Back to school night – Rolex Rolex Rolex

I had the honour of attending a back to school night at our youngest’s school last week. It is a private school, so that may bias things but still I thought this could be an interesting evening for a watch person. To amuse myself I counted watches on other wrists for the evening, and here is my tally:

Mens:

Apple Watch – far too many to count, two Samsung smart watches as well.

Rolex – two submariners, one with escape pusher thing, one datejust with dark grey dial

Omega – nada, zilch, none, totally absent (excluding my Speedmaster Reduced)

Bulova – Spaceview Accutron

JLC (?) – one white dialed dress watch

Womens:

Apple watch

Ladies dress – one Omega (?)

Now the parking lot is a very different story, predominantly German/Italian Uberwagen or Tesla.
So not only is the Antiques Roadshow fellow correct, Rolex, Rolex, Rolex is killing it, but this crowd does not put much money on their wrists despite the means to do so.

What "escape pusher thing"? A helium escape valve?

I will always remember one dad at my kids' [private] elementary school who had a fairly large collection of complicated Pateks which he always wore to school functions. And he was a very nice guy.

As discussed in a different thread... you should tell them it's "condition condition condition" !! 😁

Especially the one with the escape pusher thing.

Sadly you had to represent our fine order with a reduced. Dear god, Man. 😲