The Watch Appreciation Thread - Part two (Rolex, Patek Philippe, Audemars Piguet, Jaeger LeCoultre,

[LA Guy]

very nice story, really appreciate the share.

i've gotten (and given!) the hookup around here in the same way.

great site mang!

Yeah, it's sometimes more fun to give then to receive. I have a handful of Good Art rubber biscuits that I have for random giveaways here. They the ostensibly for special "promotions" - they come with a special "Styleforum Approved" rubber band. Frankly, I just thought that it would be cool to give members some fun contest and then give away some cool loot.

 

[LA Guy]

I’ve mentioned before that I have a s deposit down for a Snoopy 50. If and when I get that I’ll probably wear the **** out of it but the Speedy I really want now is the moonshine gold A11 50th or the Sedna gold 3861 Speedy just released. I’m really digging the gold Speedmasters.

I don't really get the Snoopy watches, and I had a chance to pick one up at what seems like a very reasonable price now. My brother, the quintessential Asian Doctor, likes them, and tells me that they are a very Chinese watch (he lives in a community with a huge affluent Hong Kong/Chinese contingent.)

 

[mak1277]

Maybe it's my personal bias showing, but I think that Omega does not carry the same baggage as does Rolex.

Definitely it doesn’t.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

I tried buying the MING 27.02 tonight. I clicked on the buy button as soon as it was available at 10 PM EST, entered my shipping information, then got a sold out message when I tried to check out. All 75 watches must have been bought by bots. Oh well, that's $5500 I should be saving anyways.

 

[Omega Male]

I want to steer as far as possible away from politics as possible, please. For **** sake, our daily lives (here in America, at least) are saturated with that ****.

However, a valid point somewhere there emerged: the OPTICS of wearing a watch, whatever it may be. The “baggage” of wearing a watch is such an interesting dynamic. I once owned a Rolex Day-Date 40 in solid gold and champagne dial - the Soprano watch, but updated. It was my grail watch. I loved it so much. One day, when I was a younger man, I flew to Michigan to meet with a client. I wore it to the meeting. He kept looking at it. At the end of the meeting, and after about an hour of post-meeting discussion, he said “if you think I’m going to pay you [my hourly rate] just so you can buy another ******* Gold Rolex, think again, pal.” I sold it two days afterward and it taught my young, senseless ass a valuable lesson: mind your wrist, for everyone else may.

Let’s stay amicable and centered, gentlemen. Thank you.

P.S.: I still love you, Annie (that was her name)
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You should have kept the watch and filed the client away as a loser, in my humble and worthless opinion.

 

[9thsymph]

I want to steer as far as possible away from politics as possible, please. For **** sake, our daily lives (here in America, at least) are saturated with that ****.

However, a valid point somewhere there emerged: the OPTICS of wearing a watch, whatever it may be. The “baggage” of wearing a watch is such an interesting dynamic. I once owned a Rolex Day-Date 40 in solid gold and champagne dial - the Soprano watch, but updated. It was my grail watch. I loved it so much. One day, when I was a younger man, I flew to Michigan to meet with a client. I wore it to the meeting. He kept looking at it. At the end of the meeting, and after about an hour of post-meeting discussion, he said “if you think I’m going to pay you [my hourly rate] just so you can buy another ******* Gold Rolex, think again, pal.” I sold it two days afterward and it taught my young, senseless ass a valuable lesson: mind your wrist, for everyone else may.

Let’s stay amicable and centered, gentlemen. Thank you.

P.S.: I still love you, Annie (that was her name)
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Man, that's a beauty!

I feel like Alec Baldwin really ruined the image of the yellow gold Daydate in "Glengary Glen Glen Ross." He was such a brilliant scumbag in that role and the watch was such a salient feature of that scene in the movie, that the watch went from being considered a "classic", to being inseparably linked to ruthless, aggressive, ostentatious wealth/greed. This image was reinforced by Tony Soprano (and perhaps to a lesser extant, "American Psycho", though, that's a datejust...). Of course Rolex already had a stigma (which is why it was used in these dramas), but man, those portrayals really ratcheted up the bad vibes surrounding those watches and Rolex in general.

No doubt that Omega has benefited from something of reverse portrayal in pop culture during roughly the same time (Brosnan and Craig as Bond, Hanks and co. in Apollo 11, etc...)

I still want to get a yellow gold Daydate (36) in a few years, but I know I will have to wear it with a healthy amount of awareness, which isn't the case with my Omegas (even gold ones...)

 

[Neville Southall]

Man, that's a beauty!

I feel like Alec Baldwin really ruined the image of the yellow gold Daydate in "Glengary Glen Glen Ross." He was such a brilliant scumbag in that role and the watch was such a salient feature of that scene in the movie, that the watch went from being considered a "classic", to being inseparably linked to ruthless, aggressive, ostentatious wealth/greed. This image was reinforced by Tony Soprano (and perhaps to a lesser extant, "American Psycho", though, that's a datejust...). Of course Rolex already had a stigma (which is why it was used in these dramas), but man, those portrayals really ratcheted up the bad vibes surrounding those watches and Rolex in general.

No doubt that Omega has benefited from something of reverse portrayal in pop culture during roughly the same time (Brosnan and Craig as Bond, Hanks and co. in Apollo 11, etc...)

I still want to get a yellow gold Daydate (36) in a few years, but I know I will have to wear it with a healthy amount of awareness, which isn't the case with my Omegas (even gold ones...)

Very well said.

 

[Texasmade]

No doubt that Omega has benefited from something of reverse portrayal in pop culture during roughly the same time (Brosnan and Craig as Bond, Hanks and co. in Apollo 11, etc...)

C'mon man! It's Apollo 13.

 

[9thsymph]

C'mon man! It's Apollo 13.

Haha! Good catch, man!

(I got mixed up with the watch...)

 

[9thsymph]

C'mon man! It's Apollo 13.

Speaking of movie 13s...Rusty's yellow gold GMT Master ll in Ocean's 13 is pretty awesome and on another movie note, Charlie Hunnam rocks a yellow gold Daydate in "The Gentlemen" so...

(And btw, who else has spent a ridiculous amount of time during this whole covid lock-down fuckery, watching movies and trying to identify the watches?)

 

[Texasmade]

Speaking of movie 13s...Rusty's yellow gold GMT Master ll in Ocean's 13 is pretty awesome and on another movie note, Charlie Hunnam rocks a yellow gold Daydate in "The Gentlemen" so...

(And btw, who else has spent a ridiculous amount of time during this whole covid lock-down fuckery, watching movies and trying to identify the watches?)

The Gentlemen had a **** ton of collar gaps for bespoke clothing.

 

[9thsymph]

The Gentlemen had a **** ton of collar gaps for bespoke clothing.

Not to mention a consistently fucked up right shoulder on nearly all McConaughey's jackets and some really busted shirt collars, but there are some redeeming stylistic features as well.

 

[BLAUGRANA]

Immediately upon seeing the watch in the Hodinkee article, and before the comparison shot I'm posting here, I thought "this brings a whole new meaning to 'Zenith Daytona'."

 

[Scuppers]

Immediately upon seeing the watch in the Hodinkee article, and before the comparison shot I'm posting here, I thought "this brings a whole new meaning to 'Zenith Daytona'."

I just rubbished it to a friend: lack of imagination; riding tailcoats... etc.

 

[BLAUGRANA]

I just rubbished it to a friend: lack of imagination; riding tailcoats... etc.

I agree to some degree and just posted back at someone who called it a "Daytona killer".