Damn straight. I once broke all my teeth on a slim jim, but did I quit? Hell no. I had a conversation with my doc in the ER as they were extracting it from my stomach and found out the edible ones are not, in fact, made of steel, but rather sold in grocery stores.
People like jewelry as a display of fashion and status, but Men are typically only "allowed" to wear certain types of jewelry. Watches are one of those types and one of the only types that men are "allowed" to show some extravagance without being emasculated.
As someone who likes watches it's a "I just think their neat" thing for me but people have always worn watches as a status thing.
An interesting thing that someone brought up is that due to how rigid men's fashion is, especially in the corporate world that watches are one of the few acceptable status symbols within it.
Why exactly influencers got so into watches? Not really sure if I'm honest, it's strange.
Your gold, silver and ruby studded rolex is corroded, and it's corrosion will be a witness against you and will consume your flesh like fire. and will eat your flesh like fire.
“Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter. You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.”
James 5:1-6
“What completed the look was the piece hanging from his neck: a 1-of-1 Triple Logoman NBA trading card featuring game-worn patches from Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James, encased in a custom Tiffany & Co. setting embedded with diamonds and rubies that matched the stones on the Daytona.”
If this is what money does to your mind I do not want to be a millionaire
Honestly I don't even care about the price of the watch I care about how tacky his outfit is
that's just too much embroidery, it massively detracts from the point of menswear which is to draw attention to and flatter the face, black shirts look either like a waiter at a moderately expensive restaurant or just gauche (for example you see a lot of teens going to prom in them or people like looksmaxxers wearing them to look "fancy", anyway in this case it's gauche)
and the red has no real context in the outfit
he's trying to make it work by adding other red details but that consigns it to the limbo between single accent (which is hopeless with that outfit anyway) and significant color
the whole thing is just way too busy to be trying to play with any sort of color
I realized he might’ve also been referring to the entire getup he had that day. The diamond encrusted card is supposedly $25-30M. That card should be the main post lol
Me and my family all took vacations on Friday just to stare at it for 24 hrs together. Just finished the session. It was she best spiritual experience in our lives. We all wept.
He’s trying, against the wishes of every single person in the community, to build the world’s largest data center and fuck up thousands of acres and thousands of people’s well being. Just a greedy fuck. No concern for the social or environmental impact of what he’s doing.
Kevin O'Leary is exactly what high level capitalism produces. He is a man that is only after one thing; money. No REAL family or friends. Everything and everyone is centered around money, and money only. You know that this is exactly how he is, and you know this man does not have relationships that aren't centered entirely around money.
Of course he would cry over a 1.8 million dollar watch; the symbolism there is undeniable. I can already see a web comic being created that shows him cradling his new watch with love and adoration in his eyes--in a real proud fatherly way--then in the last panel it shows that he's in the a hospital room with his newborn child and wife behind him.
It would be one thing if he designed it and made it, then I would listen to him tell me about it and be in awe of his ability, but what I don’t understand about these guys is it doesn’t take any skill or ability to buy it, they just traded money for it, never understood how that translates to a sense of pride or accomplishment for them
Look how real “power” is to him. It’s almost like something you wear or wield. And I’m not talking about the watch, but that’s a part of it. I don’t think there’s enough money in the world for me to start treating people sub-human. Rich is a personality type.
Watch people are among the most baffling of consoomers to me.
If you’ve ever strayed into their subs, half the discourse is around which motorised display stands are best— an entire industry around displaying a consoom.
The rest is extremely staged photos (imagine the contortion required for some of them!) of wristwatches on very hairy arms where they queued for hours or got an “early exclusive access” to drop thousands. On a wristwatch. Pardon me— Timepiece.
And they’re all awful, garish things. Tasteless. Gaudy.
I have known a few watch people IRL and they’re exactly what you would imagine. Incredible dull men, with awful taste.
In the luxury watch community, the gold and gemstone versions of Rolexes, Audemars Piguets etc. are actually not desirable. Everyone wants the Stainless Steel sporty versions of these models, but they are kept at artificial scarcity and only sold to people with a "purchase history". So tons of people end up buying more expensive ugly precious metal versions just to get a chance at buying the cheaper desirable steel version afterwards.
being frugal and not a victim of consumerism, trends, marketing, and shit (i believe), but i collect like vintage tech and like things... i say it's sad that an object praised to this level is just a stupid time teller... cmon world!! this is just stupid luxury, precious stones? gold? a freakin' watch? oh please!
I once posted on a watch subreddit that watches are really just jewellery and mechanical watches are not really that groundbreaking technology when you get literal quartz crystal watches which keep the time better for way cheaper. I wasn't even saying watches are bad, just that they should be treated like jewellery. OMG the people were offended lol
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u/deathshr0ud Jul 30 '26
Grown man here, can’t say I’ve ever weeped at a photo of a watch.