Anyone like watches?

[AGWAN]

good god.

If someone gave me a 255,000 dollar watch, I would sell it. pay off my debt, fly to Australia and go to college. and build a hot rod.

I adore the craftsmenship on these marvels of engineering.... but hell... even a 4,000 dollar watch  would be something I would sell to improve my life, not wear!

 

[Torment Leaves Scars]

good god.

If someone gave me a 255,000 dollar watch, I would sell it. pay off my debt, fly to Australia and go to college. and build a hot rod.

I adore the craftsmenship on these marvels of engineering.... but hell... even a 4,000 dollar watch  would be something I would sell to improve my life, not wear!

Yeah, some of the watches are pretty expensive.  While we were vacationing in the islands, I had the opportunity to slide a $25000 Rolex on to my wrist, and that was a cheaper one.  I saw one for well over $200,000, but they wouldn't let me try that one on.  :laughing11:

Honestly, like you, I can certainly appreciate craftsmanship, but that's just crazy.  As for the hot rod, you'll need the whole $255,000 to finance it, because they NEVER run right!  Trust me, I know.  :sad1:

 

[AGWAN]

I can build a pretty good Rod for about 30,000 dollars... and while it is definitely a money pit... it takes AGES to lose the other 225,000 dollars in it!

 

[JaySwear]

My dress watch. I love this thing. I rarely wear it just because I'm too afraid to ding and scratch it up. I got rosewood just because :icon_biggrin: I felt like it was a guitar playing decision to go for the fretboard wood choice.

And my every day watch. Mine is actually a brown and tan tweed material for the band. I had the exact same model years ago but in plain black. I wore it until the leather band was just too disgusting and smelly to put on any more.

 

[Torment Leaves Scars]

I can build a pretty good Rod for about 30,000 dollars... and while it is definitely a money pit... it takes AGES to lose the other 225,000 dollars in it!

Just start driving the rod.  That $225,000 will disappear real fast.  ccasion14:

I have a 1994 Camaro that I've hot-rodded up pretty good, and I have about $40,000 into it, including the price of the car, and it's a mechanic's dream.  Nope, I don't race, either.  All I have to do is look at it and it breaks.  Hell, it could be sitting for a week and break.  It doesn't even have to be running and it'll break!  :tard:

 

[Jusatele]

Got a Citizen Blue Angel
a few Bolivas
and a Swiss Army watch
want a Rolex Sub Mariner, but like I will ever have the money for that. I consider a nice watch around 400, those things are in the thousands.

 

[dmraco]

a few Bolivas

IS that the new watch from Bolivia?....sorry.... :laughing7:

 

[AGWAN]

I can build a pretty good Rod for about 30,000 dollars... and while it is definitely a money pit... it takes AGES to lose the other 225,000 dollars in it!

Just start driving the rod.  That $225,000 will disappear real fast.  ccasion14:

I have a 1994 Camaro that I've hot-rodded up pretty good, and I have about $40,000 into it, including the price of the car, and it's a mechanic's dream.  Nope, I don't race, either.  All I have to do is look at it and it breaks.  Hell, it could be sitting for a week and break.  It doesn't even have to be running and it'll break!  :tard:

I know that feeling! I think the trick is to build something way simpler than a 94, there are way too many electronics in there!

 

[Torment Leaves Scars]

I can build a pretty good Rod for about 30,000 dollars... and while it is definitely a money pit... it takes AGES to lose the other 225,000 dollars in it!

Just start driving the rod.  That $225,000 will disappear real fast.  ccasion14:

I have a 1994 Camaro that I've hot-rodded up pretty good, and I have about $40,000 into it, including the price of the car, and it's a mechanic's dream.  Nope, I don't race, either.  All I have to do is look at it and it breaks.  Hell, it could be sitting for a week and break.  It doesn't even have to be running and it'll break!  :tard:

I know that feeling! I think the trick is to build something way simpler than a 94, there are way too many electronics in there!

See, the problem isn't the electronics, but the overall packaging of the parts!  They are extremely difficult to work on, and even the simplest of things take hours to complete.

 

[Jusatele]

a few Bolivas

IS that the new watch from Bolivia?....sorry.... :laughing7:

opps  Bulova, sorry was reading a book on south american native people last night, spelling got confused

 

[dmraco]

a few Bolivas

IS that the new watch from Bolivia?....sorry.... :laughing7:

opps  Bulova, sorry was reading a book on south american native people last night, spelling got confused

no worries.  I have to be the worst spelling member on the board.  I even hesitated to comment!

 

[Dan025]

those wrist watch thingies are way too modern for me... what is wrong with the good ol fashioned way: checking the time on your phone?

I heard something in the news once about kids in not being able to read clocks anymore, because they only ever look at their cell phones. I laughed, and then feared for my life, because one day we're all going to be in retirement homes with these people taking care of us. :sad:

joey it is even scarier in NY. there is a state law that says kids need a 4 function calculator in the classroom from grade 1(or was it grade 4). well that is fine but it has been several years and these kids are reaching highschool and even freshman year of college now, well sad to say noone used enough discresion to choose when the kids learn the calculator. i mean like dedicate a day to it and move on or something. no these kids are learning polynomials and trig and logs ect and cant add! they have been dependant on calculators for there whole lives wtf@! it is really scary because my professor is also a highschool teacher and she cant make the time to teach graphing, they do it on the calculators! the kids are hopeless. it is soo bad that they dont have any sense of quantity or estimation, if they punch the numbers in wrong they dont have the sense to look at the answer and decide that they must have made a mistake.

how lazy have we become? this isnt the school system i grew up in, and it wasn't even good when i was there. so i suck at english, these kids are sucking at life! what will they do?

 

[line6man]

those wrist watch thingies are way too modern for me... what is wrong with the good ol fashioned way: checking the time on your phone?

I heard something in the news once about kids in not being able to read clocks anymore, because they only ever look at their cell phones. I laughed, and then feared for my life, because one day we're all going to be in retirement homes with these people taking care of us. :sad:

joey it is even scarier in NY. there is a state law that says kids need a 4 function calculator in the classroom from grade 1(or was it grade 4). well that is fine but it has been several years and these kids are reaching highschool and even freshman year of college now, well sad to say noone used enough discresion to choose when the kids learn the calculator. i mean like dedicate a day to it and move on or something. no these kids are learning polynomials and trig and logs ect and cant add! they have been dependant on calculators for there whole lives wtf@! it is really scary because my professor is also a highschool teacher and she cant make the time to teach graphing, they do it on the calculators! the kids are hopeless. it is soo bad that they dont have any sense of quantity or estimation, if they punch the numbers in wrong they dont have the sense to look at the answer and decide that they must have made a mistake.

how lazy have we become? this isnt the school system i grew up in, and it wasn't even good when i was there. so i suck at english, these kids are sucking at life! what will they do?

That makes no fricking sense!

I'm used to using equations that I don't always know physics behind, and I'm fine with that, but at basic level maths, you need to have an understanding of HOW what you are doing works, not just that you can do what needs to be done with a calculator.

FWIW, my teachers didn't care about answers, they cared that all work could be shown. Sometimes the exercises were to work backwards. You got an equation, and you were expected to show how it was solved, or how the answer could be proved.

 

[Dan025]

yes proving, that's half the grade on a question, or atleast it was when i went to school.

it's like they got so afraid about complying with the law they forgot that they still could control when and how to use the calculator. i dont know if that's lazness, stupidity, proving a point to dumb lawmakers or just not caring. but in anycase i dont like it. people already think new yorkers are dumb, now they have proof  :doh:

 

[Cagey]

I can build a pretty good Rod for about 30,000 dollars... and while it is definitely a money pit... it takes AGES to lose the other 225,000 dollars in it!

Just start driving the rod.  That $225,000 will disappear real fast.  ccasion14:

I have a 1994 Camaro that I've hot-rodded up pretty good, and I have about $40,000 into it, including the price of the car, and it's a mechanic's dream.  Nope, I don't race, either.  All I have to do is look at it and it breaks.  Hell, it could be sitting for a week and break.  It doesn't even have to be running and it'll break!  :tard:

I had a similar experience with an old Chevy Nova. Built it into a streetable fire-breathing monster, and all it did was cost money and time, non-stop, cubed. Good conversation starter, though <grin>

 

[mrpinter]

Did someone say Anyone Like Watches?!! I love mechanical watches and have a little bit of a collection. I've also been working on what will be a vintage watch coffee table book (I'm a designer, and am doing all the photos). Here is the oldest wristwatch in my collection: a Movado from the 1920s; all original:

 

[B3Guy]

even the strap?

 

[mrpinter]

Ha, no the strap is new. Good catch.

 

[JimBeed]

Think its near impossible for a strap to last anywhere past 4/5 years tops even if its good i bet, but not sure,
My past two watches have been from ex girlfriend and current one, first was a leather strap which broke just as it came up to christmas, ended up with a new one, Timing huh?
this ones metal now, surprisingly i prefer it.

 

[Velcro]

those wrist watch thingies are way too modern for me... what is wrong with the good ol fashioned way: checking the time on your phone?

I heard something in the news once about kids in not being able to read clocks anymore, because they only ever look at their cell phones. I laughed, and then feared for my life, because one day we're all going to be in retirement homes with these people taking care of us. :sad:

American kids working in retirement homes? HA! Fat chance. If we make it past 2012, it'll be all immigrant people working in those homes. They seem to value old people a lot more than we do. We stick them in homes, after all . . .  :sad1:

I wonder where 'fat chance' comes from, ep-toe-mol-oh-gh-lee speaking.