Watches! What do y'all have on your wrists?

[FrantzM]

This Rebellion T-500 "Ultimate Racing Machine" may have looked wild on my wrist.
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Unfortunately, my Inner "grease monkey" nixed the idea when I could not even locate the Zerk fittingS in its mechanismS!

That's a FUGLY time piece!!
It looks cheap!... I believe it would be perceived as cheap, in a "knowledge of price removed" test!
Looks like it came from the INVICTA school of Watch design, an example:

Peace.

 

[Keith_W]

Watches are a lot like hi-fi in that regard. A $150k watch does not tell time better than a $150 watch. In fact it is less accurate, less reliable, and requires more servicing and more adjusting. Even the comments here are similar to what we see elsewhere in ASR, e.g. that comment about hiring a PA to follow you around to tell you the time is similar to hiring a band of musicians to play for you every night. What that $150k buys you is craftsmanship. Which is why so many people are fascinated by turntables and valve amps even though the performance might be inferior to your $300 Topping. It's a different market with different priorities, and they don't care. There are even more examples - why do I bother with a beautiful hard cover coffee table book when I could get the same information from a Kindle? Why buy a fountain pen when we have keyboards? Why hang art on walls when you could buy a digital picture frame and enjoy works from the Masters on demand?

 

[pseudoid]

"Price: CHF 155,000 pretax" = USD 165,441

If I could afford an accountant, I would be told that I cannot even afford the VAT on that T-500...
But its price tag does not prevent me from appreciating the creative minds who can conjure up such beautiful but complex mechanical movements.
This gear-head design is much less complicated than any "turbillon complication" ...even if those did not cost a bazillion!

 

[PatentLawyer]

Watches are a lot like hi-fi in that regard. A $150k watch does not tell time better than a $150 watch. In fact it is less accurate, less reliable, and requires more servicing and more adjusting. Even the comments here are similar to what we see elsewhere in ASR, e.g. that comment about hiring a PA to follow you around to tell you the time is similar to hiring a band of musicians to play for you every night. What that $150k buys you is craftsmanship. Which is why so many people are fascinated by turntables and valve amps even though the performance might be inferior to your $300 Topping. It's a different market with different priorities, and they don't care. There are even more examples - why do I bother with a beautiful hard cover coffee table book when I could get the same information from a Kindle? Why buy a fountain pen when we have keyboards? Why hang art on walls when you could buy a digital picture frame and enjoy works from the Masters on demand?

I agree with a lot about this comment. Another thing is that watches can be a very balance-sheet friendly hobby. I've had a number of watches appreciate (which I've sold to buy different ones or pocket the $$), and others that I've sold for a small loss (and got to enjoy them for however long at very little cost).

 

[EJ3]

If I could afford an accountant, I would be told that I cannot even afford the VAT on that T-500...
But its price tag does not prevent me from appreciating the creative minds who can conjure up such beautiful but complex mechanical movements.
This gear-head design is much less complicated than any "turbillon complication" ...even if those did not cost a bazillion!

I appreciate the 'creative minds who can conjure up such beautiful but complex mechanical movements' but I also believe that it is one of (if not THE MOST) the most FUGLY watches that I can recall seeing.

 

[pseudoid]

...but I also believe that it is one of (if not THE MOST) the most FUGLY watches that I can recall seeing...

imo; the 'FUGLIEST part' award goes to the cheezy band/strap!

 

[MarkS]

I actually prefer the Ochs Und Junior Day/Night to the Krayon Anywhere for a mechanical watch with a sunrise/sunset indicator, a bargain at around $16K base price (more if you want fancier stuff like a gold sun):

In-Depth: The Ochs Und Junior Day/Night

A radically simple version of one of watchmaking's most romantic complications.

www.hodinkee.com

 

[Leporello]

That's a FUGLY time piece!!
It looks cheap!... I believe it would be perceived as cheap, in a "knowledge of price removed" test!
Looks like it came from the INVICTA school of Watch design, an example:

Peace.

A future cult classic. Mark my words.

 

[pseudoid]

A future cult classic. Mark my words.

Not if I owned it!

OT??
I was given my first wrist-watch at the age of 13 and did exactly what any 1960s youth would have done with it.
But the consequences of taking that watch down to its last inner screw taught me a great life-lesson in finance.
You See?
After the old-man discovered that I had devolved that wind-up watch down to its smallest elements; (I presume) He decided to teach me the wrong life-lesson by taking my meager savings to get that #$%^ watch repaired.
His attempted life-lesson never stopped me from either taking things a part or to prevent me from reconstructing them back together... for life.
The right life-lesson I learned (at that young age) was to NEVER trust anyone with my finances, not even family members. YMMV

 

[nick-v]

Still waiting on the brown leather strap to arrive...

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On the brown strap...

 

[pseudoid]

Still waiting on the brown leather strap to arrive...

Leather-straps are like quartz movements' need for battery replacement, every few years.
YMMV

 

[Wicky]

Originally bought for my other half, she wore it for some years but at some point got bored of it, now its mine. a classic dress watch

 

[Gary_G]

HP is cool too ...

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No RPN?

 

[pseudoid]

HP is cool too ...

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I'll trade you my original issue HP-45 (mint condition), if yours is RPN.

 

[MarkS]

Looks like it's not, it's got an equal-sign key.

Long ago I had one of these shirts, HP gave them out free after a demonstration of their HP-65 chewing-gum calculator circa 1974.

 

[Gary_G]

I'll trade you my original issue HP-45 (mint condition), if yours is RPN.

It does not look like there was an RPN option.

HP-01

 

[Gary_G]

Looks like it's not, it's got an equal-sign key.

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Long ago I had one of these shirts, HP gave them out free after a demonstration of their HP-65 chewing-gum calculator circa 1974.

Oh, I would love one of those. As a Land Surveyor, I had HP41, HP48, HP33 calculators.

 

[MarkS]

I had the OG, the HP-35, which I spent all my spare cash on before going off to college. Then at least one other LED model before ending with the HP-15C that I still have somewhere ...

 

[_thelaughingman]

Jacques Lemans F1 Chronograph gifted to me in 2009.

 

[pseudoid]

An odd dare (and even more odd observation) after 39 pages of posts:
I dare anyone to find another female watch in all these pages.

[Do I win anything for being first to post?]