Is there anyone here rich enough to actually explain why the fuck these watches are supposed to be for rich normalfags? What's the appeal, why are they so expensive??
Rolex
Bentley Kelly
Tyler Thomas
Rolex's suck. I own a patek philippe. Get on my level peasant!
Camden Flores
Patek sucks. I own a Vacheron Constantine. Get on my level pleb
Jason Morris
They're a way to project success without outwardly saying you're successful, because that would be tawdry.
Brayden Torres
Luxury watches are literally boomer-tier.
Zachary Foster
store of value.
just like a Jackson Pollock.
Colton Jackson
social classes like to distance themselves from others. so they start buying or doing irrelevant shit like adopting manneurisms or wearing certain brands.
imagine it like a balance, those poor like to "challenge" the rich. The rich will buy an expensive desk for 5k made out of some special wood. average or poor people will buy one of ikea or second hand and legitimize it by saying "it does the same job as the other desk, so I saved 5k." ignoring the fact that the other desk is actually better quality.
Brandon Morgan
Humans are animals and bearing an expensive watch signals the female that you want to make babies. The more expensive your watch, car clothes are ...
Blake Barnes
but it doesn't necessarily mean that the quality is better and is backed by the price.
most products have a buywall they artificially break. for example most electric guitars are the best at around 1k, spending more than that on an electric guitar will not make the sound better, its just BS marketing about some special wood or color finish.
same with rolex, rolex is produced in the same factory as tissot with the same quality conditions. so you can expect about the same quality from a 500 bucks watch then one that costs 10k or more. if you really need to buy a rolex to prove something to the people you hang around buy it, if not, save the money for other stuff.
David Diaz
Yes but not in the watch world where quartz watches are objectively better than mechanical in every measure yet mechanical watches are often more expensive.