e.avery
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I do not mean to make lite of this but your description just throw out the majority of the luxury, high complication, and historically relevant watches that are worn or displayed by collectors and investors. This is a taste issue, which is the intent of the original thread. Watches that are in the high end was the point. They are smaller dressy and ultra expensive compared to 99% of the production of even Swiss and German watches. The watches that go for tens or hundreds of thousands, even millions in some cases, of dollars are not that big and are very tailored in design to go with a suit or tux. There is also the sub. category that would go equally well at the Formula 1 track which has replaced horse racing and polo to a great extent. This is an area where discretionary income is quite large. I was under the impression that that was the original distinction that was being made to compare the upper 1% of the market to the majority of what is being purchased and displayed on the Internet and in most watch shops that do not require arrangements to enter.
My personal belief is that those dress watches are not out of touch. They have there place and there job is to make money. Side note but the only diamonds on most of them is in the jewel of a movement or some simple ornamentation, not the encrusted pieces, that even I own one, that is for going out at night in a more casual setting of a club. I mite add that I feel very comfortable in a fine suit and could wear one every day, and of course I match the watch to the outfit that I am wearing as do most, if not men would not be speaking of them as jewelery.
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