Reply With QuoteMakes sense to me, they are cheaper and don't need servicing. I like the Andy Warhol quote.
Anybody wear a broken watch on purpose?
".....Well, there’s now a trend among watch collectors to purchase stylish timepieces that don’t actually work, making them void of any useful function altogether."
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...-a8454936.html
Makes sense to me, they are cheaper and don't need servicing. I like the Andy Warhol quote.
Only a complete half wit would do this.
At least you can guarantee complete accuracy twice a day.
Amongst collectors?
I doubt that. If there's even a grain of truth in that then it'll be amongst hipster tools who have suddenly decided Daniel Wellington isn't "cool" and "edgy" anymore.
Yep. No collectors I know would be so tossery.Originally Posted by Papa Hotel
Award for stupidest concept ever
Got to be some sort hipster cockery
Award for best phrase of the day.
"wears luxury watches by leasing them...."
Oh FFS....
I totally get Warhol's view, which is even more relevant today because you have so many other ways of knowing what the time is (I guess he was the sort of person who didn't care - good on him). So as soon as telling time is no longer critical and you at the same time believe that what a watch looks is important, choosing to wear a non-functional one is only a matter of personal conviction: I wouldn't do it myself, it would feel as if I had a carcass strapped to my wrist, but I can understand how someone else might.
It makes as much sense, IMO, as wearing any other bangle or bracelet on your wrist. Wearing a watch that works makes more sense.
Would you buy a TV “because it’s the model to have” and have it broken in your living room? No.
Warhol talking tosh imho
I get Warhol as he is an artist and a trend setter not follower. I have a customer who has for years worn a quite nasty looking stopped DJ with a definitely aftermarket dial or possibly the whole watch. It drives me mad - occasionally I don't set the date if I am only wearing the watch for one evening but even that doesn't feel right so definitely not for me...
There's a place in hell for such people, I've no doubt.
If you were a collector of old TV sets you might, e.g. if there was a particular vintage model you just adore the housing of, you'd put it in your living room as sculpture and watched TV on your tablet computer like a normal person.
Like PickleB said, think of it as just another bracelet.
I could understand if there was a legitimate reason for wearing a watch that had stopped on a particular date or time (in line with or as a result of an important event), but otherwise it does smack of hipster BS.
Two things I noticed:
1. They can’t quote a collector who actually does this. BS alarm started beeping.
2. The web site was so full of clickbait that I had trouble finishing the article.
I think anyone seen wearing a “fancy” watch that was not keeping the correct time would look like a utter fool. Claiming “well, Andy Warhol did it,” would appear even more idiotic. You’re not Andy Warhol, ****head.
The style boffin telling millennials to get a watch, likewise an idiot. “Get a watch to stand out from your peers.” Oh, really.
On the off chance somebody asked you the time you'd look like a fool explaining that it was "just another bracelet, man"
What fresh hell is this? Warhol didn't wind or set his watch because he was likely too pi$$ed to do so.
F.T.F.A.
I guess I did this...sort of...a while back.
When i picked up my Pogue it was running about 20 mins slow a day. Wasn't broken as such, and I really wanted to see what it was like 'on the wrist' before sending it off to be serviced (which cost an arm and a leg).
The amount of times I pick up my Sub and don't have time to set the time and date it might as well not work :)
You are Andy Warhol and I claim my Ł5
My cover blown.... :-D
As people have said on here many times accurate timekeeping is not one of their main reasons for wearing a particular watch, it is the design, the history, the brand.
People who have expressed concerns at the relative poor timekeeping of their mechanical are told brusquely 'go get a quartz if you are bothered by timekeeping'.
This reported behaviour is in line with this thinking, just at the far end of the bell curve. 'Other things are more important than timekeeping, in fact timekeeping isn't important at all.
I wouldn't purposely wear an incorrect watch, but I have a lot and more than once I have worn a watch all day without realising it was an hour out because I had not adjusted for DST.
Mitch
I did this last week, but not as any hipster statement :)
I took my Accutron to the local jeweller to have the battery changed, had to leave it with them for the afternoon.
When I went back to collect it, it turns out they failed to get it running again (which worries me, since it was in running order before the battery ran out), but since I was riding my bike, I put the non-running watch on my arm for safe keeping and rode home!
Sometimes there is a need. Honest.
“Hey, got the time?”
[pulls out phone]
“You’re wearing a watch, doesn’t it work?”
“No, I just wear it for the looks.”
:-|
or
“Oh, it doesn’t work. I wear it so muggers will take it instead of my phone.”
I'm almost guilty...don't know whether its because I'm left handed...opposite side of the brain and all that. On more than one occasion I've picked up a manual wind or auto and set the time at 9 when it should be 3...
Pretty prattish in my book but then you hear some people choose to wear non-prescription glasses because they like the look.
I love the way my watches look but they are worn to tell the time...
...If a thing is broken it should be binned or repaired.
Perhaps this is a development of the Haldimann H9, where actually telling the time detracts from the purity of the horology.
http://www.haldimann.swiss/en/Collec...H9---Reduction
Or paracord bracelets. Just an ornament.
Sounds like mild dyslexiaI'm almost guilty...don't know whether its because I'm left handed...opposite side of the brain and all that. On more than one occasion I've picked up a manual wind or auto and set the time at 9 when it should be 3...
Nah, some of those look cool to be fair.
Warhol spent most of his life with his head up his ar*e and a few other peoples as well.
A good many of his statements (in my opinion) were just manifestations of his own self aggrandising fantasies or sh*t if you would pardon me working class patois guvnor.
B
In fairness I've had a couple of Accutrons that have fallen into this category but it seems to go with the territory.
Withnail & I has a lot to answer for..one of my favourite quotes of all time..
“Even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day”.
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It’s bit of string!
Cool colour patterns and shapes!
Calling paracord a “piece of string” is like calling a Rolex “a reliable timepiece.” :D
Ha! Paracord bracelets....worn by more half wits, have you ever tried to get some-one that wears one to actually unravel it to use the stuff? Impossible.
I get wearing one when you are in the military and on deployment or some-thing similar but for others in daily life, I say PAH! STOP wearing them, you look like military half wit wannabes.
And I would call a Rolex a reliable timepiece...they are.
My point is that it is usually more than that. Perhaps I should’ve attached a metaphor diagram in Powerpoint.
Ohhhh, yeah ............. I’ve heard of this phenomenon - its called “tw*tting” !!
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I was interested to see a chap on the Hammersmith & City Tube this evening wearing a lovely Nomos, probably the first I’ve seen in the wild in the UK.
It did intrigue/confuse me when I realised it was 6 days, 8 hours and about 15 minutes slow.
I broke with London protocol and asked him what the crack was - I know, the horror, talking to people on The Tube - but it transpires he had been out of the country, chucked the watch on this morning and hadn’t set it all day.
It’d drive me potty, but I guess it’s one way to wind it back up :)
Broken watch and such..
Can't quite remember now who used to have that signature..
Fas est ab hoste doceri
Interesting, wonder how long this trend is going to last
Excellent ! But trueBroken watch and such..
Can't quite remember now who used to have that signature..
I picked up my daytona this morning put it on having not worn it since last friday and realised at around 7 o clock in the evening it had stopped at 2 o clock which day ive no idea of course...
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