Forums Latest Members

Interesting Article And A Must To Read ...

  1. seamonster Respectable Member Oct 26, 2012

    Posts
    1,426
    Likes
    191
  2. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Oct 26, 2012

    Posts
    15,047
    Likes
    23,791
    Nice article , but don't these folk ever get someone to proof them that knows the subject.

    "one shortcoming: It lacks a mechanical complication such as a chronometer or stopwatch"
     
  3. SpikiSpikester @ ΩF Staff Member Oct 26, 2012

    Posts
    3,185
    Likes
    3,774
    The price range might be higher than we can aspire to, but I wonder how many people here relate to him spending 90% of his salaried income on watches :)
     
  4. porschefan Oct 27, 2012

    Posts
    191
    Likes
    93
    That could be read as an explaination as to what a chronometer is, to those that don't know. When someone asks me what are all those dials and hands on my watch for, if I say "chronometer" I get a deer in the headlights look, until I follow up with "a stopwatch."
     
  5. CanberraOmega Rabbitohs and Whisky Supporter Oct 27, 2012

    Posts
    5,570
    Likes
    6,208
    What this shows is that there is clearly a watch bubble. When the Syd Morning Herald is doing articles like this, and there are watch investment funds, there is no doubt we are in the middle of a bubble.
     
  6. dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Oct 27, 2012

    Posts
    26,992
    Likes
    32,711
    Depends on the watch really, PNs are in a bubble for sure, as are some other Rolex's. Top end Pateks and ultra rare Omegas and Rolex's are just rare watches, no different from rare art really.
     
  7. cicindela Steve @ ΩF Staff Member Oct 27, 2012

    Posts
    15,047
    Likes
    23,791
    The article is describing an explanation as to what a Chronograph is. The word Chronometer is the issue, not word stopwatch.
     
  8. porschefan Oct 27, 2012

    Posts
    191
    Likes
    93
    Ah, my bad, I plead the author and I are idiots.