You thought GAS was bad? I now have WAS!

[dave_mc]

:lol:

i don't have a watch at the moment. oh well. any time i go to buy one i think, "but i could buy a new pedal or pickup with that". (obviously i'm not looking at terribly expensive watches)

[mikeluke]

Servicing is a problem.... I've been quoted £120....

[MDV]

Servicing is a problem.... I've been quoted £120....

See this is the thing with the expensive watches - whats the benefit? My watch cost less than that (not much less though), is 10 years old, has never been serviced, is also worn every day and is currently 300 times more accurate than the expensive one.

I'm confused. Really, I am. A watch tells the time, its usefullness hinges round its accuracy and its reliability; once those are satisfied, wheres the pay off in spending 10 times more than you have to? (Probably dont enen *have* to spend the 100 quid or so that that implies, more like 20).

*ahem* doesnt matter, never mind, folks can spend their money on whatever they want, of course, twinfan doubly so.

[Twinfan]

I guess you pay for the looks, history, technology in them, attention to detail etc.

A perfectly useable and giggable guitar can be bought for £200, but people still lust after Custom Shop Les Pauls.....

[ToneMonkey]

Here's my wee beastie.  It's very accurate as it's an elctro-mechanical watch apparently and has already lasted longer than my bro's £30 one.

http://www.tagheuer.com/the-collection/link/men/calibre-s-chronograph/index.lbl?w=CJF7110.BA0587

It was a 30th birthday present meaning that I have to get her something with diamonds in for hers  :(  I know a Tag is a bit of a cliche and I really wasn't after one, I just fell in love with it.

For something a bit more low key, I was looking into old trench watches.  They need a bit of care but they're lovely.  The IWC one (second column 6th down) here is lovely.

http://www.antiquewatchcouk.com/militarywristw@tches.htm

[nfe]

I guess you pay for the looks, history, technology in them, attention to detail etc.

A perfectly useable and giggable guitar can be bought for £200, but people still lust after Custom Shop Les Pauls.....

I was gonna say that, but a CS LP does what it's designed to do better than a £200 guitar and a £8.99 Casio does it's job better than a £100,000 Rolex.  :lol:

In most cases the movement is where they money is, the craftsmanship is what you're paying for. But in the case of watches, the very finest manual watch, built by the finest watchmaker in the world will never be as accurate as the cheapy Taiwanese number with the psb in it, and that's it's job at the end of the day, nor will it be as robust.

That's all by the by of course, folks can spend their money on what they like, I don't harrass my missus for buying expensive shoes when Clarkes will do the job fine  :lol:

[WezV]

mine is a vintage (i.e 60-70's) timex with non original strap ;)



it would have had a yellow plastic strap originally but currently has a black leather one.  still runs fine but needs a daily wind

I do have a few novelty watches, including this boss bass synth watch whichi struggle with because of the metal strap
http://musicthing.blogspot.com/2006/04/nearly-ebay-of-day-boss-bass-synth.html

one of these from work:
 

my expensive watch is a gold pocket watch i was given by the olds at my graduation


what i really want is a fancy binary watch - it helps in my job to have something with flashing lights that confuses students

[MDV]

I guess you pay for the looks, history, technology in them, attention to detail etc.

A perfectly useable and giggable guitar can be bought for £200, but people still lust after Custom Shop Les Pauls.....

The guitar is something that you interact with in an artistic fashion, though, for want of a better word, and as nfe says, the LP will (well, might :lol:) be better than the £200 job.

A watch is an instrument, as in measurement device, that you wear - how good it is at its job can be measured (with a better watch :lol:), and here and now Dr Stiens is the best and mine second, and both were a little over £100! Or thats how I see at least. I aint judging, nor hatin'; buy whatever watches your heart desires, for whatever reasons, of course, it just confuses me a bit is all (and thats why; tells time accurately and doesnt cr@p out on you = good watch, to me).

[ToneMonkey]

Personally my thoughts were that I don't wear any jewellery other than a wedding ring (which is Tungsten Carbide and I would highly recommend to anyone getting married).  I wanted a nice watch as I see it as something which will be with me for the rest of my life rather than just something to tell the time with.  Hopefully I'll still have it on when I'm a old fogey.

I'm also an engineer and I like things that are well made, it makes me happy on so many levels. :lol:

[WezV]

just dug out my boss bass synth watch to remind myself what it was like - it unlike me to keep stuff in boxes

[ToneMonkey]

Awesome.

[Plexi Ken]

Personally my thoughts were that I don't wear any jewellery other than a wedding ring (which is Tungsten Carbide and I would highly recommend to anyone getting married).  I wanted a nice watch as I see it as something which will be with me for the rest of my life rather than just something to tell the time with.  Hopefully I'll still have it on when I'm a old fogey.

I'm also an engineer and I like things that are well made, it makes me happy on so many levels. :lol:

Interesting, I'm also a non-jewellery wearing Engineer. I don't ever own a watch, the one on my phone will do

[Philly Q]

I guess you pay for the looks, history, technology in them, attention to detail etc.

A perfectly useable and giggable guitar can be bought for £200, but people still lust after Custom Shop Les Pauls.....

I was gonna say that, but a CS LP does what it's designed to do better than a £200 guitar and a £8.99 Casio does it's job better than a £100,000 Rolex.  :lol:

I do agree, but I guess the expensive watch has "qualities" not immediately apparent to you and me.  :lol:

I suppose we all have different things we're happy to splash the cash on.  I don't really think twice about spending £850 on a guitar (even though I have loads and don't "need" any of them, let alone another one).  But it took me years to decide to spend the same money on an HD TV and even then I felt "guilty" about it.

[JDC]

ye but now you can watch shaun the sheep in HD!!!!!!!

[Philly Q]

ye but now you can watch shaun the sheep in HD!!!!!!!

Only if I buy it on Blu-ray (unlikely)!  I don't have Sky and I suspect Freeview HD isn't going to work very well.... but we'll see.  :)

(Edit:  I've just set the TV up and it looks like Freeview HD is working fine!  :D )