I think that's right. Don't like bling myself.

But there is also the issue of an aesthetic that focusses on what the watch is meant to do. Packaging it up neatly and precisely was an demonstration of the watchmaker's art. Any idiot can fit 7 complications into something that is actually a wall clock with a strap (or, more idiots than can do it in a properly sized watch anyway).

^Agree. Rolex's amongst the Burberry classes, are the ultimate status symbol.  In the oil and gas business, there's a certain pedigree of gobshites and beneficieries of nepotism and rotten boroughs, who must have a chunky Rolex to parade at meetings, as a sign they've made it, arrived, worked up through the ranks the hard way. And shake their wrists waiting for applause.  I know of one fine chap who took a home loan out and bought the Daytona, looks pretty much like a Tissot to me. Ain't worth 10 grand of anyone's money.

The only man I know who owned several Rolex's was a degenerate drug addict and serious sociopathic fraudster.

I've been 22 years in my industry and I've never seen any real mover, shaker or top executives wearing a Rolex.  I've seen plenty of shoulda' coulda' woulda' and never-do-wells, sporting them like African game trophies.

What does this tell me? Rolex is a fetish for wankers.  And I've owned only one, the Rolex Explorer I. But I'm still an ex-wanker.

Baxta, that's sexual. Would you like me to screw you?  Do you have a pert, virginal backside? I could be tempted. But you probably couldn't afford me.

Sadly, for you, I neither care, or am I interested enough to form any kind of opinion. You're inert. Now carry on, preferably on D.Net, they're waiting for you....

Or should I titillate your Rolex fantasies? Check out D&B reports of Rolex, that kind of turnover, is mass produced isn't it? Everyone must be buying them for all those billions a year. You can do the maths, even at 5 grand a pop, they must be churning them out on a conveyor belt. Compare with Christian van der Klauw, probably the best watch maker in the world today (Dutch).

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I'm that pissed, you're lucky I've got any short/medium/long term memory left to enable me to type. And yet, I still have an instictive ability to compose poetry in Mayan hieroglyphics, backwards and in Braille.  I may need help, but at this stage, I can't tell.

I dont wear watches much, although I have several. If I did want to wear them again, I would get one custom made by one of the smaller, more independent craftsman in Geneva.