GQ article - Why True Watch Heads Never Set the Time on Their Watches

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I’ve got just the thing for these clowns.


I hate to resurrect this crappy thread but I saw this exact clock when I went to get my blood drawn. The gentlemen was also wearing a Longines quartz.
 
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Just seeing this thread for the first time. The GQ article is perfect for GQ. I am quite sure the "men" wearing Michael Kors watches never set their watches...they never need to, as they run on little batteries they get installed at a kiosk. Bollocks.
 
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At a birthday dinner for a bandmate last week, one of his pals (from whom I got bad vibes the moment I sat down) was sporting a DJ. His collection of fine musical equipment broke the ice, yet his and his wife’s need to talk Gucci, Prada and fancy traveling quickly became tiresome. Anyway, I shifted focus to his Rolex and he took it off and handed it to me. The crown was out, and the hands read 11:15. It was 6:30pm.

He told me the crown needed repair and he couldn’t be bothered to set it let alone pay for a service, which to a ‘bro’ of his means is less than pin money. Indeed, he dismissively scoffed that he only wears it out figuring someone might notice it. Damn. In an effort to engage, I walked into his trap. My earlier suspicions of him being douchecicle were confirmed.

This schmo was a complete poseur. Ick.
 
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This GQ article reminds me NOT to read this magazine.
 
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What's a magazine? Is that like a taxi? Or a phone booth?
 
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What's a magazine? Is that like a taxi? Or a phone booth?
Point taken.
Well the last time I looked at GQ it was a mag but now maybe only online. I am surprised it survived with its vacuous content.
 
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At a birthday dinner for a bandmate last week, one of his pals (from whom I got bad vibes the moment I sat down) was sporting a DJ. His collection of fine musical equipment broke the ice, yet his and his wife’s need to talk Gucci, Prada and fancy traveling quickly became tiresome. Anyway, I shifted focus to his Rolex and he took it off and handed it to me. The crown was out, and the hands read 11:15. It was 6:30pm.

He told me the crown needed repair and he couldn’t be bothered to set it let alone pay for a service, which to a ‘bro’ of his means is less than pin money. Indeed, he dismissively scoffed that he only wears it out figuring someone might notice it. Damn. In an effort to engage, I walked into his trap. My earlier suspicions of him being douchecicle were confirmed.

This schmo was a complete poseur. Ick.


ooof.

I mean......... ooooof.
 
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At a birthday dinner for a bandmate last week, one of his pals (from whom I got bad vibes the moment I sat down) was sporting a DJ. His collection of fine musical equipment broke the ice, yet his and his wife’s need to talk Gucci, Prada and fancy traveling quickly became tiresome. Anyway, I shifted focus to his Rolex and he took it off and handed it to me. The crown was out, and the hands read 11:15. It was 6:30pm.

He told me the crown needed repair and he couldn’t be bothered to set it let alone pay for a service, which to a ‘bro’ of his means is less than pin money. Indeed, he dismissively scoffed that he only wears it out figuring someone might notice it. Damn. In an effort to engage, I walked into his trap. My earlier suspicions of him being douchecicle were confirmed.

This schmo was a complete poseur. Ick.

The poor stupid bastard probably can’t tell the time anyway!
 
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The poor stupid bastard probably can’t tell the time anyway!

You’re not wrong. He actually grabbed his phone and said, “who the hell needs to tell time these days…?”

(I sat next to his wife; I felt sorry for her.)
 
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I'm pretty bad myself..., I just set a few quartz watches to the second! I also have to set my mechanical (and quartz) watches minute hand, directly between the hash marks if the 2nd hand reads 30 seconds! Yeah..., this article is BS!
 
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At a birthday dinner for a bandmate last week, one of his pals (from whom I got bad vibes the moment I sat down) was sporting a DJ. His collection of fine musical equipment broke the ice, yet his and his wife’s need to talk Gucci, Prada and fancy traveling quickly became tiresome. Anyway, I shifted focus to his Rolex and he took it off and handed it to me. The crown was out, and the hands read 11:15. It was 6:30pm.

He told me the crown needed repair and he couldn’t be bothered to set it let alone pay for a service, which to a ‘bro’ of his means is less than pin money. Indeed, he dismissively scoffed that he only wears it out figuring someone might notice it. Damn. In an effort to engage, I walked into his trap. My earlier suspicions of him being douchecicle were confirmed.

This schmo was a complete poseur. Ick.

A coworker never sets is DJ either. But very strangely he hates to tell he has a Rolex. So I told everyone 😀 I'm still wondering why he has a watch at all 😀

Besides that, your story is sadly a good exemple about what the watch market had become for a lots of people.
 
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Have just checked @STANDY ‘s $28000 seiko sale
Look like it is being offered now for $35000 with no movement
 
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Does it really matter if the time is set? Who would be able to read it? To watch lovers, of course it's repugnant to consider a watch that is used only as jewelry, but the guy that wears this watch spends 150 on a haircut every other week, drives a 120k Tesla, uses 2 or 3 kinds of hair product, and spends time each day matching his shirt/tie/socks. (this watch is actually legit...real diamonds)

 
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These people should invest in bracelets.
 
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Omg, have I been spending all my disposable income on... mens jewelry this entire time?!
Yes, yes you have. All a watch is is a piece of jewelry. No one uses them to tell time.