Getting a Rolex serviced always reminds me of this Sunderland gent nowadays.
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Investment yet they need 'servicing'
Expensive watches are like expensive art, overpriced codswallop
While I tend to agree with that outlook they porbably won't hold their value massively. Most Rolex while not always increasing in value will hold a good % of their value and if you pick up a sleeper/rare one they might increase in value.
Investment yet they need 'servicing'
Expensive watches are like expensive art, overpriced codswallop
This! What can an expensive watch do apart from tell the time? Make you walk faster and smoother?Expensive watches, that have little inherent value, such as precious metals fall into this definition.
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As I said, the same goes for some of the art you see, it's mainly overpriced snobbery bollocks.Haha, 2 quotes of the same post and now insults and this 2nd one complete shite anarl using a car as a comparison
Do watches have heated backs to warm up your wrists and air con to cool you down in the summer or can they even go strapless liek a car can hoy the roof down? Is the sound the of the tick different like a car sound? I don't really service it as it's car and it works and I'll be shifting it next year at the latest. It's not the same experience at all but it still gets me from A to B I suppose. I'm passed the boy racer stage of my life but I wouldn't say no to a BMW 4 Series M Sport convertible again some day when sub £20,000, summit like this but will all the spec added.
This! What can an expensive watch do apart from tell the time? Make you walk faster and smoother?
Haha, 2 quotes of the same post and now insults and this 2nd one complete shite anarl using a car as a comparison
As for cars, I've had some shitters in my poorer days but also had some canny cars over the years. I got hold of a Mk3 Escort RS Turbo in the mid 00's as a 2nd car but sold it after a while. I'd had various XR3i convertibles before that as my main car. Obviously the RS Turbo was great to look at and the sound it made was canny interesting. It's just a car though and apart from getting looked at and admired, the drive itself was nowt spectacular though still part of the fun but the novelty and nostalgia soon wore off so that's why I got rid of it. It's now silly prices for them yet even if I had £1m quid to buy the best RS Turbo in the world I wouldn't.
I've even had a Mini 1100 Special before them in the early 90's that again would probably be worth something now but it was a nice car at the time. I had 2 rare Mk2 Astra Bertone Convertibles in the mid 90's that only had 250 models made. I just used them as cars and enjoyed them best I could and sold them when I changed to BMW. Even the last decent car I bought was an E46 330Cd BMW M Sport convertible that had power and all the spec and was enjoyable as owt but I sold it in 2017. There's only a few 100 of those models left on the road, even less in the colour combo I had and I should have kept it as it was a canny car but I'd had it 7 years. It depreciated in value but I see even shit versions are now holding their value and good examples will probably rise in the future. It cost me £6,000 in depreciation over the 7 years so less than £1,000 a year and I got far more enjoyment out of it than a Nissan Juke that would have probably lost well more than £6,000 over 7 years
But aye you're right, I now have a car that may be depreciating in value but it's still worth more than the bargain price I paid for it
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As for watches, a cheap job will do me as how much more could I enjoy having a £10,000 Rolex on my wrist apart from flashing it about down the pub or talking about it on a forum on the internet? What does a watch really offer as a pleasurable experience compared to a car that you'd use that in your post? In fact, ignore the car, just what does a watch offer that is pleasurable in so many ways with numerous features?
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I can't see the sense in having more than one watch or having any if you own a phone - each to their own though.
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Do you wear it and if you do how many times do you wear it? What exactly do you get out of wearing it and what pleasures apart from the obvious of telling people how much you paid for it?
This! What can an expensive watch do apart from tell the time? Make you walk faster and smoother?
Haha, 2 quotes of the same post and now insults and this 2nd one complete shite anarl using a car as a comparison
As for cars, I've had some shitters in my poorer days but also had some canny cars over the years. I got hold of a Mk3 Escort RS Turbo in the mid 00's as a 2nd car but sold it after a while. I'd had various XR3i convertibles before that as my main car. Obviously the RS Turbo was great to look at and the sound it made was canny interesting. It's just a car though and apart from getting looked at and admired, the drive itself was nowt spectacular though still part of the fun but the novelty and nostalgia soon wore off so that's why I got rid of it. It's now silly prices for them yet even if I had £1m quid to buy the best RS Turbo in the world I wouldn't.
I've even had a Mini 1100 Special before them in the early 90's that again would probably be worth something now but it was a nice car at the time. I had 2 rare Mk2 Astra Bertone Convertibles in the mid 90's that only had 250 models made. I just used them as cars and enjoyed them best I could and sold them when I changed to BMW. Even the last decent car I bought was an E46 330Cd BMW M Sport convertible that had power and all the spec and was enjoyable as owt but I sold it in 2017. There's only a few 100 of those models left on the road, even less in the colour combo I had and I should have kept it as it was a canny car but I'd had it 7 years. It depreciated in value but I see even shit versions are now holding their value and good examples will probably rise in the future. It cost me £6,000 in depreciation over the 7 years so less than £1,000 a year and I got far more enjoyment out of it than a Nissan Juke that would have probably lost well more than £6,000 over 7 years
But aye you're right, I now have a car that may be depreciating in value but it's still worth more than the bargain price I paid for it
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As for watches, a cheap job will do me as how much more could I enjoy having a £10,000 Rolex on my wrist apart from flashing it about down the pub or talking about it on a forum on the internet? What does a watch really offer as a pleasurable experience compared to a car that you'd use that in your post? In fact, ignore the car, just what does a watch offer that is pleasurable in so many ways with numerous features?
I can understand that fully and it's good to hear you wear it all the time. I have an 18K gold signet ring that I got passed down to me from my grandfather and he'd got it passed down. Although it was worth a bit due to the weight, it's worth even more due to were it came from and I wore it for years though I don't wear it now as I'd rather pass it on to someone else.
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If anything he chomped as he came back for a 2nd nibble by qouting me a 2nd time and even hoyed in a petty insult Originally my reply was just the 1st paragraph but I was bored so had a reminiscing session about some of the cars I've had. I've just remembered my brown Austin Allegro Estate I paid £60 for in the early 90's! . I actually liked the 2 tone silver/gold style years ago and I've got a 'proper' watch like that somewhere, possibly Sekonda or summit. I don't wear a watch these days as the phone tells me the time and the battery has ran out on the watch anyway plus the face is scratched.
I can understand that fully and it's good to hear you wear it all the time. I have an 18K gold signet ring that I got passed down to me from my grandfather and he'd got it passed down. Although it was worth a bit due to the weight, it's worth even more due to were it came from and I wore it for years though I don't wear it now as I'd rather pass it on to someone else.
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As he mentioned cars, my lengthy chomp was a car can give far more enjoyment in many ways than a watch so obviously you'd get it serviced if you wanted to look after it. It just so happens I've been fortunate enough to have some canny cars to enjoy car owning one a bit more. A watch however can't compare to what a car offers in my opinion but given dafunk's reply then yes I can see why it may offer quite a bit.
I've had some OK looking watches but nowt fancy and strangely enough had a fake Rolex I got on my holidays that looked the same as the one in the OP. That was when I was young in the 90's and although it was fake you still got the 'attention'
This! What can an expensive watch do apart from tell the time? Make you walk faster and smoother?
Haha, 2 quotes of the same post and now insults and this 2nd one complete shite anarl using a car as a comparison
As for cars, I've had some shitters in my poorer days but also had some canny cars over the years. I got hold of a Mk3 Escort RS Turbo in the mid 00's as a 2nd car but sold it after a while. I'd had various XR3i convertibles before that as my main car. Obviously the RS Turbo was great to look at and the sound it made was canny interesting. It's just a car though and apart from getting looked at and admired, the drive itself was nowt spectacular though still part of the fun but the novelty and nostalgia soon wore off so that's why I got rid of it. It's now silly prices for them yet even if I had £1m quid to buy the best RS Turbo in the world I wouldn't.
I've even had a Mini 1100 Special before them in the early 90's that again would probably be worth something now but it was a nice car at the time. I had 2 rare Mk2 Astra Bertone Convertibles in the mid 90's that only had 250 models made. I just used them as cars and enjoyed them best I could and sold them when I changed to BMW. Even the last decent car I bought was an E46 330Cd BMW M Sport convertible that had power and all the spec and was enjoyable as owt but I sold it in 2017. There's only a few 100 of those models left on the road, even less in the colour combo I had and I should have kept it as it was a canny car but I'd had it 7 years. It depreciated in value but I see even shit versions are now holding their value and good examples will probably rise in the future. It cost me £6,000 in depreciation over the 7 years so less than £1,000 a year and I got far more enjoyment out of it than a Nissan Juke that would have probably lost well more than £6,000 over 7 years
But aye you're right, I now have a car that may be depreciating in value but it's still worth more than the bargain price I paid for it
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As for watches, a cheap job will do me as how much more could I enjoy having a £10,000 Rolex on my wrist apart from flashing it about down the pub or talking about it on a forum on the internet? What does a watch really offer as a pleasurable experience compared to a car that you'd use that in your post? In fact, ignore the car, just what does a watch offer that is pleasurable in so many ways with numerous features?
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