I’d be way more impressed by the Sega watch to be honest. I probably couldn’t spot a Rolex if you put a gun to my head anyway.
The guy with the Rolex will just tell you he’s wearing one. That’s how it works.
Rolex is a watch that poor and middle class people think is a rich person’s watch.
Most well-known “luxury” brands are. Real rich person’s brands won’t even bother selling to the poor. There’s currently a meltdown among the middle class because Hermes is laughing them out of the store. It’s quite funny.
It’s because they pronounce it Her-Meeez -hair flip-
Retail workers are doing that? Seems odd.
Not odd. Retail workers at those kind of stores have usually been brainwashed.
Have you never been to a high-end store where the retail workers just act sorta superior to you because they sell expensive things you can’t afford (but at the same time make multiple times less than you because they’re retail workers and you’re not)? It’s that kinda thing. It’s weird af.
They’re paid to act that way. In case a rich is in the store… Can’t have a rich person seeing a poor treated with respect.
It’s all about reinforcing class norms
I don’t know about the luxury brands but I’ve seen people act that way at fucking Zara so I’m sure they’re just deluded assholes because there’s no way Zara pays above minimum wage.
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Just to be clear - Hermes is also a fucking waste of money that serves no purpose other than to signal your membership in a club that has no value to society.
All luxury products works that’s way
Correct
Yeah because luxury doesnt mean quality, pretty sure I could get a custom leather coat from some Amish dude out by Salmon Idaho thatd blow away any luxury leather.
Exactly, if you take off the brand logo of an item, its price would drop significantly.
The item itself is secondary, what’s important is the status it passes to other people. That’s why we find those ridiculous stuff with Supreme brand
This comment makes me want to drive out to Salmon Idaho and buy a custom leather coat.
Yeah, they’re a good example of conspicuous consumption.
I mean, yes? I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
For sure, I was just putting a blunt tip on it so nobody would be confused.
Seriously. Past a certain level of wealth, you don’t even need to buy brand-named items for most everyday things. You don’t buy a suit from an expensive brand. You hire a world-class master tailor to custom make you a suit from scratch. It’s fit exactly to your body, made to your exact tastes and specifications. The same thing should be possible with watches. You don’t buy an expensive brand, you hire a watch maker to make you an entirely custom piece.
I’d imagine that’s pretty rare with watches. I’d guess if they aren’t just wearing an apple or Samsung watch, they’re wearing something like a Parmegiani.
Sounds pretty cheesy.
In case anyone else wants to look them up, it’s spelled with a third “i” instead of “e” Parmigiani Fleurier
So out of my price range I can’t even afford to spell it correctly.
What an idiotic OP (in the picture not you). Go into debt over a status symbol with as much utility as a $10 substitute. Yes, brilliant advice.
All status symbols are cringe. Change my mind.
It was so phenomenally stupid that the guy got turned into a meme for a while on Twitter/X.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/if-youre-a-guy-in-your-early-20s-buy-a-rolex
That is a pretty nice mug…
I can tell whoever owns that is high status…
I would certainly sign a legally binding contract with them!
This is the best quality picture of the gromit mug i have ever seen. Thank you.
Anyone else notice Gromit is shaped like curvaceous hips and ass? I really need to get laid.
Ever notice how Peppa Pig’s head looks like a dick and balls?
Always thought she was whistle shaped
Had a friend who graduated from Georgetown with a law degree and went to work at a NYC white shoe law firm. Shortly before his first meeting with a client, his boss dragged him into the office and opened a drawer in his desk. The man had half a dozen different watches, none of which were less than $10k/ea. He matched one with my friend’s suit and sent him back out. Apparently, clients at that level simply won’t take you seriously unless you’ve got that much on your wrist.
That said, this was at an office on the penthouse floor of a lower Manhattan sky-rise. Nobody making cold calls out of a boiler room in Cincinnati cares that you overpaid for a watch.
Disgusting.
Fuck Big Law.
The whole thing is a ponzi scheme built on the backs of overworked associates.
Sure, you can make money… But you’re gambling on becoming a partner while wasting your best years.
Work-life balance >> “But I’ve got a roley and no family!”
Hey now, you could have a family that you never see plus a string of mistresses near your office.
Yeah, Cincinnati lawyers don’t know what time it is as a point of pride. They woo their clients by springing for a full 5 way.
Read an anecdote of someone in a similar station who had a client file a complaint against them because their watch was too nice. See, he’s the employee who is servicing the client. He’s beneath the client. He can’t be wearing nicer stuff than the client.
I don’t know how these people look at themselves in the mirror every morning.
Gross.
Seriously, FUCK YOU if you peddle this hussle culture grindset bullshit. I feel so sorry for the poor souls that fall for this shit because no one ever taught them any better.
I mean when viewed from the perspective of his world it makes sense.
He lives in a world where substance is meaningless and all that matters is appearance and bravado. I can appreciate why to him that seems like good advice. Just kinda bums me out people live like that, but I bet he’s happy having power and influence and money. Good for him.
I couldn’t and wouldn’t fuckin live that way and I will stick with my Casio a158, thanks.
I will stick with my Casio a158, thanks.
Lol. That’s a status symbol in different circles. Anyone I see someone wearing a classic Casio, I know we’re going to get along.
It gets better! Its actually a Sensor Watch in disguise!
🤫
That is so fucking cool.
Gottem
Fuck. Lol.
Same as all the muppets in the city dressed up to the nines in their new beemer than you know is on monthly payments.
On the other hand; being debt free, now there’s a status symbol…
Being debt free one of the few status symbols you cannot see. At that point, is it a status symbol if other people cannot see it?
I mean, I still agree though. Be debt free, seriously.
A healthy financial life contributed to getting me a wife. It also would’ve gotten me laid if life hadn’t gotten in the way. A hot lady really liked my fiscal responsibility (her marriage was collapsing because her husband lacked that trait)
Not if you get it printed on a t-shirt!
As someone starting up a custom t-shirt printing business desperately in need of building a customer base, I condone this message.
being debt free
I know a few people who are definitely not in a hurry to pay off low-interest mortgages from 2020 and 2021, but I suppose that they’re already in a very different financial position from the people who might consider going into debt for a watch.
Can’t take the house with you when you die so the less you end up paying the better in a way, unless you have someone to pass it on to like kids
Those mortgages have an interest rate of less than 3%, but now the returns on even low-risk investments are higher than that, so the borrower is better off investing the money, using some of the profit from that to pay mortgage interest, and keeping the rest.
Even more: an interest rate of <3% is basically blown away by annual inflation.
That assumes your salary goes up with inflation, though.
OOOP
Blue Check Twitter Logic. Never has there been more superficial moronic fraudsters in one place.
It should play the SEEEGAAAA sound when you close it
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I also respect those thick ass medium end casios with barometric/altimeter sensors, at least you’re getting something for your money.
They’re damn near indestructible, worked with strong magnets for pipeline inspection for years, the hands on my gshock would stop near them but otherwise unphased.
I commented elsewhere in the thread that Casio is still a status symbol - just to to a different, more pragmatic, group of people. Then I saw this comment, lol.
I too love to rock a Casio, and recognize others who do as well.
Though lately I’ve been hooked on my PineTime Watch. It’s not as iconic as a Casio, but it costs about the same and does ship with a Casio immitation watch face pre-programmed.
wait… the same people who made pinephone makes watches now? 0_0!! this is amazing i need to order one.
Lol. Yeah. That was my reaction, too. Then I realized they’re also less than $30.00. I love mine so much. It’s simple, but it’s so cool.
Reasonably-priced Citizen Eco-Drive gang! What’s a dead battery?
bare wrist and linear time is a myth gangs
Lunchtime doubly so.
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Buy a rolex if you want to impress other guys with rolexes. Literally nobody else cares
Or buy a replica, for a very small fraction of the price and see if anyone ever knows the difference.
I have a $350 Japanese made replica of a Patek Philippe Grand Complication, everything works on it. To me it is indistinguishable from the real thing and didn’t cost me $300,000
What game disk is that?
Just spent a few minutes searching, and I can’t figure it out. The text almost looks like it says Virtua Fighter, but it doesn’t match any image results.
I would prefer Altered Beast
Virtua Fighter 2
Always buy fakes, if you find a good quality fake. No one will know. Unless you absolutely don’t care about the money.
Exactly, and maybe spend a couple hundred for a Japanese replica and all the functions might work.
If I want a fancy and over expensive watch I would get a pixel watch (gen 1 and used ofc)
Wife bought me a pixel watch 3 for Christmas. I wear it all the time…
… I work as a section bender in a factory. You can’t see it under my overalls.
Wait, where are you wearing it 😳
On my wrist but I wear a full boilersuit… We use burning tackle to cut the steel.
His name is “Bender Bending Rodriguez”
Well, yes. My wife says I’m Bender from Futurama.
I bend steel, drink lots of beer and fart
firea lot.
Every watch guy will tell you otherwise. And present a spectrum of choices across multiple price bands.
Bought a Casio Data Bank DBC-32B-1ADF “calculator watch” about three years ago for like $30 USD. I get more compliments on that watch than any other piece of clothing/accessory that I own. Started using it as my daily driver watch and it’s genuinely great, a real conversation starter. If anybody wants one, they’re still in production and can be easily bought new on the big retailers’ sites.
Jealous! I’ve wanted a Casio calculator watch since I was a child. Technically my off brand smart watch has a calculator, but it’s not the same.
You can still buy one! You’re an adult now, treat yourself!
I was looking! I probably will. Was looking through the reviews.
“go into debt if you have to”
That guy writes like minimum wage
Wait what’s the other watch called. I want that
I absolutely love the design but I’m surprised nobody has pointed out that this goes against the very purpose of wrist watches: you can’t just turn your wrist and look at the time.
I know it’s just a press off a button, but if only one of your hands is full (depending whether you’re right or left handed) then it gets annoying rather quickly.
As for the Rolex obsession: I’ve lost several watches, but every single time I just re-bought my cheap Casio. I love it and it does the job quite reliably. Also, I personally dislike analog watches.
That was the purpose before the invention of pocket computers pretending to be phones. Now they’re just jewelry. They don’t even need to function anymore.
TBF I still have both. Nothing beats quickly glancing at your wrist (until they develop built in HUD brain chips, so another 2 years). Especially when you’re doing hand stuff anyway.
Me, with my watchy, not givenafuuuuuck bout Rolex.
But yeah that’s some rad nerd chic there.
