Categories: Society & Culture

Wristwatches That Cost a Bomb

 

There is a huge difference between needs and wants. A wristwatch that costs a bomb surely comes under the category of one’s wants.

Let’s look at the scenario of someone wanting to know what time it is. Right in one’s pocket there will be a cell phone which diligently works and tells you what time it is. And then when one is working on the computer we know there is a timer that clicks every second. And we have wall clocks, time pieces the works to depend on wanting to know what time its. Then we have the taxi and riskshaw drivers who will tell us what time it is if we forget our mobile.

In other words no one looks at wristwatches these days. They do not have to and yet we see celebrities ogling at wristwatches that are getting upgraded by the minute. Some have a hobby collecting wristwatches, safely kept in a safe.

Why do we not move with the time, pun meant.

Watchmakers will woo the public with features never heard of before. A search on the Net will give information on the expensive wristwatches. My search reached to  here:

BREGUET GRANDE COMPLICATION MARIE-ANTOINETTE ~ Price: $30.000.000

 

May be I am naive to know what one does with these expensive watches. Nor will I want to know. All what I want to know is time and I hav enough devices around me that help me with that. These watches are bulky and have countless features that I am sure the wearer would have to attend some classes or a course to get to know what each feature does.

Or is it just their ego to own this contraption.  One will have to interview these queer characters hoping they will give honest answers. Surely they will not want to admit they are the world’s top most egocentric individuals.

 

Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breguet_(brand)




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    • There are many watches that are most expensive and a normal person cannot buy it because it becomes too much costly. At some point in time, everyone has held, worn, or owned a Rolex Submariner. This one is special because it was held, worn, and owned by the one and only Steve McQueen.

      That’s right, the “King of Cool” owned this particular submersible, self-winding, stainless steel oyster bracelet Rolex. You’re getting time, Rolex, and bona fide badassery.

      Rounding out the Patek trinity is the Ref 5016P (The P stands for platinum, duh). This watch is the second most complicated wristwatch (the first one was a pocket watch so it doesn’t count) that Patek has produced.

      The problem with watches of this caliber the need for adjustments, but Patek has an app for that. If you keep this moon-phase, perpetual calendar, retrograde behemoth running continuously it won’t need adjusting until 2100. That’s something your children’s children’s children will most certainly appreciate.

      Buying this watch would require selling 3.5 Bugatti Veyrons, which happens to be 70% of the total number they sold in 2005. The closest most of us will ever get to a Veyron is drooling over it on Top Gear. It’s all about perspective here people. Three Veyrons. Say it out loud – Three. Veyrons. So what makes this watch worth $5.12mil? For starters, it is the most complicated watch on the planet with 33 complications.

      Essentially, it requires a degree in mechanical engineering to understand, but suffice it to say it has everything but the kitchen sink. It also took more time to design than you spent in college (including those extra years “studying” chemistry).

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