oversized
>>62422516i've worn solid gold watches daily for the last 10 years. and 18k is not that soft. soft is 22k plus. my 24k necklace clasp always gets bent out of shape and will have to be replaced in a few years.paying 10k for a steal watch always seemed like a scam to me.
>>62422516also, the new daydate bands are solid and very nice. and it'll be decades before the pins wear down and need to be replaced. its only the old 1970 ones that had terrible hollow bands. any time i see a man without a gold watch i think "thats a weak man."
>>62422526>paid $40K for a watch containing $10K melt value of gold>at least I didn't get scammed!
>>62422532those are actually about 20k worth of gold for the new daydate 40 its i think 170g of gold in the new daydates. and at least you're getting precious metals. if you pay 10k for something that is identical to a 100 dollar aliexpress watch what are you paying for other than store service?
>>62422526they probably cost rolex 2k-3k to make so they're sort of a scam in that sense but they retain value better. explorers/datejusts trade flat to msrp or slightly lower on the secondary market, and submariners/gmts/daytonas all trade at a premium. if you know how to play the AD game and get allocations for the nice steel watches you end up getting to buy assets that you can flip for profit
>>62422532at peak gold prices you could buy a daydate for less than the melt value of the gold + the movement sold separately.
>>62422539fake rolexes that are 99 percent identical to real cost 400USD so its probably 100-200 dollar manufacturing cost. the only thing you are paying for is those expensive brick and morter stores that you go to and have them tell you that you have to go on a waiting list LMAOt. not a rolex owner but want a carnelian dial daydate
>>62422540you'd be surprised how many watches get melted. for a long time i was obsessed with gold watches and would buy them from scrap buyers when they planned on melting them. the watch i am wearing right now is an 18k iced watch from tourneau's failed experiment having oscar walden design watches for them so they could sell their own house brand. failed miserably and i have not even seen a picture of mine in existence anywhere else but its a pretty cool watch desu. bought it for the gold content a while ago.
>>62422337lol you are not a watchmaker. This anon already confirmed my suspicions >>62422251You're a wannabe sophisticated larper, how pathetic can you get?
>>62422536Peacocks have feathers to show off the fact they can waste energy and resources, which is a hard-to-forge signal of fitness. Humans don't have feathers, but they can have luxury goods.You're paying for a brand like all luxury goods. It's a pure statement of the fact you are rich, have good taste (you hope) and can afford to "waste" money on something exclusive. A steel watch and a gold watch are identical from that point of view.Now in fact watches and gold jewelry are a bit better as a proposition than that because they typically keep value. You aren't burning money on them, you can recoup some at resale, so there is an investment aspect to a nice watch. But again, if you are not planning to melt it, a good steel watch is no worse, and steel holds up to wear better than gold, so it's even more compatible with the investment aspect.
>>62422536I have a hamilton they're made the same way at the same place as rolexes pretty much, it's 12mm thick which is impressivethe aliexpress watches that use cheap citizen or seiko movements are fine, they're thick, they lack refinement, that's what you're paying for, the movements are usually just ever slightly more accurate too. Rolex isn't the best example but there are other luxury brands that offer more features you just won't get outside of the luxury market like a perpetual calendar in a automatic mechanical movement
>>62422558Hire more black business agents in new york, new jersey and pennslyvania. In sick of you racist cuckold irish pricks running these unions racist cock suckers. Its not illegal to talk about bitcoin on the job!
>>62422556steel "luxury" is gay shit. if you show me a 300g 24k necklace i will believe you are something. a steel watch 99 percent the same as a watch from aliexpress is gay shit. imagine if tutankhamun's death mask was made of steel.
that crap get a copy for like 20 bucks. looks same, does same but cost nothing!
Watches are like the bell curve wojak meme. Poor people wear a smart watch or whatever $10 Casio, middle class people buy an expensive luxury watch to try and show off, and actual rich people just wear a smart watch or $10 Casio >>62422505This is entirely a good thing
>>62422562>if you show me a 300g 24k necklace i will believe you are something.It's too niggerish for white men.I don't mean that in a racist way, its a cultural difference. Western Europeans and white Americans had the Great Male Renunciation after the industrial revolution, where ostentatious clothes and jewelry were shunned. Ever since, we have to show off in very low key ways otherwise it looks tacky and low class. The only male jewelry allowed is a watch and a ring. Blacks and South Asians didn't have that so they can get away with wearing lots of gold and gaudy shit.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Male_RenunciationI agree though, if gold jewelry was acceptable to wear, it would be a more direct and effective way of showing your wealth off for a man.
lots of times it's a sentimental gift, if you buy one for yourself it's lame but if it's tied to a close friend or relative wanting to be that generous towards you it says a lot
>>62422568do you think million dollar jacob and co watches are being bought by middle class people? americans are delusional. the actual fun watches cost a LOT of money and middle class people aren't buying them. american middle class people only know about entry level steel rolexes and think that's luxury.
>>62422576i'm in canada where european civilization was obliterated decades ago and we're basically back to square one building a new culture. i can tell you that talking is very easy but SHOWING through material goods that you are something is much harder. if everyone is low key how do you know who is an actual brokie?
>>62422576>It's too niggerishand wearing luxury brands and expensive jewellery/watches isn't?
>>62422584>how do you know who is an actual brokiewe look out for the guy trying to impress people with his rolex
>>62422591but a rolex is means you have a minimum net worth of 10k. which means you're worth that, minimum. if you have a big house, nice car, nice watch, kids at harvard etc people can infer that you are not a brokie, correct?
>>62422594You sound brown so you'll never reach high class
>>62422594people that think rolexes are for brokies simply don't look at the cool stuff which i can guarantee middle class people cant afford.
>>62422598im the last white man in canada.
>>62422601You'll need a lot more than that watch to be able to wear it without looking like you just put rims on a Corolla
>>624226124chan hates fancy watches but i love the old octapus rolexes.
