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View Poll Results: Do you yearn/aspire to own higher end brands (Patek, RM, Lange, AP, etc)? | |||
I own Rolex, and yearn/aspire to own pieces higher end than Rolex. | 146 | 29.49% | |
I own Rolex, but could not care less for the higher end brands. | 178 | 35.96% | |
I own both Rolex and higher end brands. | 163 | 32.93% | |
I own neither Rolex nor the higher end brands. | 8 | 1.62% | |
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14 September 2018, 08:28 PM | #91 |
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Started with Rolex but after 4 pieces i felt they were to common. So i got in to other brands like AP, ALS, Blancpain, Breguet and others. However this year my interest in Rolex returned when i saw the Polar in person. I got it and it reminded me why Rolex are great watches. They simply work and no worries. After the Polar i got the Milgauss, a SD43 and a DD on order
Maybe i just had bad luck but i had many issues with the higher end brands. From dried up oil within a couple of years to pulling the crown straight out when setting it and stuff between. Its pain to service especialy in my region. I'm wearing my Breguet Marine 5817 for the week. Love the watch but its loosing 4-10 seconds a day so instead of enjoying the watch i'm timing the accuracy and deciding if i should send it in:) |
14 September 2018, 08:48 PM | #92 |
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I disagree.
They may be few and far between, but they're out there, even if the manufactures of such have moved on from those designs, either evolutionarily or revolutionarily.
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Everyone has aspirational buying habits. You will always want more.
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14 September 2018, 09:10 PM | #94 |
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They do? How could you know this, unless this describes you?
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14 September 2018, 09:25 PM | #97 |
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I would not be comfortable buying or wearing wathces even more expensive than Rolex.
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14 September 2018, 09:39 PM | #101 |
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Strictly speaking of higher end brands, I only have interest in independents (Moser, Laurent Ferrier, FP Journe), and that's what I'm looking to acquire next. For some reason, I have zero interest in Patek, AP and Lange. Not really sure why, but they do nothing for me.
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Agreed. While I'm not against other brands, I'm a guy who sits in front of a computer for 9 hours every weekday with my fellow nerds. None of them even wear watches except for the occasional smart watch or fitness tracker on the athletes (strangely there are no meat heads in Healthcare IT but loads of cyclists). On the weekend I'm either working in the yard on a landscape project or working on the house on a remodel project. One night a week I may take the wife to a fancy night out. Most other brands would get almost no wrist time. |
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14 September 2018, 09:55 PM | #103 |
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I would have the discussion that Rolex is a higher end brand in line with others. It all depends on how you classify the higher end. I admire PP, VC and several other lines but have not felt the urge to buy. I know based on who I am and what I like there is very little that I would want and very little I would pay the money for.
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14 September 2018, 10:15 PM | #104 |
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The OP is missing an option between 1 & 2, where I own a Rolex and admire all watches, more expensive and less expensive.
Owning a Rolex isn't the be all and end all for some people but is for others. Yet, you would be a fool to not admire all watches as everyone brings something unique, exciting and useful to the table. |
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14 September 2018, 11:01 PM | #109 |
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Thanks for posting that thread. I would not pay for something else than Rolex, for various reasons
However, I do not believe that people that own expensive watches, are as good as described by OP Some people are so smart and content, that they do not need money to be happy. |
14 September 2018, 11:14 PM | #110 |
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I am curious about other high-end brands, but they are not available where I live. I can travel an hour or so to try on Rolexes, but would have to travel at least 3 hours for the other big names mentioned in this thread. Dropping multiples of $10k, site unseen let alone without trying one on my wrist, is not an option.
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14 September 2018, 11:21 PM | #111 |
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I own Rolexes. JLC is as high end as I will go. I can't see myself owning the holy trinity. No interest in shipping my watch off for 6 months and paying over $2000 for service.
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14 September 2018, 11:23 PM | #112 |
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Just consider one thing son, there are plenty of multi-millionaires and billionaires that probably wouldn't spend more than a few hundred for a watch. They stay wealthy because they are frugal with their money. The members here on this forum are just a minute population compared to the big wide world out there.
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14 September 2018, 11:24 PM | #113 |
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100% health is the most important thing we all have.
Having said that... is it so bad to want to keep my Heath AND own a Perpetual calendar too! Aside from Rolex I really only like JLC and Lange watches (taste is ever changing though) - typically dress models and calendar complications are what get me with those two brands, nothing to do with value alone or I’d be on a Patek perpetual ahead of the others. Realistically I have no chance of affording any of them for a few years at best so it’s not about attainability either. Side note - Something quite special to me about those music box ballerina dials (fantastic description BTW) on the flip side of that I think AP and Hublot make some of the ugliest things ever to be seen on an arm - like strapping a broken piece of Optimus Prime onto the wrist, certainly not for me. Opinions opinions / nice thread OP, enjoyed it. Cheers, J |
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14 September 2018, 11:29 PM | #115 |
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I'd love on my list to have a Nautilus, Royal Oak and a Lange too.
Great watches the Nautilus has a waiting list even more legendary than the mythical SS Blue Skydweller or Daytona C |
14 September 2018, 11:31 PM | #116 |
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Peter rightly puts this in prospective.
My watch journey started with PP, then Rolex, which lead me to Tudor, and with the help of enlightened TRF members, Seiko. I'm very satisfied with that evolution. dP
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14 September 2018, 11:37 PM | #117 |
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Rolex has certainly been a gateway for me when it comes to high end watches. I've come to love the Royal Oak, Datograph, Zeitwerk, and Nautilus. Other brands like RM just aren't for me. I appreciate what they are, but aesthetically they don't do it for me. There are also designs by AP, ALS, and PP that do nothing for me and that I'd prefer Rolex, Panerai, or IWC over. I have yet to own something by any of the top tier brands, but I can see an AP in the near future.
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I prefer "sport" watches and most of the higher tier watches tend to be dressy and/or avant garde, neither of which appeal to me.
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14 September 2018, 11:54 PM | #119 |
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I like watches. Like all of em
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Another carefully laid out thread by the OP
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