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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums39,000 for a wristwatch? Collectors dont blink, and even go for seconds.
NEW YORK Time has never been more ubiquitous and in your face. Its on the phone, the computer, the car and every blasted appliance.
You dont need a watch to tell the time, confesses timepiece connoisseur Watch Anish at a midtown Manhattan cocktail party celebrating luxury watches. (Real name: Anish Bhatt, but as an Instagram brand, hes so beyond that.)
You hear this observation plenty in the haute horology world, even from people selling six-figure timepieces.
Also, that a Timex tells pretty good time.
But facts matter not a second hand to obsessive collectors, almost all of whom are male, in a market where $15,000 models are deemed middle-class timepieces.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/porsches-for-your-wrist-inside-the-world-of-luxury-watches/2016/11/25/70218556-947f-11e6-bb29-bf2701dbe0a3_story.html?wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1#comments
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)Just as shocking a revelation would be "Very Expensive Jewelry Is Sold".
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)They have plenty of gold, gems, etc. And they're great works of craftsmanship, especially when made the old-fashioned way, using springs and gears and regulating mechanisms, instead of oscillator crystals and semiconductors.
The ten dollar digital watch works fine, but that's not art and jewelry like a Rolex. Of course, I don't have the money or inclination for a Rolex.