I blame advertising for creating this want of mine.
See, I use the SPRINT to get to work everyday. There was (till a week back) this huge billboard plastered with a Bell and Ross watch on it.
The watch sort of like grew on me. I did more research and found out the particular model being advertised was called the BR126. Recently, I was flipping through the assortment of back-dated magazines that had been piling up in my toilet and a small pull-out dropped out from one of the issues of August Man which I purchased a while back.
It was by Bell and Ross as well.
I became obsessed with the watch. To satisfy my curiosity, I actually went shopping at the Gardens on a Sunday, which is the equivalent of committing hara-kiri because of the time wasted burning fossil fuels while looking for a parking, just to look for the watch.
I found it.
I tried it on.
I found out that I could "just" afford it. Just being the moot word here.
The want had suddenly became a need.
The devil on the right shoulder screamed, "But it looks so good on your wrist"
The angel on my left said gently, "Prudence young man, prudence...."
Heh.
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9 comments:
Stop fishing la....
-jie-
so buy d?
to convince u to not buy it (but buy something more expensive), i found an extract from watchsnob.com
Q: I own a two-tone Nautilus that I inherited from my grandfather a few years ago. I love it, not only because it's a great watch, but because it also has sentimental value. Although it's a sports watch, as you mentioned in a previous post, I try not to use it too much. Recently, I've been looking at other more rugged watches. I really like the square Bell & Ross watches, but my dad, who is more of a watch snob, says it's tacky. What do you think?
A: You grandfather’s Nautilus is a classic, cherish that. On to the Bell & Ross: They are good-looking watches and I know many people like them. However, they do something that is almost inexcusable in the eyes of the Watch Snob. Bell & Ross is a prime example of a company that is selling nothing more than a cool-looking case and a dynamite marketing plan. Every single one of its watches use nothing more than a stock, off-the-shelf ETA automatic movement, the same movement you can buy yourself for around $300. Yet, the price of the average Bell & Ross hovers around $4,500.
You tell me: Are you OK paying that much money knowing how much the movement costs and that it’s not even its own? Hell, even its $163,000 Tourbillon Phantom watch uses a movement bought from somebody else.
Watches are as much a craft as they are an accessory, and while I don’t find the looks of the Bell & Ross line to be tacky like your father, I do find everything else about them to be distasteful and utterly offensive. A watch is about the entire package, not just its appearance. Any large watch company not making its own movement is not making a watch at all; they’re just playing dress-up.
Just buy only.
Satisfy that craving.
You know you wanna!
listen to the angel!!! phew, thankfully i can't quite empathize though, since the last time i owned a watch was in 1999 :D
@Po : Heheh...
@Nips : But it's a damn nice dress-up lor =)
@Anon : ROFL! Wants and needs. Wants and needs...
@Sean : Thankfully, they took the billboard down and replaced it with a model modelling Guess clothing. Heheh...Will put this want aside...For Now :P
Yikes, for a half a minute there I thought you had turned your attentions to getting yourself a life-sized Guess model instead... :P
@Kenny : Wakakaka! I think one of those would cost me an arm and a leg!
Does not worth the money... =p
@B : I know B, I know ;)
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