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Originally Posted by thabighurt35
i mean, a 10k watch is a piece of jewelry, a luxury item, so there is always an opportunity cost in parking money in one. If you are thinking about long term financial impacts it will almost never be prudent to sink 10k into a watch.
i bought a hulk, wore it a couple times then put it in a box for 2 years and sold it bc i never wore it and needed the cash. Took a 10% haircut bc i sold it back to the same guy i bought it from and turned the watch into cash in 2 days.
Bought a BLNR and wore it almost every day for three years, over the last year i have prob worn it 20 times.
I have never felt bad or regretted spending the money on all of the pieces i have had, but i have accepted how absurd it is to have two years of car payments hanging on my wrist when a $100 G Shock could outperform it in every functional way.
Automatic watches are obsolete technology and even a $80 Seiko 5 is an extravagance worn for personal aesthetic reasons, forget the G-Shock, my phone tells me the time. Even if it's just part of an outfit, from 10 feet away you can get some $10 Chinese quartz piece of **** in whatever style and color you need and only a tiny fraction of the population will tell the difference. To this day the watch that got the most compliments and notice per wear of anything I've ever bought was a $20 wood quartz watch I bought and wore for a few months back during the wood watch trend.
But I do think resale value should be taken into account precisely because of your story. If you had spend the Hulk money on something more niche that haircut wouldn't have been 10%, and you wouldn't have been able to get the BLNR with the proceeds.