There's a classic Mike Royko bit where he's in a bar and a Chicago yuppie is showing off and bragging about his $10,000 watch. Royko's wearing a cheap $5 watch and says to the yuppie "I can do something with my watch you can't do with yours". "What?" And Royko takes off his watch and smashes it so hard on the bar it falls apart. "And I can do that 1,999 more times before you could do that to your watch!"
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Date: 2008-10-11 08:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-11 08:37 pm (UTC)I can only assume each component is hand-crafted by Swiss monks.
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Date: 2008-10-11 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-11 09:24 pm (UTC)You want just a plain gold watch?
If you go to http://www.citizenwatch.com/ you can choose by type of band, color, etc. And, since it charges the battery by light exposure... :)
Just my $.02
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Date: 2008-10-11 10:04 pm (UTC)"What?" And Royko takes off his watch and smashes it so hard on the bar it falls apart. "And I can do that 1,999 more times before you could do that to your watch!"
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Date: 2008-10-12 12:28 am (UTC)They still do some lovely grown-up watches (you have to wade through Flash-delivered dross on tissot.ch to get to them, mind).
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Date: 2008-10-12 09:27 pm (UTC)