Ok, but c’mon. How often do you use the stopwatch feature? (No worries though: if you think the extra 3 dials look cool, who am I to question?) It’s rather handsome otherwise, IMHO.
Better to have it and not need it than to need it and not have it, right? 
Just kidding. I’ve always preferred chronographs but I might have used the stopwatch feature once every five years.
There’s a Melting Pot fondue chain in my town that I go to with my girlfriend. Sometimes I use it to time how long we cook the meat. That’s probably about it. Mostly I just like the chronograph aethetics.
What’s funny though is how pretentious the salespeople are at their annual sample sale. Finally I told one of them “you know, you’re being awfully snooty for someone selling something for 75% off in a rented warehouse space across from Penn Station.” Ok, I didn’t say it, but I thought it real loud.
You can find some really good deals there, so if you are in the market for a fancy watch I definitely recommend it. The only pain is that they don’t display the prices. So I had to spend a good hour like “Oooo I like that one…Okayy I don’t $15,000 like it.”
I just assumed you can’t return any purchases but they do give you a one year warranty. And you can always take it into one of their local stores for repair. I found them pretty helpful when I went in because I thought I bought a busted watch. Turns out it’s 100% mechanical (no battery). So basically if I don’t wear it or wind it every day or so it will wind down.
I don’t wear a watch, however I do like me some jalapeno poppers.
You bought a mechanical watch and they didn’t bother telling you it was mechanical?
IME, their service department sucks ass. I took an (admittedly rather rare) watch in there for a replacement crystal and to have a chronograph hand reattached, and they held it for three months without bothering to tell me they couldn’t source the replacement crystal and hadnt’ done anything with it. What they did tell me was that it had been sent back to the manufacturer’s workshop in Basel to be calibrated.
They might of. When sales people talk to me, all I generally hear is a Charlie Brown-ish “waaa wa waa wa waaaa”.
Be happy they have a guy you can actually take it to. I have another watch I was given as a graduation gift. I had to ship it off somewhere and then hound some idiot for three months to make sure it was getting fixed.
Watches as a general rule are a pain in the ass to get fixed. They typically need to be sent off to some old dude in a room somewhere surrounded by tiny tools who gets to it when he gets to it. I think that’s pretty standard anywhere.
They didn’t have a guy. After three months they gave it back saying they couldn’t fix it and had no idea why anyone there would have told me they could.
I’ve got a dozen watches so I stuck it in a drawer and forgot about it after that.
Don’t get me started… oh no, too late. I inherited a dysfunctional Rolex from my uncle last year, and it’s spent 9 months since then getting serviced. I got it back twice during that period with the date function still not working, and I finally insisted that the local jeweler, who in theory has a watch repair guy, send it back to Rolex itself. I just got it back again last week.
I haven’t worn a watch in over 10 years, and wouldn’t know an expensive watch from a cheap one if the diamond-encrusted face was rubbed against my eyeballs. I simply and don’t get the allure of an expensive watch, and by expensive I mean anything over fifty bucks. I’m even getting to the point where I don’t understand why folks still wear watches at all. You’re able to get the time pretty much anywhere you go now, so it’s not the utility or practicality anymore.
Having said that, Tourneau’s refund policy sucks, and anyone who knowingly supports it is more than a bit pretentious, and yes, probably a douche. What’s worse, and probably illegal, however, is store staff changing the receipt after the purchase. Not that this would ever happen to me, because I’m insanely cheap when it comes to most things and would never shop at Tourneau, but if after receiving my refund the clerk attempted to keep the original receipt with the altered, written promise of a refund, I’d “yoink” it right out of his hand and dare him to call the police, because I’m pretty sure I’d have a case against the store.
Stink Fish Pot’s wife did the right thing, IMO, by standing her ground and getting her refund. My suspicion is she may have gotten more, however, if she’d held on to that original receipt and sought legal advice.
Either that’s one hell of a long relay race or you’re coaching a team of gastropods.
Apparently you’ve never worked retail. If a customer can find a loophole to exploit they’ll do it, over and over, and they’ll tell their friends about it too. It gets ugly real fast. A lot of store policies aren’t made to be dickish. They’re basically reactions to people exploiting generous policies.
I worked electronics retail for a number of years and watched an ever growing list of “non-returnable” items appear.
Radar detectors - People would buy them for their road trip and then return them.
Camcorders and digital cameras - People would buy them for their vacation or event and then return them.
Laptops during finals - College kids would buy them to complete their term papers and then return them.
Bigscreen TVs for the Superbowl - People would buy them to throw a party with all their friends for the superbowl and then return them.
You think people “renting” something like an expensive watch for an event and then returning it is a rareity? Think again. Sleazebag customer does it repeatedly and tells all his sleazebag friends how to do the same thing.
I worked retail as a kid, but nothing high end. It was a hardware store. I never dealt with people buying a handsaw for a weekend project and then returning it.
However, based on this thread, (and the fact that you can actually rent “bling”), I’m sure people exploit the return policy.
If Tourneau had not agreed to allow the watch to be returned for refund, my wife wouldn’t have purchased it. That is indeed their policy, and it’s their store. It’s their right. I would assume they would have some different type of policy around Christmas, but they don’t have to. But the crap they pulled with the receipt, and the fact that they did it to another guy who was in the store at the same time indicates that this was a management approved bait-and-switch tactic. That’s just wrong.
But so is “renting” a luxury item to use for a day or week, and returning it to the store after the customer has used it for their own purpose.
Here’s the thing, though. With the watch, there were plastic guards and paper tissue on the band, the crystal, and a tag on the band that you would have to cut to wear it. I guess people who cheat the system know how to wear the watch and return it, but some of the protection on the watch would be impossible not to damage.
Right there with you, man. That’s just fucked up.
I agree. That’s bullshit. If “no returns” is their policy then fine, be up front about it. But pulling some “return okayed”, wait, scratch that, “exchange okayed” wishy-washy double-talk just to make a sale is crap. What is their policy anyway? Apparently they make it up as they go.
You first.
That’s actually a pretty funny post.
One of my girlfriend’s friends got married a few years back. For whatever reason, all her college friends had a penchant for dating douchey guys (except my girlfriend obviously). Basically the conversation went something like this:
GF: Did you meet Amy’s date?
Me: You mean “Today’s Man?”
Friend 1: Why do you call him that? Because he’s so stylish?
Me: No, because he still has the “Today’s Man” label on his sleave.
Friend 2: He forgot to take it off?
Me: Possibly. Or he plans to return the suit on Monday.
I’ve done that kind of thing in order to edumacate the uninformed. You know, “fighting ignorance” and all that jazz.
If it wasn’t so completely off the mark. Or maybe that’s what makes it funny?
2 of the 3 non-douchebag watches are garish, and montblanc’s name in watchmaking is pretty non-existent
Allow me:
Great. Who invited Dr Chronotron?:rolleyes:
The joke is that the “douche” watches are all diamond freakin encrusted monstrosities compared to the “non-douche” watches. I didn’t survey the entire mid to high-end watch market for non-douchiness.
I do like the Blancpain watch though. Too bad it’s like $13,000.