Aw, crap!
(Whistles, nonchalantly. 
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Before everyone converts to quartz watches, under extreme conditions they’re unreliable, unlike a very good (Rolex, Breitling, etc.) mechanical watch.
You can get them so cold the battery stops, just for starters.
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Casio G-Shock.Perfect.
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Yea, I have a friend that dropped his in the john in a public restroom. Ew.
I walked into a restroom one time and there was a guy at the goat feeder watching a youtube video. I’m like, dude. You can’t wait?
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I can’t bear to watch the video, but just based on the summary I’m shaking my head. I can’t see paying £10,000 for a watch, but I really can’t see paying £1,000 for a fake watch, considering that a £10 Casio will tell time just as well.
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explain pls?
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Fugazi: criminally, intentionally fake
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FWIW, the market price for a modern steel Daytona is more like 16K quid…
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was disappointed this was not addressed.
Rolex is known for being very proactive in capitalizing on any advancements in build or construction, I would bet that the real version was more accurate. But given the level of fakery, it may not be by enough to matter in any reasonable amount of time. Or, who knows, I might lose the bet.
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Its Italian (or Italian Americans at least) for fake. Foo-gay-zee.
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Hilariously, it’s also a surname!
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I’m flossing a Timex Weekender, personally.
quartz movement, actually waterproof (the ratings on a lot of watches, even expensive ones, are notoriously wrong,) indiglo (nice to have,) and just overall durable.
I work in a kitchen. I go from decent lengths of time in a walk-in freezer to washing my hands in scalding hot water. I need to keep track of time to pace my output, but pulling a smartphone out of my pocket and activating it with raw meat or sauces etc all over my hand is not happening. The types of non-quartz watches that can withstand my job’s kind of punishment are way, way beyond my means. I tried a $100 Chinese automatic movement but it couldn’t withstand my job.
but I’m into jewelery and mechanical-rather-than-digital devices. I’d like to get something cool for my off-hours. My personal style seems to be at odds with the type of guy that is into the “hobby,” unfortunately; not to mention my buying power.
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Maybe a fancy, artisanal watchband on a low-key watch?
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I only wear watches (almost always a robust ‘bullet-proof’ diving watch) when I’m visiting family back east (and want no contact [cell-wise] with anyone else during such times) and really don’t need my pocket-bulging cell then. I absolutely despise metal bands; they snag my wrist hairs, driving me crazy. My watches have either leather, or nylon NATO straps. Super comfy.
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This guy should do all the narration for the impending robot apocalypse. Such a soothing march to our doom. 
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this is the first time I’ve seen that word outside of video related, but I’m certain they mean it the same way, in a post- modern sense; the guitar/vocalist is Italian-American. for them, I’ve always heard it as “foo-GAH-zi” but maybe that’s regionalism from his family?
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Art has been there for a while. Maybe Rolex can contract with Banksy’s company Pest Control.
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Yet another watch sub-culture involves people who bash different watch parts together to end up with a one-of-a-kind look. They invest in the special tools needed to remove/install hands, gears, etc.
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That Data can replicate L. Q. “Sonny” Clemmons the best vintage guitar on file and Ralph Offenhouse dodges the guillotines only to wake up to a world where all his money is gone. A future I can get behind.
IMNSHO, high-end mechanical automatic watches are art, just like a Bently. But even if money were no object (which it is), I’d shy away from owning a Rolex because, although it’s a remarkable device, like other artifacts caught in the art investment bubble of late-stage capitalism it’s become a status symbol, and I personally dislike status symbols. Now if my bank account were bottomless I might be tempted to wear an Omega Speedmaster or a Fortis B-42 Official Cosmonauts.
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