Is 15 too young for a Rolex?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My dad bought a “Rolodex” watch from a street guy in NYC that looked legit. He wore it as a joke, but everyone thought it was real. He got a kick out of it. So many compliments on it. My brother inherited after my dad died. He was a trip!

My dad also had one from NYC. He loved that watch and also loved that it was $25.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know that on X @zck posted about this thread on 12/21 and it's had 695,000 views

In our circle of friends this isn’t out of the norm. It certainly doesn’t warrant whatever you call a tweet on X now.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know that on X @zck posted about this thread on 12/21 and it's had 695,000 views

In our circle of friends this isn’t out of the norm. It certainly doesn’t warrant whatever you call a tweet on X now.

720,000 viewers and 100+ hilarious or scathing commenters disagree.

I would put a link but after reading how doing that on Insta doxxes you I daren't

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know that on X @zck posted about this thread on 12/21 and it's had 695,000 views

In our circle of friends this isn’t out of the norm. It certainly doesn’t warrant whatever you call a tweet on X now.

720,000 viewers and 100+ hilarious or scathing commenters disagree.

I would put a link but after reading how doing that on Insta doxxes you I daren't

lol - here's the link with 0 identifying info

https://x.com/zck/status/2002957143000207770

protip- you can delete almost all the tracking info if you care to or just open an icognito window that isn't logged into any account and it's not there in the first place.

[Anonymous]

on the same note - where's the reddit thread?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:on the same note - where's the reddit thread?

+1

[Anonymous]

If it was 1987 then sure.

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Groovy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Get on the list now for a backup. Because when he gets to a college and goes to a bar he will get jumped for it, or when word gets around that he has one someone will find a way to take it from him.

Our oldest is a senior and he has several expensive watches. No way are any of them going off to the college dorms with him.

He owns them. They should serve more of a purpose than showing off. They show the time in 2 seconds, something a lot of people miss now that phones have taken over.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If it was 1987 then sure.

This though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know that on X @zck posted about this thread on 12/21 and it's had 695,000 views

In our circle of friends this isn’t out of the norm. It certainly doesn’t warrant whatever you call a tweet on X now.

Are you Carmela Soprano? Because that's what I think of when a 25 year old gets a Rolex and a Ferrari for passing the driving test. Grew up around tons of that and it still exists as normal in these circles.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know that on X @zck posted about this thread on 12/21 and it's had 695,000 views

In our circle of friends this isn’t out of the norm. It certainly doesn’t warrant whatever you call a tweet on X now.

Are you Carmela Soprano? Because that's what I think of when a 25 year old gets a Rolex and a Ferrari for passing the driving test. Grew up around tons of that and it still exists as normal in these circles.

*15

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's fun to read the remarks about DCUM and its "inhabitants"

This might be the definition of postmodernism. It is very meta. People on a comment site commenting on the comments made by people on a different site who are commenting on the comments made by people in response to a post on the first site. If the X people post comments regarding this comment, it might signal the end of days.
Or at a minimum, a sign that humanity has reached peak stupidity.

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

Yes. First, what has he done to earn or deserve this extravagant gift? Second, it can easily be stolen at school.

People aren’t stealing watches at his school. The case back will be engraved with his initials anyway.

Why’d you ask us brokies and not the head or the other head of the PTA?

Anyway yes Op buy him the watch so one of us can steal it

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Anonymous wrote:About a month ago I stopped into the jeweler our family does business with to put my name on a list for a Rolex. The plan was to give it to my son on his 16th birthday in March of 2027. Friends told me it can take a while to get one. Out of the blue I got a call this weekend. The watch arrived Friday afternoon. Am I crazy to give it to him for his 15th birthday?

Rolex screams parvenu, my dear, but you are free to do whatever you want. Your son probably relies on his phone, but if HE wants a watch, and of the Rolex type, why not? Maybe you should ask him first.

I’m certainly not buying him a Nautilus or Royal Oak. His group of friends have all developed an interest in mechanical watches suddenly.

Watch person here. Rolex is like the McDonald's of decent watches. They sell 1.1 million watches a year and pretend to be "exclusive". People buy Rolex because it's the only brand they know.

Get him an IWC, Grand Seiko, or even a Blancpain for 1/3 of the price of the Rolex.

IWC invited us to their F.A. Jones Portugieser release years ago. They make excellent watches. If he wanted a pilot’s watch they’d be our choice. He wants a diver and the Aquatimer isn’t exciting.

Grand Seiko is meh. I know, hi-beat movements and their Spring Drive are popular with the watch nerds. I appreciate the discipline of Zaratsu polishing more than their designs. Their divers are pedestrian.

Blancpain’s Fifty Fathoms is just ugly.

I’d prefer to buy him a Sinn diver for a third of the price but he expressed an interest in a Sub.

I want a Patek Phillipe.

Same. Patek is the only answer for me really