if money was no object (i.e., if you were a tens-of-millionaire)?

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL0482850420080404

Watch without time is a hit at luxury trade fair

Quote :

"Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome's "Day&Night" watch -- which does not tell the time, only whether it is night or day -- sold out within 48 hours of its launch earlier this year as watch fanatics snapped up the $300,000 timepiece. "When you ask people what is the ultimate luxury, 80 percent answer 'time'. Then when you look at other studies, 67 percent don't look at their watch to tell what time it is," Chief Executive Yvan Arpa told Reuters on Friday at Baselworld, the watch and jewellery industry's largest annual trade fair. "Why do people buy expensive watches? To have a trophy. A watch (costing) $9 gives the time as well as a watch at $500,000, so they really buy a trophy," Arpa said. The "Day&Night" watch uses the complicated Tourbillon movement -- invented to overcome earth's gravity which used to affect the accuracy of watches -- which lures watch connoisseurs as well as fashion aficionados. The Geneva-based company, founded in 2004, also has an order backlog of up to two-and-a-half years for its "Titanic DNA" watch, which is made from steel and coal from the Titanic and can cost as much as $500,000."

WTF.



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BTW, no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't get a watch that expensive no matter what, even if it showed the time. I would, if it was a collectible, as an investment, but not to use.

4/4/2008 8:46:12 PM

dude

a watch made from peices of the titanic is about as baller as you can get


but for a half mill to be no object, you'd need to be much richer than a $10,000,000-aire.

i mean, i dont see a problem with getting a nice watch at like a few % of your yearly income, nut it's absurd to go for like 5% of your net worth.

[Edited on April 4, 2008 at 8:49 PM. Reason : e]

4/4/2008 8:47:49 PM

no.

4/4/2008 8:48:31 PM

a watch from the Titanic is kinda fucked up...I wouldn't want it

like a painting by Hitler

4/4/2008 8:50:53 PM

and then there is this, albeit, not for sale:

http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/articleslideshow?articleId=USSIN13091520080403

[a $170K dollar bucks thong]

4/4/2008 8:51:11 PM

4/4/2008 8:59:50 PM

^
that is one ugly model

4/4/2008 9:01:57 PM

no.

4/4/2008 9:02:17 PM

bttt

4/7/2008 7:07:58 PM

i would not buy that watch.

4/7/2008 7:10:07 PM

Why would i want another one?

4/7/2008 7:10:32 PM

so you can not tell the time

hahahahahaha

4/7/2008 7:11:28 PM

Shit joke, even worse thread.

[Edited on April 7, 2008 at 7:19 PM. Reason : .]

4/7/2008 7:18:41 PM

wow you are so cool!!!11@@@@

4/7/2008 7:19:43 PM

night/day watch is lame

watch made from the titanic is pure badassery

4/7/2008 7:19:59 PM