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Do you wear a watch?

rosemont83 said:
Solid gold!
Keep it in the vault.. Not trying to get E-hustled on the internet Lol
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I'd almost be afraid to wear that thing out in public. Imagine getting it lost, stolen, or banging it against a cinder block wall.

But as you probably know, unless you travel in certain circles, most people don't even hardly notice someone else's watch or have any idea what it is. I bet the majority of people wouldn't even notice that Patek, and if they did, most would assume it's just some $200 dress watch. :laughing
 
bojangle said:
I'd almost be afraid to wear that thing out in public. Imagine getting it lost, stolen, or banging it against a cinder block wall.

But as you probably know, unless you travel in certain circles, most people don't even hardly notice someone else's watch or have any idea what it is. I bet the majority of people wouldn't even notice that Patek, and if they did, most would assume it's just some $200 dress watch. :laughing
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I think you run a higher risk for running into a cinder block wall than most but that is definitely something to think about :laughing


You are 100% correct.
I'm telling you..
I did an experiment on a college campus and a couple different casinos.
I wore a close to $10K watch and I got probably 3 comments.
Same situations same locations,
I wore a $900 Fendi and got like 15+ people going "Whoa nice watch man!" Which would most people rather do.. spend more and get less compliments or spend less and be superstar rapper :teeth

But, the Fendi watch was quite a bit bigger in size for the experiment so there's that.. Maybe it was just more noticeable. Hard to control for placebo and other factors with watches but I think the evidence confirms our conclusions lol
 
I will say that synthetic sapphire is worth every penny; so much as brushing a raised glass crystal against a pole on BART was enough to scratch the hell out of it.

I do a lot of work in the field with my hands and haven't managed to scratch the Marathon's crystal up yet (something I can't say for the last several glass crystals I've had.)
 
rosemont83 said:
I think you run a higher risk for running into a cinder block wall than most but that is definitely something to think about :laughing


You are 100% correct.
I'm telling you..
I did an experiment on a college campus and a couple different casinos.
I wore a close to $10K watch and I got probably 3 comments.
Same situations same locations,
I wore a $900 Fendi and got like 15+ people going "Whoa nice watch man!" Which would most people rather do.. spend more and get less compliments or spend less and be superstar rapper :teeth

But, the Fendi watch was quite a bit bigger in size for the experiment so there's that.. Maybe it was just more noticeable. Hard to control for placebo and other factors with watches but I think the evidence confirms our conclusions lol
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:laughing Hey, I stopped wearing my reps to work after damaging a couple three of them... One by bumping it against a wall, another by taking someone to the ground, and yet another by falling in a ditch, at night, adjacent to train tracks, with gun in hand, while chasing after someone reported to have been brandishing a gun. That one hurt.

Marlowe said:
I will say that synthetic sapphire is worth every penny; so much as brushing a raised glass crystal against a pole on BART was enough to scratch the hell out of it.

I do a lot of work in the field with my hands and haven't managed to scratch the Marathon's crystal up yet (something I can't say for the last several glass crystals I've had.)
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I believe synthetic sapphire is just another name for mineral crystal, which aren't as scratch resistant as natural sapphire.
 
bojangle said:
:laughing Hey, I stopped wearing my reps to work after damaging a couple three of them... One by bumping it against a wall, another by taking someone to the ground, and yet another by falling in a ditch, at night, adjacent to train tracks, with gun in hand, while chasing after someone reported to have been brandishing a gun. That one hurt.



I believe synthetic sapphire is just another name for mineral crystal, which aren't as scratch resistant as natural sapphire.
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Which is why most of the officers I know like the Luminox watches. I believe they are dual purpose. One for telling time and the other for bonking people on the head :laughing

The good thing about the mineral crystal/plastic synthetic stuff is that when it does inevitably become scratched up I can polish most of the scratches away.
On a regular sapphire crystal it is much more scratch resistant but I can't polish any type of scratches
 
bojangle said:
I believe synthetic sapphire is just another name for mineral crystal, which aren't as scratch resistant as natural sapphire.
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They're not the same thing.

Sapphire is sapphire, and it just as hard even if man made.
 
Marlowe said:
They're not the same thing.

Sapphire is sapphire, and it just as hard even if man made.
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I think you're right as we don't really call things synthetic or natural when it comes to watch glass..
The only distinction we make is for jewelry sapphire stones and whether they're lab created or natural.
 
rosemont83 said:
I think you run a higher risk for running into a cinder block wall than most but that is definitely something to think about :laughing


You are 100% correct.
I'm telling you..
I did an experiment on a college campus and a couple different casinos.
I wore a close to $10K watch and I got probably 3 comments.
Same situations same locations,
I wore a $900 Fendi and got like 15+ people going "Whoa nice watch man!" Which would most people rather do.. spend more and get less compliments or spend less and be superstar rapper :teeth

But, the Fendi watch was quite a bit bigger in size for the experiment so there's that.. Maybe it was just more noticeable. Hard to control for placebo and other factors with watches but I think the evidence confirms our conclusions lol
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I wear my $100 Nixon watch and get stopped all the time. Needs a new band which requires sending it in.

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I'm more inclined to spend $$ on a watch that does functions.
 
Dubbington said:
I wear my $100 Nixon watch and get stopped all the time. Needs a new band which requires sending it in.

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I'm more inclined to spend $$ on a watch that does functions.
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I see you're going for the bathroom scale look. :laughing (Sorry, I couldn't help it.)

You want functions? I had this bad boy when I was a kid.

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I saw lots of nice watches at my sales kickoff this week. Rolex and Omega are standard issue..
 
Ducky_Fresh said:
I saw lots of nice watches at my sales kickoff this week. Rolex and Omega are standard issue..
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Well you know what to do. Buy a big, like fuck all big, chunky ass Diesel or Nixon. Obvi....psssh.
 
jt2 said:
...and it's right twice a day. More than you can say for a lot of real Rolex watches. :later
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All watches are right at least twice a day. :teeth

A man with one watch knows the time. A man with many watches is never sure. ;)
 
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