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>the "Honestly if your watch isn't-" copypasta started the previous thread dynamically with a picture of a simple yet elegant Rolex Explorer
>One guy doesn't get the appeal of the royal oak
>pink dials got recommended for budget watches
>IWCrap anon has seen a lot of backlash lately but also strong support. He posted thrice but also got banned three times. Some claim that it's no different that Kofe Time, some others claim that only someone with severe childhood trauma would post his own shit on the internet. Nevertheless, IWCrap anon is the front runner of 2026 new avatarfag award so far
>some guy found out that all analogue watches are misaligned unless you pay millions of dollars, effectively quitting watches before his journey even began
>the slga009 review seems to be ready with at least 20 minutes of videos available
>old school jap prostitute pic got posted
>some guys' two month old explorer’s bezel is already full of micro scratches. Reality hitting hard.
>gay sex was discussed in detail for whatever reason
>an IXDAO engineer watch was posted
>TUDOR keeps it healthy and interesting
>somebody asked if he should go with Should I go with Dark Gray or Gold for his f91w to which his answer was silver because fake gold is gay unless you get it on a bracelet so you can sleazemaxx like a greasy 80s coke dealer
>someone called the Audemars Piguet Répétition a bathroom scale
>anon asked an honest question because he's new to watches. He was looking at some Casio / Seiko watches but realised he can find very similar style watches on AliExpress for 1/5th to 1/10th the price. He asked what the drawbacks are
>someone asked how you can read the time on the Citizen: The Citizen watch during the night because there's no lume
>Not a single instance of Kofe was posted this time around, sparking debate that maybe Crap or Silver posting might be the new meta.
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>some anon is reminiscing about the time where Seiko used to be the value king
>someon said that the Hublot x McDonalds watch looks like a Richard mille
>recommendations about a GADA inexpensive watch resulted in the Citizen Zenshin.
>the usual missing avatar legends are still missing.
>questions as of why there's a reason everyone gravitates towards the BB58 as the quintessential Tudor watch-have been asked
>shitercollectadello was spotted posting twice but no news abour his latest buys
>the word "Rolex" was posted 24 times
>somebody remembered the orient kamasu, making people go "ohh yeah, I forgot about that one"
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>>18708098
I just don't care about budget watches. I respect them a lot but I am a brand whore so it's outside of my interests. I am happy that it exists though. I might take a look.
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>>18708106
>Those watches are under $500 and from China. That's what the other thread is for. And you know damn well IXDAO would still be considered a low-budget
yeah I know, that's why I posted them. It's not like I'm completely oblivious to budget watches.
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I treat my watches like they're powerups/battle armor, anyone do the same?
>have an important meeting with clients, put on my most expensive ultimate form armor, my omega
>weekend day with the family, wear my fun color (yellow or teal/light green) dial watch
>have a long day ahead, wear my green dial watch to pretend like it gives me extra stamina
>need to do a grocery run, wear a blue watch and pretend like i'm sanic
>need to drive long distance today, wear my spring drive seiko to stare at the seconds sweep when I'm bored like an autistic retard
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Serious question: Why do watchfags here drop 50-100 bucks on fake dropshipping watches when they can just hold off, add more money and just get a decent quality watch like a Tissot or a vintage Omega?
Stop buying chink low quality shit like picrel and start investing in good well made watch brands with history behind them
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>>18710048
>add more money and just get a decent quality watch like a Tissot
Absolutely tarded bro.
>>18710048
>investing in good well made watch brands with history behind them
Watches are not investments. Also what history? The Swiss being the cheap labour in the late 19th and early 20th centuries out-competing the bongs in the same way the chinks have done to the swiss now? Or the history of the chronometer competitions and how they stopped having them because they couldn't compete with Seiko? Or how they shifted the goalposts with the said competitions opening them again only for "European" brands? Or how they shifted the goalposts on what can be called "Swiss made"? Or how they couldn't produce competitive quartz watches and just decided mechanicals were better after all.
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>>18710052
>Watches are not investments. Also what history? The Swiss being the cheap labour in the late 19th and early 20th centuries out-competing the bongs in the same way the chinks have done to the swiss now? Or the history of the chronometer competitions and how they stopped having them because they couldn't compete with Seiko? Or how they shifted the goalposts with the said competitions opening them again only for "European" brands? Or how they shifted the goalposts on what can be called "Swiss made"? Or how they couldn't produce competitive quartz watches and just decided mechanicals were better after all.
Hooly
Truth be told, mechanical movements only exists as to luxury brands can larp and talk about how much craftmanship goes into it and justifies it being that way when in reality it's just a fucking mass produced machined cog that works worse than quartz
without the allure of the mechanical meme a service would just be swapping out the movement for 5 dollaridoos or just a battery, which would reduce the luxury watch to it's barest form, only the shell that may or may not be made out of rare metals holding a chinky quartz movement, the fraud would be finalized
rolexes used to be seikos for 200 bucks. now everyone sucks off vintage shit and buys them for 15k, hollow link cheapy shitters
it's over we're cooked
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>>18708077
ever been judged for your watch at the law firm, fellow rebbitors?
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>>18710065
>You don't enjoy your few watches more than I enjoy my many.
the cope is strong with this one
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What do you guys think of my new certina? First mechanical "real" watch after only wearing cheap digital watches my whole life. I do a lot of field work as an engineer so I needed something pretty strong and durable which could also double as pseudo formal in the office. I think my next one will be more of a straight forward dress watch with no concern for water resistance.
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Hi all, I was gifted a rolex submariner from my father a week before I graduated with my engineering degree. He previously wore it for a few years then stopped after a while. I eventually said to him I want to wear it just for the day of graduation because it symbolized how far I've come but how far I still stand to go. He did not go to college and grew his business from nothing, he was previously a poor farmer.
When he gave it to me he told me to get it fitted for the day and to keep it. I told him I only plan to wear it for very special events. He said no, wear it whenever, even at work. It says you don't need the job and you're there to succeed.
Since then, I have gone on to wear it when I'm not dressed in my college outfits (sweats) and I absolutely love it.
Now I have worn it in a professional setting during my research and gotten asked if it was real. I am about to go into my first job in an engineering leadership development program where I work at an engineers level but also shadow directors and program managers to learn how to lead.
Should I wear the watch at work? I am driven to succeed but I don't want any bad perceptions holding me back.
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>>18710150
It depends on the job and who you're working with. A submariner is utilitarian enough to fly under the radar in most circumstances, especially if you're not working closely with other people but if you happen to be in some kind of really competitive cutthroat workspace where you're competing with others maybe it's inviting trouble.
You have to consider who you're talking to and what capacity you're speaking to them in. If you're talking to the C suite guys wearing a complicated patek may look to them like you've been around the block a few times and you've landed successful projects and you know what you're talking about, but if you're a sales guy talking to a customer they may see you as a conman running a scam. When you're running for office and begging for donations you wear the casio, when you make it to office and you're working with other leaders you wear the daydate. If you're dealing with a bunch of middle aged guys that have had long careers in engineering they might think your rolex is cool, if you're working with a bunch of young interns you're going to let go in a few months they might think you're a douche. You have to take ques cues and read the room.
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If I was a poorfag (thank God I'm not) I'd buy a Serica.
>tasteful vintage inspired designs
>no logo
>excellent proportions
>COSC
>multiple colors and bracelets/straps configurations
It's pretty much the best thing you can get under 1500 eurobucks these days.
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>>18710162
>Why not make something new?
Because new sucks.
Every new idea is basically
>old thing with unnecessary bullshit strapped to it
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>old thing with all the cool things removed
Sometimes both at the same time.
I don't want new. I want things that just work and look nice (ie old things).
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>>18710166
New stuff that sucks sucks because it sucks, not because it's new.
If you want old stuff it's better to buy actually old stuff than garbage like >>18710160 that larps as being old. It's like a greasy teenager dressing like Tommy Shelby but still wearing sneakers.
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>>18710153
Yeah I was surprised for how good the specs on the watch are the brand seems basically unknown in the states. There's definitely the appeal of having something that nobody else has. It came down to the certina or the mido ocean star 200c, which I think actually looks better but the certina just seemed a little tougher for field work. As for the dress watch, I can't buy something without doing a retarded amount of research first and I think there's an even bigger array of options than for the diver, so I haven't narrowed it down yet. If you have any suggestions let me know. Price isn't really a concern, but I prefer under $2k because I'm just not a flashy dude.
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>>18710166
>Every new idea is basically
>etc
Those aren't new ideas. They're lazy ideas. Of course they'll be shitty. You can't make a lazy design and expect it to be good.
I can understand why the microbrands produce faux-vintage, though. Obviously, they're in business to sell watches. Radical designs are going to be polarizing and hurt sales. For every one person who wants to see the boundaries being pushed, you have ten people who just want a 5513 Submariner, a 145.012 Speedmaster, and a Paris-dial Tank Louis Cartier.
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>>18710137
I've been strongly considering getting one of these in the 38mm case but on the new ones they added a new shock protection gimmick to the case that makes the watch thicker. It looks nice but personally I refuse to wear watches over 13mm thick. Especially if it's a work watch, because you really want a work watch to be as thin as possible so it's not hanging up on everything when you're reaching inside chassis and drawers and computer cases and stuff.
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>>18710157
Yes, he did. That conversation happened last night in the other thread. This is what I mean when I say this guy is a creepshow, it's fucking weird skimming a thread and rereading a post that YOU made days or weeks ago that he copied and pasted from a previous thread, often with no relevance to the current thread. It's like he's creating a time loop or something, or like your words are coming from another consciousness echoing through the internet or some shit.
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What do you guys think of this watch? It’s on sale for about 25% off and if I felt bold there’s also a second hand one available nearby for around half price.
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>wear tasteful watch
>maybe glance at it once or twice a day
>wear casio shitter
>constantly look at it grinning
>play with the buttons and functions constantly
you can learn taste, but can't really learn to enjoy taste...
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>>18710172
>New stuff that sucks sucks because it sucks, not because it's new.
if it didn't suck it would have been discovered already, there's only so much shit you can shove into a circle or a square in your wrist
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>>18710225
What do you think of this one?
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>>18710235
i haven't been feeling the love lately. i put in a lot of hard work here. also the pics have been getting taken down quicker and quicker, so i don't want my opus to be ripped down by a jealous hating tranny janny before the world gets to appreciate my creative talent
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>>18710251
yes, as a fellow flieger enjoyer, we really need the quality content feces anon brings
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Who is the original "douchebag in an office chair bloviates about watch design" watch youtuber? It's such a common trope it seems like there must be an Ur-douche they're all emulating.
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>>18710242
Does Seiko still put the same movement in watches $700 - $2,000? Like the 6R was in everything from baby alpinist or something up to King Seiko.
Are the $700 models a really good deal or are the $2,000 a ripoff.
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>>18710325
I been blowing up my bathroom so hard lately I had to replace ol faithful
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>>18710373
love the small date window. Power reserve is also surprisingly nice to look at. Reminds me of those porcelain dials from seiko, I mean yeah, same company and all. But a very nice buy nonetheless. Afaik it's the last brand that competes directly against the chinese while still being a value proposition.
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>>18710476
>This and peak 2023 whore-posting are close.
I don't know. A woman, even an ugly, tatted-up hooker, is still more pleasant to look at than literal shit. I know I don't speak for everyone, since the turd-obsessed bitter poster is probably loving it.
Little did we know his constant spamming of
>shitters.
was actually a request on his part.
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>>18710477
oh I ordered a $190 Sugess chinese watch with a power reserve and great finishing. I have zero complaints on the actual performance and feel. I returned it anyways because it didn't have any soul. I know it was just copied and not really thought out. Hard to describe. Outside of that it like a $600+ watch though.
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>>18710398
Sweeping
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>>18710048
>Stop buying chink low quality shit like picrel and start investing in good well made watch brands with history behind them
No.
First of all, I have a Certina Powermatic 80 that's the same style and value of a Tissot, and frankly I'm not all that impressed for the money. I think it's a fine watch, but no better than a San Martin or a Cronos. Swiss Made doesn't automatically make something better. Though my older ones are still going decades later.
And that Jianghun is not at all low quality shit. Quite the opposite. They're a sister company of San Martin and only release original designs.
I think your post is shitty bait because you picked a very good watch to show as some sort of evidence that China sucks.
I don't care about the "story" or the "history" or the "heritage". Only the specs and build quality of the watch and whether it's visually appealing to me. I don't give a rip who designed it. It wouldn't be much fun out there if you had to actually spend $10,000 to get a certain style of watch.
So I will dip my toes into those luxury brands you're so keen on once in a while on Jomashop when they drop under $500. And someday I may drop $1,000 on something that strikes me the right way.
But I will never think any watch is actually worth ten thousand dollars, and short of winning the lottery I'll never spend even half that much on one myself. I simply don't appreciate all that shit that isn't the actual watch as much as you brand riders do. And that's okay. You don't enjoy your few watches more than I enjoy my many. If you consider them investments you may not enjoy them much at all.
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>>18710079
Just around the golf course and the yacht club, old boy. And they judge me superior because of the cost and the name on my watch. A watch that says: "Look out world, this is a man of refinement and sophistication."
Anyone who doesn't feel this air of superiority about them, well I'm not interested in your opinions on horology. Or anything else for that matter.
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>>18710207
Nothing I've posted is a "shitpost", no matter how much you disapprove of long paragraphs and pushback on snobbishness. If I were banned ALL of my posts including my two watch threads would also be erased.
Either there's something wrong with the 4chan software or some prick is just removing things for fun. Regardless of the why, it will all be continually reposted until a satisfying explanation is proffered.
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>>18710530
like the other guy said, it's relatively inexpensive to eat outside in Asia, japan is no exception. The tsukemen pic being less than ¥1000 which is around is less than €6.
The problem is that, even though, again, relatively, it's healthier here to eat outside, it's still much better to cook yourself. They use seed oils here mainly, even their famous omelettes are usually made with seed oils which I never understood.
I cook 4 times per week. Sadly you can't find any oven, butter or olive oil based food here. So you gotta cook yourself.
>>18710555
....he just bought it, not installed yet.
>>18710552
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>>18710563
How long have you been irrationally afraid of seed oils? You use "never understood", as if you didn't relatively recently jump on this misinformation bandwagon.
I'd thought it was mainly American schizos who bought into that as it's primarily American schizos spreading the bullshit. Are our lunatic "influencers" reaching other nations?
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>>18710580
Has he opined on seed oils in the past? I don't know why you presume to know his position or understanding of cooking oils.
Olive oil, butter, and animal fats are straight up better than seed oils regardless.
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>>18710592
Deep fry. Keep better on shelves. Depends. But you avoid them at all costs because some grifter told you to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation
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>>18710595
You asked what they do better. Sorry you don't like the answers.
There's no evidence of "inflammation" or anything else coming from seed oils. You got sold a bill of goods. Not too surprising as most people here are either racist, paranoid, or retarded -or like you, a combination of the three.
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>>18710594
What vegetable oil deep fries better than either olive oil or beef tallow? Specifically, what oil are you recommending? You do understand different oils have different properties and different smoke points and so on that make them suitable for different applications right? There's no just "seed oil."
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>>18710597
I'm not sure. I'm just aware that 99% of things that are fried are NOT fried in olive oil or beef tallow. You need really weak or blended olive oil to deep fry. Extra virgin isn't suitable for it. Beef tallow is just incredibly cost ineffective.
Again, do whatever you want at home. You're not going to find many eateries or factories following those expensive and pointless practices. It's just idiotic to act like it's "poison", as one fucking retard posted.
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>>18710600
>I'm just aware that 99% of things that are fried are NOT fried in olive oil or beef tallow.
And that's a problem. Maybe instead of stanning random oils you can't even name maybe you should work out why anyone should be against oils that were common before we had obesity epidemics?
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>>18710603
>stanning
I don't know that one and my spellcheck has rejected it.
Also, I've seen RFK and the other loons pushing what you believe. That, plus basic public information (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_oil_misinformation) leads me to believe there's nothing to your disproved concerns.
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>>18710594
>Deep fry. Keep better on shelves
Those aren't good things, in fact "keeping better on a shelf" is generally a bad sign when it comes to food. They taste like shit, make me feel like shit, and are processed way beyond the point of being actual "food". Canola and vegetable oil also smell absolutely disgusting, and you can smell them as soon as you walk into a place that uses the. For some reason seed oils of all things really brings out the trust-the-science folx who need a Source™ to tell them that eating industrial chemicals is bad. But honestly, you people should eat it. Given all the other chemicals urbanites consume and are exposed to it really is just a drop in the bucket for them.
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>>18710613
LOL, as if you actually avoid seed oils in any meaningful way. I don't cook with them at home, but nor am I afraid of them or tell servers at restaurants that I'm allergic. You want to be suspicious and question everything official that's fine. You can believe the whole world is a lie if you like. People who think like you often do. But you don't ever question your alternative sources, do you? As long as they reject what all us NPC sheep think, that's evidence enough for you.
Distrusting everything is just as retarded as trusting everything.
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What's a nice mechanical watch I can get my nephew for 1000 yuros, which will be able to get serviced in a couple of decades? Right now looking at the Tissot Gentleman and the Seiko Alpinist, though the Seiko seems a bit overpriced at 800+ yuros
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>>18710698
You've really ran out of ideas, haven't you? I'm about as skinny one can be while still considered healthy, i'm 90% sure i'm less fat and in a better shape than you are. But whatever, keep sitting here all days seething at people. I'm going out to have some fun, the weather is beautiful here. Make sure you stay in your basement and monitor the thread, i might post a pic of a watch randomly, i expect you to reply within a minute. Ta-la!
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>>18710752
No sorry I have literally never stepped foot in any building that houses an AD because I'm not a retard that enjoys being a cuck and getting my wallet raped just to satisfy fiscal faggotry.
I'm more of an older, wiser persuasion wherein I recognize Rolex made tools not the modern icons of cuckery that now sit on the wrists of the desperate nouveau-riche. You're not rich, you don't own an Island, you aren't emailing heads of state to connect in so you can push for entrance into certain niche industries like biotech and health. You're a dumb fuck who got raped by marketing and bought something that only exists in 'value' because there are other retards ready to buy in, when required, perfectly groomed by the AD.
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Sorry I had to write all that out because some people buy watches for better reasons than the typical Rolex faggot who only buys Rolex to signify that they suck fat cock and are willing to have their wallets blown open and raped for months on end by the AD who will force them to buy dumb shit just to get the tool that used to be bought by the working class a mere few decades ago.
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Oh shit I forgot to mention something. If I EVER see a guy wearing a Rolex I instantly know that if he is married to a woman I will be able to easily fuck his wife. Without any effort on my behalf. I'll be able to effortlessly fuck his wife. Rolex guys can suck my cum out of their wife's pussy when I'm done.
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>>18710640
Urbanite pod dwellers can't understand this, but some people actually live in farming communities and eat entirely local foods. For cooking I just make my own ghee from the butter I get from my neighbor. In fact I just had steak and eggs with garlic shoots for breakfast, all of which I know the people who raised them. Restaurants are over-priced garbage cutting corners on the most important things like the oils, exactly like you say. Similarly I don't own any polyester. I know you're smugly thinking that nobody could actually live that way and if you did it must take an impossible amount of time to do things from scratch, because it's inconceivable for an urbanite to escape from the convenience. But for some of us it's the other way and we can't imagine eating shit that you don't know where it came from or wrapping your body in plastic every day. A funny thing about it is that urbanites think that farm life is inconvenient, but actually driving around in traffic and running errands is a much bigger expense of time, just to have a lower quality of life and justify it to yourself by saying industrial oils actually aren't that bad.
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>>18710757
Geez, man. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you.
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>>18710756
>just to get the tool that used to be bought by the working class a mere few decades ago.
Rolex was never "working class". That's what Tudor was created to be.
Rolex was middle-class, sure. And you can argue it still is.
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>>18710762
I said persuasion not physically. I'm probably younger than you, you stupid fucking retard. Rolex rapes you cunts daily.
>>18710764
Rolex was working class you retard. Working people bought Rolex to do work. Dumb fucking Rolex retard. Rolex rapes you too. Btw there is no middle class lol. Stupid asshole.
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Imagine having to explain to a Rolex retard that if your not living off your capital than you're a working class person. Rolex retards truly are morons. The kind of moron you can fiscally rape 24/7 for decades on end.
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>>18710768
nice blog, Habeeb.
Keep up updated on those wealth tips, Mumbai Zuckerberg.
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Imagine being this angry about a company that makes wristwatches.
I can imagine being angry about a company that makes a cancer drug and over-charges for it? Sure. But being this angry about a company that makes trinkets?
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>>18710778
Some seething poorfags are bossessed with Rolex more than actual Rolex owners.
Usually, you just get one Rolex that fits that's like 2 months salary and you wear it on nice occasions and you never think about it again.
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>>18710783
>Some seething poorfags are [obssessed] with Rolex more than actual Rolex owners.
I truly don't understand this. It's just a watch, one among tens of millions. Definitely, there are Rolex owners who love the brand and collect stuff from it, but they are a tiny minority. Even watch collectors recognize Rolex for what it is without obsessing over the brand, regardless of whether it's affordable to them.
Then you've got guys who decide to make "I hate Rolex" their entire personality, which is pointless, since all they're doing is making themselves miserable and angry all the time.
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>>18710793
They would be miserable and angry literally over anything else if it wasn't over what watches people wear that they can't afford.
Social judgement is a whole field of psychology, but in essence, the social judgement that you have on other people (or things) don't serve the purpose of defining those people but more of defining yourself in contrast and your place in society.
So the Rolex haters just define themselves as the envious losers they are.
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>>18710797
You can try your gay little status games with your overpriced bullshit watch that signals you're a Rolex Retard Cuck that likes to get blown the fuck out fiscally just to feel like you have something the common poors can't get but you'll get crushed every single time you fucken salary man faggot. The real wealthy people aren't pottering around wearing fucken rolexes on their wrists. Holy shit. Please cut the LARP like you're above the poors just because you bought into the marketing and the hype and you got bent over by the AD. Now STFU and beg your boss for another salary hike.
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>>18710799
OK, I think you've made your point, buddy. Seriously go get some air before you have a stroke. It's not healthy to be this angry. It's Saturday, shouldn't you be making plans to go out with your friends this evening?
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Rolex had a business that got nuked by Casio a few decades ago and they coped by pivoting to a market of retards, aka the 'luxury market' - which is many of you. They used marketing to force the delusion that Rolex is suddenly the watch of choice of the rich and famous. They understood that retards like you have memories banks that get wiped every quarter and so you'd forget that the previous market for Rolex watches were working people. Now Rolex respects you so fucking much that they know you'll eat shit and crawl through glass just to buy one of their overpriced watches that signify that you are a massive retard and also a status obsessed insecure faggot that needs to believe you're above other people because of the steel watch you have on your wrist.
You are, in fact, a colossal faggot and you deserve to get fiscally destroyed year after year by these brands that exist only to partake in the destruction of your dignity via the constant re-affirmation that you are a retard. You buy into the mystique and the fantasy and the delusion of the Rolex Marketing Team and then shit that same misery over any cunt you come across because you're so fucken empty inside you can only exist within the spreadsheet of w/e gay industry you earn a salary in and the fucken brand-name of whatever gay overpriced bullshit it is you buy in order to possess some semblance of an identity. The funny thing is, at the end, you confirm exactly what is is that you are, which is a Cuck Rolex Retard.
You evidently have zero understanding of business, zero understanding of markets, and zero understanding of marketing. You believe that this piece of inert steel elevates you into a class above others when in reality it simply solidifies that you're a retard and you will likely always be a retard.
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All I'm saying is that the minute you speak to an AD you're functionally delivering your dignity onto a sacrifical altar and alleviating your very existence from the burden of attempting to appear like you have any kind of dignified meaning, purpose, or sense of human spirit - you are now, and always will be, a toy puppet to be manipulated by the marketing team of Rolex that spends millions every year to gape your asshole (financially speaking) for the sake of bettering their books. They churn out mass market steel watches that you then loftily hold up as some kind of sanctified holy object and your spiritualize the acquisition of it as if you have now been blessed and are above the masses. Listen fucken retard a few decades ago dudes who actually did jobs were buying those watches for fucken work. Not to gloat to some other insecure, vapid, functionally soul-raped about the status they now have because they sucked the sweat off the nuts of Daddy Rolex for half a year just so they could get the chance to spend their salary on a fucken steel watch. You Rolex Retards are fucken faggots, you are empty spirit-less beings, you have sacrificed your dignity, you are lower than animals that eat their own shit.
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>>18710809
>the minute you speak to an AD you're functionally delivering your dignity
You're talking about things you just heard about in videos. I don't go to ADs, i don't go to the mall either, it's not 1995.
I buy from the trusted ADs on internet, i know perfectly my size and what i want and that's it.
So your whole schizo shit is basically just your sad brain obssessing over things you don't know or understand.
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>>18710817
Why the fuck are you admitting to buying Rolex? You really are a retard.
None of that info is schizo it's literally history you stupid fuck. You really have no fucken idea about business, about markets, and about marketing. You're a fucken Rolex Retard.
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>>18710820
>I have a trusted relationship with my AD
>I have a tard wrangler who enables me to spend money on over priced shit.
You have no dignity.
It is likely that you have no personality outside of what you spend money on. You're empty inside. You pay for status.
Rolex is a brand for poor retards who think they are rich.
Rich people don't buy rolex watches. They buy islands. They buy politicians. They buy actual fucken access to shit you dumb consumerist retards can never ever see nor touch.
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thought about telling you guys about how i just went out to dinner with friends and got chatted up on two separate occasions by two completely different women, both times about the new watch i was wearing but... nah, i think i'm gonna keep this one on ice fellas. cheers.
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>>18710878
WOW, what watch is it, anon? Please do tell us!
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>>18710882
Oh, i didn't expect that, i really wanted to know. Thanks anyways.
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DID SHE TOUCH YOUR PEEPEE?
the last time I wore my rolex in public women couldn't stop touching me. one engaged in the act of breeding, and I let her. after a few minutes she made me fuly erect and mounted me, and began squat fucking me while making eye contact and banging pots and pans together above her head while her jungle tits flopped all over and eventually knocked me unconscious
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Honestly if your watch isn't
>Rolex
>Cartier
>Patek
>Vacheron
>AP
>Richard Mille
>Journe
>Lange
>JLC
>and MAYBE some very specific models from a few other brands
Then I'm not interested in what you have to say about horology. Or anything else really.
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What are some good watches for an impoverished charlatan, the grandson of a fake gypsy prince and a fake ex-nun, student of agrippa, sleeping in ditches and eating in palazzos, never constant, always circling the bleak maelstrom of an early death, mourned only by the birds he fed with the crumbs of his unearthly brilliance.
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>>18711100
Nice book choice
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Actually, this tracks. Hitler (and other fascist movements) rely on tricking the working class into giving them power. Similarly, Tudor needs to trick people into buying their sub-par watches with promises of being prestigious.
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>>18710970
other brands like Hruodland?
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>>18710373
What exactly are you doing?
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>>18711191
No, just from one of the poorest shittiest Eastern EU countries that got sold to the foreigners so now everyone who didn't inherit properties is fucked. I went from almost being able to buy a house, to this never being in my future ever overnight.
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>>18711196
Playing with my camera that only takes black and white photos.
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>>18711218
Yeah but when your grandparents die you're getting two houses worth 2mil each, when your parents die you're getting one worth 2mil etc. I never got shit and won't get shit because I was from a terrible fucking "family" that squandered everything.
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>>18711203
>leica
one of the few other veblen goods that make watch collectors look sane.
imagine paying $11k for a camera that uses a 10 year old sony sensor, which you can find in sony cameras that are 10x cheaper, just so you can have the leica logo on it.
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>>18711269
>start a new career
Any suggestions? I would have to move to another country to get any kind of a job since this one is extremely corrupt and I don't have anyone to hire me through nepotism. Have you ever done this?
And yeah, I was stupid to think that having skills will actually enable me to live a modest life perpetually.
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>>18711274
I've only lived in the US, but I like it here. Seems like you know the language enough for retail. As fucked as the housing market is here, sounds like it's way worse where you're from. I bought a house for $200k a couple years back. It's old, small, and could use renovations, but it's not falling apart and in a pretty decent location.
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>>18711270
>having skills will actually enable me to live a modest life perpetually
it should, but we were all sold a lie. it's not our fault, they brainwashed us from childhood. the corruption, the con, the trap, the lie, whatever you want to call it, isn't our fault or responsibility. but the way we respond to it is.
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>>18711285
>it should, but we were all sold a lie.
I mean, I could do illustration and graphic design just fine until death if AI didn't make it completely obsolete. I didn't need that much money to live in Eastern European thirdworldia. If it was still viable the prices would go up with inflation probably. But having two things happen at the same time just killed me dead.
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>>18711087
>why does this super expensive watch have such a useless complication???
Welcome to horology.
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>>18711356
He is so obsessed with this place and with gaining attention for his shitters that he managed to become a janny or a janny collaborator. You can't say anything to him or his soft ego will get crazy mad.
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>>18711402
>I simply ignore them.
Like you did now? Face it, you get triggered by literally every 'avatarfag' here, you can't help yourself.
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>>18711411
I don't care about avatarfags. I don't even see their posts anymore.
What "triggers" me is good people coming to these threads with the intention of sharing their passion for watches, but end up seething at some muslim with a seiko.
It's a waste of time for them and for me, who's one of the main contributors to these threads (posting pics of watches, insights, answering to questions, etc).
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>>18711428
There are no "avatarfags" here. This is the watch thread and and people own watches, they post watches they own here. It is that simple.
I'm sure you would prefer some RM or Rolex stock photos, but not all of us are retarded larpers like you.
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>>18711447
This one >>18711411
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>what would you say is the new meme color in watchmaking?
There won't be any.
The only "meme colors" in watchmaking I can think of are green and tiffany blue. Both became trends 3 or 4 years ago, purely because Rolex and Patek happened to release watches in those colors in a very short timeframe.
It was a complete coincidence and now every watchtards believe there will be a new meme color every year.
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>>18711548
There have also been a lot of people over the years trying to make salmon happen. I don't understand why, I've never seen a watch it looked better on than any of the more conventional colors.
The only one I've ever seen someone wearing in real life is Tiffany. For all the talk online about how great green and salmon are you never see someone wearing them.
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>>18711587
>There have also been a lot of people over the years trying to make salmon happen.
Salmon dials are very old. It's not like they're trying to make it happen so much as they're trying to bring it back.
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>>18711615
No. They kept asking the designer to add more buttons, even though it was primarily for gaming and he wanted to hide the phone features. So that was his inside joke solution and they loved it and produced it.
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>>18711629
Ah ok. Yeah, makes sense. Though, obviously, the effort to make stuff Tiffany blue is a lot more prominent. Salmon dials are considerably rarer.
There was a salmon dial Franck Muller a couple years ago that was great. The Curvex case with the salmon dial and the big art deco style numerals looked very cool.
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>>18711597
it's a cool timex
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>>18711503
In the 2027 Glashütte Original will become the new trendsetter. As I say it, so mote it be!
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>>18711251
Leica and Rolex are not that dissimilar buying experiences. I paid $7k used for my 50mm lens and it looks like they are still going for $8k on the market. There are no electronics in M mount lenses so there's nothing to degrade and no rush to offload it like autofocus lenses. If anything it'll last longer and require less maintenance that a Rolex. And cameras and lenses are a lot more useful in daily life. A Rolex on vacation doesn't really make many memories for you.
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>>18711251
The sensor is heavily customized and removes the RGB pixels. You're just capturing waves of shades of gray, it greatly enhances what you can do, you can shoot at 200,000 iso if you want with a monochrome sensor and not have much noise. You wouldn't get it.
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You spent all that time researching camera gear but you never bothered to develop any talent at photography.
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>>18711733
>Spending money != talent
You see gear-queers all sorts of fields:
The guy with the incredible guitar setup who can't play
The guy with the most cutting edge racing bicycle who's slow and fat
The guy who collects fountain pens but has shitty handwriting
The guy with all the woodworking tools who can't build a birdhouse
The guy with the best knives and cookware who can't boil pasta
The guy with the match-grade pistol who can't hit the broad side of a barn
What irks them most of all, like in the case of our "shutterbug", is that someone with an actual eye could take a better picture with a cheap smartphone camera or an old Kodak disposable than they can with their thousands of dollars' worth of professional-grade equipment.
So they spend most of their time arguing about gear and setups on internet forums.
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>>18711728
you know the same sony sensor in that $11k camera that is found on sony cameras that are 10x cheaper can have their rgb color filter array and achieve the same exact thing right?
and that you can use the same leica lenses on sony cameras?
everyone knows leica faggots are a joke, it's all aesthetics, no substance.
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>>18711739
So where do you fit in to all this with posting in a watch thread but you don't even own a watch? that makes you worse than the larpers, you're just a nobody shitting up the threads (no offense poo anon)
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>>18711746
Sorry Ansel Adams, I have a fine collection of watches but I don't need to show them to you, because you're too bitter and incapable of arguing in good faith. So I'll just let you seethe about your lack of photography skills.
Tell you what, I'll post a picture of all my watches when you post a good photograph, lmfao.
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>>18711766
But nobody acts like this in real life. And nobody who knows what lange is going to be mislead by a glassutte and vice versa. And there's nothing wrong with the glassutte, it's just a different watch in a different price point. There are so many reasons this scenario is retarded and would never happen.
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