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Originally Posted by DocMick
I see what you did there... and there.
My post is self explanatory. The ability to enjoy the finer things. A large subjective "eye of the beholder" component goes into what each different individual defines as wealth.
I never offered up a particular income bracket previously, so I won't care to now. But since you so vaguely and yet so distinctly assigned income/wealth definitions to watch owners, primarily to mock owners of 20k watches as pretentious non-wealthy types, I'm sure you can answer your own question with great eloquence.
But if the wearer of said $20k watch admitted it was a replica, does this catapult him now into a higher income/wealth strata? I look forward to reading between the lines.
These kind of in-depth dick measuring discussions are quite the staple of car luxury lifestyle aka "I'm more Alpha than you, Bro" forums.  |
You're the one who offered up the notion of luxury watches being functional jewelry and status symbols in the first place!
You presumably want people to ascribe a certain status to you when you're seen wearing a $20k luxury watch, but when pressed on what that status is precisely you get defensive.
Why is the onus on me to answer my question? I
don't see watches as status symbols. I don't judge anyone's status based on the watch they wear. I wouldn't even recognize 99% of the $1k+ watches as is. They all look the same to me.
I also don't understand how I'm the one "dick measuring." I come from a humble, middle class family and I wear a relatively inexpensive Seiko (it's a
real Seiko in all of its $100 glory).
I judge the wearer of a fake $20k watch the same way I judge the wearer of a real $20k watch -
I don't judge either individual at all based solely on the watch they wear. That was the point of my post to begin with. I don't see how it's possible to judge status based on a watch, but you have more experience in this realm than I do. I don't have the faintest clue about the association between watches and status which is precisely why I asked you for clarification. I offered up my best guess - that there is little (if any) association between watch price and socioeconomic status - but you offered up a different view and I merely asked for clarification.
I'm also curious as to why you think offering up an enormous, plausible socioeconomic status range (so enormous that it's effectively
useless) for $20k watch-wearers is the same as mocking some (or all) of them as pretentious and non-wealthy. I specifically included the very top income and top net worth for 2013 as the upper limit of that range!