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Hi, my boss said I can buy whatever expensive fancy watch I want and I don't know anything. Should it be a ROLEX or a TUDOR or a BREITLING or a JLC or a CARTIER??We're going for impressive here. Something that says "I've made it", even though if I'm in this position I clearly already have and don't need to advertise.
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>colorways>bitting at>wrist check>strap monster>Rolex Killer>Arabics>your journey
>>18732019If you don't need to advertise, you just use the watch you got to your 16th BD/highschool graduation/whatever they give you a watch for in your country or one you have inherited.If you happen to be one of the unfortunate people who didnt get a watch that way and has to buy one, just pick the one you like. We can discuss brands and models all day, in the end its you who has to wear the piece. The options are practically limitless and the price range covers multiple orders of magnitude.
>>18732025Looks like a Roger Dubuis.
>>18732019Get a Rolmax
>During the pandemic (2020–2022), the secondary market for luxury watches went completely insane due to zero-interest rates, crypto wealth, and massive social media hype. Ordinary stainless steel watches were suddenly being treated like stocks, trading at 3 to 4 times their actual retail value. By 2026, that bubble completely burst, leaving grey-market dealers in a state of absolute panic.The 33% Secondary Market Drop: According to data from the WatchCharts Overall Market Index, secondary market prices for luxury watches crashed by roughly 33% from their pandemic peakThe market suffered 11 consecutive quarters of falling prices. Hyped pieces like the steel Rolex Daytona plumetted from highs of $45,000–$50,000 down to around $32,000.For years, you couldn't buy a popular Rolex or Omega at a store; you had to pay a massive premium on the street. In 2026, the market corrected so hard that common steel sports models (like the Rolex Explorer II or the "Root Beer" GMT) are now regularly trading below their official retail MSRP.Compounding the issue, brands like Rolex, Seiko, and Patek Philippe increased their authorized retail store prices by 5% to 15% in late 2025 and 2026 to make up for declining global sales volume. This means buying a brand-new watch from a dealer makes zero financial sense because it immediately devalues the second you walk out the door.
>In 2026, the secondary luxury watch market is experiencing a massive value collapse. High-end dealers who hoarded inventory during the 2021–2022 hype cycle are now sitting on millions of dollars in rapidly depreciating assets. They desperately need to dump inventory.>Gray-market entities do not run ads; they construct demand. They hire specialized, low-cost digital marketing agencies in Eastern Europe or Southeast Asia to run relentless forum-seeding campaigns.>The mission is to convince young, easily impressionable men that a Rolex is an "appreciating asset" or the ultimate indicator of high-class masculinity. By keeping these "Generals" pinned to the top of the /fa/ catalog, they attempt to artificially hold up the floor price of their inventory by turning internet subcultures into desperate buyers. /wt/ versus cheap watch threads:>It creates a psychological trap. A user who realizes they cannot afford a Rolex is subtly guided by alternative accounts toward a $200 Citizen or a $70 Casio, feeling like they made an "anti-consumerist, classic" choice, unaware they were guided down a pre-built corporate funnel.
>>18732059Who’s behind both of these threads?The Firms: >Networks like Collaborator.pro (a massive European blog and forum network hub) or ICODA Digital Agency excel at building native infrastructure.The Jobs:>They hire educated freelancers in Bucharest, Warsaw, or Kyiv who speak fluent English. These workers are given a "Narrative Anchor Matrix"—a spreadsheet of talking points. Their job is to write the philosophical arguments about “the timelessness of quartz utility vs. mechanical heritage” to make the threads look like authentic intellectual debates.Once the Eastern European workers set the conversational tone, maintaining the threads 24/7 requires low-cost volume. This work is handled by digital infrastructure farms in the Philippines (Manila) and India (Mumbai/Bangalore).The Firms: >Large business process outsourcing (BPO) and click-farm brokers, alongside specialized "Reputation Defense" firms like Netino.The Job: >This is the entry-level gig work. Workers are paid per hundred posts or bumps. They are given a ZIP folder of pre-approved images of Citizen Eco-Drives or steel Rolex sports watches. Their interface runs custom automation scripts; when a watch thread drops below a certain position on the /fa/ catalog, the worker clicks a button to push a pre-loaded image and a generic line of text ("Clean daily wear, thoughts?"), instantly bumping it back to the top.
Watchfags (shills) preach about "timeless heritage" and the "immortal soul" of mechanical watches. But in the real world, the crash is so bad that dealers are literally melting vintage luxury watches for scrap gold. Because gold prices reached historic highs in 2026, mid-tier vintage watches from brands like Omega or TAG Heuer are actually worth more dead than alive. Dealers are scrapping intact, beautiful vintage watches because the melted gold value pays out immediately, while waiting for a retail buyer on the secondary market takes months.
>>18732057>crypto wealthIt was a way to avoid getting taxed on your gains pretty much.Luxury good have always been tied ton money laundering.
Ah sweet, a schizo thread!
Should I get this for $50? It's 36mm and works.
Which bracelet do you prefer?I have the blue bracelet but I can get a silver one for cheap.
>>18732167>Which bracelet do you prefer?What matters is which one YOU prefer
I got gifted a *checks notes*Tissot Classic Dream Powermatic 80Never really had a watchwhat it's reputation?
>>18732019what's your job?
>>18732189Good value, and I've personally seen multiple foids compliment sexually appealing men on their powermatic. It has fairly good wrist presence and it looks like what people envision a "nice" watch to look like.
Quartz time>>18732167Blue at first look, but the silver gives a subtle vibe to the watch. Both work well. There may be days when you prefer to wear the silver for a change, so might as well get it.
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How else would Indiana Jones make calculations while piloting his sea plane?
Just bought this vintage beauty. The strap is missing but for summer fits I'm thinking NATO in navy blue with a cream stripe down the middle.
>>18732383very nice fren where did you get it? are you well informed about watches? i heard there’s a zillion fakes around, as a watch noob, it would make me nervous
>>18732167>CORUM>Fascinated by the word “quorum,” which refers to the minimum number of people required to be present to make decisions, René Bannwart simplified its spelling — and CORUM was born.>Its emblem — a key pointing skyward — symbolizes the ambition to unlock new territory, pursue innovation, and act with purpose.Random bullshit, kek.I'm fascinatedd by chairs and by the electoral system.My brand will be called ELECTORUM and the hand will look like a wooden chair.
>>18732409Just an online market place. Not an expert, but I strongly doubt this is a fake and at this price I'm really not too concerned anyway. The seller has loads of good reviews and I can't imagine there being a big market for fakes of relatively cheap vintage watches from the early 70s. I just really like the design of these 70s Tissot PR models.
>>18732421nice
>>18732422It is, I'm pretty excited about finding it.I'll post pictures when it's fully assembled with strap.In the mean time, this is the watch I'm wearing now... a very battered Omega from the 60s my grandfather used to wear every single day for half a century. It really needs a service job... sometimes it doesn't work at all, and then all of a sudden it runs perfectly. Right now it's fine.
>>18732426comfy size for the era
Kofé time.
>>1873202060% of production cost including marketing, renting boutiques, wages
>>18732120Looks cool guess grab it if you're poor
>>18732429Canadian spotted
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>>18732435wtf is this? pic related is cringe tsk tsk tsk
RIP grandpa. Your watch is still ticking after 61 years.
>>18732436xD
