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WCDT Strips 3241 - 3245 (13-17 June 2016)
bhtooefr:
Mechanical watches are really about "someone spent years of their life learning how to make this, and then made this", combined with the sheer complexity of the mechanism without going into the electronic domain (where that level of complexity is hard).
Tova:
I've decided that I must be worse than Brun at evaluating people, because I'm not seeing what everyone else here is seeing. I suppose I'll just have to endure the torrent of "I told you so"s when they come. :psyduck:
BenRG:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 17 Jun 2016, 02:14 ---I'll never get these people who pay tens of thousands for a Rolex. I mean Porsche 911, sure, I get it, mobility and driving fun. Hasselblad camera, sure, high quality images. But a mere MECHANICAL WATCH ?!? What the heck ?
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You actually hit the reason solidly on the head and missed that fact. You don't buy a $10k Rolex to tell the time any more than you will buy a Porsche 911 because you need a car; you buy a $10k Rolex to be seen wearing it. It's a status symbol; a way to say 'I am rich enough to blow a month's rent on a wristwatch'.
That said, people collect the strangest things. Frankly, a collection of mechanical clocks where the design, aesthetic or functionality fascinate you is quite a mainstream thing for Brun to do, really. I actually found the (probably unintentional) conceit of her telling Renee that her (likely $10) bedside alarm clock is 'nothing special' to be quite funny!
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Magniras on 15 Jun 2016, 21:05 ---Ah, 4 o'clock in the morning. Or, as we irresponsible people refer to it, "Stumble Home Drunk O'clock".
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Or "I can't have been playing minecraft that long".
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: TinPenguin on 16 Jun 2016, 01:03 ---I've managed 5am for years, but yeah, you do have to be in bed ridiculously early (for a young'un). Sucks if you live with other people. Finishing work at lunchtime is the reward, though. You may wake in darkness, but you always get to see daylight, even in winter.
4am can fuck right off, though. That's the devil's dancing hour.
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I generally go to bed between 4 and 7 am.
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