# How much would you spend on a watch?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 6, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-would-you-spend-on-a-watch/159578 "2003-03-06T21:38:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Bottle\_of\_Smoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bottle_of_Smoke)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2003, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-would-you-spend-on-a-watch/159578/61 "2003-03-08T19:30:19Z")

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I guess I fall into the category of people who just don’t get the whole concept of expensinve watches.

I understand the whole expensive-watch-as-part-of-the-uniform thing for certain professions, but I don’t belong to any of those types of professions so it’s just out of character for me.

I have two watches – a $20 Carriage (a Timex sub-brand I think) I bought at Kohls 5 years ago and a $40 Timex Ironman (a gift) that I wear the rest of the time. Not being a fan of jewelry, I don’t get the whole watch-as-jewelry thing. For me, it’s just a device for telling time.

Plus, I lost my favorite watch when I was a kid and I must have been scarred by the incident ever since because I just can’t spend a lot of money on something I might lose – that goes for watches, sunglasses, etc.

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**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-would-you-spend-on-a-watch/159578/62 "2003-03-09T01:59:03Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \*  
> \*\*I just remembered: I bought a Hamilton “Ventura” last summer for about $300. (Could’ve been less, but I don’t remember.) It’s shield-shaped with chrome wings, and was purportedly designed to suggest an aerial bomb. Elvis wore one in _Blue Hawaii_, and they wore them in _Men in Black_ as well. Very cool looking. Unfortunately they sent it by UPS (“Unbelievably Poor Service”) and it took about two weeks to get it from five miles away. (Had I known it was that close, I would have just gone down to pick it up!) The fiasco with Poo-is-Brown took a lot of the fun out of wearing it. ☹ \*\*

I JUST discovered this watch today. I want one badly. I saw it sitting amongst a display of Hamiltons in the local jewelry store. Jet black face and band, silver accents. I’d prefer the one with the three inset faces, I think, but I’ll take what I can get.

They want $500 for it. I love that watch. However…I’m a college student, so I’m not likely to get it for a while. ☹

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