What an idiotic OP (in the picture not you). Go into debt over a status symbol with as much utility as a $10 substitute. Yes, brilliant advice.
It was so phenomenally stupid that the guy got turned into a meme for a while on Twitter/X.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/if-youre-a-guy-in-your-early-20s-buy-a-rolex
Anyone else notice Gromit is shaped like curvaceous hips and ass? I really need to get laid.
That is a pretty nice mug…
Same as all the muppets in the city dressed up to the nines in their new beemer than you know is on monthly payments.
On the other hand; being debt free, now there’s a status symbol…
Being debt free one of the few status symbols you cannot see. At that point, is it a status symbol if other people cannot see it?
I mean, I still agree though. Be debt free, seriously.
Not if you get it printed on a t-shirt!
As someone starting up a custom t-shirt printing business desperately in need of building a customer base, I condone this message.
A healthy financial life contributed to getting me a wife. It also would’ve gotten me laid if life hadn’t gotten in the way. A hot lady really liked my fiscal responsibility (her marriage was collapsing because her husband lacked that trait)
Had a friend who graduated from Georgetown with a law degree and went to work at a NYC white shoe law firm. Shortly before his first meeting with a client, his boss dragged him into the office and opened a drawer in his desk. The man had half a dozen different watches, none of which were less than $10k/ea. He matched one with my friend’s suit and sent him back out. Apparently, clients at that level simply won’t take you seriously unless you’ve got that much on your wrist.
That said, this was at an office on the penthouse floor of a lower Manhattan sky-rise. Nobody making cold calls out of a boiler room in Cincinnati cares that you overpaid for a watch.
Read an anecdote of someone in a similar station who had a client file a complaint against them because their watch was too nice. See, he’s the employee who is servicing the client. He’s beneath the client. He can’t be wearing nicer stuff than the client.
I don’t know how these people look at themselves in the mirror every morning.
Yeah, Cincinnati lawyers don’t know what time it is as a point of pride. They woo their clients by springing for a full 5 way.
I mean when viewed from the perspective of his world it makes sense.
He lives in a world where substance is meaningless and all that matters is appearance and bravado. I can appreciate why to him that seems like good advice. Just kinda bums me out people live like that, but I bet he’s happy having power and influence and money. Good for him.
I couldn’t and wouldn’t fuckin live that way and I will stick with my Casio a158, thanks.
Blue Check Twitter Logic. Never has there been more superficial moronic fraudsters in one place.
If you are a first time Rolex buyer you for sure aren’t getting the watches that will appreciate in value. Rolex purposely creates a scarcity and will only sell limited watches to long time customers who have bought many less valuable watches before. It’s also so chuds that believe this guy don’t devalue the brand.
It should play the SEEEGAAAA sound when you close it
OP got it out of a gachapong machine… that it actually keeps time is already incredible in and of itself.
Let me give you some real advice, buy a Casio G-SHOCK, pick a version with tiny solar panels. Seriously, they will last a very long time, no need to change a battery or synch it. Strapped my watch on like a decade ago, still works without any maintenance or anything.
Yes! I bought one 15 years ago and it’s still trucking. Solar powered and syncs with an atomic clock so no maintenance. Also while cleaning I found a cheapo battery powered gshock that’s probably just as old if not older, and it was still going and only 8 minutes off. Seriously amazing watches. If I didn’t rely on my smartwatch for sleep tracking and notifications, I wouldn’t wear anything else
Buy a rolex if you want to impress other guys with rolexes. Literally nobody else cares
“go into debt if you have to”
That guy writes like minimum wage
Me, with my watchy, not givenafuuuuuck bout Rolex.
But yeah that’s some rad nerd chic there.
I’d be way more impressed by the Sega watch to be honest. I probably couldn’t spot a Rolex if you put a gun to my head anyway.
The guy with the Rolex will just tell you he’s wearing one. That’s how it works.
I absolutely love the design but I’m surprised nobody has pointed out that this goes against the very purpose of wrist watches: you can’t just turn your wrist and look at the time.
I know it’s just a press of a button, but if only one of your hands is full (depending whether you’re right or left handed) then it gets annoying rather quickly.
As for the Rolex obsession: I’ve lost several watches, but every single time I just re-bought my cheap Casio. I love it and it does the job quite reliably. Also, I personally dislike analog watches.
That was the purpose before the invention of pocket computers pretending to be phones. Now they’re just jewelry. They don’t even need to function anymore.
TBF I still have both. Nothing beats quickly glancing at your wrist (until they develop built in HUD brain chips, so another 2 years). Especially when you’re doing hand stuff anyway.
Always buy fakes, if you find a good quality fake. No one will know. Unless you absolutely don’t care about the money.
Bought a Casio Data Bank DBC-32B-1ADF “calculator watch” about three years ago for like $30 USD. I get more compliments on that watch than any other piece of clothing/accessory that I own. Started using it as my daily driver watch and it’s genuinely great, a real conversation starter. If anybody wants one, they’re still in production and can be easily bought new on the big retailers’ sites.
Wait what’s the other watch called. I want that
What game disk is that?
Just spent a few minutes searching, and I can’t figure it out. The text almost looks like it says Virtua Fighter, but it doesn’t match any image results.
That is so cool
