those watches you guys posted with the jewles is just tooo much for me.. not in price but.. just gaudy...

now the watch i would kill for was a one off by swatch.. it was engineered after a car engine, belts, pulleys, pistons for keeping time... now thats a watch.. anything that is overcomplicated to keep time and not jewel encrusted i will pay for

Good God, I haven't worn a watch in 10+ years, and I certainly don't feel the urge to show off with a fancy timepiece. The older I get, the less infatuated I am with material stuff, and if I buy luxury goods, I do it for my own satisfaction, not to make a statement to anyone else. For that matter, I make an effort to be low key when I'm out in public, no point in becoming a victim.

Thank God my customers are conspicuous consumers...as long as they continue to spend with abandon, I'm good to go.

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What a distorted view of the world. That attitude might impress a naive teenybopper coed. You might be wearing a suit everyday, but you will be someone's glorified gopher when you get out of school. It takes years of networking and experience to be able to "tell people what to do". That's a double edged sword also, because when you have to look a family man in the eye and fire/lay him off, you run the risk of retribution.


My mechanic lives in and owns outright, a beachside home where I live. He also owns outright, a 2 million dollar commercial property one block from the ocean that he rents. He also own several rental homes,outright.. He also still owns his former home in upstate Ney York. He also owns a buy here-pay here car lot, where he leaglly charges almost 30% interest. That shows what hard work can do. He still gets his hands dirty, and is a well respected member of the local chamber of commerce, he wear a suit to the mothly lunches. Many of his college educated suit wearing customers ask him if they can make payments on the repairs he makes to the cars they they can barely afford because they don't have the money to pay him. His wife flys to Ney York to shop for clothes and jewlery.

btw, please excuse the poor grammer, I'm trying to watch Fox news and help the wife cook dinner all at the same time. Thanks.

Yeah, Patek Phillipe watches are for old men... with lots of old money.

I have some extremly expensive tastes and even that watch is over the top for my tastes. Plus where could you wear it? Golfing, and parties maybe? Wearing it to the yacht club is pointless no one cares, plus it would get beat up actualy trying to sail. Wearing it to work, yeah try to bargin wearing such a watch. No one will give you an inch.

I'll take a nice Rolex Mariner, in stainless. Gold is so gaudy, actualy I hate gold, even my dress belt buckles are not gold.

I would only ever consider spending $200k on a watch if I was ordering it from the aft deck of my 300ft boat in the med. There are only a certain number of people in the world that actualy can afford such things. The rest are just trying to act like the big boys.

There is a builder I know that has a car collection that would make anyone drool, not to mention his own chopper to fly him around and inspect his properties. He would never spend $200k on a watch, he would rather buy a dump truck and make money with it.

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oh yea worth more than a watch i agree.. i can watch it make money instead of looking at my watch wasting money

Now that is funny, and true.

It also looks like the kind of watch the pimp Lester Diamond would wear in "CASINO".

Correct, plus the new Mack's are a very nice dump trucks. Not to mention they help the bottom line.

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If someone else is paying your way in life, the liabilities of such a watch are a hard concept to wrap your head around.

Yeah, I have an economics degree from St. Louis University, a fancy smaller Jesuit university, earned it in 1989. I am not rich and see little chance of ever getting there. I know several physicians who owe huge school loans who make under $100K/year. I also attended a fancy college prep school for boys, and even with every advantage I'm still not making it big. Wanna know why? It's HARD and it takes lots of LUCK and even working my ass off it's not happening. I assumed that I would waltz out of school, diploma in hand, and have the world at my feet. Guess what, it's a big world out there, and there is always someone smarter and better than you. For a smug little teenaged boy to tell me how he's going to be the boss, right off the bat, is silly. It reminds me of my 17 year old who quit her first job because the manager told her what to do?! I informed her that she didn't get to start as CEO the first day...gotta earn it.

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Yeah see thats my problem. Other than food, shelter and a few cloths I pay for mostly everything. So I kind of now what the real world is like, and how such things don't come easy.

That actualy annoys the heck out of me. Some people who don't know me assume that some of my stuff comes from my parents.

I will eventualy buy myself a Rolex, but not until I feel I have earned it. I have not payed my dues yet, so I wouldn't be caught dead wearing one. I don't want to be "some kid who made a few bucks and bought himself a watch".

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And, as for tennis on your day off, don't ever have kids, or you won't have time for golf, tennis, or anything else. You'll work 60+ hours a week, have to cut out in order to get to the cleaners before they close, and daycare before they close, then weekends are consumed with kids' sports events. Worse yet, your social life will consist of chatting with other parents at soccer games. Thank God they sell beer at the Catholic parishes around here during games or we all would go nuts.

Saturdays I have to get up by 6:30 or so and get laundry started, because with 7 kids it piles up quickly. Even during the week my wife and I are up until midnight cleaning and getting ready for breakfast.

So, if your daddy hands you a nice lifestyle, more power to you. The common folk like myself applaud your good fortune. It does feel good to earn what I have though. Nothing has been handed to me, I've scraped and scrounged every nickel I have.

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I'm getting irritated with this thread, I liked it a lot better when we were making fun of people who bathe in rest stop bathrooms.

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.........now there is a man without a Rolex...........

Careful now, you don't know that. Don't stereotype.

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