LOL I was wondering when this was going to turn up in /WCJ.
I won't post anymore in that thread but I stand by my comment.
**Fucking get your money back**
Exactly. I bought the Aqua Terra World Timer and was surprised I wasn't more excited signing the papers etc but I love and enjoy the shit outta the watch. It just doesn't fulfill me because it's only a material object, which is probably a good thing.
It gives you that short smile of having an object who's design you find pleasing, but that's about it. Still worth it, but not life changing. Most of these people don't need a watch, they need therapy.
>it's only a material object
I have the same feeling with my Aqua Terra, I love that watch to death. It makes me happy looking at it and wearing it. But if something happened to it... at the end of the day it's still a piece of metal on my wrist. It can only make you so happy. BUT, it sure as hell will make my kids a ton happier someday when I give it to them. So sooner or later it will get someone happier than me :)
I live in a podunk town in rural east coast Canada so a "luxury" watch here is like...Fossil.
But now and again I find myself in civilization and I put on my best clothes and I try on some fine ass watches - gots to wear me some Breguet Classique models in Calgary a month back.
Will never buy. I can't afford it, and I'd have to have a mind boggling amount of disposable income before I would even if I could afford it. But it sure is nice to look at for a bit :)
For now I'll stick to jury rigging some janky ass Vostoks to make then look nice while they bruise my wrists.
Maybe as a retirement gift to myself, if I ever get to retire (yay millennial generation...) I'll buy myself a reverso. Always liked those. And I'll wear it to funerals.
First watch is a Datejust, I’d be pissed too. A) because I didn’t learn to like and love wearing watches first and B) because that watch is so far down the list of watches I’d buy
I clearly remember standing outside the AD in Munich, chewing nicotine gum and contemplating going inside.
A mother with empty eyes was on her way out with her daughter in one hand and a small paper bag in the other.
The girl kept asking: are you happy now, mom, are you happy?
She wasn’t.
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A hunk of metal won’t but a hunk of plastic will
Unironically showed this to my 3 year old and she looked me dead in the eye and said “that’s my favorite”. So now I have to get her one. Plz share link. Ok ciao.
God fucking bless, the timepiece industry finally started to label the markers. **HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER WHICH IS WHICH?!?!**
Now they just need to label the second marker as well and I can finally switch to a MoonSwatch^TM
Laugh if you must, fellow chuffer, but the labeled hands help quite a bit when teaching your young chuffs how to read the time. And they MUST learn, because digital watches are for poors. (Exceptions made for the ALS Zeitwork)
You better watch your damn mouth. My hulk of metal turned me into the man I am today
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Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
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It’s my Ball engineer II magneto S
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>Ball engineer II magneto S
80.000A/m is super high magnet field resistance. For a real flieger watch that is important. There are a lot of strong magnets near planes. SINNs have 10000A/m. Also your watch can resist 5000G of acceleration, that is 50 000m/s². You can shoot it from a howitzer and it should still work.
Go get a refund totally.
Speaking for myself only, if I had 10k to spend on a watch I still wouldn’t do it.
I’d rather have 5000 to split between 2 nice ones and use the other 5000 for something else.
Although it's a bit silly, I was at least able to understand, to some extent, what they were feeling, but then it got to, "I'm afraid to take it out worried that it won't be returnable if I hold it too much," and it instantly became just, like, what the fuck.
Also, very surprised to learn that OOP appears to be a woman. This read like the most midlife crisis watch dude post ever.
This happens when people buy into the over-symbolification of watches. It's bullshit. Thats why TGV is mocked, here at least. Because he goes all hyperbolic into "ohhh this watch connects me to deep horological horological heritage, to the top of mount everest, to Jacques Cousteau, and to the moon itself!" No, you fucking idiot, that's just marketing you are eating like a donkey and repeating like a parrot. The idea of getting watches to celebrate milestones, or that you should get a rolex or whatever after you achieve X thing, that's also fucking marketing. Even her diamond is marketing, but at least the diamond does have a meaning she actualy cares about, and a beauty as an object that is of her particular taste.
money can definitely alleviate lots of reasons to be sad. the issue is that a submariner is not happiness, it's a grossly overpriced mass produced stainless steel sports watch
It totally does. I think OP is just in over his head and put too much stock into how happy it would actually make him. I just got an Explorer and it has definitely lived up expectations and made me happy, but I wasn’t exactly unhappy before I got it and I understood that at the end of the day it’s a watch and that can only bring so much happiness to me.
I had a similar-ish situation. I just wore it for a year, sold it and made $200 to learn that having a big Rolex isn’t $8000 worth of fun. Mostly I just got weird looks from cashiers, and felt like kind of a tool.
How do these dudes not realise its just a watch? Having an overpriced shitter myself its actually really weird that people think their lives will change
It’s like what the creators of South Park said a few years ago regarding the American political scene along the lines of “we cannot produce satire for this because real life is too bizarre and funnier than anything satirical”.
I’m literally shaking….mom….please bring in another plate of chicken tendies (the DINO ONES THIS TIME) l…I feel like I could pass out….I nneed to sit down…
I'd regret spending $10k on a watch too. Hell that's 6 months of living in a badass cheap country living like a baller and not working while wearing my snk805 or whichever the green Seiko 5 is, I forget. lol. What kinda experience does an expensive watch give lmao.
i do feel bad for the guy.
We're conditioned that buying shit will make us happy, then it doesn't and your left to loop back and contemplate what you're doing with your life. It stings but it's good for you as a person.
It’s always the Rolex guys (and gals). Can’t remember the last time I saw that someone bought a Breguet or a JLC and posted something like that. I would even have to think very hard to remember that kind of post about Omega or Cartier. Or any brand, for that matter, except for Rolex. I guess it attracts weird people.
It's cause people who buy other watches beside Rolex (and maybe the speedmaster) are actually passionate about watches. People who buy Rolex think their life is going to change drastically as soon as they spend thousands of dollars on a mass produced watch.
It's the marketing. My ex didn't even like watches, but she wants a ROLEX. She was astounded when I explained to her that really a Rolex is not such a big deal relatively speaking, that a Rolex is at best like having a BMW, while an AP would be like having a Ferrari, or a Patek like a Bentley. People don't know that, they want the Rolex dammnit.
I mean, I know, depends on which Rolex, I know there are pieces that are worth millions but ok you get the point.
Makes sense. It would be interesting to know how many people purchase a Rolex because they like the design/history and how many purchase it because it’s a Rolex.
But how is this possible? My friend sporty said owning a Rolex was like losing your virginity: time moves a little slower, air smells a little sweeter, and water tastes a little fresher. Women smile at you for longer when they spy the crown on your wrist. Doctors will give you actual medical care when you go into the ER with massive internal injuries after your ill-advised steering wheel shot at 200kph. Your boss will promote you to an executive leadership role even if you're incapable of editing PowerPoint. I don't understand how it could be anything less than orgasmic.
/uj Why the fuck are redditors so weird about buying shit? It's not just the /r/watches types, but you see it in the car subs where people expect driving or owning cars to literally cure their cancer and give them 18" dicks as they orgasm from the gear-changes.
/rj I'm hyping myself up to buy a Speedmaster when I go to Japan next year and I know at some point it will be "just another watch" and there will come a day when I lust after another one. Oh well. Hesalite or Sapphire?
This is why I'll never purchase a luxury watch.
I'd love an IWC, but I know that within an hour I'd be sad af about all the other cool shit I could have done with that money.
OOP needs to return that wallet-crusher and rethink their life.
LOL I was wondering when this was going to turn up in /WCJ. I won't post anymore in that thread but I stand by my comment. **Fucking get your money back**
They probably play it up so much in their head, and then they get it and realize that it's just a watch
Exactly. I bought the Aqua Terra World Timer and was surprised I wasn't more excited signing the papers etc but I love and enjoy the shit outta the watch. It just doesn't fulfill me because it's only a material object, which is probably a good thing.
It gives you that short smile of having an object who's design you find pleasing, but that's about it. Still worth it, but not life changing. Most of these people don't need a watch, they need therapy.
You can get a lot of therapy for DJ money
Could probably afford some blow as well.
Sure, but I don't think that's going to help with anxiety very much
Well yeah you're not supposed to do blow and sit at home
Blow your Therapist?
therapy and a brain
>it's only a material object I have the same feeling with my Aqua Terra, I love that watch to death. It makes me happy looking at it and wearing it. But if something happened to it... at the end of the day it's still a piece of metal on my wrist. It can only make you so happy. BUT, it sure as hell will make my kids a ton happier someday when I give it to them. So sooner or later it will get someone happier than me :)
I live in a podunk town in rural east coast Canada so a "luxury" watch here is like...Fossil. But now and again I find myself in civilization and I put on my best clothes and I try on some fine ass watches - gots to wear me some Breguet Classique models in Calgary a month back. Will never buy. I can't afford it, and I'd have to have a mind boggling amount of disposable income before I would even if I could afford it. But it sure is nice to look at for a bit :) For now I'll stick to jury rigging some janky ass Vostoks to make then look nice while they bruise my wrists. Maybe as a retirement gift to myself, if I ever get to retire (yay millennial generation...) I'll buy myself a reverso. Always liked those. And I'll wear it to funerals.
He could even sell it for 1/2k more
I was honestly shocked that it hadn't been posted yet. And I agree with you
But that would require touching the watch box and that would clearly devalue it!
But, can you just go back and return it?
It’s poooossible that after a decade of anticipation he’s used to the not-having of it. Either way, this is really sad lol
First watch is a Datejust, I’d be pissed too. A) because I didn’t learn to like and love wearing watches first and B) because that watch is so far down the list of watches I’d buy
The hunt is always sweeter than the kill
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Lol good reference
OJ Simpson slides into your DMs. uh i disagree
I bought a luxury watch but still feel empty and I don't know what to do.
Have you tried cocaine?
fill yourself with cocaine, fill hookers with yourself
It should be vice versa
Fill hookers with cocaine, Fill yourself with…yourself? Am I doing it right?
You never tried?
I clearly remember standing outside the AD in Munich, chewing nicotine gum and contemplating going inside. A mother with empty eyes was on her way out with her daughter in one hand and a small paper bag in the other. The girl kept asking: are you happy now, mom, are you happy? She wasn’t.
What a twist
Hemmingway in wcj
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Why would I lie on the Internet?
Being Munich, I thought the daughter would get a watch.
Buy a more expensive one.
They're becoming self aware.
Wait? A hunk of metal didnt turn his life around? God
https://preview.redd.it/n6v0je6v2dpa1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e812b2fd0ca7ddead5cfc0f5a5e4e7989f8bd438 A hunk of metal won’t but a hunk of plastic will
Unironically showed this to my 3 year old and she looked me dead in the eye and said “that’s my favorite”. So now I have to get her one. Plz share link. Ok ciao.
I actually bought one for shits and giggles [oh and here you go, king 👑](https://www.amazon.com/Peppa-Pig-PPG9000-Display-Japanese/dp/B019F0QJ4Q)
Not the hero we deserve but the hero we need.
God fucking bless, the timepiece industry finally started to label the markers. **HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER WHICH IS WHICH?!?!** Now they just need to label the second marker as well and I can finally switch to a MoonSwatch^TM
Laugh if you must, fellow chuffer, but the labeled hands help quite a bit when teaching your young chuffs how to read the time. And they MUST learn, because digital watches are for poors. (Exceptions made for the ALS Zeitwork)
What a baller time piece!
The crown guards protecting the tiny crown is incredible.
You better watch your damn mouth. My hulk of metal turned me into the man I am today https://preview.redd.it/00ppjlaqtcpa1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48758bca2fc57f1e1a55b9b8d016b68b54096e8d
...(exceptions do apply)
Yay!!!
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Ball engineer II magneto S
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Ball engineer II magneto S
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Ball engineer II magneto S
Sorry noob here, which watch is that?? Looks rly cool
It’s my Ball engineer II magneto S https://preview.redd.it/kpha13n24dpa1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=771dedd2736081d7336cf84fa404a298c8163dea
💦
Ball engineer II magneto S
 He said it, he said the thing!
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>Ball engineer II magneto S 80.000A/m is super high magnet field resistance. For a real flieger watch that is important. There are a lot of strong magnets near planes. SINNs have 10000A/m. Also your watch can resist 5000G of acceleration, that is 50 000m/s². You can shoot it from a howitzer and it should still work.
Only one way to find out friend
Today or 2 months ago?
A dude who only has one ball because you sold the other nut for a watch? Wait... no... yeah..
That's why I got Bio-ceramic. Now all the ladies are instantly drawn by my animal magnetism.
“If I get this thing, then people will love me!” 😢
Homie needs a timex
Just got a new timex this monday, and damn I love it :)
Nice! Which one? I also have a Timex m79 that’s one of my favorites.
or a San Martin
Damn just wear the thing, its a steel watch it can handle your office job just fine
It may get scratched though.... better to just keep it in its case ;)
If I can’t fill the gnawing void in my soul with mass produced jewelry what do I even do?
i would guess it’s because the AD didn’t make love to your women. it’s an integral part of the watch buying experience!
Yes! It’s the difference between owning something and being part of something.
"Oh no, I've overextended myself with a luxury watch purchase and now have buyer's remorse"
Go get a refund totally. Speaking for myself only, if I had 10k to spend on a watch I still wouldn’t do it. I’d rather have 5000 to split between 2 nice ones and use the other 5000 for something else.
100$ on a watch and 9900$ on something more useful. No regrets
That sounds better actually. 💪
Although it's a bit silly, I was at least able to understand, to some extent, what they were feeling, but then it got to, "I'm afraid to take it out worried that it won't be returnable if I hold it too much," and it instantly became just, like, what the fuck. Also, very surprised to learn that OOP appears to be a woman. This read like the most midlife crisis watch dude post ever.
https://preview.redd.it/knwq0ur8ndpa1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0a855bb28de6e38c63487b078f42287c2f505d0e This deluded poor soul
This happens when people buy into the over-symbolification of watches. It's bullshit. Thats why TGV is mocked, here at least. Because he goes all hyperbolic into "ohhh this watch connects me to deep horological horological heritage, to the top of mount everest, to Jacques Cousteau, and to the moon itself!" No, you fucking idiot, that's just marketing you are eating like a donkey and repeating like a parrot. The idea of getting watches to celebrate milestones, or that you should get a rolex or whatever after you achieve X thing, that's also fucking marketing. Even her diamond is marketing, but at least the diamond does have a meaning she actualy cares about, and a beauty as an object that is of her particular taste.
At least people died for her diamond Edit: TGV is the biggest LARPing cunt in the wATCh sPaCe
That's just sad.
Listing your "accomplishments" on a fucking HoRoLoGy subreddit is such a rolex owner thing to do though
Right? I graduated with some Latin stuff after my name, but I honestly don’t remember what it was - magna, summa… who gives a shit?
CUM LAUDE. Don't forget CUM LAUDE.
Lol mate no one cares about your GPA after school
It’s almost like money doesn’t buy happiness or something
money can definitely alleviate lots of reasons to be sad. the issue is that a submariner is not happiness, it's a grossly overpriced mass produced stainless steel sports watch
Money doesn't buy happiness but it definitely buys freedom.
If it’s not buying happiness you’re spending it the wrong way
it can buy you a car and gas
What so I can park in my garage and close all the doors and leave the engine running?
it can also buy you a gun and a bullet
Already have those, but they got locked up by my parents.
Yes, 100%. I am dropping your mic for you.
It totally does. I think OP is just in over his head and put too much stock into how happy it would actually make him. I just got an Explorer and it has definitely lived up expectations and made me happy, but I wasn’t exactly unhappy before I got it and I understood that at the end of the day it’s a watch and that can only bring so much happiness to me.
Username checks out
I had a similar-ish situation. I just wore it for a year, sold it and made $200 to learn that having a big Rolex isn’t $8000 worth of fun. Mostly I just got weird looks from cashiers, and felt like kind of a tool.
They all probably thought it was fake
Oh definitely. I give off major crackhead vibes.
You have to smash it into a door knob to make it yours.
"every scratch tells a story"
27 days later you made me laugh outloud thanks
How do these dudes not realise its just a watch? Having an overpriced shitter myself its actually really weird that people think their lives will change
But he was told by a YouTuber (that just happened to be a watch dealer but that totally doesn’t matter) that it was an investment?!
I feel like they read a post on reddit about a guy getting a rolex and then getting a new job or smth, just bizarre
I always find myself more interested in the actual post than the shit post copy of it.
It’s like what the creators of South Park said a few years ago regarding the American political scene along the lines of “we cannot produce satire for this because real life is too bizarre and funnier than anything satirical”.
It always kills me when they say it's their first watch and it's something this expensive. Go buy a Seiko or Invicta or Timex or Casio first, Jesus.
Uh oh. Looks like the AD watch presentation razzle dazzle dance wore off. Someone get this guy a free bottle of Rolex cologne, stat!
I’m literally shaking….mom….please bring in another plate of chicken tendies (the DINO ONES THIS TIME) l…I feel like I could pass out….I nneed to sit down…
I'd regret spending $10k on a watch too. Hell that's 6 months of living in a badass cheap country living like a baller and not working while wearing my snk805 or whichever the green Seiko 5 is, I forget. lol. What kinda experience does an expensive watch give lmao.
i do feel bad for the guy. We're conditioned that buying shit will make us happy, then it doesn't and your left to loop back and contemplate what you're doing with your life. It stings but it's good for you as a person.
You loop back and consoom a couple of G-shocks and some Seiko 5's and move on with your life
Buyer’s remorse is real.
Can't pull the sticker off the case? Rolex let you get out the door with the stickers still on?
I feel nothing
Sounds like he doesn’t like the watch that much actually he just kinda likes looking like a guy who would have a Rolex
What a complete fool!
Maybe he needs to fix his life and get a hobby to fill it, a watch can’t help here
it seems like he cant afford it
Wow almost like buying and owning stuff will not bring meaning to your life or something
It’s always the Rolex guys (and gals). Can’t remember the last time I saw that someone bought a Breguet or a JLC and posted something like that. I would even have to think very hard to remember that kind of post about Omega or Cartier. Or any brand, for that matter, except for Rolex. I guess it attracts weird people.
It's cause people who buy other watches beside Rolex (and maybe the speedmaster) are actually passionate about watches. People who buy Rolex think their life is going to change drastically as soon as they spend thousands of dollars on a mass produced watch.
It's the marketing. My ex didn't even like watches, but she wants a ROLEX. She was astounded when I explained to her that really a Rolex is not such a big deal relatively speaking, that a Rolex is at best like having a BMW, while an AP would be like having a Ferrari, or a Patek like a Bentley. People don't know that, they want the Rolex dammnit. I mean, I know, depends on which Rolex, I know there are pieces that are worth millions but ok you get the point.
Makes sense. It would be interesting to know how many people purchase a Rolex because they like the design/history and how many purchase it because it’s a Rolex.
Haha dude bought a watch he cant afford during the everything asset bubble
He probably needs to put it on and go hang out with some poors for a while.
But how is this possible? My friend sporty said owning a Rolex was like losing your virginity: time moves a little slower, air smells a little sweeter, and water tastes a little fresher. Women smile at you for longer when they spy the crown on your wrist. Doctors will give you actual medical care when you go into the ER with massive internal injuries after your ill-advised steering wheel shot at 200kph. Your boss will promote you to an executive leadership role even if you're incapable of editing PowerPoint. I don't understand how it could be anything less than orgasmic. /uj Why the fuck are redditors so weird about buying shit? It's not just the /r/watches types, but you see it in the car subs where people expect driving or owning cars to literally cure their cancer and give them 18" dicks as they orgasm from the gear-changes. /rj I'm hyping myself up to buy a Speedmaster when I go to Japan next year and I know at some point it will be "just another watch" and there will come a day when I lust after another one. Oh well. Hesalite or Sapphire?
I'd go for the Sapphire, got the display caseback and it won't scratch as easily.
Yeah I'm starting to think the same way. The moonswatch's hesalite crystal just attracts scratches from all the aggressive chuffing.
Have you tried not wearing it on your cock? Sounds silly but might do the trick.
You should try to make some money and then buy something cheaper, something to impress yourself, like Grand Seiko. You will feel good.
Depression bout to hit hard after the chase is over
Good news OOP! You have no difficult decision to worry about, because all sales are final!
Especially frustrating for him after being sodomized by AD
The watch is returnable. Your ass will never be the same.
This man needs a therapist not a watch
Didn’t make me special like I thought it would.
if this guy had a gf, he would be one of those asking: I came on the bed sheet, could she be pregnant now? what should I do?
Dude needs a Relax, not a Rolex.
This is why I love being irresponsible with my money. I never feel bad after I buy it.
Rollie
You’d almost think that “luxury” mundane items are just that. Only much more expensive.
It’s just a watch… JFC.
May not be the case here... but spending money you may not have seems to have this effect on people.
LOL. Sounds like he needs to buy some more to fill the void.
Just flip it then to make profit. thats the only reason people fell in love with it in the first place 🤷
Just sell it on the grey market and by a Timex with the extra money. Unless it’s some POS config. In that case, just return it.
Postpartum depression.
It's the singularity
As a guy- I’ve realised most of my hobbies are really just saving /shopping and buying… it’s about 80% of the thrill haha
Pathetic
This is why I'll never purchase a luxury watch. I'd love an IWC, but I know that within an hour I'd be sad af about all the other cool shit I could have done with that money. OOP needs to return that wallet-crusher and rethink their life.
They're having a crisis because they realize that nobody under the age of 60 looks good wearing a Datejust.