And if you need, for some obscure reason, to actually tell the time and a whole lot more, there’s always the sheer geekyness of Microsoft’s SPOT watch. Er, um…Cripes! It got a BSOD…
The $300,000 Watch That Doesn’t Tell Time
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome just launched the “Day&Night” watch. The watch won’t tell you what time it is. That’s so yesterday. But it does tell you whether it’s day or night — helpful, I guess, for billionaire types who can’t afford windows.
As the company’s Web site boasts: “With no display for the hours, minutes or seconds, the Day&Night offers a new way of measuring time, splitting the universe of time into two fundamentally opposing sections: day versus night.”
What’s most impressive about the Day&Night is its complexity, given its absolute uselessness. The watch features two tourbillons — devices that overcome the ill effects of earth’s gravity on a watch’s accuracy — connected by a differential mechanism. Instead of hands, the watch has a “contemplative tourbillon operation whereby the ‘Day’ tourbillon operates for 12 hours to symbolize working life, while the ‘Night’ tourbillon takes over afterward to represent an individual’s private time.”
Like other Romain Jerome watches, the watch is made in part with steel salvaged from the sunken Titanic, along with material from the shipyard where it was built.
Well, once you call it absolutely useless, we do understand what we are looking at.
Given that, can you track this for us and report back in a year as to how many of these are sold and to whom? I’m thinking 2-3 museums might buy one for various reasons.
“BUT” watches, even this one,==except being totally useless, I guess not this one,===are “interesting” because they have a single function–to tell time.
Now, what rational person would pay more than you need to get the accurate time? Accurate time pieces can be had for one dollar. But that is plastic, so moving to metal and more standard looking, an accurate time piece can be had for 20-4-60-80 bucks.
So who pays 200-600-1200 and up? Watches as jewelry doesn’t explain it for men as cheap watches look the same as expensive?
How does a rational person gain positive feedback from imaging that other people are envious of him?
Can anyone out there that spent more than $100 tell us why you did? (Please, no scuba divers.)
‘cor, if I was rich, I’d be really rich, because I wouldn’t spend my money on $300,000 watches. Hell, I still probably wouldn’t even buy a brand new car!
Heck, I got a watch that doesn’t tell time from this guy selling them from the trunk of his car. I only paid about $25.
I once spent €500 restoring an Omega that belonged to my deceased father, but I wouldn’t pay anything close to that on a watch for me to wear. Maybe as a jewel to a significant other, but not for me. The watch I wear is a €25 Timex, accurate to 1 second per month! Beat that Rolex.
#4 – That is pretty extreme digging up your dead father for a watch.
#6 That’s the kind of guy I am 😀
Why does lighting cigars with 100-dollar bills come to mind?
#9–JCD==because we can’t afford $1000 bills?
#5 – Your worship is noted.
it runs vista
#1, The reason is fashion. Same as anything you wear, you can get it cheap and look a certain way or spend a little money and look better.
But that applies to normal stuff. This 300,000 watch that only tells you the obvious difference between day and night is unbelievably stupid.
Something to ass…
we posted this a few weeks ago in Cagematch…
the watch SOLD OUT in 48 hours..
there wasnt a count of how many that was.
But what could you BUY for that much money??
A HOUSE?? 2 homes?? 3??
10 cars?? enough for the year, anyway.
A good down payment on a PERSONAL SUB??
BUY enough property in the middle of NOWHERE…and start your OWN city?
j_anis (#13),
I agree completely. Looks DO matter, regardless whether or not people want them to. Makes a difference in the business world too.
I worked with a very successful salesman once who swore his career took off when he invested in a Rolex…
#1: Can anyone out there that spent more than $100 tell us why you did?
I bought a Rolex (stainless steel, NOT gold) because I wanted a reliable watch. 22 years later it’s still running perfectly despite having been knocked about, dropped, submerged, exposed to extremes of heat and cold, etc, etc.
#16–Peter==you made your choice on reliability huh? If you bought a very stylish watch for $100 per year and it broke every 5 years, would you be ahead or behind the game? I think you might actually pay not to shop? or other issues? If you are doing it for reliability, your calculations are all out of whack.
#17: Peter==you made your choice on reliability huh? If you bought a very stylish watch for $100 per year and it broke every 5 years, would you be ahead or behind the game?
I’m not too bothered about style or – within reason – the price, but I would be bothered having to change watches every 5 years. What I would NOT do is pay $300,000 for a watch, even if I had the $$$ to spare, especially one that just tells me if it’s night or day. I can usually figure that out for myself.
19…
Iv always wondered about the person who cant tell the difference between,,, ITS BLACK/DARK out side, and ITs NOT BLACK/DARK outside..
Fine if you lived underground…But if you DID, WHO CARES?? and wouldnt a REAL clock be better at telling you IF’ you were LATE for something?
Maybe if you are TRAPPED under 10 tins of snow?
I KNOW, if a LARGE ROCK falls on his head, he still wishes to be able to tell if its day or NIGHT when they LIFT it off his head..