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11-12-2009 03:05 PM |
Re: About nothing.
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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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Originally Posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
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I also think the design is too "out there" for an expensive watch, and that you'll eventually get sick of it, or it will go out of style (if it's indeed in style). It looks like a fashion watch to me. I'm sure you can get something very similar that isn't Swiss for a tenth of the price.
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
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what, about $7k (or more, if you're paying rack rate b/c you like the jeweler)?
I don't love bedat, generally, and think that expensive quartz watches are sort of ... odd, but that *is* a v. attractive piece. Definitely more bracelet than watch, imo.
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Wow, Sebby, those are stratospherically expensive.
I could buy it for about 3.5k, which sounds about right to me. Retail is 6.5+. I am allergic to paying full price for anything, no matter how much I want it. I am also allergic to buying things often knocked off, which is why I carry Lambertson Truex, instead of something recognizable.
It is not "in style," but I see it as a fashion piece, and I would certainly wear it that way. More as a bracelet than a watch.
It reminds me vaguely of a watch my grandmother designed in the 40s while my grandfather was in Europe during the War. She designed really beautiful things, very delicate and intricate. Sadly, my father's sister took all of my grandmother's jewelry except the ring I wear daily that was bequeathed to me, so I assume it is out of the family by now.
I would try to get it made again, but I was a teenager when she died and I did not think to photograph all of the things she designed. My father, a photographer, did not think to do it either. |
