Do people treat you different when wearing luxury watches? -

[Justtocheck]

I'm not a rich watch collector, but I have a few watches, most from my dad that are very luxury like. Especially one old one he got as a gift at his work. It's in the 500 dollar range, but it honestly looks really similar to a Rolex and you can tell it's high quality and looks good.

So I dunno if I'm inventing this, but I could swear people are friendlier when I wear it, and recently, when I had to boss people around for IRL stuff (which I really don't like) I have become accostumed to wearing it. Feel it gets the job done easier. Now, I dunno if it's because when I wear it I feel more confident, or if people do respond to watches and good grooming inherently.

Perhaps a bit of both, but I wonder, with all things being equal (personality and charisma wise) how much do good watches do affect how you are treated.

 

[DumbDude42]

vast majority of people cant tell the different between a 100 dollar watch and a 10.000 dollar watch so my guess is no

 

[The Last Stand]

Yes. They think I stole it.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Who the fuck wears watches?

 

[Massa's Little Buckie]

I treat most people like shit, so no.

 

[$5.3 Million Dollars]

I'm guessing its the confidence boost, other people can pick up on that even subliminally.

When I see someone wearing a fancy watch I think 'future stolen good'.

 

[Ita Mori]

Seeing as how today the biggest show-offs for "lavish" living are ghetto rats who are up to their neck in debt trying to appear rich, I'd say no.
Class and mannerisms make a bigger impact these days than material possessions, specially when every banking/financial institution has made some sort of "pay in installments" plan created to get everyone in life-long debt. Anybody can own the latest phone, a gold chain, an expensive watch, a sports car, etc., regardless of how poor a financial decision it is.

 

[PaleTay]

Generally when I wear designer clothes people treat me like I'm an asshole so I doubt it. Some people might like it but most will get pissy if they think you're wearing a Rolex.

 

[Justtocheck]

I'm guessing its the confidence boost, other people can pick up on that even subliminally.

When I see someone wearing a fancy watch I think 'future stolen good'.

You know, I agree. Seeing how they are like 8K each, I'd think there'd be no shortage of people who'd hack my wrist off if I wore an actual rolex. I'd be pretty terrified.

Class and mannerisms make a bigger impact these days than material possessions, specially when every banking/financial institution has made some sort of "pay in installments" plan created to get everyone in life-long debt. Anybody can own the latest phone, a gold chain, an expensive watch, a sports car, etc., regardless of how poor a financial decision it is.

Ehem, I'm Huwhite. And I treat everyone I meet with the same class and politness. The thing is, I just feel that when it's time for me to prove that I have to make important calls, the power dynamic goes easier with the watch. I mean, do people treat TnH fans of the site differently because of their supporter status and their green bar differently?

 

[Dyn]

The only people consciously checking out your watch are the kind of people weighing up whether or not they're going to fucking stab you and take it.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

I only ever knew one person IRL who gave a shit about watches, and he was a cringey pickup artist/MGTOW with a borderline Elliot Rodger mentality about women, and he used to spout off all of this /r/theredpill nonsense about how wristwatches are the only appropriate form of jewelry for men. He was convinced that an expensive wristwatch was absolutely necessary for every man to wear, or else they weren't a real man (as per his early 2010's Roosh V indoctrination). He was also one of those guys who had questionable opinions about lowering the age of consent and how you should only have sex with virgins.

So yeah, in the era of smartphones, giving a shit about a watch is pretty fucking retarded.

 

[Ita Mori]

do people treat TnH fans of the site differently because of their supporter status and their green bar differently?

I've been around enough forums to know that the only people impressed to see a special badge, gif, or whatever next to a person's name and actively want one are people who are on their first forum.
Kinda like how the people most desperate for luxury items are people who can't afford them.

Nevertheless, if the luxury product makes you happy, go for it I guess.

 

[Carlos Weston Chantor]

I'm wearing a rare 1950s watch that I inherited from my grandfather and then paid a lot to have it restored (it was completely destroyed). It's expensive but looks rather low key

If you wear some well known brand like a Rolex normies will think you have an aliexpress fake and if you wear a brand they don't know they won't realize what it is and think it's some cheap shit

I wear a lot of gold jewelry to flex on poorfags tho

 

[Dyn]

wristwatches are the only appropriate form of jewelry for men.

What bullshit if you don't have an 8ga Price Albert and at least six cock pearls you're not a real man.

 

[Animosa]

Yeah, people wanna rob me more often.

 

[Wowcoolusername]

So...

On a serious note, I have a black 16234 jubilee franken, blue 16233 leather franken, champagne 16233 jubilee gen, and red 1601 leather gen that I cycle through. Except for family and friends that I spend a lot of time around, only two other people have ever noticed: a customer that came through my job who had on a black diamond 16034 or 16234 franken while I had my black 16234, and one of the higher ups here who wears a pink 118238 and a bluesy 16613. I've never had anyone on the street notice or anyone not also wearing one notice whats on my wrist.

People won't treat you any different and if you're wanting to get one to get noticed then you're better off spending the money on a fat ring or gold chains or tooth caps. The watch doesn't make the man, the man makes the watch. Unless you already carry yourself with confidence and authority nothing in your life will change.

I'm watchtistic and numismautistic. If anyone wants to talk watches or coins I'm always down.

 

[knobslobbin]

I found a casio calculator watch by the train tracks and it must be imbued with concentrated big dick energy because when I wear it people are bent to my will, and very quickly bent over a desk getting pounded. Do you think it's the watch or did it just unlock powers that were within me all along?

 

[nigger of the north]

I used to sperg hard on watches, not just in the sense that I actively set aside cash for s good purchase, but we're talking reading upon on mechanisms, complications, all that stuff. Even tried to take a watchmaking course once.

That said, I learned that outside of the 'community,' literally nobody gives a fuck whatsoever. The vast majority of people won't even recognise a good watch unless it's a Rolex. And given how prolific fakes are, they'll just assume you're rocking a fugazi Chinkpiece.

As always, it's the surrounding physical appearance which will ultimately point toward individual items for observers. That is, if you're an in shape, well groomed guy who dresses appropriately, a perfectly unremarkable watch you bought for 50 bucks will probably catch eyes more than the poorly dressed chrono-sperg who bankrupted himself for a Vacheron.

 

[DiscoRodeo]

Personally, as the watch of some of the most vile people who have ever lived and also the watch most used in IED's, I like the Casio. The actual model is F-91W, it costs like 10 bucks, and its classy enough and dirt cheap. If you're going to go for fashion, at least make sure its got some interesting cultural value/cult value that maybe you and a few others would recognize, and also not the batshit stupid "I've paid $8k for this piece of shit".

Basically, its a cheap as hell overmanufactured watch that got spread everywhere in the 80s and makes me feel like I'm in Metal Gear Solid. Do people treat you any different though? Fuck no.

 

[Justtocheck]

Personally, as the watch of some of the most vile people who have ever lived and also the watch most used in IED's, I like the Casio. The actual model is F-91W, it costs like 10 bucks, and its classy enough and dirt cheap. If you're going to go for fashion, at least make sure its got some interesting cultural value/cult value that maybe you and a few others would recognize, and also not the batshit stupid "I've paid $8k for this piece of shit".

Basically, its a cheap as hell overmanufactured watch that got spread everywhere in the 80s and makes me feel like I'm in Metal Gear Solid. Do people treat you any different though? Fuck no.
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